top 20 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

OpenStreetMap gets new, easier to use in-browser editor

http://blog.openstreetmap.org/2013/08/23/id-in-browser-editor-now-default-on-openstreetmap/

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 33 comments

Newest YouTube user to fight a takedown is copyright guru Lawrence Lessig

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/newest-youtube-user-to-fight-a-takedown-is-copyright-guru-lawrence-lessig

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 31 comments

Python module that makes working with XML feel like working with JSON

https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict

13 years ago

★ 5.7k Python MIT
186 upvotes – 51 comments

How to Make Perfect Coffee

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/how-to-make-perfect-coffee/278944/

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 122 comments

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/08/why_do_so_many_incompetent_men.html

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 125 comments

Obama pick for NSA review panel wanted paid, pro-government shills in chat rooms

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/23/obama-pick-for-nsa-review-panel-wanted-paid-pro-government-shills-in-chat-rooms/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 70 comments

Micromort

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 99 comments

Yeoman 1.0 Released

http://yeoman.io/?v=1.0

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 55 comments

Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=groundwater-contamination-may-end-the-gas-fracking-boom

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 106 comments

How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3016289/how-an-arcane-coding-method-from-1970s-banking-software-could-save-the-sanity-of-web-develop

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 150 comments
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