top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-18

Why we revert to original titles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466

13 years ago

438 upvotes – 220 comments

Interactive Resume

http://www.rleonardi.com/interactive-resume/

13 years ago

424 upvotes – 198 comments

Oboe.js: reacting to Ajax/Rest quicker by not waiting for it to finish

https://github.com/jimhigson/oboe.js

13 years ago

★ 4.8k JavaScript
361 upvotes – 71 comments

You don't need millions of dollars

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/10/you-dont-need-millions-of-dollars.html

13 years ago

341 upvotes – 148 comments

Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24585998

13 years ago

272 upvotes – 244 comments

Sir Trevor Editor

http://madebymany.github.io/sir-trevor-js/

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 69 comments

Only a few countries are teaching children how to think

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21583609-only-few-countries-are-teaching-children-how-think-best-and-brightest

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 152 comments

PredictionIO – A machine learning server

https://github.com/PredictionIO/PredictionIO

13 years ago

★ 12.5k Scala Apache-2.0
212 upvotes – 47 comments

What Do Cats See?

http://www.mydeals.com/blog/what-do-cats-see/post

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 70 comments

Nvidia's G-Sync: Attempting to Revolutionize Gaming via Smoothness

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7436/nvidias-gsync-attempting-to-revolutionize-gaming-via-smoothness

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 157 comments

The Navy’s newest warship is powered by Linux

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-navys-newest-warship-is-powered-by-linux/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 162 comments

Every position of Rubik's Cube can be solved in twenty moves or less

http://cube20.org/

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: WordsForThat.com - A new site that's like a reverse urban dictionary

http://www.wordsforthat.com

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 31 comments

Want people to trust you? Try apologising for the rain

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2013/10/want-people-to-trust-you-try.html

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 107 comments

Physics: What We Do and Don’t Know

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/nov/07/physics-what-we-do-and-dont-know/?pagination=false

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 39 comments

Node v0.10.21 Stable has critical security fix

http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-10-21-stable/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 49 comments

My self published book made $11,000 before I finished writing it

http://osherove.com/blog/2013/10/18/11000.html

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Rapid schema development with PostgreSQL

https://speakerdeck.com/andrewgodwin/rapid-schema-development-with-postgresql

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: My Turbo Pascal compiler in JavaScript

http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/projects/turbo_pascal_compiler/demo/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 81 comments

Pointers in Rust: a guide

http://words.steveklabnik.com/pointers-in-rust-a-guide

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 32 comments

MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive Replacement Program

http://www.apple.com/support/macbookair-flashdrive/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 105 comments

Who exactly is crawling my site?

http://danbirken.com/seo/2013/10/17/who-exactly-is-crawling-my-site.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 78 comments

A Successful YC S13 Application

http://blog.zactownsend.com/our-yc-s13-application

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 50 comments

Stop Being Wrong About China Buying Our Bonds

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/10/17/china_bond_purchases_stop_being_wrong.html

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 132 comments

Please, keep paying $80 a month for cable so I can enjoy cheap TV

http://www.xconomy.com/national/2013/10/18/please-keep-paying-80-month-cable-can-enjoy-cheap-tv/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 105 comments

A Penny Saved: Psychological Pricing

http://blog.gumroad.com/post/64417917582/a-penny-saved-psychological-pricing

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Simple Hacker News Client for Emacs

https://github.com/clarete/hackernews.el

13 years ago

★ 258 Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0
81 upvotes – 27 comments

Fighting a 30-year-old software bug

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/10/fighting-20-year-old-software-bugs.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

Lightweight concurrency library for C, featuring symmetric coroutines

https://code.google.com/p/libconcurrency/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

Always return on events is faster, but why?

http://jsperf.com/always-return-on-jquery-events

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Find members of Congress with similar voting records

http://www.congressbuddies.com/static/start.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments

RVM 2.0: Convert 20,000 lines of shell script into Ruby [Fundraiser]

https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/489

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 59 comments

Modeling your App's User Session

https://github.com/blog/1661-modeling-your-app-s-user-session

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Why mathematicians make great comedy writers

http://www.chortle.co.uk/features/2013/09/29/18747/why_mathematicians_make_great_comedy_writers

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 30 comments

Finalterm - modern terminal done right

http://finalterm.org

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 32 comments

Lua: the world's most infuriating language?

http://www.slideshare.net/jgrahamc/lua-the-worlds-most-infuriating-language

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 56 comments

Making iOS 7 squircles using CSS3

http://thecodeplayer.com/walkthrough/css3-squircles

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments

Elon Musk to make James Bond submarine car a reality

http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/17/autos/musk-bond-sub-tesla/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 47 comments

What happens when a language has no numbers?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2013/10/16/piraha_cognitive_anumeracy_in_a_language_without_numbers.html

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 53 comments
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