top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-24

The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia

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

15 years ago

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

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

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

15 years ago

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

What's In A GIF

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

15 years ago

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

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

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

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

15 years ago

ECMAScript 6 looks promising

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

15 years ago

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

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

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

Exploring Euclideon's Unlimited Detail Engine

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

15 years ago

Fun With Numbers

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

15 years ago

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

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

New Stanford course - Anatomy

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

15 years ago

Education pays ...

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

15 years ago

Functional programming for Object Oriented programmers

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

15 years ago

Carrier IQ Drops Empty Legal Threat, Apologizes to Security Researcher

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/carrier-iq-drops-empty-legal-threat-apologizes-security-researcher

15 years ago

CAAT a JavaScript animation toolkit

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

15 years ago

Lynn Margulis, 1938–2011

http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/lynn-margulis-1938-2011/

15 years ago

Find A Small Problem And Build A Simple Solution.

http://jcamarena.com/toughts/find-a-small-problem-and-build-a-simple-solution/

15 years ago

Django-app-engine development halted

http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/goodbye

15 years ago

App vs. Business

http://www.64notes.com/app-vs-business/

15 years ago

YouTube receives HTML5 1080p playback, testing new Flash features

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/22/2580113/youtube-html5-1080p-flash-new-features

15 years ago

Reasons to Use HTML5

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/11/24/top-10-reasons-to-use-html5-right-now/

15 years ago

Nature Special: The Autism Enigma

http://www.nature.com/news/specials/autism/index.html

15 years ago

Belgacom ISP Can’t Be Told to Block File Sharing, EU Court Says

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-24/belgacom-isp-can-t-be-told-to-block-file-sharing-eu-court-says.html

15 years ago

Fast data processing engine written in C

https://github.com/x86-64/frozen

15 years ago

★ 111 C GPL-3.0

The coolest thing I ever made

http://pythonpackages.com

15 years ago

Chrome Getting Native Gamepad, Webcam, And WebRTC Support In Early 2012

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/24/chrome-getting-native-gamepad-webcam-and-webrtc-support-in-early-2012/

15 years ago