top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-11

A list of free programming books

https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md

13 years ago

★ 386k Python CC-BY-4.0
455 upvotes – 64 comments

Facebook is using D in production starting today

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]

13 years ago

365 upvotes – 232 comments

Air Gaps

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/air_gaps.html

13 years ago

343 upvotes – 196 comments

Iconic: Advanced icons for the modern web

http://useiconic.com/

13 years ago

295 upvotes – 118 comments

Formula 1′s Leading Team Has a Big Secret

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/10/red-bull-f1-traction-control/

13 years ago

282 upvotes – 247 comments

If you use Google+, you could become an ad next month

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/11/google-users-shared-endorsements-ads/

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 142 comments

Full archives of Game Developer magazine

http://gdcvault.com/gdmag

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 51 comments

ECMA-404: The JSON Data Interchange Format [pdf]

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-404.pdf

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 192 comments

Rather than savage cuts, Switzerland considers “Star Trek” economics

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/11/rather_than_savage_cuts_switzerland_considers_star_trek_economics/

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 303 comments

Why Registers Are Fast and RAM Is Slow

http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-10-11-why-registers-are-fast-and-ram-is-slow.html

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 90 comments

Wikileaks internal memo on "The Fifth Estate"

http://wikileaks.org/IMG/html/wikileaks-dreamworks-memo.html#about

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 106 comments

Demands on Lavabit violated Fourth Amendment, lawyers say

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/11/fbi-demands-lavabit-violated-fourth-amendment-levison

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 74 comments

America knows everything

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&prev=_dd&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vice.com%2Fde%2Fread%2Famerica-knows-everything

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 183 comments

The core Internet institutions abandon the US Government

http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/10/11/the-core-internet-institutions-abandon-the-us-government/

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 41 comments

Valve demonstrates Steam Controller [video]

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/10/11/valve-demonstrates-steam-controller-in-new-video/

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 94 comments

Opt out of Google using you as an ad

https://plus.google.com/u/0/settings/endorsements

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 90 comments

A Holiday in Honor of the Korean Writing System

http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53091/today-holiday-honor-world%E2%80%99s-greatest-alphabet

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 79 comments

Lisp Web Tales

http://lispwebtales.ppenev.com

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 31 comments

Backbone.js 1.1 is out

http://backbonejs.org/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 36 comments

100 day goals

http://blog.42floors.com/100-day-goals/#.UlghiGRKnCY

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 48 comments

LightTable 0.5.5 released

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/light-table-discussion/5Mf64RZ_eq4/VnkzPFDAapMJ

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 51 comments

Homebrew Computer Club Reunion

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jpf/homebrew-computer-club-reunion

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 37 comments

Google can use your name and photo alongside online ads

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/10/11/google-reveals-plans-use-name-photo-alongside-shared-endorsements-ads-web/?fromcat=apple

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 84 comments

Natural born programmers

http://programmingisterrible.com/post/63729347372/natural-born-programmers

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 105 comments

TorSearch launches to be the Google of the hidden internet

http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/10/torsearch-launches-to-be-the-google-of-the-hidden-internet/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

Will I really steal your idea?

http://fullstart.com/knowledge/will-i-really-steal-your-idea-nda/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 58 comments

Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In SF

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/10/yc-sf/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 68 comments

Terms of Service update

http://www.google.com/policies/terms/changes/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 42 comments

‘Dutch sandwich’ grows as Google shifts €8.8bn to Bermuda

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101104483

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 134 comments

Ask HN: Why do all payment processors charge 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6533653

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 84 comments

Lavabit Challenges Contempt Order: An Analysis of Its Arguments

http://www.volokh.com/2013/10/11/lavabit-challenges-contempt-order/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 51 comments

Hacker News London meetup, Wednesday 23rd Oct

http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/events/145037122/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

Payphone Project

https://github.com/jcs/payphone

13 years ago

★ 262 Perl
67 upvotes – 12 comments

The Once and Future Rubinius

http://rubini.us/2013/10/11/the-once-and-future-rubinius

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

AbsurdJS – JavaScript based CSS preprocessor

http://krasimir.github.io/absurd/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 31 comments

Carl Malamud’s Lawsuit-Fighting Kickstarter to Put Public Standards Online

http://nextcity.org/sharedcity/entry/carl-malamuds-lawsuit-fighting-kickstarter-campaign-to-put-public-standards

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

What do we get for that DRM?

http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/10/what-do-we-get-for-that-drm.html

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 45 comments

Etcd v0.1.2 with a new dashboard

http://coreos.com/blog/etcd-v0.1.2-new-dashboard-and-bugfixes/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Pinterest Acquires Hackermeter (YC S13)

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/11/pinterest-acquires-hackermeter-right-out-of-the-gate-will-shut-it-down/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 32 comments

Obama’s Efforts to Control Media Are ‘Most Aggressive’ Since Nixon, Report Says

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/obama-nixon-media-war/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 19 comments

Impress.js

http://bartaz.github.io/impress.js/#/bored

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 27 comments

Recharging the Python standard library

http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/10/dead-batteries-included.html

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 40 comments

We paid over $500M for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404

http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/obamacare-healthcare-gov-website-cost/#ixzz2hKq2BK1a

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 30 comments

How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a software engineer in 5 months

http://gulnara.svbtle.com/switching-careers

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 66 comments

QML support for the Go language

https://github.com/niemeyer/qml

13 years ago

★ 1.9k Go
52 upvotes – 6 comments

Supreme Court shields prosecutors in wrongful convictions (2011)

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/03/nation/la-na-court-innocence-20110403

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments
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