top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-12

Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.

https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/g9WdNt6yVgR

15 years ago

491 upvotes – 445 comments

How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2011/11/cocaine-plummeting-price-nationwide-drop-violent-crime/474/

15 years ago

270 upvotes – 102 comments

Planes overhead

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=planes+overhead

15 years ago

245 upvotes – 83 comments

HTML5 terminal

http://www.htmlfivewow.com/slide32

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 52 comments

Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/bill-nguyen-startups

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 91 comments

Flash is dead. Long live the internet.

http://blog.deconcept.com/2011/11/12/flash-is-dead-long-live-the-internet/

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 104 comments

It's not just Flash for Mobile, Flex is dead too

http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 67 comments

Have a Flash SWF File? convert it to HTML5 with Google Swiffy

http://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 19 comments

Bittorrent Launches Distributed Live Stream

http://live.bittorrent.com/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 39 comments

The Philosophy of Computer Science

http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/computer-science/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 14 comments

Nodejs+Fabric as fast as multi-threaded C++

http://fabric-engine.com/2011/11/server-performance-benchmarks/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 66 comments

Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS

http://9to5mac.com/2011/11/11/gassee-thank-god-apple-chose-steve-jobss-next-over-my-beos/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 73 comments

This 28-year-old's Iowa startup moves $350 million a year.

http://www.businessinsider.com/this-28-year-old-is-making-sure-credit-cards-wont-exist-in-the-next-few-years-2011-11?page=1

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

Fancy algorithms lose; dumb C code wins

http://blog.begriffsschrift.com/2011/11/11#real-c

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 30 comments

These May Be The Droids Farmers Are Looking For

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/11/mobile-farm-robots/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Flash is dead. If you can't deal with this sort of change...there's the door

https://plus.google.com/109732816282804649211/posts/gXupw7Z1ssF

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 25 comments

Steganography with Brainfuck

http://imrannazar.com/Steganography-with-Brainfuck

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Why do so many technical recruiters suck?

http://www.mikebz.com/2011/11/why-do-so-many-technical-recruiters.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 57 comments

Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 40 comments

Stalking a person with only their email & IP address

http://www.attackvector.org/invasion-of-privacy/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 31 comments

Avoid using the term "Cloud Computing" except when being ironic

http://everythingsysadmin.com/2011/06/avoid-using-the-term-cloud-com.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

The myth of shareholder capitalism (2010)

http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism/ar/1

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

Announcing Firefox Aurora 10

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/11/announcing-firefox-aurora-10/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 27 comments

A ridiculous patent for arbitrary compression

http://gailly.net/05533051.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

Hypothes.is: Taking peer review to the Internet

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dwhly/1239089754

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 12 comments
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