top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-10-30

Tim Cook Speaks Up

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-im-proud-to-be-gay

12 years ago

3086 upvotes – 974 comments

Microsoft Band

http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us

12 years ago

858 upvotes – 514 comments

How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA

http://the-toast.net/2014/10/27/employer-put-fml-fmla/

12 years ago

404 upvotes – 327 comments

I Hope Twitter Goes Away

https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/

12 years ago

395 upvotes – 238 comments

Controversial Patriot Act power now overwhelmingly used in drug investigations

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/29/surprise-controversial-patriot-act-power-now-overwhelmingly-used-in-drug-investigations/

12 years ago

303 upvotes – 47 comments

PgOSQuery: Expose the operating system as a Postgres database

https://github.com/shish/pgosquery

12 years ago

★ 452 Python
297 upvotes – 42 comments

How do you get to write so well in HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8533633

12 years ago

276 upvotes – 105 comments

Detailed report shows how U.S. Internet access monopolies punish rivals

https://medium.com/backchannel/jammed-e474fc4925e4

12 years ago

219 upvotes – 28 comments

Introducing SIMD.js

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/10/introducing-simd-js/

12 years ago

210 upvotes – 75 comments

Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Warg faces lengthy jail term

http://bbc.com/news/technology-29832318

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 82 comments

Redis latency spikes and the 99th percentile

http://antirez.com/news/83

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 51 comments

Go 1.4 Beta 1 is released

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/7VAcfULjiB8

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 40 comments

LG G Watch R

http://www.lg.com/global/gwatch/index.html#main

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 114 comments

Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/if-you-think-youre-a-genius-youre-crazy

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 73 comments

A fast HTTP request/response parser for Common Lisp

https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http

12 years ago

★ 356 Common Lisp
131 upvotes – 73 comments

Walk through a 3D model of Y Combinator

https://matterport.com/blog/walk-3d-model-y-combinator

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 50 comments

Lost Civilizations of the Andes

http://davidpratt.info/andes2.htm

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 38 comments

Chicken Scheme Websockets

http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/websockets#quick-start-example

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

Startup Fuck-ups: How we lost 25% of our monthly revenue overnight

https://medium.com/@insync/startup-fuck-ups-how-we-lost-25-of-our-monthly-revenue-overnight-1e3529aa9e01

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 56 comments

Lecture 12: Building for the Enterprise

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec12

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 19 comments
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