top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-15

Introducing government.github.com

https://github.com/blog/1657-introducing-government-github-com

13 years ago

431 upvotes – 78 comments

Welcome, Freshmen. You Don't Deserve to Be Here

http://chronicle.com/article/Welcome-Freshmen-You-Do-Not/142285/

13 years ago

373 upvotes – 199 comments

The Russia Left Behind

http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/13/russia/

13 years ago

363 upvotes – 214 comments

GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting

http://www.marco.org/2013/10/15/godaddy-mt

13 years ago

354 upvotes – 161 comments

Hacker News is a social echo chamber

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/28232.html

13 years ago

339 upvotes – 194 comments

Manager.io – Free accounting software for small businesses

http://www.manager.io/

13 years ago

290 upvotes – 135 comments

MathGifs

http://mathgifs.blogspot.co.uk

13 years ago

269 upvotes – 31 comments

Free Font: Norwester

http://jamiewilson.io/norwester/

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 59 comments

Baidu now accepts Bitcoin

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=310962.0

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 104 comments

Things I learned at YC

http://aelag.com/58-things-i-learned-at-yc

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 61 comments

Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian

http://ggsidedocs.blogspot.com.br/2013/10/my-statement-and-guardians.html

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 104 comments

VirtualBox 4.3 released

https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-announce/2013-October/000100.html

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 54 comments

Introducing Rubinius X

http://rubini.us/2013/10/15/introducing-rubinius-x/

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 215 comments

LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

http://reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 22 comments

A quick look at the Redis source code

http://www.heychinaski.com/blog/2013/10/14/a-look-at-the-redis-source-code/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 32 comments

Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source

https://github.com/opserver/Opserver

13 years ago

★ 4.5k C# MIT
147 upvotes – 56 comments

A Court Order is an Insider Attack

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/a-court-order-is-an-insider-attack/

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 47 comments

GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/15/godaddy-buys-media-temple-to-build-up-its-business-with-web-professionals/

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 167 comments

India to launch its first mission to Mars [video]

http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/14/india-to-launch-its-first-mission-to-mars-video/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 53 comments

In iOS 7, the final straw for Newsstand

http://markokarppinen.com/post/64104789298/in-ios-7-the-final-straw-for-newsstand

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 89 comments

Pixar's Universal Scene Description

http://graphics.pixar.com/usd/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 31 comments

Aaron Swartz’s last gift to journalism and online privacy finds a new home

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/15/aaron-swartzs-last-gift-to-journalism-and-online-privacy-finds-a-new-home/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 25 comments

Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round

http://nginx.com/news/nginx-inc-raises-10m-series-b-round/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 45 comments

Brazilian government to ditch Microsoft in favour of bespoke email system

http://www.zdnet.com/brazilian-government-to-ditch-microsoft-in-favour-of-bespoke-email-system-7000021929/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 51 comments

“The 'use asm' pragma is not necessary to opt into optimizations in V8”

https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2599#c16

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 112 comments

Incremental Garbage Collector in PyPy

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2013/10/incremental-garbage-collector-in-pypy.html

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 7 comments

Lavabit gets new crypto key, gives users 72 hours to recover e-mails

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/lavabit-gets-new-crypto-key-gives-users-72-hours-to-recover-e-mails/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 56 comments

Why is the number 1,729 hidden in Futurama episodes?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24459279

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 22 comments

Explaining an astonishing slinky

http://danielwalsh.tumblr.com/day/2011/10/17

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/free-thinkers/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 76 comments

Zookal starts "world first" delivery-by-drone service in Sydney

http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/14/zookal-starts-world-first-delivery-by-drone-service-in-sydney/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 67 comments

Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes

http://www.fastcompany.com/3019847/think-you-can-live-offline-without-being-tracked-heres-what-it-takes

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 94 comments

Introducing the Firefox OS App Manager

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/introducing-the-firefox-os-app-manager/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

I know none of my passwords

http://aley.me/passwords

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 103 comments

Structured Thinking vs. Going With The Flow

http://adamsmith.cc/structured-thinking-versus-go-with-the-flow

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Your career is a mess

http://founderdating.com/blog/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

Getting in to YC

http://blog.zactownsend.com/getting-in-to-yc

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: A Dashboard for External Monitors

http://www.sublimedash.com

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 35 comments

Reasoning From First Principles in Disruptive Entrepreneurship

http://takingpitches.com/2012/09/22/elon-musk-the-role-of-analogy-and-reasoning-from-first-principles-in-disruptive-entrepreneurship/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

Are We Losing the Secrets of the Masters?

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1319119&

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 64 comments

Why It's So Difficult to Climb Amazon's Corporate Ladder

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-15/careers-at-amazon-why-its-so-hard-to-climb-jeff-bezoss-corporate-ladder

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 81 comments

Supercell to sell 51% of shares to GungHo and Softbank for $1.5B

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2013/10/15/supercell-to-sell-51-of-shares-to-gungho-and-softbank-for-1-5b

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: I built a free oEmbed API for the web

http://oembed.io/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Good User Experience Means More Than A Good Product

http://blog.statuspage.io/user-experience-means-more-than-a-good-product

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

HP Chromebook 11 Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7418/hp-chromebook-11-review

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 79 comments

The Most Important Questions In Science

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/09/10/221019045/the-10-most-important-questions-in-science

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: I suck at remembering names, so I built an app to help

http://wehighfive.com

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Dnsyo – DNS propagation checker

http://samarudge.github.io/dnsyo/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Dropbox clone with git, ssh, EncFS and rsync.net

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6554313

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 28 comments

ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers

https://zenpayroll.com/blog/zenpayroll-is-not-hiring-hackers/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 55 comments

Jor1k – OpenRISC 1000 Platform Emulator in JS, Launches Linux with X or Wayland

https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k

13 years ago

★ 1.7k JavaScript BSD-2-Clause
52 upvotes – 13 comments

Path Axes 20 Percent Of Staff In A ‘Realigning Of The Company’

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/15/path-axes-20-percent-of-staff-in-a-realignment-of-the-company/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 48 comments

A Letter From Media Temple Founder

http://bin.mediatemple.net/newsletter/media-temple-godaddy/index.html

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 47 comments

The Economist Who Thinks Owning a Home Is a Terrible Investment

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/economist-who-just-won-nobel-prize-thinks-housing-terrible-investment/7240/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 68 comments

A Functional Introduction to Lua

http://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-05/a-functional-introduction-to-lua

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 24 comments

Hello, President Rousseff...I told you so.

http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Hello-President-Rousseff-I-told-you-so

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 16 comments
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