Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2013-10-02 login
Stories from October 2, 2013
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1. Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show (wired.com)
592 points by inglesp on Oct 2, 2013 | 250 comments
2. Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by conversation (slate.com)
472 points by kumarski on Oct 2, 2013 | 276 comments
3. HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla (gemal.dk)
373 points by robin_reala on Oct 2, 2013 | 176 comments
4. How to make $100k in Open Source by working hard (mikeperham.com)
316 points by trustfundbaby on Oct 2, 2013 | 93 comments
5. PostgreSQL Studio (postgresqlstudio.org)
276 points by moreati on Oct 2, 2013 | 94 comments
6. Patent Troll Lodsys Settles for Nothing to Avoid Trial (eff.org)
268 points by alxndr on Oct 2, 2013 | 73 comments
7. Criminal Complaint against Ross Ulbricht aka "Dread Pirate Roberts" [pdf] (krebsonsecurity.com)
268 points by tcoppi on Oct 2, 2013 | 142 comments
8. MTurk + Google News API = press (customerdevlabs.com)
267 points by langoff on Oct 2, 2013 | 111 comments
9. Mobile web design: The reign of morons, indeed (jwz.org)
217 points by protomyth on Oct 2, 2013 | 115 comments
10. Tom Clancy has died (businessinsider.com)
214 points by BruceM on Oct 2, 2013 | 85 comments
11. U.S. Opposes Tech Companies’ Requests to Disclose Surveillance (allthingsd.com)
220 points by inselkampf on Oct 2, 2013 | 83 comments
12. SQRL - Replacement for usernames and passwords (grc.com)
205 points by richardjs on Oct 2, 2013 | 131 comments
13. Nexus 5 to be first smartphone with MEMS camera (phonearena.com)
189 points by codelike on Oct 2, 2013 | 89 comments
14. Flutter (YC W12) acquired by Google (flutterapp.com)
164 points by DesaiAshu on Oct 2, 2013 | 24 comments
15. Ask HN: Did your YC (or other incubator) startup fail? What are you doing now?
151 points by andrewhillman on Oct 2, 2013 | 56 comments
16. Richard Stallman on the Painful Birth of GNU (computerworlduk.com)
137 points by Tsiolkovsky on Oct 2, 2013 | 41 comments
17. [dupe] The Bonehead Mistake That Brought Down an Online Drug-Dealing Empire (slate.com)
138 points by doh on Oct 2, 2013 | 74 comments
18. How to Design Great APIs [video] (parse.com)
134 points by csmajorfive on Oct 2, 2013 | 16 comments
19. AMD Posts A Horde Of New 3D GPU Documentation (phoronix.com)
121 points by samwilliams on Oct 2, 2013 | 36 comments
20. XMir postponed in Ubuntu (ubuntu.com)
117 points by ovis on Oct 2, 2013 | 110 comments
21. Microsoft brings 18-year-old game 'Hover' to browser (hover.ie)
117 points by hypr_geek on Oct 2, 2013 | 100 comments
22. Global celebration for the GNU System's 30th anniversary (fsf.org)
110 points by Tsiolkovsky on Oct 2, 2013 | 14 comments
23. Response of US Govt to Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and LinkedIn [pdf] (uscourts.gov)
104 points by rajbala on Oct 2, 2013 | 34 comments
24. NSA Storing Internet Data, Social Networking Data, on Pretty Much Everybody (schneier.com)
97 points by frrp on Oct 2, 2013 | 30 comments
25. MySQL is to SQL like MongoDB to NoSQL (use-the-index-luke.com)
97 points by geal on Oct 2, 2013 | 124 comments
26. California’s $327 million web site in operation (law.harvard.edu)
94 points by tjr on Oct 2, 2013 | 40 comments
27. RAML - RESTful API modeling language (raml.org)
94 points by DanI-S on Oct 2, 2013 | 55 comments
28. SimplyInsured (YC W13) raises $750K to simplify health insurance (venturebeat.com)
93 points by vivekajayshah on Oct 2, 2013 | 50 comments
29. Getting Meteor to 1.0 (meteor.com)
93 points by yaliceme on Oct 2, 2013 | 53 comments
30. The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (2009) (bitquabit.com)
85 points by sebkomianos on Oct 2, 2013 | 25 comments

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

Search: