top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-10-21

Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code

http://countaleph.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/dear-startups-stop-asking-me-math-puzzles-to-figure-out-if-i-can-code/

13 years ago

872 upvotes – 342 comments

How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage

http://benguild.com/2013/10/20/store-sell-old-stuff-with-amazon/

13 years ago

512 upvotes – 139 comments

Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/

13 years ago

414 upvotes – 225 comments

Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/10/why-does-windows-have-terrible-battery-life.html

13 years ago

389 upvotes – 319 comments

Startup School 2013 Doodles

http://startupnotes.org/

13 years ago

350 upvotes – 74 comments

Learn Haskell Fast and Hard

http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Way/

13 years ago

311 upvotes – 126 comments

Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/experian-sold-consumer-data-to-id-theft-service/

13 years ago

310 upvotes – 79 comments

Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/wikipedia-editors-locked-in-battle-with-pr-firm-delete-250-accounts/

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 110 comments

How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/stallman20131020

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 69 comments

CryptoSeal (YC S11) Shutting Down Private VPN

https://privacy.cryptoseal.com/

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 119 comments

The First App Store

https://www.makegameswith.us/gamernews/276/the-first-app-store

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 45 comments

Visualise the structure of a spreadsheet

http://www.slateforexcel.com

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Unirest

http://unirest.io/

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 67 comments

ZeroVM: Smaller, Lighter, Faster

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/zerovm-smaller-lighter-faster/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 79 comments

Project Shield

http://projectshield.withgoogle.com/

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 86 comments

The Melancholy of Subculture Society

http://www.gwern.net/The%20Melancholy%20of%20Subculture%20Society

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 54 comments

NYTimes's Pogue going to Yahoo

http://pogueman.tumblr.com/post/64682813641/goodbye-and-hello

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 70 comments

France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/21/us-france-nsa-idUSBRE99K04920131021

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 61 comments

Kids Were Terrified of Getting MRIs. Then One Man Figured Out a Better Way

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2013/10/18/creative_confidence_a_new_book_from_ideo_s_tom_and_david_kelley.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 82 comments

Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather

13 years ago

★ 1.9k Shell BSD-2-Clause
145 upvotes – 48 comments
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