top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-09-28

Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/why-free-software-is-more-important-now-than-ever-before/

13 years ago

383 upvotes – 275 comments

Thoreau 2.0

https://static.pinboard.in/xoxo_talk_thoreau.htm

13 years ago

331 upvotes – 52 comments

UTF-8 – "The most elegant hack"

http://hackaday.com/2013/09/27/utf-8-the-most-elegant-hack/

13 years ago

315 upvotes – 174 comments

N.S.A. Examines Social Networks of U.S. Citizens

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

268 upvotes – 97 comments

My time with the Steam Controller

http://tommyrefenes.tumblr.com/post/62476523677/my-time-with-the-steam-controller

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 78 comments

Spaced repetition for study and learning

http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition?2

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 111 comments

Underscore Price Dynamics

http://www.marco.org/2013/09/28/underscore-price-dynamics

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 87 comments

We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/magazine/dave-eggers-fiction.html?smid=tw-nytmag&_r=1&

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 56 comments

GNU 30th anniversary

https://gnu.org/gnu30/?hn

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 16 comments

RegEx101.com now offers a debugger

http://regex101.com/?

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 30 comments

Taking PHP Seriously [pdf]

https://raw.github.com/strangeloop/StrangeLoop2013/master/slides/sessions/Adams-TakingPHPSeriously.pdf

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 148 comments

How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/09/28/how-open-should-a-startup-ceo-be-with-staff/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 79 comments

Free Unix (1983)

http://article.olduse.net/[email protected]

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 35 comments

Tarsnap logo contest

http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg00678.html

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 125 comments

Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Backbone

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

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

Gevent For the Working Python Developer

http://sdiehl.github.io/gevent-tutorial/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 9 comments

The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images

http://app.thefacesoffacebook.com/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 47 comments

Ripple is officially open source

https://ripple.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3718&p=18013#p18013

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

After neighbor’s death, first-time filmmaker declares war on suicide

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/07/08/issues/driven-by-regret-over-neighbors-death-first-time-filmmaker-declares-war-on-suicide/#.Uka0T4ZtjRg

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 80 comments

Inside the fall of BlackBerry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-inside-story-of-why-blackberry-is-failing/article14563602

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 88 comments
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