top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-26

NASA paywalls first papers arising from Curiosity rover – I am setting them free

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1430

13 years ago

569 upvotes – 121 comments

Why Your Startup Can’t Find Developers

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3018568/why-your-startup-cant-find-developers

13 years ago

415 upvotes – 349 comments

The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked

http://gigaom.com/2013/09/26/seriously-samsung-sorry-european-roamers-but-the-new-galaxy-note-3-is-region-locked/

13 years ago

361 upvotes – 225 comments

PayPal Acquires Braintree for $800M

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/paypal-acquires-payments-gateway-braintree-for-800m-in-cash/

13 years ago

326 upvotes – 175 comments

Mars water surprise in Curiosity rover soil samples

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24287207

13 years ago

301 upvotes – 44 comments

Reveal.js

http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/

13 years ago

286 upvotes – 50 comments

Dolphin Emulator and OpenGL drivers - Hall of Fame/Shame

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2013/09/26/dolphin-emulator-and-opengl-drivers-hall-fameshame/

13 years ago

273 upvotes – 59 comments

Call me maybe: Cassandra

http://aphyr.com/posts/294-call-me-maybe-cassandra

13 years ago

268 upvotes – 51 comments

Troll-Killing Patent Reform One Step Closer

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/troll-killing-patent-reform-one-step-closer

13 years ago

259 upvotes – 45 comments

At 16, Ganesh got a job in Qatar. Two months later he was dead

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/25/qatar-nepalese-workers-poverty-camps

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 160 comments

Git concepts simplified

http://gitolite.com/gcs/index.html

13 years ago

244 upvotes – 141 comments

FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-staff-purchase-the-business-from-opera/

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 118 comments

Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients

http://www.zdnet.com/google-hangoutsgtalk-glitch-sends-chats-to-wrong-recipients-7000021195/

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 146 comments

Giant Concrete Arrows Across the American Landscape

http://www.core77.com/blog/transportation/what_are_these_giant_concrete_arrows_across_the_american_landscape_25236.asp

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algorithm, “Hummingbird”

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/google-recently-made-a-silent-shift-to-a-new-search-algorithm-hummingbird/

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 146 comments

What Everyone Should Know About How Talent is Bought and Sold

http://firstround.com/article/What-Everyone-Should-Know-About-How-Talent-is-Bought-and-Sold

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 50 comments

We're creating a culture of distraction

http://joekraus.com/were-creating-a-culture-of-distraction

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 172 comments

Intel proves once and for all that PCs are not coming back

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/09/18/intel-proves-pcs-coming-back/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 186 comments

20% of Yelp reviews are fake

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/20-of-yelp-reviews-are-fake-2013-09-24

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 104 comments

Going to work from home today – our office is too loud

http://blog.42floors.com/our-office-is-too-loud/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 157 comments

Happy Petrov day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 30 comments

419-million-year-old fish fossil resolves 'missing link' in evolution

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-26/fossil-discovery-links-gap-in-evolutionary-knowledge-of-fish/4981652

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 121 comments

FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine

http://wiki.farmbot.it/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 43 comments

Google in 1998

https://www.google.com/#q=google+in+1998&safe=off

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 67 comments

Quantitative Economic Modeling in Python

http://www.quant-econ.net/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 10 comments

FlameStower - USB charger powered by fire

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flamestower/flamestower-charge-your-gear-with-fire

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 82 comments

What I would have written

http://dcurt.is/what-i-would-have-written

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 73 comments

How many people are in space right now?

http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 58 comments

Teaching a Computer to Read: NLP Hacking in Python

http://blog.scripted.com/staff/nlp-hacking-in-python/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 24 comments

I Am Stereoblind, But The Oculus Rift Is My Corrective Lens

http://www.vognetwork.com/rifting-to-a-new-reality/118/I-Am-Stereoblind-But-The-Oculus-Rift-Is-My-Corrective-Lens/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 41 comments

Google - Our History in Depth

http://www.google.com/about/company/history/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 45 comments

AngularJS is amazing, and hard as hell

https://coderwall.com/p/3qclqg

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 116 comments

H.R.2818 - Surveillance State Repeal Act

http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2818

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

Testing code is simple

http://th3james.github.io/blog/2013/09/25/testing-code-is-simple/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 77 comments

Credit Card Processing is a Hard Business

http://blog.zactownsend.com/thoughts-on-braintree-paypal-stripe-and-payment-processing

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 24 comments

China to launch space station by 2023

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24282060

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 73 comments

Please, don't buy my book on Amazon

http://pleasedontbuymybookonamazon.com/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 106 comments

Patent troll Lodsys demands $5,000 from Martha Stewart. That was a bad idea

http://gigaom.com/2013/09/25/patent-troll-lodsys-demands-5000-from-martha-stewart-that-was-a-bad-idea/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

Academia.edu, The Social Networking Platform For Researchers, Raises $11 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/academia-edu-2/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: How much savings did you have before quitting your industry job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6451335

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 72 comments

RulersGuides.js - Photoshop-like rulers and guides

http://mark-rolich.github.io/RulersGuides.js/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

Senator makes twelve LoveINT case details public [pdf]

http://www.grassley.senate.gov/judiciary/upload/NSA-Surveillance-09-11-13-response-from-IG-to-intentional-misuse-of-NSA-authority.pdf

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 5 comments

World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24261-world-wont-cool-without-geoengineering-warns-report.html

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 134 comments

The sad reality of why we are not living in the moment

http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/08/25/i-forgot-my-phone/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 33 comments

A Rust binding of the wxWidgets cross platform toolkit.

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-September/005772.html

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

Money on the Mind [video]

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365029352/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 72 comments

First Bionic Leg to Harness Nerves Allows Mind Control Movement

http://www.newsmax.com/SciTech/bionic-leg-/2013/09/26/id/527804?

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments
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