top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-09-16

My Friends and I Bought an Island

http://tynan.com/island

13 years ago

832 upvotes – 387 comments

Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/09/five-years-ago-stack-overflow-launched-then-a-miracle-occurred/

13 years ago

519 upvotes – 177 comments

Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/09/gabe-newell-linux-is-the-future-of-gaming-new-hardware-coming-soon/

13 years ago

404 upvotes – 300 comments

Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/angry-entrepreneur-replies-to-patent-troll-with-racketeering-lawsuit/

13 years ago

308 upvotes – 62 comments

Tim O'Reilly: How I Failed

http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/09/how-i-failed.html/

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 74 comments

Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits

http://thechangelog.com/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits/

13 years ago

270 upvotes – 70 comments

Dear USA, my data has left your building

http://cpbotha.net/2013/09/15/dear-usa-my-data-has-left-your-building/

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 151 comments

Bump (YC S09) has been acquired by Google

http://blog.bu.mp/post/61411611006/bump-google

13 years ago

215 upvotes – 101 comments

Star Wars opening crawl from 1977 in HTML/CSS/JS

http://codepen.io/TimPietrusky/pen/eHGfj

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 64 comments

UAV Provides Colorado Flooding Assistance Until FEMA Freaks Out

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/aerial-robots/falcon-uav-provides-colorado-flooding-assistance-until-fema-freaks-out#.Ujcb6Jpx1P4.hackernews

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: goworker – a faster, Resque-compatible background worker

http://www.goworker.org/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 58 comments

This 4×6 index card has all the financial advice you’ll ever need

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/16/this-4x6-index-card-has-all-the-financial-advice-youll-ever-need/

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 249 comments

Golang Object Oriented Design

http://nathany.com/good/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 73 comments

How Detroit went broke

http://www.freep.com/interactive/article/20130915/NEWS01/130801004/Detroit-Bankruptcy-history-1950-debt-pension-revenue?

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 216 comments

What Neil and Buzz Left on the Moon

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/21jul_llr/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 76 comments

Hosting backdoors in hardware

https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/hosting_backdoors_in_hardware

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 61 comments

Rat Park Experiment: A New Theory of Addiction

http://sub.garrytan.com/its-not-the-morphine-its-the-size-of-the-cage-rat-park-experiment-upturns-conventional-wisdom-about-addiction

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 42 comments

Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/google-and-samsung-soar-into-list-of-top-10-linux-contributors/

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 50 comments

The DIY Danes planning to launch a man into space

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/15/diy-danes-launch-man-space

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 34 comments

Masscan: scan the entire Internet in under 6 minutes, 10 million packets/second

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan

13 years ago

★ 25.5k C AGPL-3.0
138 upvotes – 30 comments
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