top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-27

C--

http://www.cminusminus.org/

13 years ago

553 upvotes – 72 comments

Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027

13 years ago

498 upvotes – 109 comments

Amazon and the "profitless business model" fallacy

http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2013/10/25/amazon-and-the-profitless-business-model-narrative

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 137 comments

Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20131027,0,1228881.column

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 132 comments

Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API

http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-restful-api

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 51 comments

CSS3 Features That You Can Finally Start Using

http://tutorialzine.com/2013/10/12-awesome-css3-features-you-can-finally-use/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 69 comments

Letter to a young programmer

http://neopythonic.blogspot.ca/2013/10/letter-to-young-programmer.html?utm_content=bufferb5a52&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 31 comments

The keys to the keydom

http://bit-player.org/2013/the-keys-to-the-keydom

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 27 comments

The boss, not the workload, causes workplace depression

http://sciencenordic.com/boss-not-workload-causes-workplace-depression

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 41 comments

Intro to Pandas data structures

http://www.gregreda.com/2013/10/26/intro-to-pandas-data-structures/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 18 comments

“The real problems are with the back end of the software”

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/10/from-the-comments-dan-hanson-on-aca.html

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 148 comments

Marie Curie: Why her papers are still radioactive

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/1107/Marie-Curie-Why-her-papers-are-still-radioactive

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 35 comments

Clojure from the Ground Up, Part 2: Basic Types

http://aphyr.com/posts/302-clojure-from-the-ground-up-basic-types

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 21 comments

Statistical Data Mining Tutorials (2005)

http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 2 comments

Armed agents seize records of reporter

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/25/armed-agents-seize-records-reporter-washington-tim/?page=all

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

Custom-printed Moleskine notebooks

http://www.fiftythree.com/book

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 93 comments

How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002)

http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 47 comments

Baretorrent: minimalist open-source Bittorrent client

http://baretorrent.org/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 73 comments

DMCA takedown on GPL-copyrighted code

http://www.class.pm/2013/strange-days/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 60 comments

AWS instance was scheduled for retirement

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=497940#497965

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 75 comments

Repobuild – Declarative-style build system, like Google Build

https://github.com/chrisvana/repobuild/wiki/Motivation

13 years ago

★ 218 C++
75 upvotes – 30 comments

Time-Machine-style backup with rsync

https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup

13 years ago

★ 3.5k Shell
73 upvotes – 50 comments

Discovering LastPass shared passwords

http://changedmy.name/2013/10/26/discovering-secrets.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 35 comments

Spyder – Scientific Python Development Environment

https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 29 comments

The E-Cigarette Industry, Waiting to Exhale

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/business/the-e-cigarette-industry-waiting-to-exhale.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 160 comments

Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10407282/Barack-Obama-approved-tapping-Angela-Merkels-phone-3-years-ago.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments

Saturated Fat is not the major issue

http://www.bmj.com/press-releases/2013/10/22/observations-saturated-fat-not-major-issue

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 61 comments

Screen and asset image scaling for games

http://coderofworlds.com/screen-and-asset-image-scaling-for-games/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 26 comments

How is a system of axioms different from a system of beliefs?

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/182303/how-is-a-system-of-axioms-different-from-a-system-of-beliefs/182308#182308

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 56 comments

First Bitcoin ATM

https://robocoinkiosk.com/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 41 comments

Profitless Prosperity

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/10/they-dont-make-any-money.html

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 48 comments

How one small American VPN company is trying to stand up for privacy

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/how-one-small-american-vpn-company-is-trying-to-stand-up-for-privacy/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 29 comments
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