top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-01

Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user-names-not.html

13 years ago

587 upvotes – 255 comments

Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2013/10/01/memshrink-progress-week-117-120/

13 years ago

440 upvotes – 193 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6475879

13 years ago

399 upvotes – 561 comments

A 3D printed toothbrush for all your teeth

http://www.3ders.org//articles/20131001-blizzident-releases-3d-printed-6-seconds-toothbrush-tailored-to-your-teeth.html

13 years ago

316 upvotes – 143 comments

Show HN: "Who is hiring" mapped

http://gaganpreet.github.io/hn-hiring-mapped/

13 years ago

288 upvotes – 70 comments

How traffic actually works

http://jliszka.github.io/2013/10/01/how-traffic-actually-works.html

13 years ago

263 upvotes – 181 comments

JavaScript Allongé is free

http://braythwayt.com/2013/10/01/javascript-allonge-is-free.html

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 51 comments

NSA critics Ilija Trojanov: German writer must not enter the U.S.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fkultur%2Fgesellschaft%2Filija-trojanow-nach-nsa-protest-einreise-in-die-usa-verweigert-a-925467.html

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 95 comments

Monitor your Website’s Uptime with Google Docs

http://www.labnol.org/internet/website-uptime-monitor/21060/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 51 comments

D3.js: How to handle dynamic JSON Data

http://pothibo.com/2013/09/d3-js-how-to-handle-dynamic-json-data/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 26 comments

Write less

http://getnashty.com/write-less

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Hiro – Fast and responsive notetaking meets semantic search

https://alpha.hiroapp.com/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 83 comments

Competing with a Mac

http://www.asymco.com/2013/10/01/competing-with-a-mac/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 112 comments

French National Police Switch 37,000 Desktop PCs to Linux

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/gendarmerie_linux/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 53 comments

Memory – Part 4: Intersec’s custom allocators

https://techtalk.intersec.com/2013/10/memory-part-4-intersecs-custom-allocators/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6475885

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 180 comments

Easing Functions Cheat Sheet

http://easings.net/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 27 comments

Go 1.1 Function Calls

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bMwCey-gmqZVTpRax-ESeVuZGmjwbocYs1iHplK-cjo/pub

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 29 comments

The Six Stages of Debugging (2012)

http://plasmasturm.org/log/6debug/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 22 comments

Lego Calendar syncs with Google Calendar

http://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/lego-calendar-by-vitamins-design-syncs-with-google-calendar/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 21 comments

Challenging the Bing It On Challenge

http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/01/challenging-the-bing-it-on-challenge/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 62 comments

SpaceX Falcon 9 – Possible Explosion

http://www.zarya.info/blog/?p=1595

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 31 comments

Federal Government Begins First Shutdown In 17 Years

http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2013/09/30/clock-ticks-to-first-federal-shutdown-in-17-years/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 223 comments

Note 3’s benchmarking “adjustments” inflate scores by up to 20%

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/galaxy-note-3s-benchmarking-adjustments-inflate-scores-by-up-to-20

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 63 comments

Windows Phone doubles share in Europe, trails iPhone by only 1% in Germany

http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/30/windows-phone-doubles-share-in-europe-trails-iphone-by-only-1-in-germany/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 94 comments

Computational Synesthesia: Audio Analysis with Image Processing Algorithms

http://jack.minardi.org/software/computational-synesthesia/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

Google Baraza

http://www.google.com/baraza/en/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 67 comments

Time for Gates to go, some top Microsoft investors tell board

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/01/us-microsoft-gates-investors-idUSBRE9901H320131001

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 60 comments

Using ElasticSearch and Logstash to Serve Billions of Searchable Events

http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/using-elasticsearch-and-logstash-to-serve-billions-of-searchable-events-for-customers/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 28 comments

Raw: the missing link between spreadsheets and vector graphics

http://raw.densitydesign.org

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: UI improvements for Jenkins

https://github.com/kevinburke/doony

13 years ago

★ 964 JavaScript
92 upvotes – 76 comments

Launched my iOS game as Open Source

http://github.com/seanhess/wizardwar#wizardwar

13 years ago

★ 547 Objective-C
83 upvotes – 55 comments

First physical evidence of why you're an owl or a lark

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24292-first-physical-evidence-of-why-youre-an-owl-or-a-lark.html

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 59 comments

Government Shuts Down as Congress Misses Deadline

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304373104579107051184641222.html

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 43 comments

Naked mole rats have more than one weapon against aging

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/30/when-youre-a-naked-mole-rat-why-stop-at-one-weapon-against-aging/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

Conscientiousness and online education

http://www.gwern.net/Conscientiousness%20and%20online%20education?2

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

Why I gave up my US passport

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24338387

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 100 comments

Scribd Challenges Amazon and Apple With ‘Netflix for Books’

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/scribd_book_subscription/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 55 comments

Advances in Obfuscation

http://bit-player.org/2013/advances-in-obfuscation

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

Goodbye Wholesale Brands

http://jamiequint.com/goodbye-wholesale-brands

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

Federal workers who check their e-mail during shutdown will be breaking the law

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30/federal-workers-who-check-their-e-mail-during-a-shutdown-will-be-breaking-the-law/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 71 comments

USDA is down

http://www.usda.gov/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 88 comments

AngelList – Do Or Do Not, There is No Try

http://www.foundrygroup.com/wp/2013/10/angellist-do-or-do-not-there-is-no-try/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 2 comments

Introducing Flask-Sockets

http://kennethreitz.org/introducing-flask-sockets/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

NerdyData: a source code search engine

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/09/30/nerdydata/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 19 comments

Tell HN: Startup school acceptance emails are out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6473306

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 84 comments

Age-ism, Transhumanism, and Silicon Valley’s Cognitive Dissonance

https://medium.com/better-humans/c9ef444da2a0

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

Domestic spying ‘inconsistent with the values of this country’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/01/former-obama-official-domestic-spying-inconsistent-with-the-values-of-this-country/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 15 comments
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