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Top of Month - Oct 2011

1. Steve Jobs has passed away.
   (5 Oct 2011 | 4338 points | Comments)

2. Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died
   (13 Oct 2011 | 1958 points | Comments)

3. A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
   (30 Oct 2011 | 1736 points | Comments)

4. John McCarthy Has Died
   (24 Oct 2011 | 1619 points | Comments)

5. Steve's Google Platform rant
   (12 Oct 2011 | 1196 points | Comments)

6. My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine
   (28 Oct 2011 | 1060 points | Comments)

7. Don't Call Yourself a Programmer
   (29 Oct 2011 | 1021 points | Comments)

8. Steve Jobs has died
   (5 Oct 2011 | 901 points | Comments)

9. Amit Gupta needs you
   (24 Oct 2011 | 886 points | Comments)

10. Apple RIP Logo design
    (6 Oct 2011 | 812 points | Comments)

11. Subtle Patterns: Free textures for your next web project
    (10 Oct 2011 | 801 points | Comments)

12. Daring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot
    (6 Oct 2011 | 749 points | Comments)

13. I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.
    (12 Oct 2011 | 745 points | Comments)

14. Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
    (11 Oct 2011 | 733 points | Comments)

15. Bitbucket now rocks Git
    (3 Oct 2011 | 726 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
    (17 Oct 2011 | 716 points | Comments)

17. We now have an effective vaccine for Malaria
    (19 Oct 2011 | 622 points | Comments)

18. 24 year old student lights match: Europe versus Facebook
    (18 Oct 2011 | 579 points | Comments)

19. Video: Quantum Levitation
    (18 Oct 2011 | 572 points | Comments)

20. The Steve Jobs I Knew
    (6 Oct 2011 | 571 points | Comments)

21. IOS 5's "Cleaning" Behavior
    (13 Oct 2011 | 568 points | Comments)

22. Lights
    (13 Oct 2011 | 567 points | Comments)

23. RIP, dmr
    (13 Oct 2011 | 565 points | Comments)

24. Photoshop 'unblur' leaves MAX audience gasping for air
    (11 Oct 2011 | 564 points | Comments)

25. Steve Yegge: Follow Up to His Accidentally Public Rant
    (21 Oct 2011 | 558 points | Comments)

26. Bill Gates on Steve Jobs
    (6 Oct 2011 | 549 points | Comments)

27. Codify: native coding environment for iPad
    (26 Oct 2011 | 545 points | Comments)

28. Dizzying but invisible depth
    (15 Oct 2011 | 541 points | Comments)

29. Wozniak remembers Steve Jobs
    (6 Oct 2011 | 537 points | Comments)

30. Give this company a child's drawing and they'll make it into a stuffed toy
    (24 Oct 2011 | 536 points | Comments)

31. Hacker News Front Page Snapshot from Last Night
    (7 Oct 2011 | 530 points | Comments)

32. Dart language
    (10 Oct 2011 | 527 points | Comments)

33. Time-zone database used by Unix shut down due to IP litigation
    (6 Oct 2011 | 509 points | Comments)

34. printf("goodbye, Dennis");
    (21 Oct 2011 | 497 points | Comments)

35. OpenClassroom: Free video courses from Stanford University
    (17 Oct 2011 | 492 points | Comments)

36. Protect IP Renamed E-Parasites Act; Would Create The Great Firewall Of America
    (26 Oct 2011 | 491 points | Comments)

37. Overtone
    (8 Oct 2011 | 487 points | Comments)

38. Colbert tribute to Steve Jobs
    (7 Oct 2011 | 482 points | Comments)

39. President Obama on Steve Jobs: "He Changed the Way Each of Us Sees the World"
    (6 Oct 2011 | 479 points | Comments)

40. 0day vulnerability full disclosure: American Express
    (6 Oct 2011 | 479 points | Comments)

41. Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 years of my life on
    (7 Oct 2011 | 475 points | Comments)

42. The State of the Art is Terrible
    (3 Oct 2011 | 462 points | Comments)

43. FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post
    (3 Oct 2011 | 455 points | Comments)

44. Photojojo, Jelly founder needs bone marrow match to save his life
    (7 Oct 2011 | 454 points | Comments)

45. Signs that you are a bad programmer
    (19 Oct 2011 | 450 points | Comments)

46. Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
    (27 Oct 2011 | 450 points | Comments)

47. Hacker News Needs Honeypots
    (28 Oct 2011 | 450 points | Comments)

48. Businessweek Magazine's Classy Tribute to Steve Jobs
    (9 Oct 2011 | 443 points | Comments)

49. List.js
    (20 Oct 2011 | 441 points | Comments)

50. TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API
    (18 Oct 2011 | 440 points | Comments)

51. Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents.
    (21 Oct 2011 | 440 points | Comments)

52. Jwz: Google's pseudonym support "obvious bullshit"
    (20 Oct 2011 | 438 points | Comments)

53. Nest - The Learning Thermostat
    (25 Oct 2011 | 430 points | Comments)

54. Dave Winer: Why I stand up for Stallman
    (31 Oct 2011 | 423 points | Comments)

55. Flash Game Simulates Living on $9/hr.
    (4 Oct 2011 | 421 points | Comments)

56. GitHub open sources Hubot (chat bot)
    (25 Oct 2011 | 420 points | Comments)

57. Steve Jobs Book Excerpt: Why he wore the black mock turtleneck uniform
    (11 Oct 2011 | 419 points | Comments)

58. Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?
    (28 Oct 2011 | 419 points | Comments)

59. Facebook claims it does not track users, but files patent to do same
    (2 Oct 2011 | 409 points | Comments)

60. How to hire an idiot
    (23 Oct 2011 | 407 points | Comments)

61. Bjarne Stroustrup on Dennis Ritchie: They said it couldn't be done, & he did it
    (13 Oct 2011 | 402 points | Comments)

62. Google Wave and the mythical man month
    (12 Oct 2011 | 398 points | Comments)

63. Python Requests: HTTP for Humans
    (10 Oct 2011 | 397 points | Comments)

64. RIP, Dennis Ritchie, Father of Unix and C
    (13 Oct 2011 | 395 points | Comments)

65. Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apache license)
    (27 Oct 2011 | 395 points | Comments)

66. Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for Steve Jobs?
    (6 Oct 2011 | 392 points | Comments)

67. Ubuntu 11.10 Released (Online Tour)
    (13 Oct 2011 | 392 points | Comments)

68. The last time I saw Steve Jobs
    (13 Oct 2011 | 390 points | Comments)

69. Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS
    (26 Oct 2011 | 390 points | Comments)

70. Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area
    (25 Oct 2011 | 389 points | Comments)

71. 16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake
    (7 Oct 2011 | 386 points | Comments)

72. Netflix kills Qwikster
    (10 Oct 2011 | 384 points | Comments)

73. Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup
    (18 Oct 2011 | 384 points | Comments)

74. Starcraft 2 Automated Player
    (27 Oct 2011 | 381 points | Comments)

75. Stephen Wolfram on Steve Jobs: A Few Memories
    (6 Oct 2011 | 379 points | Comments)

76. Sergey Brin on Steve Jobs
    (6 Oct 2011 | 378 points | Comments)

77. Deep C
    (10 Oct 2011 | 375 points | Comments)

78. Serving at the Pleasure of the King
    (15 Oct 2011 | 375 points | Comments)

79. Richard Stallman’s rider
    (26 Oct 2011 | 373 points | Comments)

80. Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet
    (7 Oct 2011 | 369 points | Comments)

81. Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than
    (30 Oct 2011 | 367 points | Comments)

82. Tim Cook: "No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve's death"
    (6 Oct 2011 | 366 points | Comments)

83. Lead Bullets
    (25 Oct 2011 | 362 points | Comments)

84. Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Puzzle Claimed Solved by Special Relativity
    (14 Oct 2011 | 361 points | Comments)

85. German Chaos Computer Club analyzes and releases government malware
    (8 Oct 2011 | 360 points | Comments)

86. Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone
    (17 Oct 2011 | 360 points | Comments)

87. New HTTP Codes
    (20 Oct 2011 | 360 points | Comments)

88. Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video]
    (20 Oct 2011 | 356 points | Comments)

89. Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction
    (27 Oct 2011 | 356 points | Comments)

90. Larry Page on Steve Jobs
    (6 Oct 2011 | 354 points | Comments)

91. Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
    (21 Oct 2011 | 353 points | Comments)

92. 250x Speed Improvements with Microcaching (and No New Code)
    (13 Oct 2011 | 346 points | Comments)

93. Time to fork the FSF
    (8 Oct 2011 | 345 points | Comments)

94. Google Street View now includes interiors
    (26 Oct 2011 | 343 points | Comments)

95. How I live on $7,000 per year
    (14 Oct 2011 | 341 points | Comments)

96. Why We Moved Off The Cloud
    (27 Oct 2011 | 341 points | Comments)

97. Inserting Artificial Objects into Photographs
    (17 Oct 2011 | 339 points | Comments)

98. Thanks, Steve
    (6 Oct 2011 | 335 points | Comments)

99. I Think Your App Should Be Free
    (4 Oct 2011 | 334 points | Comments)

100. Jeff Atwood On Parenthood
     (24 Oct 2011 | 334 points | Comments)