top 50% 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

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

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

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 30 comments

JSIL - .NET bytecode to JS compiler

http://jsil.org/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 25 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

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

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

Making full table scan 10x faster in InnoDB

http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2013/10/making-full-table-scan-10x-faster-in.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut Who Orbited Earth, Dies at 88

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/us/scott-carpenter-mercury-astronaut-who-orbited-earth-dies-at-88.html?_r=0

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 18 comments

GoDaddy Pulls Lavabit's Security Creds Because the FBI Got Its Encryption Keys

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/10/09/godaddy-pulls-lavabits-security-creds-because-the-government-got-ahold-of-its-encryption-keys/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 49 comments

The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-10/jeff-bezos-and-the-age-of-amazon-excerpt-from-the-everything-store-by-brad-stone

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 31 comments

Valve Confirms Official AMD-Powered Steam Machines For 2014

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/10/09/valve-confirms-official-amd-powered-steam-machines-for-2014

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 42 comments

What CTOs Fear Most

https://keen.io/blog/63582764323/what-ctos-fear-most

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: NSString + Ruby

https://github.com/zdavison/NSString-Ruby

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 52 comments

Microsoft: The Best Xbox One Gaming Experience Will Be Over IPv6

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2013/10/microsoft-the-best-xbox-one-gaming-experience-will-be-over-ipv6/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 81 comments

I wrote a book called Winning Isn't Normal

http://www.jasonshen.com/winning-isnt-normal/?hn

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 48 comments

AWS Activate

https://aws.amazon.com/activate/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 34 comments

Why I Will Never Return to the USA

http://dasmag.nl/why-i-will-never-return-to-the-usa/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

History Must Be Curved

http://www.popehat.com/2013/10/09/history-must-be-curved/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 30 comments

Today’s Smalltalk: A Second Look At The First OO Language

http://blog.smartbear.com/programming/todays-smalltalk-a-second-look-at-the-first-oo-language/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 50 comments

Go Away PayPal

http://yellloh.com/posts/go-away-paypal

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 44 comments

Lenovo shows new Android laptop in user manual [pdf]

http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles_pub/ideapad_a10_ug_english.pdf

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 63 comments

Are Operations Like Flipboard Scams Against Publishers?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/--100456

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 39 comments

X32 ABI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

BDD testing for golang: Ginkgo and Gomega

http://pivotallabs.com/announcing-ginkgo-and-gomega-bdd-style-testing-for-golang/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 27 comments

What is the worst thing about working at Microsoft?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/10/09/what-is-the-worst-thing-about-working-at-microsoft/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 77 comments

Kippt (YC S12) Takes Its Enterprise Tool For Sharing Useful Content Out Of Beta

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/10/kippt-inc/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 27 comments

Why US government IT fails so hard, so often

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/why-us-government-it-fails-so-hard-so-often/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 62 comments

Akaros - open source, GPL-licensed operating system for manycore architectures

http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/akaros-web/news.php

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

Built for Bitcoin. Next Run: Early 2014

https://lamassu.is/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 30 comments

Map: These are the cities that climate change will hit first

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/09/map-these-are-the-cities-that-climate-change-will-hit-first/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 59 comments

Christopher Chabris Should Calm Down

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/10/malcolm_gladwell_s_david_and_goliath_he_explains_why_christopher_chabris.html

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 49 comments

Going beyond vulnerability rewards

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

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

Drone Pilot Fights for Right to Profit in the Unmanned Skies

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/drones-at-a-crossroads/

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 33 comments

SSL Performance Overhead in MySQL

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2013/10/10/mysql-ssl-performance-overhead/

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 27 comments

Personal Drones Fly Above Burning Man

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/aerial-robots/personal-drones-fly-above-burning-man

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

South African Dept of Education effectively bans FOSS

http://dkeats.com/index.php?module=blog&action=viewsingle&postid=gen21Srv8Nme0_40332_1381256759&userid=7050120123

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 50 comments
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