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October 2012 Archive
1.
Outlawed by Amazon DRM (bekkelund.net)
1445 points by paulsilver on Oct 22, 2012 | 479 comments
2.
The Future of Markdown (codinghorror.com)
877 points by dko on Oct 25, 2012 | 328 comments
3.
Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers (jwz.org)
688 points by icey on Oct 11, 2012 | 96 comments
4.
HN Spoof (us2.campaign-archive1.com)
681 points by norswap on Oct 6, 2012 | 82 comments
5.
Tell HN: Let's Be Civil
671 points by raganwald on Oct 27, 2012 | 138 comments
6.
Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution (plus.google.com)
633 points by orjan on Oct 31, 2012 | 327 comments
7.
Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes (googleblog.blogspot.com)
603 points by cleverjake on Oct 29, 2012 | 456 comments
8.
Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others (status.aws.amazon.com)
602 points by fredoliveira on Oct 22, 2012 | 295 comments
9.
Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com)
590 points by ashishgandhi on Oct 10, 2012 | 119 comments
10.
Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on. (apple.com)
588 points by sjtgraham on Oct 5, 2012 | 194 comments
11.
Xkcd style graphs (mathematica.stackexchange.com)
585 points by bussetta on Oct 1, 2012 | 51 comments
12.
The Most Revealing Job Interview Question (refer.ly)
578 points by kevin_morrill on Oct 4, 2012 | 235 comments
13.
Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket (blog.bitbucket.org)
569 points by weslly on Oct 9, 2012 | 286 comments
14.
Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org (thenextweb.com)
526 points by feronull on Oct 8, 2012 | 159 comments
15.
Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong (foundersatwork.com)
518 points by nswanberg on Oct 25, 2012 | 88 comments
16.
Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it (ektomarch.com)
515 points by fiblye on Oct 22, 2012 | 145 comments
17.
How cork is made (wineanorak.com)
514 points by shawndumas on Oct 18, 2012 | 120 comments
18.
Chrome DevTools could do that? (igvita.com)
514 points by lysol on Oct 4, 2012 | 74 comments
19.
The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't (mina.naguib.ca)
508 points by LiveTheDream on Oct 28, 2012 | 63 comments
20.
Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups (blog.ryankearney.com)
501 points by RKearney on Oct 6, 2012 | 169 comments
21.
Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous? (npr.org)
491 points by kaffeinecoma on Oct 3, 2012 | 118 comments
22.
Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data (alpha.app.net)
478 points by morewillie on Oct 9, 2012 | 125 comments
23.
How a Google Headhunter’s E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole (wired.com)
477 points by trendspotter on Oct 24, 2012 | 101 comments
24.
TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development (typescriptlang.org)
474 points by D_Guidi on Oct 1, 2012 | 298 comments
25.
Scott Forstall leaves Apple (apple.com)
470 points by FredericJ on Oct 29, 2012 | 313 comments
26.
Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. (thewaltdisneycompany.com)
470 points by antr on Oct 30, 2012 | 290 comments
27.
Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office (techcrunch.com)
464 points by hornbaker on Oct 23, 2012 | 212 comments
28.
Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app (selfstarter.us)
463 points by ccamrobertson on Oct 11, 2012 | 74 comments
29.
No, I still don't want to work for Google (infotrope.net)
460 points by chris_wot on Oct 29, 2012 | 396 comments
30.
Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
459 points by tomse on Oct 18, 2012 | 87 comments