top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-10-12

Why Microsoft Word must die

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/why-microsoft-word-must-die.html

13 years ago

413 upvotes – 372 comments

Because it needs to be said

http://blogjustine.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/because-it-needs-to-be-said/

13 years ago

393 upvotes – 612 comments

Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007

https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406

13 years ago

319 upvotes – 141 comments

I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/10/11/i_got_hired_at_a_bangladesh_sweatshop_meet_my_9yearold_boss.html

13 years ago

249 upvotes – 176 comments

Hostnames

http://seriss.com/people/erco/unixtools/hostnames.html

13 years ago

242 upvotes – 177 comments

Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor

http://www.devttys0.com/2013/10/reverse-engineering-a-d-link-backdoor/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 30 comments

What I learnt bootstrapping my startup from Thailand for six months

http://levels.io/bootstrapping-startup-thailand/

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 184 comments

TextTeaser – An automatic summarization algorithm

https://github.com/MojoJolo/textteaser

13 years ago

★ 1.9k Scala MIT
188 upvotes – 78 comments

Research Finds Outright Grants of Cash are an Effective Form of Aid to the Poor

http://news.columbia.edu/global/3240

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 124 comments

Linux only needs one 'killer' game to explode, says Battlefield director

http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/12/4826190/linux-only-needs-one-killer-game-to-explode-says-battlefield-director

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 135 comments

SpaceX Grasshopper 744m test flight [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDkItO-0a4

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 37 comments

WikiLeaks Releases Fifth Estate Challenger: Mediastan

http://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-Releases-Fifth-Estate.html

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 44 comments

An open letter to Rockstar Games

http://pastebin.com/KdjUH5y4

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 48 comments

Click this link to opt out of Google's shared endorsements program

https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements?hl=en

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 53 comments

Codex Seraphinianus: A new edition of the strangest book

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/codex_seraphinianus_a_new_edition_of_the_strangest_book_in_the_world

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 30 comments

The war on drugs is a broken business model

http://www.virgin.com/unite/leadership-and-advocacy/the-war-on-drugs-is-a-broken-business-model

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 104 comments

Dear Google, Commit Your Broad Patents to a Defensive License

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/dear-google-commit-your-broad-patents-defensive-license

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 57 comments

Healthcare.gov has disappeared from CMSGov's GitHub account

https://github.com/CMSgov/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 63 comments

DoJ: If we can track one American, we can track all Americans

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/doj-if-we-can-track-one-american-we-can-track-all-americans/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 28 comments

Faking Bluetooth LE

http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=15&proj=11.+Bluetooth+LE+fakery

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 25 comments
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