top 50% 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

Thoreau 2.0

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

13 years ago

UTF-8 – "The most elegant hack"

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

13 years ago

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

My time with the Steam Controller

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

13 years ago

Spaced repetition for study and learning

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

13 years ago

Underscore Price Dynamics

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

13 years ago

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

GNU 30th anniversary

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

13 years ago

RegEx101.com now offers a debugger

http://regex101.com/?

13 years ago

Taking PHP Seriously [pdf]

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

13 years ago

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

Free Unix (1983)

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

13 years ago

Tarsnap logo contest

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

13 years ago

Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Backbone

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

13 years ago

Gevent For the Working Python Developer

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

13 years ago

The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images

http://app.thefacesoffacebook.com/

13 years ago

Ripple is officially open source

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

13 years ago

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

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

FTC publishes a long list of questions it wants to ask “patent trolls”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/ftc-publishes-a-long-list-of-questions-it-wants-to-ask-patent-trolls/

13 years ago

Symbolic Exploit Assistant (SEA)

https://github.com/neuromancer/SEA

13 years ago

The Page-Fault Weird Machine: Lessons in Instruction-less Computation

https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot13/page-fault-weird-machine-lessons-instruction-less-computation

13 years ago

Yet Another Modest Proposal: The Roentgen Standard (1980)

http://www.larryniven.net/stories/roentgen.shtml

13 years ago

Revenge of the lizard brain

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/09/07/revenge-of-the-lizard-brain/

13 years ago

Is TDD Worth It?

http://blog.codosaur.us/2013/07/is-tdd-worth-it.html

13 years ago

Why iOS 7 is making some users sick

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/27/ios-7-motion-sickness-nausea

13 years ago

Facebook first level interview for Linux admin position

http://bsdpunk.blogspot.com/2013/09/facebook-first-level-interview-for.html

13 years ago

How I Refresh my memory

http://www.cringely.com/2013/09/27/refresh-memory/

13 years ago

Keep Saturdays Sacred

http://words.steveklabnik.com/keep-saturdays-sacred

13 years ago

McCutcheon: Unlimited Bribery

http://unlimitedcorruption.com/

13 years ago