top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-28

Here's how I deal with users who steal

http://pud.com/post/65374847162/how-i-deal-with-users-who-steal

13 years ago

774 upvotes – 211 comments

Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer

http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-a-programmer

13 years ago

607 upvotes – 204 comments

April 5, 2007: "Show HN, Dropbox"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

13 years ago

518 upvotes – 178 comments

Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/

13 years ago

385 upvotes – 100 comments

Run Windows 1.01 in your browser

http://jsmachines.net/demos/pc/cga-win101/xt-cga-win101.xml

13 years ago

323 upvotes – 85 comments

Surface Pro 2

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/10/28/surface-pro-2?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pa-mainsite+%28Penny+Arcade%29

13 years ago

313 upvotes – 196 comments

Wow, or from the When-Apple-Became-the-Borg Department

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/65338904338/wow-or-from-the-when-apple-became-the-borg-department

13 years ago

312 upvotes – 85 comments

Discoveries Ten Years Later in Zelda Speedrun

http://blog.joellehman.com/index.php/2013/10/incredible-discoveries-ten-years-later-in-zelda-speedrun/

13 years ago

306 upvotes – 85 comments

Particle effects in JavaScript

http://liveweave.com/TcZrXF

13 years ago

270 upvotes – 70 comments

Winter is coming

http://blog.42floors.com/winter-coming/

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 154 comments

Russia: Hidden chips 'launch spam attacks from irons'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-24707337

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 123 comments

Fish shell 2.1

http://fishshell.com/?version=2.1

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 151 comments

Things that suck in AngularJS

http://lhorie.blogspot.ca/2013/09/things-that-suck-in-angularjs.html

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 148 comments

Phishing with Linkedin's Intro

http://jordan-wright.github.io/blog/2013/10/26/phishing-with-linkedins-intro/

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 67 comments

Turn your iPhone into a high-power digital microscope for around $10

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/10/25/turn-your-iphone-into-a-high-power-digital-microscope-for-around/

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 39 comments

Bloom Filters by example

http://billmill.org/bloomfilter-tutorial/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 61 comments

A Printer That Can Print a 2,500 Square Foot House in 20 Hours

http://www.industrytap.com/the-printer-that-can-print-a-house-in-20-hours/9056

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 86 comments

Git Tutorials and Training

https://www.atlassian.com/git

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 27 comments

Namecheap now offer .io domains

https://www.namecheap.com/domains/extensions-tlds/cctld/io.aspx

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 123 comments

Don't write code first

http://blog.reemer.com/why-only-fools-write-code-first

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 92 comments

Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/opinion/a-conversation-in-lieu-of-a-column.html

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 71 comments

Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingly well

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21588385-giving-money-directly-poor-people-works-surprisingly-well-it-cannot-deal

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 139 comments

Trial week: Our hiring secret

http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/posts/akzj/trial-week-our-hiring-secret

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 133 comments

This Isn't Capitalism, It's Growthism, and It's Bad for Us

http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/10/this-isnt-capitalism-its-growthism-and-its-bad-for-us/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 152 comments

The Median-of-Medians Algorithm

http://www.austinrochford.com/posts/2013-10-28-median-of-medians.html

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 31 comments

Argentina's Currency Black Market

https://flightfox.com/tradecraft/argentina-black-market

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 111 comments

De-anonymizing Users of French Political Forums [pdf]

http://archive.hack.lu/2013/dbongard_hacklu_2013.pdf

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 48 comments

Mozilla Location Service: Geolocation lookups from public cell tower, WiFi data

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/28/mozillas-location-service-pilot-project-provides-geolocation-lookups-based-public-cell-tower-wifi-data/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 39 comments

How Kentucky Built the Country's Best Obamacare Website

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/how-kentucky-built-the-country-s-best-obamacare-website

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 82 comments

Sea Otters Are Jerks. So Are Dolphins, Penguins, and Other Adorable Animals

http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things/2013/10/28/sea_otter_dolphin_and_penguin_behavior_your_favorite_animals_are_jerks.html

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Mortality Rates in the US Visualized

http://www.matthewisabel.com/projects/deathrates/geographic.html

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 96 comments

Judge OKs class-action suit against Apple, Intel, Google, Adobe

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24390480/judge-oks-class-action-suit-against-apple-intel-google-adobe

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

About Nimrod's features

http://picheta.me/articles/2013/10/about-nimrods-features.html

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 68 comments

Engine Yard's sponsorship of RVM is coming to an end

http://rvm.io/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 69 comments

Million Lines of Code - Infographic

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Bitbillpay - Pay any PostBillPay biller in Australia with Bitcoin

https://www.bitbillpay.com.au/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

Setting up Emacs as a Ruby development environment on OS X

http://crypt.codemancers.com/posts/2013-09-26-setting-up-emacs-as-development-environment-on-osx/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science (2011) [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

Progress report on cross-platform Open Web Apps

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/progress-report-on-cross-platform-open-web-apps/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

AI Startup Says It Has Defeated Captchas

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520581/ai-startup-says-it-has-defeated-captchas/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 78 comments

An enormous theorem: The classification of finite simple groups

http://plus.maths.org/content/enormous-theorem-classification-finite-simple-groups

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

Ruby-FFI is no longer maintained

https://github.com/ffi/ffi/commit/bef6f44505fd96eb16c044b1e1af9cbad2697bfe

13 years ago

★ 2.1k Ruby BSD-3-Clause
70 upvotes – 46 comments

The Zuckerberg Files - All public utterances of Mark Zuckerberg

http://zuckerbergfiles.org/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 47 comments

From 0 to $1 Million ARR in 3 years with Indian Customers

http://blog.kookoo.in/2013/10/kookoo-year-in-review-from-0-to-1.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 39 comments

Heroku WebSocket performance

http://veldstra.org/2013/10/25/heroku-websocket-performance-test.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

Feinstein wants mass domestic spying. Let's get her off intel committee.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6630677

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 77 comments

FizzBuzz solved using only bit twiddling

https://gist.github.com/grantslatton/7187941

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 67 comments
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