top 50% 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

New Zealand appears to have used NSA spy network to target Kim Dotcom

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/new-zealand-appears-to-have-used-nsa-spy-network-to-target-kim-dotcom/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 34 comments

Tesla is unable to sell its vehicles directly to the public in Texas

http://www.teslamotors.com/advocacy_texas

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 81 comments

Docker 0.6: Events API, registry improvements, expert mode, security updates.

http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/websockets-dockerfile-upgrade-better-registry-support-expert-mode-and-more/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 23 comments

Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django)

https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/423-neo4django-0-1-9

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 38 comments

1,600 Year Old Goblet Shows Romans Used Nanotechnology.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/This-1600-Year-Old-Goblet-Shows-that-the-Romans-Were-Nanotechnology-Pioneers-220563661.html

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 80 comments

Compiling to Lua

http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-new-waf-compiling-to-lua

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 35 comments

Uber for Everything

http://diegobasch.com/uber-for-everything

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 127 comments

Chess written in sed

https://github.com/bolknote/SedChess

13 years ago

★ 298
112 upvotes – 51 comments

Additional $2.1M Seized from Mt. Gox Accounts – Now Over $5M Total

http://thegenesisblock.com/warrant-for-mt-gox-wells-fargo-accounts-shows-additional-2-1m-seized/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 62 comments

No More Notification Ads and Icon Ads in Android Apps

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/08/no-more-notification-ads-and-icon-ads.html

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 43 comments

59% of the 'Tuna' Americans Eat Is Not Tuna

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/59-of-the-tuna-americans-eat-is-not-tuna/273410/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 98 comments

An IBM XT with 4.77MHz can display color video

http://www.oldskool.org/pc/8088_Corruption/#de

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 40 comments

Parallel Roguelike Lev-Gen Benchmarks: Rust, Go, D, Scala and Nimrod

http://togototo.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/benchmarks-round-two-parallel-go-rust-d-scala-and-nimrod/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 56 comments

X.Org Foundation Loses Its 501(c)(3) Status

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ0MzU

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 63 comments

I Raised My Kids On the Command Line and They Love It (2012)

http://lifehacker.com/5974087/i-raised-my-kids-on-the-command-lineand-they-love-it

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 56 comments

A Steve Jobs email exchange that captures Apple’s strategy

http://qz.com/118293/the-steve-jobs-email-exchange-that-perfectly-captures-apples-strategy/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 52 comments

An Animation About Quantum Computers

http://quantumfrontiers.com/2013/08/22/the-most-awesome-animation-about-quantum-computers-you-will-ever-see/#content

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 44 comments

How the NSA spied on Americans before the Internet

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/23/how-the-nsa-spied-on-americans-before-the-internet/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 7 comments

What's happening in Go tip

http://dominik.honnef.co/go-tip/2013-08-23/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

Arimaa – Intuitively simple, intellectually challenging

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

Gloss – A Bidirectional Path Tracer in C

http://geon.github.io/programming/2013/08/22/gloss-my-bidirectional-path-tracer/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

Luma (YC W12) acquired by Facebook and integrated into Instagram video

http://luma.io/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

The Erdős-Rényi Random Graph

http://jeremykun.com/2013/08/22/the-erdos-renyi-random-graph/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 1 comments
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