top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-08

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

15 years ago

830 upvotes – 150 comments

BankSimple invites first customers; rebrands itself as Simple

http://www.simple.com/blog/Simple/introducing-simple/

15 years ago

387 upvotes – 277 comments

Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/opinion/end-bonuses-for-bankers.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

325 upvotes – 235 comments

The Knife Maker

http://thisismadebyhand.com/film/the_knife_maker

15 years ago

315 upvotes – 192 comments

Take a short break in a quiet place

http://amitaytweeto.com/thequietplace/

15 years ago

286 upvotes – 77 comments

Nimbus.io: Open-source alternative to Amazon S3

https://nimbus.io/

15 years ago

271 upvotes – 94 comments

Why Is The Defense Department Snooping On My Phone?

http://www.markturner.net/2011/11/08/why-is-the-defense-department-snooping-on-my-phone/

15 years ago

267 upvotes – 34 comments

A web video company that is most likely a hoax

http://ihatelawyers3.github.com/

15 years ago

261 upvotes – 91 comments

Redis: Zero to Master in 30 minutes

http://openmymind.net/2011/11/8/Redis-Zero-To-Master-In-30-Minutes-Part-1/

15 years ago

252 upvotes – 37 comments

Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/gps-tracker-times-two/all

15 years ago

251 upvotes – 213 comments

Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/11/groveio-hosted-searchable-irc.php

15 years ago

227 upvotes – 101 comments

Unix v6 Ported to ANSI C

http://os-blog.com/xv6-unix-v6-ported-to-ansi-c-x86/

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 50 comments

Free 5 Billion Page Web Index Now Available from Common Crawl Foundation

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/common_crawl_foundation_announces_5_billion_page_w.php

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 39 comments

Security researcher Charlie Miller booted from Apple Developer Program

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-57320190-248/apple-boots-security-guru-who-exposed-iphone-exploit/

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 113 comments

Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk

http://wekeroad.com/2011/11/08/some-people-not-have-way

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 146 comments

Amazon Won’t Pay Self-Published Author For Books It Mistakenly Gave Away

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-amazon-wont-pay-self-published-author-for-books-it-mistakenly-gave-away/

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 95 comments

How to Make Wealth

http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 70 comments

Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize

http://discovermagazine.com/2011/sep/18-your-brain-knows-lot-more-than-you-realize

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 37 comments

Python 3 implementation in Haskell

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/berp

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 22 comments

Firefox 8.0 is Released

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/8.0/releasenotes/

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 74 comments

Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs

http://trevorowens.tumblr.com/post/12432238865/why-founders-should-emulate-wozniak-not-jobs

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 91 comments

Man throws 4,800 bottled notes into the ocean, gets 3,100 replies

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/man-throws-4-800-bottled-notes-ocean-gets-003908946.html

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 80 comments

/dev/audio

http://somethingemporium.com/2007/5/dev-audio-cat-half-tone

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 38 comments

Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad

http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/07/codecademy-jquery-scratchpad/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 19 comments

Fedora 16 Released

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/index.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 63 comments

Azul launches pauseless gc jvm for unmodified linux

http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zing/zing5-features

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 28 comments

Why the world of scientific research needs to be disrupted

http://gigaom.com/2011/10/31/why-the-world-of-scientific-research-needs-to-be-disrupted/?

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 79 comments

Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December

http://zombie-storage.com/?p=95

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 60 comments

Dandelion Labs

http://www.dandelionlabs.com

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 64 comments

Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5)

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/11/creative-commons/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

The pitch deck heard ’round the web is now yours to copy

http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/08/dressrush-pitch-deck/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

Android development tutorials

http://p-xr.com/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 6 comments

YC Interview Stories and Advice from 7 Companies in YC W11

http://www.giftrocket.com/yc-interview-advice

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 8 comments

Nginx now within 1% of IIS's Active Site Market Share

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/11/07/november-2011-web-server-survey.html

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 41 comments

The Anatomy of a Perfect Web Site

http://johanbrook.com/minimalism/anatomy-perfect-web-site/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

ArchLinux, Not Just For The Elite

http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2011/11/06/archlinux-notforthe-elite/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments

The Stroke of Genius Strikes Later in Modern Life

http://news.yahoo.com/stroke-genius-strikes-later-modern-life-200607752.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

IBM Open-Sources Potential "Internet of Things" Protocol

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/11/ibm-open-sources-potential-int.php

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

The New Asimo Robot

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/08/hondas-asimo-robot-sheds-a-few-pounds-gets-all-autonomous-on-u/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 32 comments

NASA Captures New Images of Large Asteroid Passing Earth

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/yu55-20111107.html

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

Facebook Acquires HTML5 App Delivery Network Strobe, SproutCore Lives On

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/08/facebook-acquires-html5-app-delivery-network-strobe-sproutcore-lives-on/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

Critical Windows Vulnerability in TCP/IP Stack Could Allow Remote Code Execution

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-083

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Israel to Get Electric Car Battery Swap Stations

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/37982/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments

37signals has hired a full time filmmaker to document its every move

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/11/06/37signals-hires-filmmaker-to-document-its-every-move/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 28 comments

How to create an online pitch deck

http://dressrush.com/blog/post/12506021124/dressrush-online-pitch-deck

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

Sean Corfield, Clojure Contrib, and “real world Clojure”

http://mostlylazy.com/2011/11/08/episode-0-0-1-sean-corfield-clojure-contrib-and-real-world-clojure/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments
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