top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-10-10

The myth of NASA's expensive space pens

http://kottke.org/13/10/the-myth-of-nasas-expensive-space-pens

13 years ago

452 upvotes – 133 comments

Should we stop believing Malcolm Gladwell?

http://ksj.mit.edu/tracker/2013/10/should-we-stop-believing-malcolm-gladwel

13 years ago

370 upvotes – 222 comments

“I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/10/08/10454920.aspx

13 years ago

306 upvotes – 115 comments

This Bird Can Stay in Flight for Six Months Straight

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/10/this-bird-can-stay-in-flight-for-six-months-straight/

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 74 comments

Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/10/facebook-search-privacy/

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 176 comments

IKEA or Death-Metal

http://ikeaordeath.com/

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 82 comments

We paid $634 million for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404

http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/obamacare-healthcare-gov-website-cost/

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 219 comments

Report: 110 people own 35% of Russia's wealth

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/report-110-people-own-35-pct-russias-wealth

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 165 comments

Don’t email me

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/10/08/dont-email-me/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 90 comments

IE seems right, Chrome seems wrong

http://jessepollak.me/chrome-was-wrong-ie-was-right/

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 63 comments

A strange lonely planet found without a star

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-strange-lonely-planet-star.html

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 70 comments

Microsoft pays $100K bounty to hacker

http://business.financialpost.com/2013/10/10/microsoft-corp-hacking-bounty/?__lsa=d344-d1e8

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 58 comments

JSIL - .NET bytecode to JS compiler

http://jsil.org/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 25 comments

DropzoneJs – drag-and-drop file uploads with image previews

http://www.dropzonejs.com/?r=hackernews

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 30 comments

I asked for a t-shirt, I got a job

http://remear.unfiniti.com/i-asked-for-a-t-shirt-i-got-a-job/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 29 comments

Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen Horowitz Raises Series A Bar

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/10/10/weary-of-fruit-fly-consumer-startups-andreessen-horowitz-raises-series-a-bar/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 95 comments

Foxconn using forced student labor to build Sony’s PS4

http://www.gamesinasia.com/report-foxconn-using-forced-student-labor-to-build-sonys-ps4/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 102 comments

Aerospace Company Develops Drone That Can Fly Continuously For 5 Years

http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2013/10/07/aerospace-company-develops-drone-that-can-fly-continuously-for-5-years/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

Free tools we used to build our startup

http://blog.shyahi.com/post/62901878131/putting-everything-together-free-tools-for-startups

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 52 comments

How Do you Motivate Yourself and Stay Focused?

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/10/08/how-do-you-motivate-yourself-and-stay-focused

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 67 comments
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