top 50% 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

Django 1.4.9 and 1.5.5 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/oct/24/bugfix-releases/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 23 comments

15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse copyrighted. Will they do it again?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/25/15-years-ago-congress-kept-mickey-mouse-out-of-the-public-domain-will-they-do-it-again/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 135 comments

Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude earthquake off coast

http://cir.ca/news/fukushima-earthquake-october-2013

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 56 comments

Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/10/24/facebook_and_teen_user_trends.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 75 comments

iWork, Pages 5: An unmitigated disaster

http://www.betalogue.com/2013/10/24/pages-5-disaster/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 69 comments

How Obama's BlackBerry got secured

http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-obamas-blackberry-got-secured.html

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 32 comments

PouchDB, the In-Browser Database That Replicates

https://cloudant.com/blog/pouchdb/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

Choosing the perfect typeface

http://www.cucumbertown.com/craft/choosing-the-perfect-typeface/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 39 comments

Scratch for Arduino

http://s4a.cat/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Soylent: Manufacturing Update

http://blog.soylent.me/post/65063846024/today-we-are-pleased-to-announce-that-we-have

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 84 comments

This Obamacare contractor doesn’t take security seriously

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/25/this-obamacare-contractor-doesnt-take-security-seriously-that-needs-to-change/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 81 comments

UK police mistakenly believed they found 3D printed gun in raid

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24467-uks-first-3d-printed-gun-is-not-what-it-seems.html#.UmpXVZSxOiI

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 68 comments

How to launch and defend against a DDoS attack [pdf]

http://www.secure.edu.pl/pdf/2013/D1_1530_A_Graham-Cumming.pdf

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

It’s time to say goodbye

https://blog.do.com/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 54 comments

Snapchat Is Mulling Another Huge Round at a $3.5 Billion Valuation

http://allthingsd.com/20131025/snapchat-is-mulling-another-huge-round-at-a-3-5-billion-valuation/?utm_medium=App.net&utm_source=PourOver

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 78 comments

Actionable Ways To Get Startup Ideas

http://christopherdbui.com/post/2013/10/25/Actionable-Ways-To-Get-Startup-Ideas.html

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

Innovation is saying "No" to 1000 things

http://zurb.com/article/744/steve-jobs-innovation-is-saying-no-to-1-0

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface

http://googledrivesucks.com

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 139 comments

Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon

http://events.developerforce.com/dreamforce/hackathon

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 47 comments

reCAPTCHAs are finally readable by normal humans

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/recaptchas-are-finally-readable-by-normal-humans/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 37 comments

Analysis of yesterday's PHP.net exploit

http://www.alienvault.com/open-threat-exchange/blog/phpnet-potentially-compromised-and-redirecting-to-an-exploit-kit

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

Installing and setting up OS X Mavericks for Python development

http://blog.kristian.io/django/2013/10/23/setting-up-os-x-mavericks-for-python-development.html?hn

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 60 comments

Black Girls Code launching in Miami

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/25/3711112/black-girls-code-launching-in.html

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 92 comments

Dwolla launches Dwolla Credit – Real-time payments without interchange

http://blog.dwolla.com/real-time-payments/

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 32 comments

Assembly - Quirky for Software

https://assemblymade.com/ideas

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 16 comments

Swiss Fort Knox - High secure data center inside the Swiss Alps

http://www.swissfortknox.com/infografik.html

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 27 comments

Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/25/us-usa-spying-germany-idUSBRE99O09S20131025

13 years ago

46 upvotes – 59 comments

Paying Money To Save It And Doing More With Less

http://brianbrunner.com/automation/saas/2013/10/23/automation.html

13 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments

FBI Says It's Seized $28.5 Million in Bitcoins From Ross Ulbricht

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/25/fbi-says-its-seized-20-million-in-bitcoins-from-ross-ulbricht-alleged-owner-of-silk-road/

13 years ago

45 upvotes – 71 comments

Y Combinator Startups Now Have A Combined Valuation Of $13.7 Billion

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/25/y-combinator-13-7b-valuation/

13 years ago

45 upvotes – 23 comments

Usersnap – Visual Bug Tracking

https://usersnap.com/trial/please-fix-the-menu/1bf3debf

13 years ago

43 upvotes – 24 comments

Now Serving: Full-Text Sampler in IPython Notebook Format

http://miningthesocialweb.com/2013/10/25/now-serving-full-text-sampler-in-ipython-notebook-format/

13 years ago

42 upvotes – 27 comments

Samsung Group fined $340,000 for damaging HTC products through bogus comments

http://www.inferse.com/9947/samsung-fined-340000-damaging-htc-products-bogus-comments/

13 years ago

42 upvotes – 9 comments
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