top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-05

Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-swiss-pay-idUSBRE9930O620131004

13 years ago

638 upvotes – 566 comments

Appmaker

http://appmaker.mozillalabs.com

13 years ago

318 upvotes – 92 comments

A "Hacker's" Guide to the Bay Area

http://islandofatlas.net/2013/10/04/a-hackers-guide-to-the-bay-area.html

13 years ago

312 upvotes – 128 comments

I emailed the CEO of T-Mobile and he killed my contract

http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/blog/2013/03/t-mobile-blog-customer-service.html?page=all

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 97 comments

Ethiopian Binary Math

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi504.htm

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 66 comments

Rubinius 2.0 released

http://rubini.us/2013/10/04/rubinius-2-0-released/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 47 comments

Preventing 'layout thrashing'

http://wilsonpage.co.uk/preventing-layout-thrashing/

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 40 comments

Boston Dynamics Unleashes Wildcat, the Sprinting Quadruped Robot

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319706

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 124 comments

How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File

http://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 63 comments

Maven is broken by design

http://blog.ltgt.net/maven-is-broken-by-design/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 89 comments

Everybody Let's Stop the TPP: Share These Videos and Spread the Word

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/everybody-lets-stop-tpp-share-these-videos-and-spread-word

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 35 comments

On comparing languages, C++ and Go

http://blog.grok.se/2013/10/on-comparing-languages-c-and-go/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 127 comments

HN Notify

http://hnnotify.com/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 47 comments

Setting Up A Chromebook Development Laptop

http://blog.zfeldman.com/2013-10-05-setting-up-a-chromebook-development-laptop/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 68 comments

Alaska National Weather Service office begs “please pay us” in secret message

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/10/04/weather-service-office-begs-please-pay-us-in-secret-message/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 35 comments

Go vs C++: Ray tracer (part 3)

https://kidoman.com/programming/go-getter-part-3.html

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 60 comments

Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon

https://blog.conformal.com/btcd-not-your-moms-bitcoin-daemon/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 55 comments

Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

https://userapp.io/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 78 comments

The Existential Risk of Mathematical Error

http://www.gwern.net/The%20Existential%20Risk%20of%20Mathematical%20Error

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

PuzzleScript is an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine

http://www.puzzlescript.net/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

Oberon (2009)

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 31 comments

Why HN Should Use Randomized Algorithms

http://danluu.com/randomize-hn/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 40 comments

NetBSD 6.1.2 has been released

http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.1.2.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Upbeat, HN for music - Node + Redis + Angular + Soundcloud

https://upbeatapp.com

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Going back to programming

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6501008

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 57 comments

Turning a Wii Balance Board into a net-enabled bathroom scale

http://www.stavros.io/posts/your-weight-online/?

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

US scientists boycott Nasa conference over China ban

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/05/us-scientists-boycott-nasa-china-ban

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Jester, a Sinatra-like web framework for Nimrod

https://github.com/dom96/jester

13 years ago

★ 1.6k Nim MIT
70 upvotes – 18 comments

Cheap razor made after P&G watches Indians shave

http://news.yahoo.com/cheap-razor-made-p-g-watches-indians-shave-164550714--finance.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 75 comments

Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies?

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2013/10/why-do-we-eat-popcorn-at-the-movies/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Pix.pe – Easily sharable pixel art

http://pix.pe

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 58 comments

Top 15 Cheap, Safe and Friendly Countries | Kimeshan Naidoo

http://www.kimeshan.com/2013/07/11/cheap-safe-and-friendly-countries/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 78 comments

'TWTRQ' Up 685% in Clueless Trading

https://www.google.com/finance?q=twtrq&ei=OmZPUsC9KoSZ0QH2GQ

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 27 comments

Introducing Daala part 4: Chroma from Luma (xiph video codec)

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo4.shtml

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments
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