Hacker News on 18 October 2012

• How cork is made
• Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”?
• New $250 Chromebook
• Free Flag Icons
• Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available
• Jon Stewart: Lower entrepreneurial risk
• Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released
• Such a Little Thing: The Semicolon in Rust
• Interview with creator of Nginx, Igor Sysoev
• Rails 4.0 Whirlwind Tour Presentation