top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-10-25

Gzip + poetry = awesome

http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/10/24/day-16-gzip-plus-poetry-equals-awesome/

13 years ago

370 upvotes – 87 comments

In Almost Every European Country, Bikes Are Outselling New Cars

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/10/24/240493422/in-most-every-european-country-bikes-are-outselling-cars

13 years ago

358 upvotes – 298 comments

Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57608585-93/is-google-building-a-hulking-floating-data-center-in-sf-bay/

13 years ago

341 upvotes – 242 comments

EFF Has Lavabit’s Back in Contempt of Court Appeal

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-has-lavabits-back-contempt-court-appeal

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 60 comments

Seagate just reinvented the disk interface using Ethernet

http://www.speakingofclouds.com/?p=341

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 117 comments

Why women lose the dating game

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/society-and-culture/why-women-lose-the-dating-game-20120421-1xdn0.html

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 356 comments

Mozilla Lightbeam – Relationships between third parties and the sites you visit

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam/

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 24 comments

uTorrent tricking users into changing default browser settings?

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=139892

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 147 comments

Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/meet-the-private-companies-helping-cops-spy-on-protesters-20131024

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 52 comments

An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

http://www.hckrnews.com/

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 85 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 15 comments

A 140-Acre Forest Is About to Materialize in the Middle of Detroit

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/10/140-acre-forest-about-materialize-middle-detroit/7371/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 86 comments

Most people won't

http://bryce.vc/post/64889707700/most-people-wont#notes

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 77 comments

Knockout v3.0.0 released

http://knockoutjs.com/upgrade-notes/v3.0.0.html

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Make your app handle going offline

http://github.hubspot.com/offline/docs/welcome/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 29 comments

WhiteDB – Lightweight NoSQL database written in C, operating in main memory

http://whitedb.org/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 78 comments

The Decline of Wikipedia: As More People Rely on It, Fewer People Create It

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/?

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 138 comments

“I Quit Academia,” an Important, Growing Subgenre of American Essays

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/24/quitting_academic_jobs_professor_zachary_ernst_and_other_leaving_tenure.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 117 comments

Technology Change: .Net to Scala

http://randonom.com/blog/2013/10/technology-change-net-to-scala/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 145 comments

Self-driving cars projected to reduce injuries by 90%, save $450B annually

http://www.techspot.com/news/54458-self-driving-cars-projected-to-reduce-injuries-by-90-percent-save-450-billion-annually.html

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 141 comments
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