top 50% 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

China's Great Firewall Tests Mysterious Scans On Encrypted Connections

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/11/17/chinas-great-firewall-tests-mysterious-scans-on-encrypted-connections/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 45 comments

Burning a NeXT Magnesium Cube

http://simson.net/hacks/cubefire.html

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Randy Pausch Day

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/computing/2011/fall/randy-pausch-day.shtml

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 9 comments

Iterating Towards Bethlehem

http://www.rifters.com/real/2009/01/iterating-towards-bethlehem.html

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 7 comments

A Python-based CLI for working with Hacker News.

https://github.com/nicksergeant/hackernews

15 years ago

★ 64 Python
86 upvotes – 23 comments

Making Text Mining Accessible to Any Developer & Non-Expert

http://blog.recursivity.com/post/13108173847/making-text-mining-accessible-to-any-developer

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Guided Recipe Creation

http://www.recipelabs.com/add/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 48 comments

Equity Investment Simulation: Illustrating Dilution

http://www.ownyourventure.com/equitySim.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Copyright isn't working, says European Commission

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communication-breakdown-10000030/copyright-isnt-working-says-european-commission-10024835/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Your images are a virus. They are everywhere on the Internet

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/YourImagesAreAVirusTheyAreEVERYWHEREOnTheInternet.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScottHanselman+%28Scott+Hanselman+-+ComputerZen.com%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

These Tiny Boats Will Change How We Understand The Ocean

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678867/these-tiny-boats-will-change-how-we-understand-the-ocean

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

Your own movie database in 5 minutes with IMDb API and Perl

http://bobbelderbos.com/2011/11/movie-database-imdb-api-perl/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 44 comments

The Fundamentals, Primitives and History of HTML5

http://paulirish.com/2011/primitives-html5-video/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

CSS3 Social Sign-in Buttons

http://nicolasgallagher.com/lab/css3-social-signin-buttons/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Windows 8 to have built-in anti-virus - there's good and bad news

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/14/windows-8-anti-virus-good-bad-news/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 56 comments

Korma: Tasty SQL for Clojure

http://sqlkorma.com/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

WolframAlpha FM Synthesizer

http://codehop.com/wolframalpha-fm-synthesizer/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

Offer HN: create a collaborative tech blog?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3259457

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 45 comments

The core memory module from a home built PDP-11

http://porkrind.org/missives/the-core-memory-module-from-my-dads-homebuilt-pdp-1105/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

Git workflow for addons.mozilla.org

http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2011/11/21/git-using-topic-branches-and-interactive-rebasing-effectively/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Incredible xkcd Money Chart

http://xkcd.com/980/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Rails 3.1.3 has been released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/20/rails-3-1-3-has-been-released

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

11 Amazing Things NASA's Huge Mars Rover Can Do

http://www.space.com/13689-nasa-amazing-mars-rover-curiosity-science.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 25 comments

200+ Labels Withdraw Their Music From Spotify: Are Its Fortunes Unravelling?

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/11/200-labels-withdraw-their-music-from-spotify-are-its-fortunes-unravelling/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 53 comments

Linux gets IPv6 NAT

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=132185445023922&w=2

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 58 comments

For Their Children, Many E-Book Fans Insist on Paper

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/business/for-their-children-many-e-book-readers-insist-on-paper.html?hp

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 39 comments
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