top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-11-24

The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia

http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853

15 years ago

427 upvotes – 330 comments

For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/for-thanksgiving-give-your-parents-a-treat-upgrade-their-browser.ars

15 years ago

275 upvotes – 105 comments

"Invisible Electrostatic Wall" at 3M adhesive tape plant (1996)

http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html

15 years ago

271 upvotes – 46 comments

Why do humans procrastinate?

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/mkwf2/why_do_humans_procrastinate_and_how_can_it_be_beat/c31rsxx

15 years ago

264 upvotes – 84 comments

What's In A GIF

http://matthewflickinger.com/lab/whatsinagif/bits_and_bytes.asp

15 years ago

250 upvotes – 35 comments

In Response to SOPA, Reddit Meshnet Project picks up steam

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/11/23/wary-of-sopa-reddit-users-aim-to-build-a-new-censorship-free-internet/

15 years ago

231 upvotes – 76 comments

EU Court of Justice: Censorship in Name of Copyright Violates Fundamental Rights

http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-court-of-justice-censorship-in-name-of-copyright-violates-fundamental-rights

15 years ago

216 upvotes – 49 comments

The sports footage you won't see on TV this Thanksgiving

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203716204577015903150731054.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 105 comments

ECMAScript 6 looks promising

http://kishorelive.com/2011/11/22/ecmascript-6-looks-promising/

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 88 comments

How Badoo built a billion-dollar social network on sex

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/05/features/sexual-network

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 63 comments

I feel like I’m living the first line of my obituary.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1123_combo10B_PFP/en/US

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 69 comments

AT&T withdraws T-Mobile takeover application from FCC

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/24/2584536/at-t-withdraws-t-mobile-takeover-application-from-fcc-records

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 34 comments

Exploring Euclideon's Unlimited Detail Engine

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/11/22/exploring-unlimited-detail.aspx

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 89 comments

Fun With Numbers

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

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

Canonical drops CouchDB because they were unable to make it scale up

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/22/171228/canonical-drops-couchdb-from-ubuntu-one

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 36 comments

Senator Joe Lieberman asks Google for a terrorist flagging button on Blogger

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/24/2584081/senator-joe-lieberman-asks-google-for-a-terrorist-flag-on-blogger

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 69 comments

New Stanford course - Anatomy

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

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 41 comments

Education pays ...

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 50 comments

Functional programming for Object Oriented programmers

http://www.lifebeyondfife.com/82-f-sharp.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

CAAT a JavaScript animation toolkit

http://labs.hyperandroid.com/static/caat/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments
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