top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-29

Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed

http://ionicons.com/

13 years ago

394 upvotes – 95 comments

Firefox 25 is released

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/25.0/releasenotes/

13 years ago

347 upvotes – 227 comments

Stupid Programmer Tricks and Star Wars GIFs

http://rarlindseysmash.com/posts/stupid-programmer-tricks-and-star-wars-gifs

13 years ago

311 upvotes – 45 comments

/dev/null as a Service

http://devnull-as-a-service.com/

13 years ago

284 upvotes – 92 comments

Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information

http://www.zdnet.com/apple-censors-lawrence-lessig-over-warranty-information-ios7-mess-grows-7000022533/

13 years ago

275 upvotes – 88 comments

9/11 Suspects Can’t Mention being Tortured during Trial because Classified

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/911-suspects-cant-mention-being-tortured-during-trial-testimony-because-their-torture-is-classified-131028?news=851498

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 143 comments

Dotcloud becoming Docker

http://blog.docker.io/2013/10/dotcloud-is-becoming-docker-inc/

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 70 comments

Goodbye Sticky. Hello Ara

http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2013/10/goodbye-sticky-hello-ara.html

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 79 comments

Finally Redis collections are iterable

http://antirez.com/news/63

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 26 comments

Profit affects doctors' treatment decisions

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/10/unnecessary-surgeries-you-bet-doctors.html

13 years ago

221 upvotes – 230 comments

Fury at Facebook as login requests “Government ID”

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/10/29/fury-facebook-login-requests-government-id

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 226 comments

MongoHQ Security breach

http://security.mongohq.com/notice

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 121 comments

Apple mail “bug” turns out to be user script after all

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/29/apple-mail-bug-turns-out-to-be-user-script-after-all/

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 52 comments

Toyota's firmware: Bad design and its consequences

http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer-firmware--Bad-design-and-its-consequences

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 193 comments

Being alone

http://jessepollak.me/doing-things-alone/

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 160 comments

Seven-Planet System Detected

http://livasperiklis.com/2013/10/29/httpwp-mep29tmj-53u/

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Gmelius – No Ads and Better User Interface for Gmail

http://gmelius.com/?#showHN

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 112 comments

For modern development Javascript indeed is a shit language

http://live.julik.nl/2013/05/javascript-is-shit

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 238 comments

Employment in America: WTF is going on?

http://corcodilos.com/blog/6827/employment-in-america-wtf-is-going-on

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 123 comments

Introducing Riak 2.0: Data Types, Strong Consistency, Full-Text Search

http://basho.com/introducing-riak-2-0/

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 22 comments

The End of Hypocrisy

http://cryptome.org/2013/10/end-hypocrisy-with-leaks.htm

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 69 comments

Uber and Cheezburger will deliver you 15 minutes of kitten playtime for $20

http://blog.uber.com/ICanHasUberKITTENS

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 65 comments

Is The Economist left- or right-wing?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/economist-explains-itself-0

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 158 comments

Motorola's Project Ara

http://phandroid.com/2013/10/29/motorola-project-ara/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 39 comments

Uber CEO responds to concern that Uber's SF service is decreasing in quality

https://www.facebook.com/traviskal/posts/10151956134345944

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 84 comments

Skype does a clever trick when bandwidth is scarce

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6637196

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 65 comments

Humans.txt

http://disqus.com/humans.txt

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 21 comments

Adobe Breach Impacted at Least 38 Million Users

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/adobe-breach-impacted-at-least-38-million-users/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 45 comments

Hylas-Lisp - A JIT-compiled Lisp targeting LLVM

https://github.com/eudoxia0/Hylas-Lisp

13 years ago

★ 501 Common Lisp
96 upvotes – 32 comments

The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/history/2013/10/orson_welles_war_of_the_worlds_panic_myth_the_infamous_radio_broadcast_did.html

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

The Aha Moments That Made Y Combinator Possible

https://medium.com/design-startups/3a2bcf496032

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 40 comments

For modern development, Javascript is just something you need to learn

http://sidekicksrc.com/post/for-modern-development-javascript-is-just-something-you-need-to-learn/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 117 comments

Flamingo for Mac: A Modern Messaging App

http://flamingo.im

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 86 comments

RFC 7049 - Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 52 comments

Krugman’s Theory of Interstellar Trade

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2013/10/28/krugmans-theory-of-interstellar-trade/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 82 comments

Five Million Backers

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/five-million-backers

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

Cryptography in the Browser

http://blog.opal.io/crypto-in-the-browser.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 83 comments

Introducing SafeSource, A New Way To Send Forbes Anonymous Tips And Documents

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/29/introducing-safesource-a-new-way-to-send-forbes-anonymous-tips-and-documents/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

The Prison Guard With a Gift for Cracking Gang Codes

http://nautil.us/blog/the-prison-guard-with-a-gift-for-cracking-gang-codes

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 65 comments

Amazon Kindle Matchbook is live

https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/ep-landing-page?ie=UTF8&ref_=amb_link_384452322_1

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 73 comments

Mavericks – power use / service battery

https://discussions.apple.com/message/23505531#23505531

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: How does the US manage to have no bribery at lower levels?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6634219

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 72 comments

Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/10/26/why-linux-desktop/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 86 comments

Datomic Console

http://blog.datomic.com/2013/10/datomic-console.html?m=1

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

Self: the movie

http://www.smalltalk.org.br/movies/self.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

Dell XPS 15.6" QHD+ (3200x1800)

http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-15-9530/pd

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 80 comments

Google Has Ended a Bunch of Free Data

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-gone-dark-search-giant-142955454.html

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 76 comments

Khan Academy moving to React.js + Backbone

http://joelburget.com/backbone-to-react/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

Facebook marketing? Don't bother, says new report

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101151565

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 65 comments

Norwegian student buys $27 in bitcoin in 2009, now owns an apartment

http://www.news.com.au/money/money-matters/norwegian-student-kristoffer-koch-buys-27-in-bitcoin-in-2009-now-he-owns-an-apartment/story-e6frfmd9-1226748159679

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments

Thoughts On TechCrunch Disrupt

http://uncrunched.com/2013/10/29/thoughts-on-techcrunch-disrupt/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments

Man buys $27 of bitcoin, finds they're now worth $886k

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/29/bitcoin-forgotten-currency-norway-oslo-home

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 47 comments
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