top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-11-21

The Sugru story

http://sugru.com/story

15 years ago

644 upvotes – 86 comments

Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation?

http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Visionary-Launchers-Employees.html

15 years ago

295 upvotes – 88 comments

Progress against SOPA

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/internet-censorship-sopa/

15 years ago

279 upvotes – 61 comments

Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.

http://dashes.com/anil/2011/11/facebook-is-gaslighting-the-web.html

15 years ago

276 upvotes – 89 comments

How automatic transmission almost made sperm whales extinct

http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/347646.html

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 96 comments

Ask HN: How do you know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3260751

15 years ago

203 upvotes – 100 comments

How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/11/how_elite_firms.html

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 105 comments

GCC 4.7 adds transactional memory extensions for C/C++

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/TransactionalMemory

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 32 comments

PyPy 1.7 released: widening the sweet spot

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/11/pypy-17-widening-sweet-spot.html

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 18 comments

EBay acquires Hunch for $80m

http://uncrunched.com/2011/11/21/ebays-got-a-hunch-for-around-80-million/

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 93 comments

[email protected] is a real email address

http://bar.com/

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 91 comments

The True Intent of SOPA

http://theagilepanda.com/2011/11/21/the-true-intent-of-sopa/

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 14 comments

A crash course in UX

http://richoakley.com/2011/11/a-crash-course-in-ux/

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 14 comments

Why Software Projects Are Terrible And How Not To Fix Them

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-software-projects-are-terrible-and-how-not-to-fix-them/

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 23 comments

Peter Thiel: "I Don’t Consider [The iPhone] To Be A Technological Breakthrough"

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/21/peter-thiel-new-yorker-grump/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 166 comments

Beware the Alan Turing fetish

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/beware-alan-turing-fetish.html

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 41 comments

Free Online Courses from Top Universities

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 12 comments

What I Learned Building the Apple Store

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/11/what_i_learned_building_the_ap.html

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask Sen. Wyden to read your name during his Protect IP filibuster

http://stopcensorship.org/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 57 comments

Hacked Texan Water Infrastructure Had a 3 Character Password

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/hacker-says-texas-town-used-three-character-password-secure-internet-facing-scada-system-11201

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 44 comments
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