top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-19

What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

http://levels.io/hacker-news-number-one/

13 years ago

322 upvotes – 95 comments

From China, With Love

http://devttys0.com/2013/10/from-china-with-love/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 60 comments

Uptime Robot

http://uptimerobot.com

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 99 comments

Why I moved to Miami

http://abunsen.ruhoh.com/why-i-moved-to-miami-you-should-too/

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 333 comments

Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did

http://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-power.html

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 63 comments

Startup School 2013 – Live Stream

http://startupschool.org/watch.html

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 59 comments

Macaw – Code-savvy web design tool

http://macaw.co/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 52 comments

How to destroy someone who hosts stuff at Hetzner dedicated server

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6577465

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 79 comments

Inside GitHub's Super-Lean Management Strategy

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3020181/open-company/inside-githubs-super-lean-management-strategy-and-how-it-drives-innovation.html

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Making a living selling software components, not SaaS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576560

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 48 comments

What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?

http://superuser.com/questions/231273/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for/231278

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 140 comments

The History of Apple Mice in Pure CSS

http://codepen.io/joshbader/details/fKjra?preview_height=600

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 80 comments

Startup School 2013 Notes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xo99mjzc4nyK3J4_GBiba_Kz4h1NPL2Os06JhvbCh5c/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 19 comments

Accidentally Turing-Complete

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complete.html

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 48 comments

Oscilloscope watch

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/920064946/oscilloscope-watch?ref=card

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 26 comments

Google turned my iPod touch into a free wifi phone

http://www.codercowboy.com/2013/10/19/oh-google-just-turned-my-ipod-touch-into-a-free-wifi-phone/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 53 comments

IBM unveils computer fed by 'electronic blood'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24571219

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 35 comments

Happy 19th birthday, Cocoa

http://blog.securemacprogramming.com/?p=1115

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 6 comments

Map Tiling Algorithm – HTML5 and JavaScript RPG

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8901987/map-tiling-algorithm

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

Internet Issues in the US - Possible Backbone Issue

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576399

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 46 comments

The Man Who Forgot Everything

http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/10/henry-gustav-molaison-the-man-who-forgot-everything.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

Sweden becomes the first country to reject low-fat diet dogma

http://healthimpactnews.com/2013/sweden-becomes-first-western-nation-to-reject-low-fat-diet-dogma-in-favor-of-low-carb-high-fat-nutrition/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 83 comments

Mickey Mouse on Speed: 'Mickey Mouse and the Medicine Man'

http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/mickey_mouse_medicine_man/mickey_mouse_medicine_man.shtml

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments

The Fireplace Delusion (2012)

http://samharris.org/blog/item/the-fireplace-delusion

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 76 comments

Bitcoin heading towards $200, new bubble forming

http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/mtgox/btcusd

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 110 comments

Dear undergraduate hacker

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6577860

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 31 comments

What's inside a proton?

http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/81190/25561

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

The problem with taking too many vitamins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24563590

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Pigs – Lightweight server for querying and playing from Grooveshark

https://github.com/hodgesmr/PIGS

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

Researcher Controls Another Person's Brain Over the Internet

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/researcher-controls-another-persons-brain-over-the-internet/?smid=tw-share&_r=1

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments
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