top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-01

Stop the E-Parasite Act

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/stop-e-parasite-act/SWBYXX55

15 years ago

407 upvotes – 82 comments

I am a programmer

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/I+am+a+programmer

15 years ago

337 upvotes – 122 comments

Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3181796

15 years ago

310 upvotes – 294 comments

Khan Academy: Computer Science

http://www.khanacademy.org/#computer-science

15 years ago

307 upvotes – 181 comments

Gmail’s new look

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/gmails-new-look.html

15 years ago

298 upvotes – 142 comments

Introducing GitHub Enterprise

https://github.com/blog/978-introducing-github-enterprise

15 years ago

284 upvotes – 101 comments

SciRuby

http://sciruby.com/

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 61 comments

White House responds to Patent Petition

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/response/promoting-innovation-and-competitive-markets-through-quality-patents

15 years ago

206 upvotes – 107 comments

Racism in Tech

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/11/racism-in-tech.html

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 181 comments

Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Hacktivists

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/report-anonymous-cancels-operation-cartel.php

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 155 comments

The inside story of how Microsoft killed its Courier tablet (Part 1)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20128013-75/the-inside-story-of-how-microsoft-killed-its-courier-tablet

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 114 comments

Paul Graham's long-lost 2006 Infogami essay, "Startup Names"

http://messymatters.com/pgnames.html

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 65 comments

Storing hundreds of millions of simple key-value pairs in Redis

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/12202313862/storing-hundreds-of-millions-of-key-value-pairs-in

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 54 comments

Software Patent Abolition Petition

http://wh.gov/bbn

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 40 comments

OpenBSD 5.0 Released

http://www.openbsd.org/50.html

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 49 comments

The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos

http://daringfireball.net/2011/11/companies_that_publish_concept_videos

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 74 comments

The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exchange

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/5063-the-power-of-google-how-the-panda-update-hit-experts-exchange.html

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 85 comments

Incoming: A Native Gmail iPhone App. Finally.

http://parislemon.com/post/12181169812/incoming-a-native-gmail-iphone-app-finally

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 65 comments

Startup School 2011 videos

http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos?2011

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

SpiderMonkey is on a diet

http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/11/01/spidermonkey-is-on-a-diet/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 7 comments

If all Rejection Letters could be so nice...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180243

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 51 comments

I'm a serial over committer

http://swanson.github.com/blog/2011/11/02/engineering-over-under.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

HP's new ARM-based Servers

http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/iss/110111.aspx

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 70 comments

What happened to CouchDB's popularity?

http://www.google.com/trends?q=MongoDB%2C+couchDB

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 75 comments

MagLev - Transparent, distributed object space for Ruby

http://maglev.github.com/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: WikiMaze

http://www.wikimaze.me

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

Getting Started with Python - Installing Packages

http://craigkerstiens.com/2011/11/01/installingpythonpackages/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Why AUR is part of the Arch Linux Success

http://www.nicosphere.net/why-aur-is-part-of-the-arch-linux-success-2529/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3181801

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 80 comments

The Ruby Reading List

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1759889

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 12 comments

An Inside Look at how a VC Evaluates Startups Pt. II

http://blog.thomvest.com/vcevaluatingstartupsii/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 3 comments

Composer: NPM-like package management for PHP

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/composer_solves_the_php_code-sharing_problem/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

Jeremy Ashkenas's proposal for minimalist JS classes

https://gist.github.com/1329619

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments

The State Of Railway e-Ticketing In India

http://mindprince.blogspot.com/2011/10/state-of-railway-e-ticketing-in-india.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 52 comments

On Programming Deadlines

http://rdegges.com/on-programming-deadlines

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

IPhone 4S: Anandtech review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4971/apple-iphone-4s-review-att-verizon

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

Want to build and launch an app in a month?

http://hn.21times.org

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

Life inside a nuclear missile silo

http://www.theverge.com/culture/2011/11/1/2525857/2012-survival-condo-at-the-end-of-the-world

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Introducing Immutant - a true, enterprise-grade application server for Clojure

http://immutant.org/news/2011/11/01/announcing/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: I cannot afford to scale…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3181450

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 44 comments

Using Stripe to accept credit cards

http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2011/11/01/changing-your-stripes/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

G1 Garbage Collection JVM7 - Big Performance Problems Shown

http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2011/11/comparing-java-7-garbage-collectors.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 27 comments

A New Phylogeny of the Mammals

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/a-new-phylogeny-of-the-mammals/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 3 comments

Stacked views lib for iPad (as in Twitter's app)

https://github.com/steipete/PSStackedView

15 years ago

★ 1.9k Objective-C
46 upvotes – 4 comments
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