top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-03

Nokia acquired by Microsoft

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/09/02/the-next-chapter-an-open-letter-from-steve-ballmer-and-stephen-elop.aspx

13 years ago

865 upvotes – 553 comments

Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

http://www.kitkat.com/#/home

13 years ago

741 upvotes – 189 comments

Kindle MatchBook

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1001373341

13 years ago

422 upvotes – 181 comments

Microsoft to acquire Nokia

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/Sep13/09-02AnnouncementPR.aspx

13 years ago

395 upvotes – 151 comments

Our Newfound Fear of Risk

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/our_newfound_fe.html

13 years ago

338 upvotes – 193 comments

Start Using Emacs – A Thorough Guide for Beginners

http://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/

13 years ago

299 upvotes – 137 comments

Lanyrd acquired by Eventbrite

http://lanyrd.com/blog/2013/eventbrite/

13 years ago

285 upvotes – 46 comments

Easy Steps to a Complete Understanding of SQL

http://tech.pro/tutorial/1555/10-easy-steps-to-a-complete-understanding-of-sql

13 years ago

274 upvotes – 80 comments

Two-factor Authentication

https://github.com/blog/1614-two-factor-authentication

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 88 comments

Android KitKat

http://www.android.com/kitkat

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 199 comments

Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose

http://storyblog.io/f11ffb15/anxiety-over-the-new-gmail-compose

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 241 comments

The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

http://greatlanguagegame.com/

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 169 comments

HelloRun - A WebGL 3D Game

http://hellorun.helloenjoy.com/

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 106 comments

The Number One Trait of a Great Developer

http://tammersaleh.com/posts/the-number-one-trait-of-a-great-developer/

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 115 comments

The Deal That Makes No Sense

http://stratechery.com/2013/the-deal-that-makes-no-sense/

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 157 comments

Teach, Don't Tell

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/09/teach-dont-tell/

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 50 comments

AT&T gives DEA 26 years of phone call records to wage war on drugs

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/att-gives-dea-26-years-of-phone-call-records-to-wage-war-on-drugs/

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 208 comments

Court: Federal Law Allows Lying in TSA-Related FOIA Requests

http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/court-federal-law-allows-lying-in-tsa-related-foia-requests/

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 82 comments

I couldn't wait for the new Mac Pro

http://blog.hopefullyuseful.com/blog/2013/08/31/i-couldnt-wait-for-the-new-mac-pro/

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 177 comments

A most bizarre and mysterious cocoon

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/a-most-bizarre-and-mysterious-cocoon/

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 30 comments

Tiny $45 cubic mini-PC runs Android and Linux

http://linuxgizmos.com/tiny-cubic-mini-pc-runs-android-and-linux-on-freescale-arm-cpu/

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 94 comments

Rackspace Launches Developer Discount

http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/developer-love-welcome-to-the-rackspace-cloud-developer-discount.html

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: Very basic Unix-like operating system built when I was younger

https://github.com/SamyPesse/os

13 years ago

★ 553 C Apache-2.0
150 upvotes – 63 comments

Beyond Flat

http://jackg.org/beyond-flat

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 27 comments

Applications open for Startup School

http://startupschool.org

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 65 comments

How much it's worth to be #1 on Hacker News for a day

http://arshadchowdhury.com/1527-how-much-its-worth-to-be-1-on-hacker-news-for-a-day/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 46 comments

Adventures in Self Publishing

https://www.petekeen.net/adventures-in-self-publishing

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 57 comments

Journey for PS3: Strange Game (2012)

http://hypercritical.co/2012/11/27/strange-game

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Stripe in Ireland

https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-ireland

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

Probabilities in the Game of Monopoly

http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 23 comments

Brazilian government studying the creation of a free encrypted email service

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fg1.globo.com%2Ftecnologia%2Fnoticia%2F2013%2F09%2Fcorreios-podem-ter-email-gratuito-e-criptografado-diz-ministerio.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 41 comments

All-New Kindle Paperwhite

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AWH595M/ref=amb_link_382772722_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=1ZS2CMEVE20CKTEHN1MW&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1611619942&pf_rd_i=507846&tag=toofyoga-20

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Find the fastest route via a place

http://road.li

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 52 comments

Apache CouchDB 1.4.0 Released

https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/apache_couchdb_1_4_0

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 9 comments

What's That Programming Language?

http://wtpl.heroku.com

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 68 comments

Git pissed

https://github.com/chrishunt/git-pissed

13 years ago

★ 834 HTML MIT
81 upvotes – 16 comments

Bootstrap Magic featuring Boostrap 3

http://pikock.github.io/bootstrap-magic/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

Hacking the coding interview

http://www.restlessprogrammer.com/2013/09/hacking-coding-interview.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Analog photography is dead. Long live analog photography

http://www.infinum.co/the-capsized-eight/articles/analog-photography-is-dead-long-live-analog-photography

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 65 comments

Student Solves Sol Lewitt Drawing Assignment in Pseudocode

http://cmuems.com/2013/a/golan/09/02/melanie-nailed-it/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

Steve Ballmer email to Microsoft employees on Nokia acquisition

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Sep13/09-02email.aspx

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 39 comments

Libre News, political discussion powered by Arc Lang

http://wwww.librenews.us

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 56 comments
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