top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-11-13

Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/13/diaspora-co-founder-ilya-zhitomirskiy-passes-away-at-21/

15 years ago

764 upvotes – 230 comments

List of freely available programming books

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books

15 years ago

364 upvotes – 28 comments

Oppenheimer's recommendation letter for Richard Feynman

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/12/he-is-second-dirac-only-this-time-human.html

15 years ago

293 upvotes – 78 comments

Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/

15 years ago

242 upvotes – 62 comments

Generation Sell

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/the-entrepreneurial-generation.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

206 upvotes – 70 comments

PragDave: I'm on vacation, and I've deleted your message—really

http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2011/04/so-im-trying-an-email-experiment.html

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 72 comments

Think different about Jobs

http://james.cridland.net/blog/think-different-about-jobs/

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 193 comments

Translating mathematics into code

http://matt.might.net/articles/discrete-math-and-code/

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 11 comments

How Google Inflates AdWords Bids

https://plus.google.com/104371975904409493484/posts/XFYfF1jujdE

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 50 comments

Europe's Web Of Debt

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/02/weekinreview/02marsh.html?src=ISMR_AP_LI_LST_FB

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 127 comments

"No matter what price we choose, we always make the same revenue"

https://plus.google.com/115711522874757126523/posts/LwZyWLKLN94

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 71 comments

6th Grade iPhone Developer speaks at TEDx

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/11/09/absolutely-amazing-6th-grade-iphone-app-developer-speaks-at-tedx/

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 54 comments

Portrait of a N00b

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.html

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 67 comments

The Real Cost of Patent Trolls: $80B/year

http://www.bu.edu/law/faculty/scholarship/workingpapers/Bessen-Ford-Meurer-troll.html

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 10 comments

The IOCCC is back

http://www.ioccc.org/2011/rules.txt

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 15 comments

Paul Dirac: The unsung genius

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2094374.stm

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 27 comments

An experiment mimicking the Dock of OS X using only CSS

http://michaelhue.com/cssdock/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 39 comments

WhatsApp bucks convention, quietly builds a messaging titan

http://gigaom.com/2011/11/11/whatsapp-bucks-convention-quietly-builds-a-messaging-titan/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 38 comments

Innovation is almost entirely absent

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11317/1189262-109-0.stm?cmpid=newspanel

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 21 comments

PragDave: Followup on the EMail Experiment

http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2011/11/followup-on-the-email-experiment.html

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments
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