top 50% 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

TextTeaser – An automatic summarization algorithm

https://github.com/MojoJolo/textteaser

13 years ago

★ 1.9k Scala MIT
188 upvotes – 78 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

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

Odometer – A JavaScript and CSS library for smoothly transitioning numbers

http://github.hubspot.com/odometer/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 20 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

SpaceX’s Grasshopper rocket hover to a new high of 2,441 feet before relanding

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/12/watch-spacexs-grasshopper-rocket-hover-to-new-high-of-2441-feet-before-relanding/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 9 comments

The Performance of Open Source Applications

http://aosabook.org/en/posa/introduction.html

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 5 comments

Nordstrom Finds Cash Register Skimmers

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/nordstrom-finds-cash-register-skimmers/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 80 comments

Prime-generating fractions

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/10/12/prime-generating-fractions/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 8 comments

When Batman isn’t available: Crowd-fund

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/11/when_batman_isnt_available_crowd_fund/#comments

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

Linux 3.12 Brings Big AMD Radeon Improvements

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_linux312_preview

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

The Functional Database [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/datomic-functional-database

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

Video Of The Week: Paul Graham in 2005

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/10/video-of-the-week-paul-graham-in-2005.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

New LAX car rental company offers only Audi A4s – and no clerks

http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-news/20131006/new-lax-car-rental-company-offers-only-audi-a4s-x2014-and-no-clerks

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

Dabbling in Erlang, Part 2: A Minimal Introduction

http://agis.kontext.gr/2013/10/12/dabbling-in-erlang-a-minimal-introduction.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

Tips for Overcoming Shyness at Conferences

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/10/12/shy-conference/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

The Anglosphere miracle

http://www.newcriterion.com/articleprint.cfm/The-Anglosphere-miracle-7709

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 63 comments

The Obamacare software mess

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21587816-signing-up-obamacare-still-ridiculously-hard-obamacare-software-mess

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 51 comments

Zuckerberg Seeks Personal Privacy, Then Removes Online Privacy Feature

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229364

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 40 comments

Metasploit website hijacked via fax

http://grahamcluley.com/2013/10/metasploit-website-hijacked-pro-palestinian-hackers/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

'Blue Screen of Death' haunts iPhone 5S users

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/software-services/Blue-Screen-of-Death-haunts-iPhone-5S-users/articleshow/24039612.cms

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 41 comments
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