The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2012

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Outlawed by Amazon DRM bekkelund.net · paulsilver · 22 Oct 2012

1.4k pts 479 comments

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The Future of Markdown codinghorror.com · dko · 25 Oct 2012

877 pts 328 comments

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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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HN Spoof us2.campaign-archive1.com · norswap · 6 Oct 2012

681 pts 82 comments

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Tell HN: Let's Be Civil raganwald · 27 Oct 2012

671 pts 138 comments

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Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution plus.google.com · orjan · 31 Oct 2012

633 pts 327 comments

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Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes googleblog.blogspot.com · cleverjake · 29 Oct 2012

603 pts 456 comments

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Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others status.aws.amazon.com · fredoliveira · 22 Oct 2012

602 pts 295 comments

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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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Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on. apple.com · sjtgraham · 5 Oct 2012

588 pts 194 comments

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Xkcd style graphs mathematica.stackexchange.com · bussetta · 1 Oct 2012

585 pts 51 comments

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The Most Revealing Job Interview Question refer.ly · kevin_morrill · 4 Oct 2012

578 pts 235 comments

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Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket blog.bitbucket.org · weslly · 9 Oct 2012

569 pts 286 comments

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Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org thenextweb.com · feronull · 8 Oct 2012

526 pts 159 comments

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Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong foundersatwork.com · nswanberg · 25 Oct 2012

518 pts 88 comments

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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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How cork is made wineanorak.com · shawndumas · 18 Oct 2012

514 pts 120 comments

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Chrome DevTools could do that? igvita.com · lysol · 4 Oct 2012

514 pts 74 comments

19

The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't mina.naguib.ca · LiveTheDream · 28 Oct 2012

508 pts 63 comments

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Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups blog.ryankearney.com · RKearney · 6 Oct 2012

501 pts 169 comments

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Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous? npr.org · kaffeinecoma · 3 Oct 2012

491 pts 118 comments

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Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data alpha.app.net · morewillie · 9 Oct 2012

478 pts 125 comments

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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TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development typescriptlang.org · D_Guidi · 1 Oct 2012

474 pts 298 comments

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Scott Forstall leaves Apple apple.com · FredericJ · 29 Oct 2012

470 pts 313 comments

26

Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. thewaltdisneycompany.com · antr · 30 Oct 2012

470 pts 290 comments

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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Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app selfstarter.us · ccamrobertson · 11 Oct 2012

463 pts 74 comments

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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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Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”? programmers.stackexchange.com · tomse · 18 Oct 2012

459 pts 87 comments

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The Hardware Renaissance paulgraham.com · nqureshi · 23 Oct 2012

455 pts 206 comments

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Anatomy of a Hoax (Sony Nexus phone) anatomyofahoax.tumblr.com · Shooti · 19 Oct 2012

451 pts 60 comments

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Some advice from Jeff Bezos 37signals.com · timf · 19 Oct 2012

449 pts 137 comments

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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Hacker News Data Analysis blog.rjmetrics.com · robertjmoore · 17 Oct 2012

430 pts 73 comments

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New $250 Chromebook chrome.blogspot.com · ConstantineXVI · 18 Oct 2012

423 pts 329 comments

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Things I Learned From Founding Technology Companies betashop.com · kbouw · 6 Oct 2012

420 pts 44 comments

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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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UsesThis: Rob Pike rob.pike.usesthis.com · mace · 24 Oct 2012

411 pts 184 comments

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The most dangerous code in the world crypto.stanford.edu · gmcabrita · 24 Oct 2012

406 pts 130 comments

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A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space slate.com · spathak · 15 Oct 2012

402 pts 58 comments

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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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The State of JavaScript - Brendan Eich brendaneich.github.com · ryanstewart · 9 Oct 2012

380 pts 260 comments

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An Update from Elon Musk teslamotors.com · JGM564 · 4 Oct 2012

380 pts 116 comments

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My experience with WPEngine chester.id.au · lasonrisa · 24 Oct 2012

373 pts 240 comments

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Infinite Gangnam Style static.echonest.com · nickknw · 28 Oct 2012

373 pts 109 comments

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Racism at a gaming company qu33riousity.tumblr.com · plinkplonk · 2 Oct 2012

368 pts 414 comments

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North Carolina teacher's resignation letter dianeravitch.net · bwsewell · 29 Oct 2012

367 pts 302 comments

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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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Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT ozar.me · magsafe · 27 Oct 2012

361 pts 283 comments

51

Be nice to programmers edu.mkrecny.com · mkrecny · 9 Oct 2012

361 pts 167 comments

52

The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company blog.asmartbear.com · yannickmahe · 23 Oct 2012

360 pts 129 comments

53

Programmer Competency Matrix starling-software.com · olalonde · 8 Oct 2012

360 pts 122 comments

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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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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Restoration of defocused and blurred images yuzhikov.com · Terretta · 21 Oct 2012

354 pts 28 comments

57

Small blog.alexmaccaw.com · olivercameron · 19 Oct 2012

351 pts 49 comments

58

Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage waybackletter.com · duck · 5 Oct 2012

345 pts 96 comments

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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Zip Bomb en.wikipedia.org · takinola · 5 Oct 2012

342 pts 108 comments