top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-09

What I've been up to for the past year

http://pud.com/post/63525426229/what-ive-been-up-to-for-the-past-year

13 years ago

616 upvotes – 171 comments

What I learned from getting my side project acquired

http://www.ianww.com/blog/2013/10/08/lessons-from-getting-my-side-project-acquired/

13 years ago

396 upvotes – 54 comments

T-Mobile to offer free unlimited international data, texts

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57606784-94/t-mobile-to-offer-free-unlimited-international-data-texts/

13 years ago

384 upvotes – 172 comments

Oops: Azerbaijan released election results before voting had even started

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/09/oops-azerbaijan-released-election-results-before-voting-had-even-started/

13 years ago

329 upvotes – 124 comments

A public TrueCrypt Audit

http://www.fundfill.com/fund/4-spzFJdDQk211KJDAUfcOw==#

13 years ago

295 upvotes – 127 comments

Pinay traumatized by horror trip to US

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/10/07/13/pinay-traumalized-horror-trip-us

13 years ago

276 upvotes – 170 comments

Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word “linux” as the constant “1”?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/19210935/1027148

13 years ago

275 upvotes – 57 comments

You can increase your intelligence

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/03/07/you-can-increase-your-intelligence-5-ways-to-maximize-your-cognitive-potential/

13 years ago

259 upvotes – 111 comments

Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

http://blog.rjmetrics.com/2013/10/09/our-logo-looks-like-underpants-a-case-study-in-internationalization/

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 110 comments

Open-Source Graphics Processor

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/725991125/open-source-graphics-processor-gpu

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 75 comments

Experiment in booting Linux fast

http://gentooexperimental.org/~patrick/weblog/archives/2013-10.html

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 120 comments

GNU Make 4.0 Released

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-w32/2013-10/msg00021.html

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 88 comments

SublimeGit: Full-featured Git integration for Sublime Text

https://sublimegit.net/?

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 86 comments

SQL Fiddle

http://sqlfiddle.com/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 83 comments

The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/the-linux-backdoor-attempt-of-2003/

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 63 comments

If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy

http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/if-java-is-dying-it-sure-looks-awfully-h/240162390/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 319 comments

Anonymity Is Hard

http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/03/12/anonymity-is-hard/

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 78 comments

How web browsers resize images

http://entropymine.com/resamplescope/notes/browsers/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 31 comments

Things You Can Do That Will Make You Happier

http://www.social-consciousness.com/2013/10/ten-simple-things-you-can-do-today-that-will-make-you-happier-backed-by-science.html

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 63 comments

Lithium Battery Pack Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard

http://boostedboards.posthaven.com/technical-progress-part-iii-lithium-battery

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 72 comments

All Is Fair in Love and Twitter

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/all-is-fair-in-love-and-twitter.html?hp

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 17 comments

Algernon's Law

http://www.gwern.net/Drug%20heuristics?2

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 129 comments

Mozilla’s Firefox OS Gets First Update, Heads for Second Phase of Launches

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/09/ffos-2/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 41 comments

Tesla's $110,000 Model S is now Norway’s best-selling car

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/new-cars/auto-news/teslas-110000-model-s-is-now-norways-best-selling-car/article14739655/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 80 comments

Firefox OS Update Adds New Features, Performance Improvements

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/10/09/firefox-os-update-1-1-adds-new-features-performance-improvements-and-additional-language-support

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 18 comments

Going Beyond Vulnerability Rewards

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/going-beyond-vulnerability-rewards.html

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 22 comments

How much can an extra hour's sleep change you?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24444634

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 87 comments

Airbnb refuses to hand over users' data

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/08/airbnb-new-york-users-data

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 75 comments

Future instruction set: AVX-512

http://agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=288

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 66 comments

How YesGraph Got Its First 1000 Users

http://blog.yesgraph.com/post/63562259689/first-1000

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 37 comments

P2P, Encrypted Email Protocol

http://flowingmail.com/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 66 comments

UN caused deadly cholera in Haiti, covered it up, lawsuit says

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/08/20874045-un-caused-deadly-cholera-in-haiti-covered-it-up-lawsuit-says?lite

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 61 comments

Misconceptions about evolution

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq.php

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 167 comments

Lumitrack: Low Cost, Precise, High Speed Tracking with Projected m-Sequences

http://chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/Lumitrack

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 7 comments

How we fixed the iOS7 forced logout bug that's been affecting so many apps

https://blog.loom.com/how-we-fixed-the-ios7-forced-logout-bug-thats-been-plaguing-so-many-apps/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 28 comments

GitHub: "BUG: Government occasionally shuts down"

https://github.com/WhiteHouse/fortyfour/issues/3

13 years ago

★ 329 CSS
80 upvotes – 4 comments

It Was DPR, in the Tor HS, With the BTC

http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/10/09/it-was-dpr/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 96 comments

Lavabit founder offered to log users' metadata if FBI paid him $3,500

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/09/lavabit-metadata-log-3500-offer

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 44 comments

How the Bible and YouTube are fueling the next frontier of password cracking

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-youtube-are-fueling-the-next-frontier-of-password-cracking/3/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

Computer chemists win Nobel prize

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24458534

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 63 comments

How to hire designers

http://insideintercom.io/how-to-hire-designers/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Health Exchange Tech Problems Point To A Thornier Issue

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/10/08/230424841/health-exchange-tech-problems-point-to-a-thornier-issue

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 83 comments

Startups: stop using generic form letters when you tell a candidate 'no'

http://brandonb.cc/startups-stop-using-generic-form-letters-when-you-tell-a-candidate-no

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 69 comments

Twitter’s female “problem”

http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/08/twitters-female-problem-this-is-why-mobs-dont-appoint-public-company-boards/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 26 comments

Flipkart Raises $160M From Dragoneer Investment, Morgan Stanley Investment

http://www.medianama.com/2013/10/223-flipkart-160m-investment/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments
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