top 10 hacker news stories for 2013-08-23

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/aug13/08-23AnnouncementPR.aspx

13 years ago

1227 upvotes – 763 comments

Hi I’m Hank, and I bought a bus

http://www.hankboughtabus.com/a-tour-of-the-bus/

13 years ago

944 upvotes – 197 comments

Schema migrations merged into Django master

https://github.com/django/django/commit/9aa358cedd1ad93c0f4c20700db7016651dc0598

13 years ago

★ 87.3k Python BSD-3-Clause
394 upvotes – 108 comments

How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen

http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/

13 years ago

364 upvotes – 166 comments

Just Delete Me

http://robblewis.me/just-delete-me/

13 years ago

341 upvotes – 69 comments

The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft’s Decline

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/23/stack_ranking_steve_ballmer_s_employee_evaluation_system_and_microsoft_s.html

13 years ago

279 upvotes – 220 comments

NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 75 comments

Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-into-uber-its-largest-deal-ever/

13 years ago

244 upvotes – 172 comments

The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/08/the-science-behind-honeys-eternal-shelf-life/

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 86 comments

UK government now leaking documents about itself

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/23/uk-government-independent-military-base

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 72 comments
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