top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-23

Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596038

13 years ago

763 upvotes – 530 comments

Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/dr-arjun-srinivasan-weve-reached-the-end-of-antibiotics-period/

13 years ago

692 upvotes – 400 comments

Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone

https://github.com/quarnster/lime

13 years ago

★ 15.2k BSD-2-Clause
547 upvotes – 247 comments

LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS

http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-impossible-ios

13 years ago

485 upvotes – 306 comments

Font Awesome 4 released

http://fontawesome.io/?4

13 years ago

319 upvotes – 92 comments

Snap – A JavaScript SVG Library

http://snapsvg.io/

13 years ago

304 upvotes – 57 comments

Deep C and C++ (2011)

http://www.slideshare.net/olvemaudal/deep-c

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 237 comments

Pure CSS3 dancing Bender

http://liveweave.com/GoGhKy

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 66 comments

French Court Allows Reverse Engineering of Skype Protocol

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.numerama.com/magazine/27296-la-justice-francaise-blanchit-le-cassage-du-protocole-de-skype.html&usg=ALkJrhh_j0I0TnInzEe43zrZ74keHKwjnA

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 86 comments

CodeCombat in Y Combinator

http://blog.nickwinter.net/codecombat-in-y-combinator

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 82 comments

Pixelmator 3.0

http://www.pixelmator.com/

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: Sketchology

http://www.sketchologyapp.com/

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 80 comments

Why Python uses 0-based indexing. It's because of slices

https://plus.google.com/115212051037621986145/posts/YTUxbXYZyfi

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 135 comments

Work versus Life. Greatness versus Family

http://blog.pieratt.com/post/64881538909/work-versus-life-greatness-versus-family

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 101 comments

Complete, Persistent Compromise of Netgear Wireless Routers

http://shadow-file.blogspot.com/2013/10/complete-persistent-compromise-of.html

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 69 comments

Why being a thinker takes quiet time

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/23/tech/innovation/thinking-time/index.html?c=tech

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 57 comments

The parable of the fisherman

http://blog.figuringshitout.com/the-parable-of-the-fisherman/

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 70 comments

NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record with Transmissions to and from Moon

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/october/nasa-laser-communication-system-sets-record-with-data-transmissions-to-and-from/#.Ume155Q4W5s

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 79 comments

Can I Be Trusted?

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/can_i_be_truste.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 52 comments

Why Isn’t Programming Futuristic?

http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2013/10/why-isnt-programming-futuristic.html

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 83 comments

LG launches Firefox phone in Brazil

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57608752-94/lg-launches-firefox-phone-in-brazil/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 35 comments

Serf: A decentralized solution for service discovery and orchestration

http://www.serfdom.io

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 44 comments

Pinterest Raises $225 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation

http://allthingsd.com/20131023/pinterest-does-another-massive-funding-225-million-at-3-8-billion-valuation/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 103 comments

JFK’s teen mistress addresses relationship in memoir (2012)

http://nypost.com/2012/02/05/teen-mistress-addresses-relationship-pols-cold-war-fears-in-memoir/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 119 comments

An introduction to libuv

http://nikhilm.github.io/uvbook/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 27 comments

Hk, The new Heroku Client written in Go

https://github.com/heroku/hk

13 years ago

★ 709 Go
106 upvotes – 30 comments

Iversity – Open Courses

https://iversity.org/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

Berlin Startup Map

http://berlinstartupmap.com/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 69 comments

IllumiRoom: Peripheral Projected Illusions for Interactive Experiences

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/illumiroom/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 19 comments

Meatspace Chat

http://chat.meatspac.es

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 38 comments

My New Strategy for Teaching Kids How to Code

https://plus.google.com/116160612483689327039/posts/WnwqbgAqewP

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

Introducing SmartStack: Service Discovery in the Cloud

http://nerds.airbnb.com/smartstack-service-discovery-cloud/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 37 comments

How I went from idea to product (with paying customers) in 7 days

http://blog.happyletter.net/post/64874094080/how-i-went-from-idea-to-product-with-paying-customers

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 16 comments

Torvalds: SteamOS will "really help" Linux on desktop

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/384934/torvalds-steamos-will-really-help-linux-on-desktop

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 63 comments

SEC moves toward allowing crowdfunding IPOs

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/10/23/crowdfunding-ipo-sec-jobs-act/3169395/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Meals/Feels - Log your meals and feels to spot food allergies

http://www.mealsfeels.com/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

Choosing the right data structures

http://mathieularose.com/choosing-the-right-data-structures/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 35 comments

From Zero To Kickstarter In $5k

http://needwant.com/p/draft-from-zero-to-kickstarter-in-5k/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 43 comments

Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go

http://blog.golang.org/strings

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 35 comments

Why I’m Going Back To Capturing Credit Cards Upfront

http://planscope.io/blog/why-im-going-back-to-capturing-credit-cards-upfront

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Authority Case Studies: $30k in sales from first-time authors

http://nathanbarry.com/authority-case-studies/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 37 comments

Kogan Violating GPL

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46737250

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

Why I'm going back to capturing credit cards up front

http://planscope.io/blog/why-im-going-back-to-capturing-credit-cards-upfront/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

The Coinbase iOS app has launched

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/64824441934/the-coinbase-ios-app-has-launched

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Dry Ice Bombs at LAX

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

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 84 comments

Learn on someone else’s dime

http://blog.42floors.com/learn-someone-elses-dime/#.UmfeR2RKnCa

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

58 percent of Americans favor legalizing marijuana

http://www.gallup.com/poll/165539/first-time-americans-favor-legalizing-marijuana.aspx

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 37 comments

Qt 5.2 Beta Available

http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/10/23/qt-5-2-beta-available/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Newton - Javascript Physics Library

https://github.com/hunterloftis/newton

13 years ago

★ 915 JavaScript
62 upvotes – 15 comments

Healthcare.gov Lines of Code Comparison

http://www.alexmarchant.com/blog/2013/10/22/healthcare-dot-gov-lines-of-code-comparison.html

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 43 comments

Phusion Passenger's Node.js support has been open sourced

http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/10/23/phusion-passengers-node-js-support-has-been-open-sourced/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Scientists find gold growing on trees in Australia

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/22/world/gold-growing-on-trees/index.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

Call Yourself A Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights

http://www.digitalbond.com/blog/2013/10/22/call-yourself-a-hacker-lose-your-4th-amendment-rights

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 25 comments
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