top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-18

Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia

http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/18/brin-wikipedia-grant/

15 years ago

545 upvotes – 196 comments

Back to the Future Photo Project (NSFW)

http://irinawerning.com/bttf2/back-to-the-future-2-2011/

15 years ago

506 upvotes – 110 comments

An Introduction to Stock & Options for the Tech Entrepreneur or Startup Employee

http://ospflor63.stanford.edu/upload/An-Introduction-to-Stock-Options-for-the-Tech-Entrepreneur-or-Startup-Employee.pdf

15 years ago

475 upvotes – 43 comments

Nancy Pelosi, Ron Paul join SOPA opposition

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/strange-bedfellows-nancy-pelosi-ron-paul-join-sopa-opposition.ars

15 years ago

461 upvotes – 76 comments

Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone calls to representatives

http://staff.tumblr.com/post/12930076128/a-historic-thing

15 years ago

443 upvotes – 64 comments

USB Stick Contains Dual-Core Computer, Turns Any Screen Into an Android Station

http://blog.laptopmag.com/usb-stick-contains-dual-core-computer-turns-any-screen-into-an-android-station

15 years ago

408 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: When is good time to submit a story on HN?

http://hnpickup.appspot.com/

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 46 comments

SOPA sponsors break their own laws

http://torrentfreak.com/sopa-sponsors-break-their-own-law-111117/

15 years ago

261 upvotes – 40 comments

Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/11/neutrino_experiment_affirms_fa.html

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 120 comments

Please Poach Me

http://pleasepoach.me

15 years ago

227 upvotes – 119 comments

Most laser printer printed pages have tracking watermark

http://brahmsyellowdots.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html

15 years ago

218 upvotes – 99 comments

Full disk encryption is too good?

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/105931-full-disk-encryption-is-too-good-says-us-intelligence-agency

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 193 comments

A human review of the Kindle Fire

http://www.marco.org/2011/11/17/kindle-fire-review

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 135 comments

OS.js (JavaScript Operating System)

http://anderse.wordpress.com/os-js/

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 33 comments

Steve Losh's .vimrc

https://bitbucket.org/sjl/dotfiles/src/tip/vim/.vimrc

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 99 comments

Getting Steve Jobs Wrong

http://daringfireball.net/2011/11/getting_steve_jobs_wrong

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 98 comments

Free Stanford Class with Steve Blank

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

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 24 comments

WhiteHouse.gov petition to stop E-Parasite/SOPA

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/stop-e-parasite-act/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 19 comments

Barnes & Noble pummels Microsoft patents with prior art

http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/225615/barnes-noble-pummels-microsoft-patents-prior-art

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 36 comments

Want Smarter Kids? Space Them (At Least) Two Years Apart

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/11/17/want-smarter-kids-space-them-at-least-two-years-apart/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 61 comments

Woz collects his Galaxy Nexus early from Google

http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/11/18/the-woz-collects-his-galaxy-nexus-early-from-google-hq/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

Five bugs in a single line of JavaScript

http://blog.jgc.org/2009/01/single-line-assignment-filled-with-epic.html

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 11 comments

Carmack rewriting Doom 3 source code to dodge legal issues

http://www.vg247.com/2011/11/17/carmack-rewriting-doom-3-source-code-to-askew-legal-issues/#

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 59 comments

Hackers destroy water pump via SCADA abuse

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/hackers-destroy-water-pump/all/1

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 40 comments

Strange line of Python

http://swizec.com/blog/strangest-line-of-python-you-have-ever-seen/swizec/3012

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 39 comments

The Sovereign Keys Project

https://www.eff.org/sovereign-keys

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 7 comments

Who else is behind SOPA?

http://blog.dentcat.com/2011/11/who-else-is-behind-sopa-other-than.html

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 13 comments

I Accidentally Deleted All Our Data

http://taylor.fausak.me/2011/11/18/i-accidentally-deleted-all-our-data/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 74 comments

Linus Torvalds: Locked Down Technologies Lose in the End

http://mashable.com/2011/11/18/linus-torvalds-apple-lockdown/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 52 comments

HTML5 2D gaming performance analysis: Canvas 2D vs. WebGL vs. C++

http://www.scirra.com/blog/58/html5-2d-gaming-performance-analysis

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 61 comments

Aaron Swartz Gets Indicted on More Charges in Connection with MIT Break In

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/11/17/aaron-swartz-gets-indicted-on-more-charges-in-connection-with-mit-break-in/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 32 comments

Rails 3.1.2 has been released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-1-2-has-been-released

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 0 comments

China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08

http://www.itworld.com/security/225643/two-us-satellites-pwned-07-08-new-report-blames-china

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments

Self-XSS attack explained

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=956977232793

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

SOPA Doomed? Pelosi, Issa Speak Out.

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/pelosi/?akid=1028.219579.5jS1NU&rd=1&t=1

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Major Porn Sites Sue ICANN Over .XXX

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/major-porn-sites-sue-icann-over-xxx/811

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

Google: Introducing Closure Stylesheets

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/11/introducing-closure-stylesheets.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 32 comments

Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich: Android's inflection point

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/105815-galaxy-nexus-and-ics-androids-inflection-point

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

Organizing Your Backbone.js Application With Modules

http://weblog.bocoup.com/organizing-your-backbone-js-application-with-modules

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

Upgrading Dropbox to 16GB for 25USD

http://blog.dispatched.ch/2011/11/18/upgrading-dropbox-to-16gb-for-25usd/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 53 comments

Realtime web app architecture with Thoonk: a series of tubes, not tables

http://andyet.net/blog/2011/nov/18/realtime-web-app-architecture-with-thoonk-a-series/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

New micro-lattice material is world's lightest at 0.9mg/cm^3

http://www.gizmag.com/ultralight-micro-lattice-material/20537/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 14 comments
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