top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-15

Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter

https://sendwrite.com/sopa/

15 years ago

594 upvotes – 93 comments

Spark

https://github.com/holman/spark

15 years ago

★ 6k Shell MIT
568 upvotes – 95 comments

How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code

http://nathanbarry.com/how-i-made-19000-on-the-app-store-while-learning-to-code/

15 years ago

498 upvotes – 137 comments

US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America

http://theagilepanda.com/2011/11/15/us-bill-creating-the-great-firewall-of-america/

15 years ago

429 upvotes – 73 comments

This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/10/businessinsiderthis-28-year-old-is-.DTL

15 years ago

427 upvotes – 257 comments

Saving a Life is Easy, But I Didn't

http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2011/11/saving-a-life-is-easy-but-i-didnt/

15 years ago

390 upvotes – 98 comments

Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html

15 years ago

263 upvotes – 162 comments

Modern Web Applications are Here

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/11/15/modern-web-applications-are-here/

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 108 comments

"Build something people want" is not enough

http://avichal.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/build-something-people-want-is-not-enough/

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 57 comments

Fail Upwards

http://www.cstthegate.com/davetrott/2011/11/fail-upwards/

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 18 comments

Instagram Engineer Challenge solved with Javascript

http://feval.info/instagram/canvas.html

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 27 comments

Stanford releases latest iOS 5 programming class

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=473757255

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 8 comments

Sean Parker: “Little Startups Are Ridiculously OverFunded”

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/15/sean-parker-little-startups-are-ridiculously-overfunded/

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 128 comments

The Manhattan Grid extended to every point on Earth

http://extendny.com

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 50 comments

How Google makes Google(+) fast

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115060278409766341143/posts/ViaVbBMpSVG

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 32 comments

The plumber programmer

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/11/15/plumber-programmers/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 42 comments

High IQ linked to drug use

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/14/high-iq-linked-to-drug-use/?hpt=hp_t2

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 84 comments

What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem

http://boingboing.net/2011/11/14/what-the-vaio-z-says-about-son.html#more-129126

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 98 comments

Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-reveals-the-final-pcb-design-for-the-25-pc-20111115/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 82 comments

Job Opening: "Frequent travel may be required"

http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/302967000

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 50 comments

My ICT teacher can’t mark my homework

http://mulqueeny.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/my-ict-teacher-cant-mark-my-homework/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 112 comments

NodeQuery is a realtime server-side DOM API

https://github.com/tblobaum/nodeQuery

15 years ago

★ 445 JavaScript
104 upvotes – 24 comments

Facebook Tells Salman Rushdie He Has to Go By His Given Name, Ahmed Rushdie

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/facebook-tells-salman-rushdie-he-has-to-go-by-his-given-name-ahmed-rushdie/248446/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 40 comments

House Judiciary Committee Refuses To Hear Industry Concerns About SOPA

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111110/13455416712/house-judiciary-committee-refuses-to-hear-wider-tech-industry-concerns-about-sopa.shtml

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 35 comments

WeekendHacker

http://www.weekendhacker.net/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 25 comments

Adobe Donating Flex to Open Source Foundation

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/11/flex-adandoned

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Science Majors Change Their Minds

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-science-majors-change-their-mind-its-just-so-darn-hard.htm

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 85 comments

Steve Jobs biography -- Isaacson blew it

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/15/siracusa-jobs-bio

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 103 comments

2012 Will Be The Year NFC Breaks Big--Just Not In The U.S.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1795224/2012-the-year-nfc-goes-mainstreamoutside-the-us

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 32 comments

Finding a Technical Cofounder

http://alexeymk.com/finding-a-technical-co-founder-slides

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 53 comments

Pulse will come pre-installed on the Kindle Fire

http://blog.pulse.me/amazon-kindle-fire-welcome-to-the-pulse-famil

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 14 comments

Touchscreens have no hand

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003qM&topic_id=1

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol

http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/simplified-summary-of-microsoft-researchs-bitcoin-paper-on-incentivizing-transaction-propagation/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

The splash page that drove up conversion by 300%

http://ravn.com/beta/splash

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments
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