Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2011-10-08login
Stories from October 8, 2011
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1.German Chaos Computer Club analyzes and releases government malware (ccc.de)
360 points by venti on Oct 8, 2011 | 65 comments
2.Time to fork the FSF (larrythefreesoftwareguy.wordpress.com)
345 points by pjhyett on Oct 8, 2011 | 323 comments
3."He offered the Apple II to Atari... we said no. No thank you." (gamasutra.com)
269 points by doomlaser on Oct 8, 2011 | 55 comments
4.Redditor burnt by Paypal's "Rolling Reserve" feature (reddit.com)
250 points by mwill on Oct 8, 2011 | 58 comments
5.The Man Who Inspired Jobs (nytimes.com)
246 points by wallflower on Oct 8, 2011 | 17 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Insider Trading on War (archive.is)
17 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 5 days ago | archive
6.Chrome Remote Desktop extension by Google (chrome.google.com)
240 points by patrickaljord on Oct 8, 2011 | 36 comments
7.Nobody Cares (bhorowitz.com)
231 points by timf on Oct 8, 2011 | 40 comments
8.Vimroom (mikewest.org)
167 points by drKarl on Oct 8, 2011 | 38 comments
9.Show HN: My network connection monitor for Mac (radiosilenceapp.com)
146 points by aparadja on Oct 8, 2011 | 77 comments
10.PyPy's future directions (lostinjit.blogspot.com)
145 points by jemeshsu on Oct 8, 2011 | 18 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Populism (kwokchain.com)
7 min read | by Kevin | saved 392 days ago | 26% read | archive
11.HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months (nextbigfuture.com)
140 points by peritpatrio on Oct 8, 2011 | 54 comments
12.Ask HN: What data structure does our brain use?
135 points by Aarvay on Oct 8, 2011 | 78 comments
13.Hiding your data in plain sight: USB hardware hiding (thice.nl)
133 points by chaosmachine on Oct 8, 2011 | 29 comments
14.ISPs "exaggerate the cost of data" (pcpro.co.uk)
110 points by pwg on Oct 8, 2011 | 46 comments
15.Hereโ€™s To The Crazy One (techcrunch.com)
99 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 8, 2011 | 16 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Kalshi Found Some Insider Traders (archive.is)
18 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 5 days ago | archive
16.EU Green Party adopts the Pirate Party's position on copyright (greens-efa.eu)
96 points by sp332 on Oct 8, 2011 | 13 comments
17.Tell HN: Dear 'open source' people (on defending rms)
94 points by emilsedgh on Oct 8, 2011 | 38 comments
18.An Annoying Open Problem (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
93 points by wglb on Oct 8, 2011 | 14 comments
19.Lessons Steve Jobs Taught Guy Kawasaki (svb.com)
92 points by flipside on Oct 8, 2011 | 8 comments
20.Pre-orders are scams according to Paypal (xenonauts.com)
81 points by dmak on Oct 8, 2011 | 52 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Productivity advice (zhengdongwang.com)
40 min read | by Zhengdong Wang | saved 67 days ago | archive
21.Google+ as your blog (using G+ API) (minimali.se)
80 points by jaynate on Oct 8, 2011 | 24 comments
22.Steve Jobs: Photo Booth 2005 (facebook.com)
76 points by sinzone on Oct 8, 2011 | 3 comments
23.Google Analytics blog integrates Mixpanel analytics (skitch.com)
73 points by notknifescience on Oct 8, 2011 | 19 comments
24.Ruby and The Principle of Unwelcome Surprise (twoticketsplease.de)
66 points by mkorfmann on Oct 8, 2011 | 28 comments
25.Steve Jobs: โ€œTechnology Alone Is Not Enoughโ€ (newyorker.com)
64 points by mdariani on Oct 8, 2011 | 14 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Fake Cancer Doctor Insider Trading (archive.ph)
13 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 45 days ago | archive
26.Stallman: GPL ramifications and purpose (groups.google.com)
52 points by alrs on Oct 8, 2011 | 17 comments
27.Robot: I Now Have Common Sense. Engineer: Great, Go Fetch Me a Sandwich (singularityhub.com)
51 points by ph0rque on Oct 8, 2011 | 25 comments
28.Apple Files Patent for In-App Purchases (tomsguide.com)
44 points by grellas on Oct 8, 2011 | 28 comments
29.100,000,000 million places of ฯ€ in just under 10 minutes (with Python) (craig-wood.com)
41 points by reidrac on Oct 8, 2011 | 10 comments
30.Xsb prolog as replacement for yacc (and haskell/ml) (sunysb.edu)
40 points by marshallp on Oct 8, 2011 | 4 comments
๐Ÿ“š. The AI Whateverpocalypse Trade (archive.is)
18 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 5 days ago | 4% read | archive

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: