top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-09-25

Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free

https://konklone.com/post/switch-to-https-now-for-free?hn

13 years ago

622 upvotes – 251 comments

SteamMachines

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

13 years ago

514 upvotes – 287 comments

The shittiest project I ever worked on

http://blog.plover.com/tech/prudential.html

13 years ago

501 upvotes – 181 comments

Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup

http://blog.natbat.net/post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to-exit-the-story-of-our-startup

13 years ago

324 upvotes – 32 comments

VLC 2.1.0

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.1.0.html

13 years ago

282 upvotes – 142 comments

Solved By Flexbox – Cleaner, hack-free CSS

http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox

13 years ago

259 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Drawingboard.js

http://leimi.github.io/drawingboard.js/

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 64 comments

Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/revealed-qatars-world-cup-slaves

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 140 comments

EasyJet refuses to let columnist on board for sending critical tweet

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/09/25/easyjet-under-fire-after-claims-it-refused-let-drum-columnist-mark-leiser-board

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 145 comments

One-electron universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 99 comments

Myst Online: Uru Live Again

http://mystonline.com

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 80 comments

World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-world-solar-cell-efficiency.html

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 123 comments

What's the Most Concave State in the U.S.? Using R to Solve a Geography Puzzle

http://news.rapgenius.com/Atodd-whats-the-most-concave-state-in-the-us-using-r-to-solve-a-geography-puzzle-lyrics

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 57 comments

SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices v1.3

https://www.ssllabs.com/projects/best-practices/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 37 comments

What happened to Google Alerts?

http://www.gwern.net/Google%20Alerts

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 39 comments

There's a coffeeshop called java.update() in GTA V

http://orcz.com/GTA_V:_Java_Update_Coffeeshop

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 77 comments

Large patent holders hate this reform proposal. That’s a good sign

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/24/large-patent-holders-hate-this-reform-proposal-thats-a-good-sign/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 41 comments

Create an algorithm to distinguish dogs from cats

https://www.kaggle.com/c/dogs-vs-cats

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 73 comments

Surface Blades – true innovation from Microsoft

http://betanews.com/2013/09/24/surface-blades-true-innovation-from-microsoft/

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 107 comments

Say Hello to Rick Ross

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/rick-ross-drug-dealer-interview-1013?page=all

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 69 comments
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