top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-10-23

“Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby

http://www.yukinishijima.net/2014/10/21/did-you-mean-experience-in-ruby.html

12 years ago

1984 v. Brave New World

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/1984-v-brave-new-world.html

12 years ago

Old Masters: After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/23/magazine/old-masters-at-top-of-their-game.html

12 years ago

Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems

http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447

12 years ago

Ask HN: My 56-year-old father is a developer having a tough time finding a job

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8501149

12 years ago

Verizon Wireless injecting tracking UIDs into HTTP requests

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8500131

12 years ago

AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-region-germany/

12 years ago

Y Combinator, a Two-Year-Old, and a Pregnant Wife

http://tiempoapp.com/y-combinator-a-two-year-old-and-a-pregnant-wife

12 years ago

Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online for Free

http://www.messagetoeagle.com/vaticanlibrary.php#.VEkMGhZ0Yim

12 years ago

Ten years of Ubuntu

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/ten-years-of-ubuntu-how-linuxs-beloved-newcomer-became-its-criticized-king/

12 years ago

Mono for Unreal Engine

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Oct-23.html

12 years ago

Fingerprints Are Usernames, Not Passwords (2013)

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user-names-not.html

12 years ago

Migrating from AWS to AWS

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/100758229719/migrating-from-aws-to-aws

12 years ago

EFF Relaunches Surveillance Self-Defense Guide

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/eff-relaunches-surveillance-self-defense

12 years ago

Are we at Peak Google?

http://stratechery.com/2014/peak-google/

12 years ago

Diary of a Corporate Sellout

https://medium.com/message/diary-of-a-corporate-sellout-587479c215f4

12 years ago

An Imaginary Town Becomes Real, Then Not

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/03/18/290236647/an-imaginary-town-becomes-real-then-not-true-story

12 years ago

More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the Homeless

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/22/357846415/more-cities-are-making-it-illegal-to-hand-out-food-to-the-homeless

12 years ago

Facebook Rooms

http://www.rooms.me/

12 years ago

Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea

http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6079

12 years ago