top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-07

Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

http://teamtreehouse.com/

15 years ago

589 upvotes – 175 comments

Steve Jobs's Real Genius

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all

15 years ago

414 upvotes – 145 comments

Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

http://www.enqueueapp.com/

15 years ago

301 upvotes – 130 comments

I wrote BozoCrack to show why plain MD5 is a horrible way to hash passwords.

https://github.com/juuso/BozoCrack

15 years ago

★ 704 Ruby
227 upvotes – 117 comments

One-time Secret: Share passwords etc with URIs that work only once

https://onetimesecret.com/

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 104 comments

Something is wrong with this picture.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/0707.html

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 81 comments

Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=233810070014718&id=160644534031945

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 49 comments

Growl fork maintainer banned from Growl mailinglist after fixing bugs

http://basementcoders.com/2011/10/episode-47-fork-you-growl-interview-with-perry-metzger/

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 71 comments

Handle Incoming Emails like a Pro (Mailgun API 2.0)

http://blog.mailgun.net/post/12482374892/handle-incoming-emails-like-a-pro-mailgun-api-2-0

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 23 comments

Revisiting Google App Engine's pricing changes

http://www.gregtracy.com/revisiting-google-app-engines-pricing-changes

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 19 comments

The Darknet Project: netroots activists dream of global mesh network

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/the-darknet-plan-netroots-activists-dream-of-global-mesh-network.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 51 comments

Cinder: open-source creative C++

http://libcinder.org/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 22 comments

Guide to Node.js

http://www.nodebeginner.org/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 10 comments

Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/07/disruptive-mobile-carrier-republic-wireless-to-sell-handsets-for-99-until-november-27/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 58 comments

Official Release of Google+ Pages

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-pages-connect-with-all-things.html

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 121 comments

IPhone 4S against all other iPhone models (low light shooting)

http://campl.us/posts/Low-Light

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 43 comments

Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder: MongoDB is fine

http://blog.slyphon.com/post/12435929063/go-cry-on-somebody-elses-shoulder-mongodb-is-fine

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 52 comments

MongoDB 2.0 Should Have Been 1.0

http://luigimontanez.com/2011/mongodb-2.0-should-have-been-1.0/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 49 comments

How can I teach a bright person with no programming experience how to program?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/96504/how-can-i-teach-a-bright-person-with-no-programming-experience-how-to-program/96506#96506

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 108 comments

Scenes from Earth on the Voyager Spacecraft

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/scenes.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 61 comments

Hubot Play

http://zachholman.com/screencast/play/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 18 comments

Smiley Slider

http://glittle.org/blog/smiley-slider/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 12 comments

MongoDB and Riak, In Context (and an apology)

http://seancribbs.com/tech/2011/11/07/mongodb-and-riak-in-context-and-an-apology/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 25 comments

The Tyranny of Meritocracy

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/the-tyranny-of-meritocracy/248061/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 135 comments

Stross: Klout violates UK privacy laws.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/evil-social-networks.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 61 comments

Data-Driven Transformations in Javascript

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 10 comments

If WikiLeaks is dying, then the NYT is partly to blame

http://gigaom.com/2011/11/07/if-wikileaks-is-dying-then-the-nyt-is-partly-to-blame

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 34 comments

Bias Lighting

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/11/bias-lighting.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

Pushing the Limits of Amazon S3 Upload Performance

http://improve.dk/archive/2011/11/07/pushing-the-limits-of-amazon-s3-upload-performance.aspx

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

I loved C. But it always fell short for me. Objective-C fixed that.

http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/2256/objective-c-is-the-language

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 79 comments

Barnes & Noble Officially Unveils The 7-Inch Nook Tablet

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/07/barnes-noble-officially-unveils-the-7-inch-nook-tablet/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments

App Engine 1.6 out with Python 2.7, Map/Reduce in the SDK

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/11/app-engine-160-out-of-preview-release.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: My app in 4 weeks is done

http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/12463947123/met-has-launched

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

Hey, entrepreneurs, we’re living in a bubble

http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/06/hey-entrepreneurs-we%e2%80%99re-living-in-a-bubble/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

Just how bad are hard drive prices going to get?

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/103711-hdd-pricewatch-you-know-where-its-going-we-tell-you-how-much-its-going-to-hurt

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 40 comments

Announcing Headless Testling

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/announcing-headless-testling/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

Urban Airship raises $15.1 million

http://urbanairship.com/blog/2011/11/07/up-up-and-away-urban-airship-raises-15-1m-from-salesforce-com-verizon/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 23 comments

Turning GE Color Effects G-35 Christmas Lights into a 7x7 display with Arduino

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/turning-ge-color-effects-g-35-christmas.html

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

Dropbox's summer 2007 application to YC

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27532820/app.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 5 comments

NuoDB another NewSQL database.

http://nuodb.com/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 53 comments

Moore's law for Solar Energy?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/opinion/krugman-here-comes-solar-energy.html?ref=global-home

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 46 comments

Google: Microsoft uses patents when products "stop succeeding"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/google-microsoft-uses-patents-when-products-stop-succeeding.ars

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments

Vi and Vim vs. Emacs Shootout and Deal

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/pq/271

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 52 comments

Siri for everyone, with Pioneer's Zypr API

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/siri-for-everyone-with-pioneers-zypr-api.ars

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 17 comments

How Heroku Works - Maker's Day

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2011/11/07/how-heroku-works-maker-day/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Whatever works

http://sahillavingia.com/blog/whatever-works/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 24 comments
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