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Stories from October 23, 2012
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1. The Hardware Renaissance (paulgraham.com)
455 points by nqureshi on Oct 23, 2012 | 206 comments
2. The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company (asmartbear.com)
360 points by yannickmahe on Oct 23, 2012 | 129 comments
3. GitLab, open source github clone, reaches 3.0 (gitlabhq.com)
328 points by georgebashi on Oct 23, 2012 | 100 comments
4. How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others (wired.com)
317 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 23, 2012 | 103 comments
5. Amazon reopen wiped Kindle account (translate.google.com)
293 points by EwanToo on Oct 23, 2012 | 150 comments
6. If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down (joyent.com)
289 points by chillax on Oct 23, 2012 | 164 comments
7. Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should upgrade from Windows 7 (extremetech.com)
274 points by evo_9 on Oct 23, 2012 | 179 comments
8. iPad mini (apple.com)
262 points by k33l0r on Oct 23, 2012 | 343 comments
9. USPTO invalidates Apple's "rubber-banding" patent asserted against Samsung (appleinsider.com)
216 points by srathi on Oct 23, 2012 | 85 comments
10. Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5 (talkweb.eu)
182 points by dbcooper on Oct 23, 2012 | 106 comments
11. Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released (phoronix.com)
176 points by Garbage on Oct 23, 2012 | 91 comments
12. Redis 2.6.0 Released (redis.io)
174 points by johns on Oct 23, 2012 | 24 comments
13. Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient (idonethis.com)
161 points by mikesun on Oct 23, 2012 | 42 comments
14. Rubular - a Ruby regular expression editor (rubular.com)
161 points by arb99 on Oct 23, 2012 | 36 comments
15. Increasing wireless network speed by 1000%, by replacing packets with algebra (extremetech.com)
153 points by o1iver on Oct 23, 2012 | 42 comments
16. Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA’s Former Lobbying Firm (torrentfreak.com)
141 points by evo_9 on Oct 23, 2012 | 34 comments
17. New theory may explain the notorious cold fusion experiment from two decades ago (discovermagazine.com)
136 points by suprgeek on Oct 23, 2012 | 33 comments
18. Don’t mess with IBM (cringely.com)
135 points by Toshio on Oct 23, 2012 | 96 comments
19. On facing two years for protesting Stop-and-Frisk (theneoprogressive.com)
102 points by cgarvis on Oct 23, 2012 | 15 comments
20. Google Drive desktop client requests login credentials only once (h-online.com)
100 points by vectorbunny on Oct 23, 2012 | 23 comments
21. Ceefax Final Broadcast: 'Goodbye, cruel world.' (h4ck.in)
96 points by laumars on Oct 23, 2012 | 36 comments
22. The maths that made Voyager possible (bbc.co.uk)
96 points by nekojima on Oct 23, 2012 | 27 comments
23. Memoto Lifelogging Camera (kickstarter.com)
83 points by hising on Oct 23, 2012 | 86 comments
24. Italy Orders Jail Terms for 7 Who Didn’t Warn of Deadly Earthquake (nytimes.com)
81 points by japhyr on Oct 23, 2012 | 18 comments
25. Brazil enacts new forest code (greenwood-management.com)
80 points by tigger on Oct 23, 2012 | 9 comments
26. Bandwidth breakthrough promises to boost bandwidth tenfold (technologyreview.com)
79 points by cpeterso on Oct 23, 2012 | 17 comments
27. Live video stream of the Apple special event online starting at 10:00 a.m. PDT. (apple.com)
77 points by macuenca on Oct 23, 2012 | 52 comments
28. Michael Arrington and MG Siegler Return to TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
77 points by ry0ohki on Oct 23, 2012 | 51 comments
29. Has AMD's Clock Run Out? (thirdyearmba.com)
72 points by dlevine on Oct 23, 2012 | 59 comments
30. Cloud Block Storage Now In Unlimited Availability (rackspace.com)
77 points by bretpiatt on Oct 23, 2012 | 33 comments

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