top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-17

Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript

http://copy.sh/v24/

13 years ago

765 upvotes – 190 comments

Lessons Learned Going from Zero to $30k/Month in a Year

http://groovehq.com/blog/first-year

13 years ago

458 upvotes – 57 comments

You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/youre-infected-if-you-want-to-see-your-data-again-pay-us-300-in-bitcoins/

13 years ago

380 upvotes – 289 comments

Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending Crypto and Cryptology Conferences

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/27.54.html#subj1

13 years ago

353 upvotes – 102 comments

Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

http://releases.ubuntu.com/saucy/

13 years ago

324 upvotes – 186 comments

Wireshark is switching to Qt

https://blog.wireshark.org/2013/10/switching-to-qt/

13 years ago

277 upvotes – 135 comments

To an alarming degree, science is not self-correcting

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-think-science-self-correcting-alarming-degree-it-not-trouble

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 138 comments

Sleep Flushes Toxins from the Brain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24567412

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 93 comments

TSA Admits In Leaked Doc: No Evidence of Terrorist Plots Against Aviation in US

http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/tsa-admits-in-leaked-doc-no-evidence-of-terrorist-plots-against-aviation-in-us/

13 years ago

236 upvotes – 127 comments

Visual Studio 2013 released to web

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2013/10/17/visual-studio-2013-released-to-web.aspx

13 years ago

221 upvotes – 152 comments

The Story of My Desk

http://jlongster.com/The-Story-of-My-Desk

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 105 comments

SecureDrop

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

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 28 comments

Unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email in one click

https://gist.github.com/chengyin/7021086

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 69 comments

The Code Documentation Fallacy

http://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2012/09/25/the-code-documentation-fallacy/

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 129 comments

LSD microdosing: a randomized, blind self-experiment

http://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 114 comments

Illegal Prime Numbers

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

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 58 comments

Contrary to public claims, Apple can read your iMessages

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/contrary-to-public-claims-apple-can-read-your-imessages/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 95 comments

Myst creator Cyan Worlds announces Kickstarter for Obduction

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cyaninc/obduction

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 35 comments

Microsoft Launches Remote Desktop App for Android and iOS

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/10/17/microsoft-launches-remote-desktop-app-android-ios/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 58 comments

Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution into disarray

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/17/skull-homo-erectus-human-evolution

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 86 comments

Stay Put, Young Man

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november_december_2013/features/stay_put_young_man047332.php?page=all

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 94 comments

Windows 8.1 now available

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2013/10/17/windows-8-1-now-available.aspx

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 147 comments

I don’t have any connections

http://ninjasandrobots.com/i-dont-have-any-connections

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 39 comments

Barbarians at the Gateways: High-frequency Trading and Exchange Technology

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2536492

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 141 comments

TypeScript and the Road to 1.0

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2013/10/17/typescript-and-the-road-to-1-0.aspx

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 89 comments

Our interview with Bill Watterson

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53216/mental-floss-exclusive-our-interview-bill-watterson

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 23 comments

Mortality in Iraq Associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001533

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 88 comments

IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios

http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/isohunt-to-shut-down-as-part-of-settlement-with-studios-1200734509/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 54 comments

The Economics of a Hit TV Show

http://priceonomics.com/the-economics-of-a-hit-tv-show/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 58 comments

Mirra 2

http://www.hermanmiller.com/content/hermanmiller/microsites/mirra-2-chairs.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 66 comments

PHP 5.5.5 Released

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.5.5

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 60 comments

The World Wants to Break Up with America's Internet

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-world-wants-to-break-up-with-americas-internet

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 69 comments

Search Engine Yandex Launches "Cocaine" To Compete With Google App Engine

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/16/search-engine-giant-yandex-launches-cocaine-a-cloud-service-to-compete-with-google-app-engine/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 69 comments

The Roots of the Government Shutdown

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/roots-government-shutdown

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 96 comments

Sword

http://sword.mu/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?

http://blog.samgerstenzang.com/post/56847377794/whos-afraid-of-jeff-bezos

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Food News - HN Clone Built With Django and Drum, Uses Persona for Auth

http://food.hypertexthero.com/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2013/131015-reinventing-the-web.html?source=nww_rss

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 91 comments

Why Berlin should not look up to the Valley

http://thirdwaveberlin.com/2013/10/week-158/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 94 comments

Fatal Sales Mistakes

http://blog.close.io/post/64307086306/five-fatal-sales-mistakes-aaron-ross-sales-hacker

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 9 comments

Brendan Eich on EME

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.planning/4-svns_uEjA/5OjLG5H_c7wJ

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Calgary man becomes world's most travelled

http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/TipsTrends/Trends/2013/10/02/21168846.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 45 comments

What 'Lean In' Misunderstands About Gender Differences

http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/what-lean-in-misunderstands-about-gender-differences/274138/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 101 comments

Kubuntu 13.10 Released

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-13.10

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

Getting the most out of HAProxy

https://www.twilio.com/engineering/2013/10/16/haproxy

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments

The Octopus That Almost Ate Seattle

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/magazine/the-octopus-that-almost-ate-seattle.html?ref=magazine&_r=0&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 90 comments

Intel says get ready for $99 tablets, $299 Haswell notebooks, $349 hybrids

http://www.zdnet.com/intel-says-get-ready-for-99-tablets-299-haswell-notebooks-349-2-in-1-hybrids-7000022020/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 120 comments

Oracle releases 127 security fixes, 51 for Java alone

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/10/16/oracle-releases-127-security-fixes-51-for-java-alone

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: An open source music player in the cloud based on Backbone and Node.js

http://rdubigny.github.io/cozy-music/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 19 comments

Learnings from using Puma in production on Heroku

http://blog.codeship.io/2013/10/16/unleash-the-puma-on-heroku.html

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments
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