top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-31

Nexus 5

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_5_black_16gb

13 years ago

It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?

http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/31/its-time-for-silicon-valley-to-ask-is-it-worth-it/

13 years ago

Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/

13 years ago

Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/31/comcast-is-donating-heavily-to-defeat-the-mayor-who-is-bringing-gigabit-fiber-to-seattle/

13 years ago

MIT Wristband Could Make Air Conditioning Obsolete

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/an-ingenious-wristband-that-keeps-your-body-at-the-perfect-temperature-no-ac-required/

13 years ago

Fifth Amendment Prohibits Compelled Decryption, New EFF Brief Argues

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/new-eff-amicus-brief-argues-fifth-amendment-prohibits-compelled-decryption

13 years ago

Android for all and the new Nexus 5

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/android-for-all-and-new-nexus-5.html

13 years ago

Introducing Neo900

http://neo900.org/

13 years ago

Web Framework Benchmarks Round 7

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

13 years ago

How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day

http://popcornryan.tumblr.com/post/65640245447/how-i-got-my-first-1000-users-in-1-day

13 years ago

Startups Like Berlin Because Visa Rules Are Nothing Like the U.S.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-30/startups-like-berlin-because-visa-rules-are-nothing-like-the-u-s-.html?cmpid=mashable

13 years ago

Why does the alarm clock snooze button give you nine extra minutes, not ten?

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1361/why-does-the-alarm-clock-snooze-button-give-you-nine-extra-minutes-not-ten

13 years ago

Unexpected Ways in which Bitcoin Dodged Some Cryptographic Bullets

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7781/satoshis-genius-unexpected-ways-in-which-bitcoin-dodged-some-cryptographic-bullet/

13 years ago

New Dell UltraSharp Monitors

http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2013/10/31/new-dell-ultrasharp-monitors-deliver-phenomenal-screen-performance-and-clarity-for-an-impressive-viewing-experience.aspx

13 years ago

The Logic of “Stupid” Poor People

http://tressiemc.com/2013/10/29/the-logic-of-stupid-poor-people/#

13 years ago

NBA Superstar Chris Bosh: Here’s Why You Should Learn to Code

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/chris-bosh-why-everyone-should-learn-to-code/

13 years ago

Devops Horror Stories

https://www.statuspage.io/devops-horror-stories

13 years ago

Medium Maker

http://benjaminhawkyard.co.uk/medium/

13 years ago

FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better

http://www.aaronbeppu.com/blog/2013-10-30-feel-better-bot-update.html

13 years ago

New FAA Guidelines Permit More Device Use

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/31/new-faa-guidelines-permit-more-device-use-all-the-way-from-take-off-to-landing/

13 years ago

Somali piracy: More sophisticated than you thought

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21588942-new-study-reveals-how-somali-piracy-financed-more-sophisticated-you

13 years ago

Readings in distributed systems

http://christophermeiklejohn.com/distributed/systems/2013/07/12/readings-in-distributed-systems.html

13 years ago

Startup School Notes: The Book – Profits go to Watsi

http://buy.startupnotes.org/

13 years ago

This seem legit...

http://www.trustico.ch/ssltools/match/cert-and-key-pem/check-if-certificate-and-key-match.php

13 years ago

Fixing Unix Filenames (2012)

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html

13 years ago

Thorium backed as a 'future fuel'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24638816

13 years ago

What's new for developers in Android 4.4 KitKat

http://developer.android.com/about/versions/kitkat.html

13 years ago

Developer Preview of AWS SDK for JavaScript in the Browser

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/10/developer-preview-aws-sdk-for-javascript.html

13 years ago

For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

http://sidigital.co/halloween

13 years ago

Clone Dropbox with a Raspberry Pi and BTSync

http://reustle.io/blog/btsync-pi

13 years ago

Facebook Perl source code from 2005

https://gist.github.com/philfreo/7257723

13 years ago

On leaving the Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/31/glenn-greenwald-leaving-guardian

13 years ago

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

http://oeis.org/

13 years ago

Trolls, Watch Out: Senator Hatch Introduces New Patent Legislation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/trolls-watch-out-senator-hatch-introduces-new-patent-legislation

13 years ago

Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304682504579157780178992984

13 years ago

Google, Oracle Workers Enlisted for Obamacare 'Tech Surge'

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-31/google-oracle-workers-enlisted-for-obamacare-tech-surge-.html

13 years ago

The 100 oldest .com domains on the internet

http://theforrester.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/the-100-oldest-domains-on-the-internet/

13 years ago

Ember Charts: An easily extensible chart suite built with D3.js and Ember.js

http://addepar.github.io/#/ember-charts/overview

13 years ago

Long-Time SEO Jill Whalen Moves On, Praises Google For Rewarding Content More

http://searchengineland.com/long-time-seo-jill-whalen-moves-on-praises-google-for-rewarding-content-more-175522?utm_source=plus.url.google.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pluspost

13 years ago

PayPal Redesign

http://bruceackerman.com/paypal-redesign/

13 years ago