top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-20

The genius and folly of MongoDB

http://nyeggen.com/blog/2013/10/18/the-genius-and-folly-of-mongodb/

13 years ago

339 upvotes – 270 comments

Have young people in Japan stopped having sex?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex

13 years ago

314 upvotes – 264 comments

What’s New In Python 3.4

http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.4.html

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 72 comments

Google Checkout Closing Down on Nov. 20th

https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3080449

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 137 comments

Facebook CSRF leading to full account takeover (fixed)

http://pyx.io/blog/facebook-csrf-leading-to-full-account-takeover

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 51 comments

This is a valid ipv4 address

http://3098282570

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 95 comments

I’m the Accidental Owner of a Banksy

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/im-the-accidental-owner-of-a-banksy.html

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 168 comments

The Ocean is Broken

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1848433/the-ocean-is-broken/

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 43 comments

Design tip: Never use black (2012)

http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 63 comments

Review of the DSM-V as a piece of dystopian fiction

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/book-of-lamentations/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 55 comments

Is Wikipedia for Sale?

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/is-wikipedia-for-sale

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 45 comments

Making HTTP realtime with HTTP 2.0

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eqae3OBCxwWswOsaWMAWRpqnmrVVrAfPQclfSqPkXrA/present

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 45 comments

Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/opinion/sunday/maam-your-burger-has-been-paid-for.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 130 comments

Show HN: YinYang, a usable live programming language

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/liveprogramming.aspx?iedz00

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 55 comments

The Reliability of Go

http://andrewwdeane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/the-reliability-of-go.html

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 140 comments

Was My Life Worth Living? (1934)

http://ucblibrary3.berkeley.edu/goldman/Writings/Essays/lifework.html

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 101 comments

Wysiwtfftwomg

http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/wysiwtfftwomg

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 85 comments

How to escape a monster (using calculus)

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/october12013/index.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 27 comments

30 Window Managers in 30 Days

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=18273

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 64 comments

A Crash Course In Awk

http://blog.bignerdranch.com/3799-a-crash-course-in-awk/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook Is Losing Teens

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/10/19/facebook-is-losing-teens-and-new-privacy-settings-wont-bring-them-back/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 92 comments

The ocean is broken

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1848433/the-ocean-is-broken/?cs=12

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: I'm afraid I will always be a mediocre developer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6581317

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 86 comments

Facts about Google and Competition

http://www.google.com/competition/howgooglesearchworks.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 67 comments

A quarter of online ad traffic is fraudulent

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/amount-questionable-online-traffic-will-blow-your-mind-153083

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

HealthCare.gov’s glitches prompt Obama to call in expert troubleshooters

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/experts-working-to-fix-healthcaregov-insurance-marketplace-officials-say/2013/10/20/1e1a35ce-39b4-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html?hpid=z1

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 85 comments

What the SEO? – The shady world of small business SEO

http://dangoldin.com/2013/10/20/what-the-seo/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: hr.js - Build large client-side applications in a structured way

http://friendcode.github.io/hr.js/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 23 comments

Reset your life

http://levels.io/reset-your-life/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 50 comments

Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2013/10/17/studying-lossy-image-compression-efficiency

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 43 comments

Stephen King’s Family Business

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/magazine/stephen-kings-family-business.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

Brooklyn man arrested for flying drone over Manhattan

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators&id=9292217

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 60 comments

Afghanistan Silk Road jewel reveals more of its treasures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24581093

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Startup School notes on GitHub

https://github.com/charlesfeng/startup-school-2013

13 years ago

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58 upvotes – 2 comments

Why all OVH dedicated servers are "sold out"

https://www.ovh.co.uk/a1186.SoldOut

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 48 comments
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