top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-24

JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

13 years ago

568 upvotes – 211 comments

The Banality of Systemic Evil

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/the-banality-of-systemic-evil/

13 years ago

366 upvotes – 169 comments

Mozilla's New Fira Typeface

https://github.com/mozilla/Fira

13 years ago

★ 5.1k CSS
328 upvotes – 128 comments

Starting an Airline

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/startup/

13 years ago

318 upvotes – 222 comments

Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views

http://blog.disqus.com/post/62187806135/scaling-django-to-8-billion-page-views

13 years ago

316 upvotes – 132 comments

iMessage for Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.huluwa.imessage

13 years ago

301 upvotes – 221 comments

Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-kill-list-doj-memo

13 years ago

290 upvotes – 158 comments

Nvidia seeks peace with Linux, pledges help on open source driver

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/nvidia-seeks-peace-with-linux-pledges-help-on-open-source-driver/

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 80 comments

Urbit: A clean-slate functional OS

http://www.urbit.org/

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 178 comments

Nvidia to release documentation on Nouveau project

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2013-September/014480.html

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 92 comments

How we tripled our revenue by adding one button

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/a8e04b2d85fe

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 44 comments

Confusing UI in iOS7

https://medium.com/design-ux/ce87662270cf

13 years ago

246 upvotes – 188 comments

Requests v2.0 Python module released

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/community/updates/#release-history

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 37 comments

What to do if a bubble is starting

http://blog.samaltman.com/what-to-do-if-a-bubble-is-starting

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 144 comments

How startups should die

http://blog.42floors.com/startups-die/#.UkGtI2RKlq4

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 66 comments

Looking back on the game 'Myst' on its 20th anniversary

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9713372/looking-back-game-myst-20th-anniversary

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 117 comments

Minecrafting with OS OpenData

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecraft-map-britain.html

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 38 comments

Who rooted kernel.org servers two years ago?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/who-rooted-kernel-org-servers-two-years-ago-how-did-it-happen-and-why/

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 45 comments

How IPython Notebook and Github have changed the way I teach Python

http://peak5390.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/how-ipython-notebook-and-github-have-changed-the-way-i-teach-python/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 31 comments

Dropbox - Transparency Report

https://www.dropbox.com/transparency

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 61 comments

Empty F-16 jet tested by Boeing and US Air Force

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24231077

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 115 comments

How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-hole-in-our-collective-memory-how-copyright-made-mid-century-books-vanish/278209/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 99 comments

Google to Encrypt All Keyword Searches

http://blog.hubspot.com/google-encrypting-all-searches-nj

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 112 comments

Brazilian president: US surveillance a 'breach of international law'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/24/brazil-president-un-speech-nsa-surveillance

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 48 comments

Why We Hate Infographics

http://insights.qunb.com/why-we-hate-infographics-and-why-you-should

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 71 comments

Stop using Digital Ocean Now For the greater good

http://serdardogruyol.com/?p=122

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 113 comments

Alfred 2 Workflows

https://github.com/zenorocha/alfred-workflows

13 years ago

★ 12.2k
117 upvotes – 37 comments

Nokia Admits Giving Misleading Information About Elop's Compensation

http://www.forbes.com/sites/terokuittinen/2013/09/24/nokia-admits-giving-misleading-information-about-elops-compensation/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 86 comments

7373170279850

http://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/2000-69-229/S0025-5718-99-01116-3/home.html

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Why I Hacked Apple’s TouchID and Still Think it is Awesome

https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2013/09/23/why-i-hacked-apples-touchid-and-still-think-it-is-awesome/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 59 comments

Spain's new piracy penalty: Six years in jail

http://www.zdnet.com/spains-new-piracy-penalty-six-years-in-jail-7000020973/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 66 comments

What is going on with NIST’s SHA-3?

https://www.cdt.org/blogs/joseph-lorenzo-hall/2409what-heck-going-nist%E2%80%99s-encryption-standard-sha-3

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 47 comments

Apple Updates iMac

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/09/24Apple-Updates-iMac.html

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 161 comments

Horse_ebooks Is Human After All

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/horse-ebooks-and-pronunciation-book-revealed.html

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 31 comments

China to lift ban on Facebook, Twitter, NYT within Shanghai free-trade zone

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1316598/exclusive-china-lift-ban-facebook-only-within-shanghai-free-trade-zone

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

Heathrow Airport recreates departure day 4x a year for young man with autism

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23989422

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: An app for developing great habits

http://cleverroutines.com

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 44 comments

Mac apps are harder than iOS apps

https://medium.com/tech-blogging/614338e2e470

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

Ziptr to Discontinue Services

http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/Ziptr-to-Discontinue-Services-68123-1.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

Autism diagnoses are up 78% in 10 years. We're dramatically overdiagnosing it

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/21/thats_not_autism_its_simply_a_brainy_introverted_boy/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 66 comments

Why Most Startups Don't 'Get' Press

http://firstround.com/article/why-most-startups-dont-get-press

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

Newell's history of porting Doom to Windows to show it can be a gaming platform

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=684969

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 51 comments

Australia’s Broadband History

http://reckoner.com.au/2013/09/australias-broadband-history/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 7 comments

Ways You’re Making Your Employees Less Productive

http://quickbase.intuit.com/blog/2013/09/24/10-ways-youre-making-your-employees-less-productive

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

Gmail Favicon Issues

http://devblog.com.au/gmail-favicon-issues

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 26 comments

Why I Moved My Startup to Oakland

http://brennenbyrne.com/2013/09/oakland/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 60 comments

More On Gmail’s Delivery Delays

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/09/more-on-gmails-delivery-delays.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 32 comments

A successful Git branching model (2010)

http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

Makernews

http://news.makerland.org/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 62 comments

We hear you: Better commenting coming to YouTube

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2013/09/youtube-new-comments.html

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 71 comments

If your business depends on Flash, have an exit plan ready

http://www.davidverhasselt.com/2013/09/24/adobe-doesnt-care-about-developers/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 58 comments

Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-were-shutting-our-comments

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments

Oracle Announces an In-Memory Technology, At an Ungodly Speed And Cost

http://blog.memsql.com/oracle-announces-an-in-memory-technology-at-an-ungodly-speed-and-cost/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments
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