top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-02

I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-for-an-ipad

15 years ago

634 upvotes – 338 comments

Don't Give Your Users Shit Work

http://zachholman.com/posts/shit-work/

15 years ago

410 upvotes – 112 comments

College has been oversold

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/11/college-has-been-oversold.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

299 upvotes – 239 comments

Dark Sky - Weather Prediction, Reinvented

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-hyperlocal-weather-prediction-and-visuali?

15 years ago

254 upvotes – 79 comments

The End of the Credit Card? New Square app: Card Case

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/11/card_case_the_new_payments_app_that_could_make_cash_and_plastic_.single.html

15 years ago

245 upvotes – 133 comments

Happy Birthday Vim, The Venerable Text Editor Turns 20

http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/11/happy-birthday-vim-the-venerable-text-editor-turns-20/

15 years ago

241 upvotes – 38 comments

The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/11/the-end-of-an-era-internet-explorer-drops-below-50-percent-of-web-usage.ars

15 years ago

238 upvotes – 89 comments

How Khan Academy is using machine learning to assess student mastery

http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-machine-learning-to-assess-student-mastery.html

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 46 comments

Carmack: Doom 3's engine ready for open-sourcing, awaiting 'OK' from legal

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/01/carmack-doom-3s-engine-ready-for-open-sourcing-awaiting-ok/?a_dgi=aolshare_twitter

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 90 comments

Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversary

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/two-decades-of-productivity-vims-20th-anniversary.ars

15 years ago

210 upvotes – 52 comments

Ring Counter Clock: still running after 40 years

http://www.jameco.com/Jameco/workshop/MyStory/ringcounterclock.html

15 years ago

208 upvotes – 33 comments

Underrated Features of PostgreSQL

http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com/2011/11/10-underrated-features-of-postgresql.html

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 49 comments

Evercube

http://evercu.be/

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 61 comments

Meet Korma, a SQL DSL for Clojure

http://sqlkorma.com

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 44 comments

Resume.io - Crazy-simple online resumes with impression tracking.

http://resume.io/

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 61 comments

Yahoo releases nodejs framework

http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2011/11/yahoo-announces-cocktails-%E2%80%93-shaken-not-stirred/

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 19 comments

Bootstrapping Design

http://bootstrappingdesign.com/

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 68 comments

Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/introducing-gmail-app-for-iphone-ipad.html

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 116 comments

Be nice. It's a fscking gift

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/be-nice-its-a-gift

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 37 comments

Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-build-2139

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 56 comments

Taking C Seriously

http://www.subfurther.com/blog/2011/11/01/taking-c-seriously/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 58 comments

Ex Google PM criticizes new Reader layout

http://brianshih.com/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 58 comments

Obliterate Startup Depression

http://www.humbledmba.com/obliterate-startup-depression

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 11 comments

Introducing Asana: The Modern Way to Work Together

http://blog.asana.com/2011/11/introducing-asana-the-modern-way-to-work-together/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 60 comments

Asteroid set to come closer to the Earth than the moon Nov. 8

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/yu55-20111025.html

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 72 comments

Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India

http://nainomics.blogspot.com/2011/11/wow-google-offers-free-website-with-in.html

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 39 comments

Cell-Aging Hack Opens Longevity Research Frontier

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/cellular-senescence/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 26 comments

Immigrant entrepreneur creates 9 jobs, get kicked out of US

http://digg.com/newsbar/business/immigrant_creates_u_s_jobs_gets_boot_over_visa

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 63 comments

Clojure/West conference has launched

http://clojurewest.org/news/2011/11/2/clojurewest-is-launched.html

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

Army of 'Socialbots' Steal Gigabytes of Facebook User Data

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/facebook_infiltration_bots/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 53 comments

Googler: "we pushed a bad version of our iOS app for Gmail"

https://plus.google.com/100940716892313727285/posts/4aPVQTj9jyL

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 69 comments

Loyal Opposition to Const, Private, Freeze, Non-Configurable, Non-Writable...

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-November/017872.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 51 comments

Free Stanford AI Class is a “Beta” for a Commercial Launch?

http://dltj.org/article/stanford-ai-class-is-beta-for-commercial-launch/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Why we dropped out of Yale to start a dating website

http://blog.thislooksfun.com/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 79 comments

How Heroku Works - Teams and Tools

http://craigkerstiens.com/2011/11/02/how-heroku-works-teams-tools/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

Mercurial 2.0 has added largefiles extension (older r. are downloaded on demand)

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/LargefilesExtension

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 53 comments

Introducing Mantrid (runtime-configurable, Python load balancer)

http://www.aeracode.org/2011/11/2/introducing-mantrid/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

Mozilla puts Firefox on a memory diet

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/102815-mozilla-puts-firefox-on-a-memory-diet

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth

http://scpd.stanford.edu/knuth/index.jsp

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Open source newspaper set to challenge Swiss media landscape

http://sourcefabric.org/en/community/blog/788

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 3 comments

Julian Assange loses appeal against extradition

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-to-learn-fate-of-appeal-against-extradition-to-sweden/2011/11/02/gIQAhQbteM_story.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 79 comments

How The Lean Startup Became A Best Seller (And Movement) - with Eric Ries

http://mixergy.com/eric-ries-lean-startup-best-seller/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments
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