top 50% 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

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

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

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

Why I'm Getting a PhD

http://johnbender.us/2013/09/16/why-im-getting-a-phd/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 124 comments

Sophia – An embeddable key-value database

http://sphia.org/index.html

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 56 comments

The History Of The Fake "Free Public WiFi" You Always See At Airports

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20101011/03194311357/the-history-of-the-fake-free-public-wifi-you-always-see-at-airports.shtml

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 12 comments

How I got into YC S13

http://aelag.com/how-i-got-into-yc

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 33 comments

Jacob Appelbaum at European Parliament: Privacy, security, spying issues

https://vikingvpn.com/blogs/politics/japplebaum-speaks-at-euro-parlaiment

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 19 comments

Open Letter From UK Security Researchers

http://bristolcrypto.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/open-letter-from-uk-security-researchers.html

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 21 comments

How to Write Safe Verilog: Become a PL Troll

http://danluu.com/pl-troll/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

Cognitect: Relevance merges with Metadata Partners (Datomic)

http://cognitect.com/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

LibPhenom, a high-performance C eventing framework from Facebook

http://facebook.github.io/libphenom/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 41 comments

Fast and formally verified C implementation of Base64

http://corp.galois.com/blog/2013/9/11/high-assurance-base64.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 40 comments

Intel rejection of Ubuntu’s Mir patch forces Canonical to go own way

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/intel-rejection-of-ubuntus-mir-patch-forces-canonical-to-go-own-way/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 95 comments

A Twisty Maze of Linux Clocks, All Slightly Different

http://geekwhisperer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/twisty-maze-of-linux-clocks-all.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 25 comments

Factoring RSA keys from certified smart cards

http://smartfacts.cr.yp.to/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 9 comments

Everything .NET programmers know about Asynchronous Programming is wrong

http://hanselminutes.com/327/everything-net-programmers-know-about-asynchronous-programming-is-wrong

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 56 comments

Use different DNS servers for specific domains

http://blog.lexfriedman.com/post/2856721099/dns-servers-specific-domains

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 80 comments

World’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange Out $10 Million

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/mt-gox/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 40 comments

Go Concurrency Patterns ported to Clojure

https://gist.github.com/danneu/5941767

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

On turning Y Combinator rejection into reddit

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2013/09/creative-breakthroughs-alexis-ohanian/279593/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Essential Tools for Starting a Rails App in 2013

http://www.petekeen.net/essential-tools-for-starting-a-rails-app-in-2013

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Startups That Received Investment from In-Q-Tel

http://mattermark.com/106-startups-who-received-investment-from-the-c-i-a-most-frequent-in-q-tel-co-investors/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 42 comments

Ruby Tips Part 2

http://globaldev.co.uk/2013/09/ruby-tips-part-2/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Surreptitiously Tampering with Computer Chips

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/surreptitiously.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 25 comments

Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web

https://github.com/texit/texit

13 years ago

★ 215 Python MIT
67 upvotes – 27 comments

Abandoning PHP for Python

http://techblog.stickyworld.com/abandoning-php-for-python.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 82 comments

Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection to Address Criticism on Large Scale Deployments

http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/09/ruby-2-1-gc-revamp

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 62 comments

Google Analytics to Drop IE8 Support at the End of 2013

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/09/16/google-analytics-to-drop-internet-explorer-8-support-at-the-end-of-2013/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 33 comments

Concord, our GPL outliner

http://scripting.com/2013/09/16/concordOurGplOutliner

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 61 comments

Bitcoin Network Speed Breaks 1 Petahash per Second

http://thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-network-reaches-1-petahash-per-second/?

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 42 comments

What If All 7.1 Billion People Moved To Tunisia?

http://www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/what-if-all-71-billion-people-moved-to.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 37 comments

Re-Inventing the Hackathon

http://blog.angelhack.com/day/2013/09/16

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 37 comments

Paul Graham Thinks You Should Exercise

http://sethbannon.com/paul-graham-thinks-you-should-exercise

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 87 comments

Don't Forget to Talk

http://blog.willdennis.com/2013/09/16/dont-forget-to-talk/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

At Twitter

http://thehundreds.com/blog/2013/09/09/at-twitter/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 51 comments

Postmates CEO tells customer to 'f--- off'

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/16/postmates-ceo-tells-customer-to-f----off

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 36 comments
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