top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-23

SteamOS

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

13 years ago

1436 upvotes – 513 comments

Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6431573

13 years ago

444 upvotes – 430 comments

Rainyday.js

https://github.com/maroslaw/rainyday.js

13 years ago

365 upvotes – 77 comments

Metadata Equals Surveillance

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

13 years ago

320 upvotes – 106 comments

Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/fairfax-strikes-47-billion-deal-to-buy-blackberry/article14470689/

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 115 comments

How to Hire

http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 80 comments

Why The New Gmail Sucks

http://startupq8.com/2013/09/23/why-the-new-gmail-sucks/

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 257 comments

10x Engineer

https://medium.com/about-work/6aedba30ecfe

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 176 comments

Google timer

https://www.google.com/#q=timer+for+10+seconds

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 154 comments

Microsoft’s Hardware, Round 2: Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/microsofts-hardware-round-2-surface-2-and-surface-pro-2/

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 246 comments

This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/23/this-hacker-might-seem-shady-but-throwing-him-in-jail-is-bad-for-everyone/

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 202 comments

Why we moved away from AWS

http://blippex.github.io/updates/2013/09/23/why-we-moved-away-from-aws.html

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 99 comments

Shiny: Easy web applications in R

http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 47 comments

Django Vanilla Views 1.0 released.

http://django-vanilla-views.org/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 42 comments

Today I Deleted My LinkedIn Account; You Probably Should Too

http://moshebildner.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/today-i-delete-my-linkedin-account-you-probably-should-too/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 98 comments

Ruby 2.1.0 preview1 released

https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/4417257

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 59 comments

Invest in Startups

https://wefunder.com/?titleii

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 93 comments

Apple’s iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/23/apples-iphone-5s-and-iphone-5c-sell-9m-units-over-opening-weekend-topping-5m-for-iphone-5-last-year/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 171 comments

FAA to lift mobile shut-down rule

http://www.zdnet.com/faa-to-lift-mobile-shut-down-rule-7000021045/?s_cid=e550&ttag=e550

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 138 comments

A Cosmonaut's Fiery Death Retold (2011)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/03/135919389/a-cosmonauts-fiery-death-retold

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 45 comments

Drakon – A visual language for specifications from the Russian space program

http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 28 comments

Is College Worth It?

http://priceonomics.com/is-college-worth-it/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 93 comments

Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor (2011)

http://northwesthistory.blogspot.se/2011/11/open-letter-to-my-students-no-you.html

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 109 comments

Google Has Spent $21 Billion on Data Centers

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/09/17/google-has-spent-21-billion-on-data-centers/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 69 comments

Why are there so many successful Swedish gaming companies?

http://swedishstartupspace.com/2013/09/23/sweden-game-development/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 58 comments

Gmail service disruption

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1379995199000&sid=1&iid=043f082bc7cd18e15458318035d9bc7a

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 53 comments

LXC – Running 14,000 tests per day and beyond

http://codeascraft.com/2013/09/23/lxc-running-14000-tests-per-day-and-beyond-part-1/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

At 77 He Prepares Burgers, Earning in a Week His Former Hourly Wage

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/why-100-000-salary-may-yield-retirement-flipping-burgers.html

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 97 comments

Microduino: An Arduino nearly as small as a quarter, for $20

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/microduino-an-arduino-nearly-as-small-as-a-quarter-for-20/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 24 comments

Git-cal - GitHub Activity Calendar for your Terminal

https://github.com/k4rthik/git-cal

13 years ago

★ 1.1k Perl MIT
83 upvotes – 17 comments

A post-mortem on my first AngularJS project

http://johnmunsch.com/2013/09/22/a-post-mortem-on-my-first-angularjs-project/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

The Man Who Gets The Science Right On 'The Big Bang Theory'

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/09/23/224404260/the-man-who-gets-the-science-right-on-the-big-bang-theory

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 70 comments

Formalizing Concurrency, Distribution, and Mobility

http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/09/23/formalizing-concurrency-distribution-and-mobility.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments

Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file

https://gist.github.com/gregclermont/6669056

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 43 comments

Shell Scripts vs. Ansible

http://devopsu.com/blog/ansible-vs-shell-scripts/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 72 comments

Things Caches Do (2008)

http://tomayko.com/writings/things-caches-do

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 5 comments

Fake Reviewers Snared in NY Attorney General Yogurt Sting

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/09/23/us/23reuters-fake-reviewers.html?hp&_r=0

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 70 comments

Rasterisation patterns of the Haswell GPU

http://www.g-truc.net/post-0597.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

Matryoshka: Wrapping Overflow Leak on Frames

http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2013/09/matryoshka-wrapping-overflow-leak-on.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

How You Can Invest In My Deals

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/09/23/youd-like-to-be-an-angel-investor-heres-how-you-can-invest-in-my-deals/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 39 comments

The quiet successes that drive Silicon Valley

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/08/13/the-quiet-successes-that-drive-silicon-valley/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments
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