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1.SteamMachines (steampowered.com)
514 points by cheald on Sept 25, 2013 | 287 comments
2.The shittiest project I ever worked on (plover.com)
501 points by m0nastic on Sept 25, 2013 | 181 comments
3.Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup (natbat.net)
324 points by simonw on Sept 25, 2013 | 32 comments
4.VLC 2.1.0 (videolan.org)
282 points by jbk on Sept 25, 2013 | 142 comments
5.Solved By Flexbox – Cleaner, hack-free CSS (philipwalton.github.io)
259 points by philipwalton on Sept 25, 2013 | 91 comments
6.Show HN: Drawingboard.js (leimi.github.io)
233 points by manuhabitela on Sept 25, 2013 | 64 comments
7.Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves' (theguardian.com)
214 points by yapcguy on Sept 25, 2013 | 140 comments
8.EasyJet refuses to let columnist on board for sending critical tweet (thedrum.com)
201 points by r0h1n on Sept 25, 2013 | 145 comments
9.One-electron universe (wikipedia.org)
192 points by agentzebra on Sept 25, 2013 | 99 comments
10.Myst Online: Uru Live Again (mystonline.com)
189 points by evolve2k on Sept 25, 2013 | 80 comments
11.World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency (phys.org)
177 points by X4 on Sept 25, 2013 | 123 comments
12.What's the Most Concave State in the U.S.? Using R to Solve a Geography Puzzle (rapgenius.com)
177 points by lil_tee on Sept 25, 2013 | 57 comments
13.SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices v1.3 (ssllabs.com)
152 points by ivanr on Sept 25, 2013 | 37 comments
14.What happened to Google Alerts? (gwern.net)
151 points by gwern on Sept 25, 2013 | 39 comments
15.There's a coffeeshop called java.update() in GTA V (orcz.com)
148 points by c2prods on Sept 25, 2013 | 77 comments
16.Large patent holders hate this reform proposal. That’s a good sign (washingtonpost.com)
142 points by tareqak on Sept 25, 2013 | 41 comments
17.Create an algorithm to distinguish dogs from cats (kaggle.com)
135 points by willis77 on Sept 25, 2013 | 73 comments

So, this is our new major release, and I'm going to share some stuff that should fit better the audience here on HN, and that are not part of the main announcement :)

First, this is a release that fixes some important architecture mistakes we've done in 2.0.x branch of VLC. I'm notably speaking of the lag in reactivity, notably on volume change (that was shared on the mpv thread) and seeking, but also some grave video settings propagation. I wish we could have fixed and shipped that earlier, but we couldn't (long release cycle).

Then, this is the first official release of libVLC that is LGPL for most of what you need as a developer, including the right modules. SDKs for Win32/64, MacOSX, iOS and Android are getting ready.

If you are a web developer, our VLC plugin now supports Windowless, to fill the gap between Flash and HTML5 (it should work on IE6,7,8 without too much work).

If you are on Mac OS, the interface is finally polished after the major changes of 2.0.0 :)

Finally, we decided, as a community that we will accelerate the major release cycle of VLC. The fact that we needed 1,5 year to get the fix to some critical audio core and video settings issues out is way too much. We will move towards a 6-months schedule with LTS.

Sure, there are other very good players on each platform, but we are doing our best so that you can play everything everywhere for free, using open source technologies :)

19.Surface Blades – true innovation from Microsoft (betanews.com)
130 points by NZ_Matt on Sept 25, 2013 | 107 comments
20.Say Hello to Rick Ross (esquire.com)
127 points by kitcar on Sept 25, 2013 | 69 comments
21.It's time to take into account the dates on the Android app average rating (medium.com/p)
124 points by fesja on Sept 25, 2013 | 33 comments
22.FBI vexsome filer list (muckrock.com)
124 points by aw3c2 on Sept 25, 2013 | 56 comments
23.Move over Bootstrap and Foundation, welcome Semantic UI (coderwall.com)
120 points by bitsweet on Sept 25, 2013 | 55 comments
24.Gnome 3.10 Release Notes (gnome.org)
109 points by bkor on Sept 25, 2013 | 100 comments
25.Amazon unveils a trio of new Kindle Fire tablets (cnet.com)
108 points by healsdata on Sept 25, 2013 | 61 comments
26.Vim PDF Documentation (nathangrigg.net)
104 points by chris_wot on Sept 25, 2013 | 53 comments
27.Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, Part 1 (hypirion.com)
106 points by llambda on Sept 25, 2013 | 23 comments
28.iOS 7 Tech Talks (developer.apple.com)
106 points by dcope on Sept 25, 2013 | 29 comments
29.AMD Introduces "Mantle" API Initiative (hardwarezone.com.sg)
101 points by jobstijl on Sept 25, 2013 | 47 comments

I believe that you will find this interesting...

https://www.google.com/patents/US8241126

Video game controller having user swappable control components

Original Assignee: Valve Corporation

Abstract:

A game controller is provided. One or more main control input interfaces on the game controller consist of generalized sockets. A variety of modular input interfaces can be plugged into these sockets. Hardware specific to the input type of the modular input is contained within the modular input itself, and plugged in via an interface. This allows for dual analog sticks, a combination of analog and trackball, or further any combination of touchpad, directional pad, or additional components.


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