top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-26

Man-made super flu could kill half of humanity

http://rt.com/news/bird-flu-killer-strain-119/

15 years ago

272 upvotes – 148 comments

GitHub forking has one big flaw

http://zbowling.github.com/blog/2011/11/25/github/

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 47 comments

How to be interesting (2006)

http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/how_to_be_inter.html

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 33 comments

Peter Norvig on dance photography

http://norvig.com/dance-photography.html?

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 29 comments

Want jobs? Encourage immigration

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/25/opinion/wilkinson-jobs-immigration/index.html

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 111 comments

Quotes from 1995 Steve Jobs Interview

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1449

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 38 comments

Open Sourced Google Wave demo site. Run from a single server

http://waveinabox.net

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 36 comments

A Reading List for JVM-based Developers

http://prehensiletail.com/blog/2011/11/25/a-jvm-based-developers-reading-list/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 14 comments

Water-pump failure in Illinois wasn’t cyberattack after all

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/water-pump-failure-in-illinois-wasnt-cyberattack-after-all/2011/11/25/gIQACgTewN_story.html?hpid=z3

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github

https://github.com/popular/watched

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

One of the richest cities in China with a regime that borders on anarchism

http://reason.com/archives/2011/11/15/chinas-black-market-city/singlepage

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

The euro zone: Is this really the end?

http://www.economist.com/node/21540255

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 103 comments

Indie Game Music Bundle (Pay what you want)

http://www.indiemusicbundle.com/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 48 comments

Healthcare

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/11/healthcare.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

Truth goggles sniff out suspicious sentences in news

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/11/bull-beware-truth-goggles-sniff-out-suspicious-sentences-in-news/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 48 comments

Android File System Hierarchy

http://anantshri.info/andro/file_system.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Machine Learning using Quantum Algorithms

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/12/machine-learning-with-quantum.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

Linux Mint 12 “Lisa” released

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1889

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 64 comments

60% of .edu websites are hacked by turkish "hackers"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3278627

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 35 comments

Ubuntu’s move to Unity is the best thing that ever happened to Linux

http://kumailht.com/2011/11/ubuntus-move-to-unity-is-the-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-linux/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 110 comments

The original Javascript impl was written in Lisp

https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/js2/semantics/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 29 comments

"Curiosity" - Launch 7.30AM EST (Live)

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/timeline/launch/watchonline/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

1,000 workers at Apple’s keyboard suppler in Shenzhen walk out in protest

http://www.cultofmac.com/131797/1000-workers-at-apples-keyboard-suppler-in-shenzhen-walk-out-in-protest/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

Building an Application upon Riak - Part 1

http://www.productionscale.com/home/2011/11/20/building-an-application-upon-riak-part-1.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 14 comments

You Can't Hack Photography

http://blog.andrewvc.com/you-cant-hack-photography

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 75 comments

Children of the Revolution

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904491704576572552793150470.html#printMode

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

The Euro falling into a recession?

http://www.economist.com/node/21540259?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/bewareoffallingmasonry

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 118 comments

Next Stop Mars: Huge NASA Rover Launches Toward Red Planet

http://www.space.com/13738-nasa-mars-rover-curiosity-msl-launch.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 12 comments

When Big Companies Are a Good Idea

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/graham-coase-when-big-companies-are-a-good-idea.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 15 comments

The GNU extension language

http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/08/30/the-gnu-extension-language

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 33 comments

What I learned from reading The Clean Coder

http://blog.christoffer.me/2011/11/9-things-i-learned-from-reading-clean.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 17 comments

Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/cloud-centers-bring-high-tech-flash-but-not-many-jobs-to-beaten-down-towns/2011/11/08/gIQAccTQtN_print.html

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 49 comments
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