top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-17

Stanford to host more online classes

http://www.cs101-class.org/#

15 years ago

493 upvotes – 116 comments

Microsoft, Apple and 27 other tech companies backing SOPA indirectly

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/11/17/which-tech-companies-back-sopa-microsoft-apple-and-27-others/

15 years ago

492 upvotes – 118 comments

I Saw An Extremely Subtle Bug Today And I Just Have To Tell Someone

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/11/17/i-saw-an-extremely-subtle-bug-today-and-i-just-have-to-tell-someone/

15 years ago

413 upvotes – 78 comments

If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joker

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/if-you-want-to-get-rich-stop-being-a-fucking-joker?1

15 years ago

333 upvotes – 281 comments

JQuery Mobile 1.0

http://jquerymobile.com/blog/2011/11/16/announcing-jquery-mobile-1-0/

15 years ago

313 upvotes – 72 comments

.bit non-governmental domain name registrar, for the post-SOPA era

http://dot-bit.org/Domain_names

15 years ago

254 upvotes – 63 comments

Teaching Good Sex

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/teaching-good-sex.html

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 100 comments

Startups say the darndest things

http://agevik.se/post/12932930667/startups-say-the-darndest-things-a-translation-cheat

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 38 comments

EU Adopts Resolution Against US Domain Seizures

https://torrentfreak.com/eu-adopts-resolution-against-us-domains-seziures-111117/

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 21 comments

Galaxy Nexus Review

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/17/2568348/galaxy-nexus-review

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 108 comments

The relationship between Readability and Instapaper

http://www.marco.org/2011/11/16/readability

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 54 comments

Facebook Privacy: Site Confirms It Tracks You After You Leave

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-tracking-scrutiny/story?id=14960711&singlePage=true

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 68 comments

Vidyard’s (YC S11) video service just one-upped every competitor

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/11/17/vidyards-awesome-video-service-just-one-upped-every-competitor/

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 22 comments

Adobe Donates Flex to Apache

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/244060/adobe_donates_flex_to_apache.html

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 87 comments

Quantum theorem shakes foundations

http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-theorem-shakes-foundations-1.9392

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 61 comments

LHC May Have Found Crack in Modern Physics

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/lhc-crack-physics/

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Stack Exchange Isn’t in the Cloud

http://blog.serverfault.com/post/why-stack-exchange-isn%e2%80%99t-in-the-cloud/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 81 comments

Clojure/core — (second conj)

http://clojure.com/blog/2011/11/17/second-conj.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 9 comments

JSZip - Create .zip files with Javascript

http://jszip.stuartk.co.uk/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 26 comments

Internet Community Shut Out of Stop Online Piracy Act Hearing - Again

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/public-shut-out-stop-online-piracy-act-hearings-again

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 13 comments

Waterproof anything with a spray

http://designtaxi.com/news/351023/Waterproof-Your-iPhone-Everything-Else-With-This-Spray/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 50 comments

Yelp Files For $100 Million IPO

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/17/yelp-files-for-100-million-ipo/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 59 comments

Backbone.js and Capsule and Thoonk, oh my A scalable realtime architecture

http://andyet.net/blog/2011/nov/16/backbonejs-and-capsule-and-thoonk-oh-my-a-scalable/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

UseTheSource

http://jobs.usethesource.com/jobs

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

The Lack of Affordance Problem

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/lack-of-affordance-problem.html

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 19 comments

Poaching Etiquette: The Right Way To Take Tech Talent

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/17/poaching-etiquette-how-to-love-thy-startup-neighbor-while-coveting-their-devs

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 35 comments

Vimessa (YC S11) Would Like You To Enjoy Video Messaging

http://www.fastcompany.com/1795641/startup-vimessa-tries-to-reinvent-messaging-with-video

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Why I only work with startups

http://swizec.com/blog/why-i-only-work-with-startups/swizec/2936

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 39 comments

Helveticards - Minimalist Typography Cards for the Typophile, Gambler

http://designtaxi.com/news/351020/Helveticards-Minimalist-Typography-Cards-for-the-Typophile-Gambler/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

RIAA Wants To Shutter Torrent Sites, And More

http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-wants-to-shutter-torrent-sites-and-more-111116/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

Stanford to offers 6 more online classes from January

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3246807

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

The Mouse Trap: The dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_trap/2011/11/lab_mice_are_they_limiting_our_understanding_of_human_disease_.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

The OS Wars: We Have A Winner

http://sourceforge.net/blog/os-wars/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 37 comments

More Stanford Online Classes by January

http://www.nlp-class.org/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 4 comments

Google Maps Mystery Actually Spy Satellite Targets

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/17/mysterious-symbols-in-china-desert-are-spy-satellite-targets-expert-says/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

Google: Financial Embargo Of WikiLeaks Shows How To Deal With Piracy

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/11/16/google-tells-congress-wikileaks-financial-embargo-shows-how-to-deal-with-web-piracy/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 35 comments
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