top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-27

Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391

13 years ago

1065 upvotes – 461 comments

Steam Controller

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

13 years ago

783 upvotes – 361 comments

JustFab.com JustFabulous Class Action Lawsuit (2011)

http://www.scambook.com/blog/2011/10/justfab-com-justfabulous-class-action-lawsuit/

13 years ago

404 upvotes – 72 comments

New UNIX implementation (1983)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/net.unix-wizards/8twfRPM79u0/1xlglzrWrU0J

13 years ago

370 upvotes – 159 comments

ARM64 and You

http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-09-27-arm64-and-you.html

13 years ago

296 upvotes – 106 comments

The Future of AngularJS

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Gv-dvU-yy6WY7SiNJ9QRo9XayPS6N2jtgWezdRpoI04/edit#slide=id.p

13 years ago

280 upvotes – 72 comments

Choc: Bret Victor's 'Learnable Programming' implemented in Javascript

http://fullstack.io/choc/

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 56 comments

Born of Reddit, Imgur now dwarfs the ‘front page of the Internet’

http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/26/imgur-traffic-milestone-100m-uniques/

13 years ago

259 upvotes – 136 comments

How to build great products

http://www.defmacro.org/2013/09/26/products.html

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 29 comments

A simple git branching model

https://gist.github.com/jbenet/ee6c9ac48068889b0912

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 157 comments

Rust 0.8 released

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-September/005804.html

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 96 comments

Why we're supporting Typed Clojure

http://blog.circleci.com/supporting-typed-clojure/

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 73 comments

Size Comparison - Science Fiction spaceships

http://dirkloechel.deviantart.com/art/Size-Comparison-Science-Fiction-spaceships-398790051

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 90 comments

Why OpenHeatMap is banned from Github

http://petewarden.com/2013/09/27/why-openheatmap-is-banned-from-github/

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 37 comments

Decoding Vibrations From Nearby Keyboards With Mobile Phone Accelerometers [pdf]

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~traynor/papers/traynor-ccs11.pdf

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 55 comments

Crowdfunding for Typed Clojure and ClojureScript

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/typed-clojure

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 36 comments

Data sets released by Google

http://svonava.com/post/62186512058/datasets-released-by-google

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 17 comments

Record Label Picks Copyright Fight With The Wrong Guy

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/09/27/226834651/record-label-picks-a-fight-over-copyright-with-the-wrong-guy?sc=fb&cc=fmp

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: A free collection of maps for every country in the world, in 11 sizes

https://github.com/djaiss/mapsicon

13 years ago

★ 2.2k HTML
157 upvotes – 51 comments

Nicotine as a useful stimulant

http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 130 comments

GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 released

http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2013-09-27.html

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 43 comments

A Prion Love Story

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/09/a-prion-love-story.html

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 12 comments

Idea to App in 2 weeks

http://nemrow.tumblr.com/post/61214991178/idea-to-app-in-2-weeks

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 59 comments

AFNetworking 2.0

https://github.com/afnetworking/afnetworking#readme

13 years ago

★ 33.4k Objective-C MIT
135 upvotes – 18 comments

GNU APL 1.0

http://www.gnu.org/software/apl/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 56 comments

An nginx configuration for security

http://tautt.com/best-nginx-configuration-for-security/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 44 comments

TRESOR Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM

http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/tresor

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 65 comments

Java to Scala converter

http://javatoscala.com

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 87 comments

A Billion Rows per Second: Metaprogramming Python for Big Data [video]

https://thenewcircle.com/s/post/1540/a_billion_rows_per_second_metaprogramming_python_for_big_data_ville_tuulos_video

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 16 comments

Ship crosses Northwest Passage, sails into history

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bulk-carrier-becomes-first-to-successfully-traverse-northwest-passage/article14516278/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 103 comments

A simultaneous OS X binary, PDF file, jar file, and HTML page

http://mix.corkami.com

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

Strangeloop 2013 slides

https://github.com/strangeloop/StrangeLoop2013/tree/master/slides/sessions

13 years ago

★ 321 Go
84 upvotes – 20 comments

3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser

http://terrafab.bengler.no/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 38 comments

Fix a FirefoxOS bug, get a free APC

http://apc.io/software/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Security At Coinbase

https://coinbase.com/security

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

A crash course in startup metrics

http://tomblomfield.com/post/62342949294/startup-series-part-3-you-make-what-you-measure

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Why it's probably safer if your pilot is asleep than awake

http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/sep/27/safer-pilot-asleep-awake-autopilot

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 75 comments

A Short Rant At Wired - The Second Coming Of Java

http://wiggly.org/blog/2013/09/the-second-coming-of-java/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 48 comments
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