Hacker News Top Charts - 2012-10-28 to 2012-11-04

Go dark

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

W1

W2

W3

W4

W5

W6

W7

W8

W9

W10

W11

W12

W13

W14

W15

W16

W17

W18

W19

W20

W21

W22

W23

W24

W25

W26

W27

W28

W29

W30

W31

W32

W33

W34

W35

W36

W37

W38

W39

W40

W41

W42

W43

W44

W45

W46

W47

W48

W49

W50

W51

W52

Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution

624

2

Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes

590

3

The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't

502

4

Elon Musks Mission to Mars

492

5

Scott Forstall leaves Apple

461

6

Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.

458

7

No, I still don't want to work for Google

456

8

2013 Automobile of the Year: Tesla Model S

440

9

Infinite Gangnam Style

370

10

Why it is Awesome to be a Girl in Tech

364

Top Ask HN

1

Who Is Hiring? (November 2012)

217

2

What's your startup's analytics setup?

130

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2012)

92

4

Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?

66

5

Where do you guys find graphics for your side projects

47

6

Where do you keep your ideas?

40

7

what would you pay a 50$/m subscription for?

38

8

Any of you who keep a journal like to try a beta release of our iOS app?

37

9

What are your goals for November?

20

10

Review my startup - www.JetDeck.co

17

Top Show HN

1

I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game

380

2

I built a thing

235

3

Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

149

4

UChicago admissions asked me to find Waldo. I did.

146

5

Introducting C+

143

6

Python Tools for Visual Studio

132

7

we open sourced our Django drip email app

123

8

Propeller - Create native mobile apps, just drag and drop

122

9

Userfox (YC S11) Better Welcome Emails

95

10

In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

86

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Elon Musks Mission to Mars

492

2

Richard Stallman: Lets Limit the Effect of Software Patents

349

3

Not one Microsoft product on Kasperskys top 10 vulnerabilities list

323

4

Killing Your Startup on a Thursday Night

300

5

Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on front page until Dec 14th

298

6

Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves

215

7

Quantum entanglement shows that reality can't be local

155

8

Apollo Flight Controller 101: Every console explained

122

9

How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling just about anything

114

10

Anonymous Is Going After Zynga For Mistreating Employees

102

News [?]

1

512 Paths to the White House

360

2

The lactose-tolerance mutation

316

3

Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong

195

4

Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense

105

5

How Do You Raise a Prodigy?

89

6

Kickstarter launched in the UK

65

7

The Fractalist, Benoit B. Mandelbrots Math Memoir

63

8

Unrest in China's cities: Middle-class blues

63

9

Europe approves high-price gene therapy

62

10

Meet the Most Indebted Man in the World

59

Scientific publications [?]

1

A dialog on quantum gravity (2003)

64

2

Traveling the Silk Road: A measurement analysis of a large anonymous marketplace

8

3

[pdf] Twitters Real-Time Related Query Suggestion Architecture

4

4

Coffee-Can Radar

3

5

Meet the robots that will compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge

2

6

Clearpath Robotics Introduces Kingfisher M200

2

7

Bossa Nova Robotics Launches Mobi Research Ballbot

2

8

Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are Friendly to Life

2

9

Bulletin: German nuclear exit delivers economic, environmental benefits

2

10

Willow Garage Introduces Velo 2G Adaptive Gripper

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)

237

2

Deep Inside a DNS Amplification DDoS Attack

88

3

The Architecture of Datomic

87

4

Mozilla Mozaic: visualizing the future of bookmarks

62

5

Ubuntu Looks To An SDK, Improved App Development

43

6

OCSP Stapling: How CloudFlare Just Made SSL 30% Faster

24

7

Content-centric networking with CCNx

20

8

What Happens When a Hurricane Hits the Web

7

9

Rich Hickey - Writing Datomic in Clojure

5

10

A Linux User's Perspective Of Microsoft Windows 8

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

No Copyrights on APIs: Help Us Make The Case

131

2

AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014

122

3

ARM's Cortex A57 and Cortex A53: The First 64-bit ARMv8 CPU Cores

81

4

EFF Demands Answers About Predator Drone Flights in the U.S.

76

5

Inside the Titan Supercomputer: 299K AMD x86 Cores and 18.6K Nvidia GPU Cores

76

6

EFF Wins Renewal of Smartphone Jailbreaking Rights

59

7

Apple releases iOS 6.0.1 with improvements and bug fixes

55

8

EFF Launches New Transparency Project

34

9

Steve Jobs' Yacht 'Venus' Launched in the Netherlands

12

10

Philips to Sell iOS-Controlled LED Light Bulbs Exclusively Through Apple Stores

10

FAANG+ [?]

1

Scott Forstall leaves Apple

461

2

Amazon.com criticising new iPad on homepage

201

3

Windows Phone 8 live event (10 AM PT)

51

4

Amazon Attacking Apple's iPad Mini on Homepage

30

5

Download VC++ Nov 2012 CTP from Official Microsoft Download Center

5

6

AWS Storage Gateway Announces Gateway-Cached Volumes

4

7

Amazon disparages the iPad mini front and center

3

8

C++: The Good Parts

2

9

Have Amazon Ship You Reusables Regularly

2

10

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Runs Ruby and Integrates with Amazon VPC

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

RIAA Failed To Disclose Experts Lobbying History to Six-Strikes Partners

120

2

Hurricane Hackers Project

38

3

Kim Dotcom Avoids Unsafe .Com, Picks Me.Ga for New Megaupload

9

4

How will you measure your life?

4

5

Hurricane Hackers

3

6

Google Docs down

3

7

Six Strikes Evidence Re-reviewed to Fix RIAA Lobbying Controversy

2

8

A special collection from HBR on big data

2

9

What does an average developer score on the Aspergers quotient test?

2

10

Logical Pinpointing: Making numbers meaningful

2

Science News [?]

1

Empathy represses analytic thought and vice versa

103

2

Scientists build the first all-carbon solar cell

48

3

Can You Stop a Hurricane by Nuking It?

43

4

Ancient tsunami devastated Lake Geneva shoreline

19

5

Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans

6

6

Fairly Simple Math Could Bridge Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity

4

7

When people worry about math, the brain feels the pain

3

8

Is there life on Mars? NASA could settle that question today

2

9

Higher-math skills entwined with lower-order magnitude sense

1

10

ITER contracting issues: Fusion project struggles to put the pieces together

1

Social [?]

1

LinkedIn sitemap.xml

45

2

Steve Jobs testing Photo Booth in 2005

18

3

Counting Crows partners with ReelSurfer, launches fan mashup competition

14

4

Whedon on Romney

7

5

"A Slower Speed of Light" Game Trailer - MIT Game Lab

6

6

Nexus 4, Nexus 10, Android 4.2: from inside Google HQ

5

7

Lana Wachowski receives the HRC Visibility Award

5

8

The Y Combinator application deadline is in 2 days.

5

9

40 year old Plastic Surgeon with Stage 4 Cancer Shares his regrets

5

10

Reddit: Coder Heya, bringing programming guides & references together.

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

My life as a Git

80

2

Bootup.js - cache and load static files from local storage

41

3

Google Drive CMS

38

4

Kage shadows production traffic to QA servers

28

5

HNotify.py: be notified when the time is good to post on Hacker News

26

6

NodeJS Runtime for Chrome

7

7

Linotype: Letterpress game engine for Ruby

6

8

Source Code of "VP8 - WebM JavaScript Decoder for every browser" is online

6

9

Windows 8 Settings UI Animation in jQuery

6

10

Romney Contribution Page uses jQuery flipCounter with Hardcoded Values

5

Wikipedia [?]

1

Illegal Numbers

179

2

38

3

Mercury-Redstone 1 - The four inch flight

36

4

National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

6

5

4

6

The Salyut 3 station was equipped with a "self-defence" gun

4

7

XOR swap algorithm

2

8

The Matthew Effect

2

9

Genetic Algorithm: Randomly generate algorithms, then evolve them

1

10

1

Blogs [?]

1

Great Hackers (2004)

66

2

Kevin Rose: What I Learned Building a Product Team

20

3

The only metric that matters

9

4

What I Learned Building LittleIpsum

5

5

Paul Graham on presidential elections: It's Charisma Stupid [2004/2006]

2

6

The Other Road Ahead (2001)

2

7

Kevin Rose: What I Learned Building a Product Team

2

8

Three Fundraising Tips From Branch's Seed Round

2

9

What I Learned Building Medium (So Far)

2

10

How To Disagree (refresher)

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is printing to stdout so slow?

5

2

What's the Best way to create Javascript Classes?

5

3

C++ - Regular cast vs. static_cast vs. dynamic_cast

3

4

Using jQuery in the console

2

5

Why is JDK sourcecode designed like this?

2

6

Cannot detect when outgoing call is answered in Android

2

7

Which branch to select for rebasing?

1

8

Cannot detect when outgoing call is answered in Android

1

9

Databinding in angularjs

1

10

Scope - JavaScript closures vs. anonymous functions

1

Substack [?]