Archives available for: 2011   2012   2013   2014   2015   2016   2017   2018   2019   2020   2021   2022   2023   2024   2025   2026   (Top of all Time)

Select Month for 2026: Jan   Feb   Mar   Apr   May   Jun   (Top of 2026)  

Top of Month - Oct 2012

1. Outlawed by Amazon DRM
   (22 Oct 2012 | 1445 points | Comments)

2. The Future of Markdown
   (25 Oct 2012 | 877 points | Comments)

3. Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers
   (11 Oct 2012 | 688 points | Comments)

4. HN Spoof
   (6 Oct 2012 | 681 points | Comments)

5. Tell HN: Let's Be Civil
   (27 Oct 2012 | 671 points | Comments)

6. Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution
   (31 Oct 2012 | 633 points | Comments)

7. Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes
   (29 Oct 2012 | 603 points | Comments)

8. Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others
   (22 Oct 2012 | 602 points | Comments)

9. Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
   (10 Oct 2012 | 590 points | Comments)

10. Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.
    (5 Oct 2012 | 588 points | Comments)

11. Xkcd style graphs
    (1 Oct 2012 | 585 points | Comments)

12. The Most Revealing Job Interview Question
    (4 Oct 2012 | 578 points | Comments)

13. Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket
    (9 Oct 2012 | 569 points | Comments)

14. Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org
    (8 Oct 2012 | 526 points | Comments)

15. Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
    (25 Oct 2012 | 518 points | Comments)

16. Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
    (22 Oct 2012 | 515 points | Comments)

17. Chrome DevTools could do that?
    (4 Oct 2012 | 514 points | Comments)

18. How cork is made
    (18 Oct 2012 | 514 points | Comments)

19. The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't
    (28 Oct 2012 | 508 points | Comments)

20. Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups
    (6 Oct 2012 | 501 points | Comments)

21. Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous?
    (3 Oct 2012 | 491 points | Comments)

22. Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data
    (9 Oct 2012 | 478 points | Comments)

23. How a Google Headhunter’s E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole
    (24 Oct 2012 | 477 points | Comments)

24. TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development
    (1 Oct 2012 | 474 points | Comments)

25. Scott Forstall leaves Apple
    (29 Oct 2012 | 470 points | Comments)

26. Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.
    (30 Oct 2012 | 470 points | Comments)

27. Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office
    (23 Oct 2012 | 464 points | Comments)

28. Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app
    (11 Oct 2012 | 463 points | Comments)

29. No, I still don't want to work for Google
    (29 Oct 2012 | 460 points | Comments)

30. Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”?
    (18 Oct 2012 | 459 points | Comments)

31. The Hardware Renaissance
    (23 Oct 2012 | 455 points | Comments)

32. Anatomy of a Hoax (Sony Nexus phone)
    (19 Oct 2012 | 451 points | Comments)

33. Some advice from Jeff Bezos
    (19 Oct 2012 | 449 points | Comments)

34. Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting
    (21 Oct 2012 | 433 points | Comments)

35. Hacker News Data Analysis
    (17 Oct 2012 | 430 points | Comments)

36. New $250 Chromebook
    (18 Oct 2012 | 423 points | Comments)

37. Things I Learned From Founding Technology Companies
    (6 Oct 2012 | 420 points | Comments)

38. Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?
    (4 Oct 2012 | 414 points | Comments)

39. UsesThis: Rob Pike
    (24 Oct 2012 | 411 points | Comments)

40. The most dangerous code in the world
    (24 Oct 2012 | 406 points | Comments)

41. A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space
    (15 Oct 2012 | 402 points | Comments)

42. Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
    (12 Oct 2012 | 399 points | Comments)

43. An Update from Elon Musk
    (4 Oct 2012 | 380 points | Comments)

44. The State of JavaScript - Brendan Eich
    (9 Oct 2012 | 380 points | Comments)

45. My experience with WPEngine
    (24 Oct 2012 | 373 points | Comments)

46. Infinite Gangnam Style
    (28 Oct 2012 | 373 points | Comments)

47. Racism at a gaming company
    (2 Oct 2012 | 368 points | Comments)

48. North Carolina teacher's resignation letter
    (29 Oct 2012 | 367 points | Comments)

49. Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander?
    (15 Oct 2012 | 364 points | Comments)

50. Be nice to programmers
    (9 Oct 2012 | 361 points | Comments)

51. Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT
    (27 Oct 2012 | 361 points | Comments)

52. Programmer Competency Matrix
    (8 Oct 2012 | 360 points | Comments)

53. The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company
    (23 Oct 2012 | 360 points | Comments)

54. If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This
    (12 Oct 2012 | 356 points | Comments)

55. Do you really want to be making this much money when you're 50?
    (6 Oct 2012 | 355 points | Comments)

56. Restoration of defocused and blurred images
    (21 Oct 2012 | 354 points | Comments)

57. Small
    (19 Oct 2012 | 351 points | Comments)

58. Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage
    (5 Oct 2012 | 345 points | Comments)

59. Zynga stock plummets below value of its cash and real estate
    (10 Oct 2012 | 343 points | Comments)

60. Zip Bomb
    (5 Oct 2012 | 342 points | Comments)

61. Codeq
    (10 Oct 2012 | 339 points | Comments)

62. The island where people forget to die
    (24 Oct 2012 | 332 points | Comments)

63. Simplify your life with an SSH config file
    (20 Oct 2012 | 330 points | Comments)

64. Lockitron: Keyless entry using your phone
    (2 Oct 2012 | 329 points | Comments)

65. GitLab, open source github clone, reaches 3.0
    (23 Oct 2012 | 328 points | Comments)

66. Online Python Tutor: Learn programming by visualizing code execution
    (2 Oct 2012 | 325 points | Comments)

67. SpaceX update: The engine did not explode
    (8 Oct 2012 | 325 points | Comments)

68. When A Daughter Dies
    (21 Oct 2012 | 324 points | Comments)

69. My son is schizophrenic. The ‘reforms’ that I worked for have worsened his life.
    (16 Oct 2012 | 322 points | Comments)

70. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end patent wars
    (17 Oct 2012 | 321 points | Comments)

71. Skydiver shatters world record with 24-mile leap
    (14 Oct 2012 | 320 points | Comments)

72. The lactose-tolerance mutation
    (29 Oct 2012 | 319 points | Comments)

73. The Magazine
    (11 Oct 2012 | 317 points | Comments)

74. How I’m Making Five-Figures A Month Off Bootstrapped Products
    (13 Oct 2012 | 317 points | Comments)

75. How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others
    (23 Oct 2012 | 317 points | Comments)

76. Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago
    (17 Oct 2012 | 316 points | Comments)

77. XKCD-style charts with D3
    (19 Oct 2012 | 307 points | Comments)

78. Free Flag Icons
    (18 Oct 2012 | 304 points | Comments)

79. Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS
    (30 Oct 2012 | 304 points | Comments)

80. Killing Your Startup on a Thursday Night
    (28 Oct 2012 | 303 points | Comments)

81. The game of life emulated in the game of life
    (12 Oct 2012 | 300 points | Comments)

82. How I automated the boring parts of life
    (24 Oct 2012 | 294 points | Comments)

83. Amazon reopen wiped Kindle account
    (23 Oct 2012 | 293 points | Comments)

84. US Air Force’s 1950s supersonic flying saucer declassified
    (8 Oct 2012 | 291 points | Comments)

85. Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota
    (19 Oct 2012 | 291 points | Comments)

86. What can I do for Mozilla?
    (10 Oct 2012 | 290 points | Comments)

87. Stripe Button (beta)
    (9 Oct 2012 | 289 points | Comments)

88. If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down
    (23 Oct 2012 | 289 points | Comments)

89. Introducing the new compose in Gmail
    (30 Oct 2012 | 288 points | Comments)

90. Software architecture cheat sheet
    (4 Oct 2012 | 287 points | Comments)

91. Surprisingly undervalued books
    (14 Oct 2012 | 285 points | Comments)

92. The Horrible Future of Social
    (30 Oct 2012 | 285 points | Comments)

93. Startup School 2012 Videos
    (25 Oct 2012 | 284 points | Comments)

94. RIP Hans Camenzind, Inventor Of The 555 Timer
    (8 Oct 2012 | 280 points | Comments)

95. Mastering Linear Algebra in 10 Days: Astounding Experiments in Ultra-Learning
    (26 Oct 2012 | 280 points | Comments)

96. Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech
    (15 Oct 2012 | 279 points | Comments)

97. The Pirate Bay in the cloud
    (17 Oct 2012 | 279 points | Comments)

98. Facebook, I want my friends back
    (24 Oct 2012 | 279 points | Comments)

99. Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine
    (15 Oct 2012 | 277 points | Comments)

100. Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"
     (25 Oct 2012 | 277 points | Comments)