top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-26

Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?

http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/google-and-microsoft-cheat-on-slow.html

16 years ago

437 upvotes – 67 comments

HN Office Hours

http://www.hnofficehours.com/

16 years ago

340 upvotes – 74 comments

U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More

http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/

16 years ago

172 upvotes – 72 comments

The Only OS X Shortcut You Need to Remember

http://adamwalters.info/post/1692256250/the-only-os-x-shortcut-you-need-to-remember

16 years ago

162 upvotes – 51 comments

Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts

http://code.google.com/p/fb-exporter/

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: What advice messed up your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1943547

16 years ago

131 upvotes – 238 comments

PyPy 1.4: Ouroboros in practice

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/11/pypy-14-ouroboros-in-practice.html

16 years ago

127 upvotes – 20 comments

23andMe for $99

https://www.23andme.com/

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 64 comments

BSD For Linux Users: Intro

http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

Lisk — Lisp and Haskell

http://chrisdone.com/posts/2010-11-25-lisk-lisp-haskell.html

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

This (very basic) website is hosted on an alarm clock

http://kwf.dyndns.org:5821/

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Implementing a HTML5 canvas-based, tilt sensing snow globe

http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2010/11/building-a-canvas-snowglobe/

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

Bookmark Archives That Don't

http://pinboard.in/blog/153/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 16 comments

Sweet-expressions: A readable format for Lisp-like languages

http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/sweet-expressions.html

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 81 comments

Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

http://2010.igem.org/Team:Hong_Kong-CUHK

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

15-minute writing exercise closes the gender gap in university-level physics

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/11/25/15-minute-writing-exercise-closes-the-gender-gap-in-university-level-physics/

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

Life in Text Mode

http://aperiodic.net/phil/archives/Geekery/text-mode-guerrilla.html

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 59 comments

Are You Vitamin D Deficient? (Infographic)

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/vitamin-d/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 40 comments

Court affirms jail time for Pirate Bay founders

http://www.thelocal.se/30454/20101126/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 151 comments

OCR by uploading images to Google Docs

http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=176692

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

7M Downloads: Why Angry Birds Is Free on Android

http://phandroid.com/2010/11/26/rovio-over-7-million-people-helping-those-angry-birds-out-on-android-christmas-update-coming/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 45 comments

Imagine your computer as a wallet full of Bitcoins

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4697943

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

The Pirate Bay verdict: 4-10 months prison, SEK 46 million in damages (Swedish)

http://www.svea.se/templates/DV_Press____21065.aspx

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 25 comments

Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a while to load)

http://syntensity.com/static/lua.html

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Buy This Satellite

http://buythissatellite.org/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

Stephan Wolfram: 100 Years Since Principia Mathematica

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2010/11/100-years-since-principia-mathematica/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 37 comments

Screw it – Travelling and not arriving

http://diotalevi.com/2010/11/26/screw-it/

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 27 comments

RubyDrop - A Ruby-based Dropbox clone that uses Git as a backend

https://github.com/meltingice/RubyDrop

16 years ago

★ 124 Ruby BSD-3-Clause
55 upvotes – 19 comments

Follow people on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941631

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments

Danish researchers finally solve the obesity riddle

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-danish-obesity-riddle.html

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 23 comments

How do I install Arc to get a Hacker News clone website?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4285617/how-do-i-install-arc-to-get-a-hacker-news-clone-website

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

C#'s Greatest Mistakes by Jon Skeet

http://oredev.org/2010/sessions/c-s-greatest-mistakes

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: Tell me about your hacker space. (I'm building one in Beijing.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941408

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 29 comments

Ruby Stdlib is a Ghetto, Pt. 2

http://www.mikeperham.com/2010/11/25/ruby-stdlib-is-a-ghetto-pt-2/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 14 comments

Digging Deeper with htracr: HTTP & TCP visualisation

http://www.mnot.net/blog/2010/11/27/htracr

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 0 comments

Simple and fast file sharing with ge.tt

http://ge.tt/

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 28 comments

The Pragmatic Bookshelf 40% Black Friday Sale

http://www.pragprog.com/

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 15 comments

Who Wants Parallel Computers?

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/who-wants-parallel-computers/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 19 comments

London's high-tech start-ups: Silicon Roundabout

http://www.economist.com/node/17581635?story_id=17581635&fsrc=rss

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 31 comments

If you can read this you are very lucky

http://www.ahumanright.org/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 35 comments
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