top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-16

Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA

http://www.mozilla.org/sopa/

15 years ago

699 upvotes – 41 comments

Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT

http://boingboing.net/2011/11/16/internet-giants-place-full-pag.html

15 years ago

687 upvotes – 111 comments

SOPA Hearing is Streaming Live

http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_11162011.html

15 years ago

485 upvotes – 253 comments

Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces

http://alexmaccaw.co.uk/posts/async_ui

15 years ago

485 upvotes – 148 comments

Airport full-body X-ray scanners banned across Europe as unsafe

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/airport-full-body-x-ray-scanners-banned-across-europe-as-unsafe-20111116/

15 years ago

422 upvotes – 122 comments

A shuffled deck of cards is unique in all human history

http://www.matthewweathers.com/year2006/shuffling_cards.htm

15 years ago

272 upvotes – 66 comments

Sweet sanity: 75% of Americans say infringement fines should be under $100

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/sweet-sanity-75-of-americans-say-infringement-fines-should-be-under-100.ars

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 122 comments

Williams: Master of the "Come From"

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/11/COMEFROM.md

15 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby
195 upvotes – 40 comments

What Jeff Bezos Knew Back in 1997 That Made Amazon a Gorilla

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/11/16/6-things-jeff-bezos-knew-back-in-1997-that-made-amazon-a-gorilla/

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 33 comments

RIAA claims you do not own your iTunes music purchases

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/105437-riaa-claims-you-do-not-own-your-itunes-music-purchases

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 76 comments

TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners

http://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-puts-off-safety-study-of-x-ray-body-scanners

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 36 comments

Graphene improves lithium-ion battery capacity and recharge rate by 10x

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/105343-graphene-improves-lithium-ion-battery-capacity-and-recharge-rate-by-10x

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 71 comments

Computer scientist Roger Craig built an app to prepare for Jeopardy domination.

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/11/16/mind-blown-this-guy-broke-jeopardys-all-time-record-with-an-app/

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 24 comments

Readability service to become free

http://blog.readability.com/2011/11/reading-needs-a-platform-introducing-the-new-readability/

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 61 comments

John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers

http://cycle-gap.blogspot.com/2011/11/john-gruber-has-some-career-advice-for.html

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 142 comments

Ask PG: Could we have the SOPA censorship label up on HN's logo today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3243187

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 24 comments

Scoble: Why I'm treating startups more critically lately

https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/NN7YJRT7S8m

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 63 comments

How StackOverflow Scales with SQL Server

http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2011/11/how-stackoverflow-scales-sql-server-video/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tunebox-music-player-for-dropbox/id475688071

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 38 comments

Why we’re working our young people too hard

http://lkd.cc/post/12863887617/were-working-our-young-people-too-hard

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 109 comments

Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/12/23/why-programmers-are-not-paid-in-proportion-to-their-productivity

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 76 comments

Life Below 600px

http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 36 comments

The Rootkit Of All Evil – CIQ

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/the-rootkit-of-all-evil-ciq/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 20 comments

How to forcibly eject a CD/DVD from a MacBook Air USB SuperDrive

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/how-to-forcibly-eject-cddvd-from.html

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: HourlyPuppy

http://iacono.heroku.com/writings/2011/11/16/gift-to-my-girlfriend-and-now-to-you/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 52 comments

Why Is Payroll Hard - Ron Jeffries

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyIsPayrollHard

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

Yipit Django Blog: Why You Need a Git Pre-Commit Hook

http://tech.yipit.com/2011/11/16/183772396/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: Please stop "This."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3245365

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 71 comments

Wow: Intel unveils 1 teraflop chip with 50-plus cores

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/technologybrierdudleysblog/2016775145_wow_intel_unveils_1_teraflop_c.html

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 39 comments

Announcing Cappuccino 0.9.5

http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2011/11/16/cappuccino-0-9-5/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

Play Framework 2.0 Beta & integration into Typesafe Stack

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/play-framework/bVeD4o77aTE

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

Google Music now available to everyone in the US

http://music.google.com?

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 67 comments

The Movie Set That Ate Itself

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201111/movie-set-that-ate-itself-dau-ilya-khrzhanovsky

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 12 comments

LiveDrive terminates Backify contract, users don't have access to their backup

https://plus.google.com/112313173544747389010/posts/3D1jTWWSrKt

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 61 comments

Play 2.0, A web framework for a new era

http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/play_2_0_a_web

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 7 comments

“Greater Choice”

http://parislemon.com/post/12859599499/greater-choice

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 82 comments

This is a Bad Time to be an FPS Fan

http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/121/1212393p1.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 75 comments

Planet - Python realtime framework, the framework behind battlefields battlelog

http://www.planetframework.com/tour/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 37 comments

Programming Languages for Machine Learning

http://hunch.net/?p=230

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 35 comments

MagLev 1.0 Released

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/11/ruby-maglev-10

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

A time lapse study of the sky for a year

http://www.datapointed.net/2011/11/history-of-the-sky-ken-murphy/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

Wikimedia supports American Censorship Day

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/11/15/wikimedia-supports-american-censorship-day/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Optimization Tricks used by the Lockless Memory Allocator

http://locklessinc.com/articles/allocator_tricks/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments
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