top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-06

Don't use MongoDB

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=FD3xe6Jt

15 years ago

Missing Person - Tracy Williams, Technorati Employee

http://technorati.com/women/article/missing-person-tracy-williams-technorati-employee/

15 years ago

Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up)

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Programmers+Salaries+at+google+250k+and+up

15 years ago

Teachers write their own online textbook, save district $175,000

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/1dbc25bcc4ae4060a421fa204e91c0c8/MN--Online-Textbooks/

15 years ago

You're a developer, so why do you work for someone else?

http://www.intermittentintelligence.com/youre-a-developer-so-why-do-you-work-for-some

15 years ago

What being hopelessly single taught me about pitching tech celebs

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/hopelessly-single-taught-pitching-tech-celebs

15 years ago

AI are taking jobs

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/11/artificial-intelligence?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ludditelegacy

15 years ago

Why the cheapest maple syrup is the best

http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/11/making-the-grade-why-the-cheapest-maple-syrup-tastes-best/239133/

15 years ago

Ask HN: Startup promised me a job, then backed out after the internship

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203228

15 years ago

1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=62

15 years ago

TouchFire: Finally a real keyboard for the iPad

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/740785012/touchfire-the-screen-top-keyboard-for-ipad

15 years ago

Steve Jobs and Apple's Influence on Gaming Massively Overstated

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2011/11/04/steve-jobs-and-apples-influence-on-gaming-massively-overstated/

15 years ago

JavaScript's sweet spot

http://blog.mrale.ph/post/12396216081/the-trap-of-the-performance-sweet-spot

15 years ago

The Pure CSS3 Content Slider

http://iamceege.com/pure-css3-content-slider/

15 years ago

Khan Academy Gets 5 Million to Expand Faculty & Platform & to Build a School

http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/11/04/khan-academy-gets-5-million-to-expand-faculty-platform-to-build-a-physical-school/#.TrYurm_MG4Y.hackernews

15 years ago

Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20111105.html

15 years ago

The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_44/b4201043146825.htm

15 years ago

MongoGate — or let's have a serious NoSQL discussion

http://blog.erlang.de/mongogate-or-lets-have-a-serious-nosql-discus

15 years ago

Growl 1.3.1 is out, no longer free

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/growl/id467939042

15 years ago

CoffeeScript Means Giving Up on JavaScript

http://www.w2lessons.com/2011/11/coffeescript-means-giving-up-on.html

15 years ago

Jawbone UP Review

http://shawnwall.tumblr.com/post/12432034722/jawbone-up-review

15 years ago

Show HN: 1M Song Dataset dev in 10 mins

http://mortardata.com/million-song-dataset-in-10-minutes

15 years ago

Daylight Saving Time is a huge mess

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/11/06/dst-is-a-mess/

15 years ago

Regular Expression Engine in 14 lines of Python

http://paste.lisp.org/display/24849

15 years ago

Obviously Correct: implications for language design

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/10/obviously-correct/

15 years ago

Music NGram Viewer

http://www.peachnote.com/#!nt=chordAffine&npq=62+0+1+2+0+-2+-1+-2+-2

15 years ago