The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2012
We track 602 stories from October 2012, averaging 199 points each. arstechnica.com was the most linked source, with 15 stories. Together they drew 50,217 comments, 83 per story on average.
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Outlawed by Amazon DRM
bekkelund.net · paulsilver · 22 Oct 2012
1.4k pts
479 comments
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3
Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers
jwz.org · icey · 11 Oct 2012
688 pts
96 comments
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6
Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution
plus.google.com · orjan · 31 Oct 2012
633 pts
327 comments
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7
Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes
googleblog.blogspot.com · cleverjake · 29 Oct 2012
603 pts
456 comments
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8
Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others
status.aws.amazon.com · fredoliveira · 22 Oct 2012
602 pts
295 comments
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9
Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
stackoverflow.com · ashishgandhi · 10 Oct 2012
590 pts
119 comments
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10
Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.
apple.com · sjtgraham · 5 Oct 2012
588 pts
194 comments
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11
Xkcd style graphs
mathematica.stackexchange.com · bussetta · 1 Oct 2012
585 pts
51 comments
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12
The Most Revealing Job Interview Question
refer.ly · kevin_morrill · 4 Oct 2012
578 pts
235 comments
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13
Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket
blog.bitbucket.org · weslly · 9 Oct 2012
569 pts
286 comments
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14
Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org
thenextweb.com · feronull · 8 Oct 2012
526 pts
159 comments
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15
Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
foundersatwork.com · nswanberg · 25 Oct 2012
518 pts
88 comments
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16
Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
ektomarch.com · fiblye · 22 Oct 2012
515 pts
145 comments
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19
The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't
mina.naguib.ca · LiveTheDream · 28 Oct 2012
508 pts
63 comments
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20
Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups
blog.ryankearney.com · RKearney · 6 Oct 2012
501 pts
169 comments
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21
Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous?
npr.org · kaffeinecoma · 3 Oct 2012
491 pts
118 comments
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22
Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data
alpha.app.net · morewillie · 9 Oct 2012
478 pts
125 comments
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23
How a Google Headhunter’s E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole
wired.com · trendspotter · 24 Oct 2012
477 pts
101 comments
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24
TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development
typescriptlang.org · D_Guidi · 1 Oct 2012
474 pts
298 comments
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25
Scott Forstall leaves Apple
apple.com · FredericJ · 29 Oct 2012
470 pts
313 comments
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26
Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.
thewaltdisneycompany.com · antr · 30 Oct 2012
470 pts
290 comments
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27
Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office
techcrunch.com · rubyron · 23 Oct 2012
464 pts
212 comments
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28
Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app
selfstarter.us · ccamrobertson · 11 Oct 2012
463 pts
74 comments
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29
No, I still don't want to work for Google
infotrope.net · chris_wot · 29 Oct 2012
460 pts
396 comments
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30
Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”?
programmers.stackexchange.com · tomse · 18 Oct 2012
459 pts
87 comments
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31
The Hardware Renaissance
paulgraham.com · nqureshi · 23 Oct 2012
455 pts
206 comments
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32
Anatomy of a Hoax (Sony Nexus phone)
anatomyofahoax.tumblr.com · Shooti · 19 Oct 2012
451 pts
60 comments
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34
Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · VBprogrammer · 21 Oct 2012
433 pts
37 comments
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35
Hacker News Data Analysis
blog.rjmetrics.com · robertjmoore · 17 Oct 2012
430 pts
73 comments
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36
New $250 Chromebook
chrome.blogspot.com · ConstantineXVI · 18 Oct 2012
423 pts
329 comments
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37
Things I Learned From Founding Technology Companies
betashop.com · kbouw · 6 Oct 2012
420 pts
44 comments
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38
Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?
prog21.dadgum.com · rw140 · 4 Oct 2012
414 pts
242 comments
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40
The most dangerous code in the world
crypto.stanford.edu · gmcabrita · 24 Oct 2012
406 pts
130 comments
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41
A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space
slate.com · spathak · 15 Oct 2012
402 pts
58 comments
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42
Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
google.com · huskyr · 12 Oct 2012
399 pts
78 comments
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43
The State of JavaScript - Brendan Eich
brendaneich.github.com · ryanstewart · 9 Oct 2012
380 pts
260 comments
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45
My experience with WPEngine
chester.id.au · lasonrisa · 24 Oct 2012
373 pts
240 comments
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46
Infinite Gangnam Style
static.echonest.com · nickknw · 28 Oct 2012
373 pts
109 comments
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47
Racism at a gaming company
qu33riousity.tumblr.com · plinkplonk · 2 Oct 2012
368 pts
414 comments
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48
North Carolina teacher's resignation letter
dianeravitch.net · bwsewell · 29 Oct 2012
367 pts
302 comments
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49
Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander?
seclists.org · Garbage · 15 Oct 2012
364 pts
189 comments
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50
Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT
ozar.me · magsafe · 27 Oct 2012
361 pts
283 comments
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52
The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company
blog.asmartbear.com · yannickmahe · 23 Oct 2012
360 pts
129 comments
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53
Programmer Competency Matrix
starling-software.com · olalonde · 8 Oct 2012
360 pts
122 comments
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54
If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This
blogs.hbr.org · bcrawl · 12 Oct 2012
356 pts
216 comments
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55
Do you really want to be making this much money when you're 50?
yosefk.com · tomstuart · 6 Oct 2012
355 pts
278 comments
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56
Restoration of defocused and blurred images
yuzhikov.com · Terretta · 21 Oct 2012
354 pts
28 comments
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58
Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage
waybackletter.com · duck · 5 Oct 2012
345 pts
96 comments
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59
Zynga stock plummets below value of its cash and real estate
latimes.com · sbierwagen · 10 Oct 2012
343 pts
294 comments
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