top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-28

I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this

https://github.com/chadselph/OOptOut-Chrome-Extension

15 years ago

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820 upvotes – 141 comments

Python Ecosystem - An Introduction

http://mirnazim.org/writings/python-ecosystem-introduction/

15 years ago

499 upvotes – 75 comments

Equations True Computer Science Geeks Should (at Least Pretend to) Know

http://www.elegantcoding.com/2011/11/eleven-equations-true-computer-science.html

15 years ago

288 upvotes – 96 comments

Scroogled (2007)

http://www.scroogle.org/doctorow.html

15 years ago

235 upvotes – 80 comments

Firefox – tons of tools for web developers

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/11/firefox-tons-of-tools-for-web-developers/

15 years ago

231 upvotes – 65 comments

Back in the Django saddle

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/back-to-django/

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 44 comments

The Trouble with Bright Kids

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/11/the_trouble_with_bright_kids.html?cm_sp=most_widget-_-default-_-The%20Trouble%20With%20Bright%20Kids

15 years ago

202 upvotes – 153 comments

Zynga's Tough Culture Risks a Talent Drain

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/zyngas-tough-culture-risks-a-talent-drain/?hp

15 years ago

202 upvotes – 99 comments

Developer Income Report #16

http://www.kreci.net/reports/developer-income-report-16/

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 32 comments

Whatever works for you

http://www.marco.org/2011/11/28/whatever-works-for-you

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 66 comments

50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistical error.

http://www.badscience.net/2011/10/what-if-academics-were-as-dumb-as-quacks-with-statistics/

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 94 comments

Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubator

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/startup-hopes-to-hack-the-immigration-system-with-a-floating-incubator.ars

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 87 comments

You Guys Are Millionaires Right?

http://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/you-guys-are-millionaires-right/

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 89 comments

Abstract algebra for developers and people who hate math

http://poincare101.blogspot.com/2011/11/abstract-algebra-presented-in-non.html

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 51 comments

Coding - the new Latin

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15916677

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 72 comments

Cutting their own throats

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/cutting-their-own-throats.html

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 68 comments

Design is becoming a competitive advantage for startups

http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/05/design-is-becoming-a-competitive-advantage-for-startups/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 47 comments

Eloquent Javascript - free Online Book with a console to try the language.

http://eloquentjavascript.net/chapter1.html

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Use Dojo to learn, build, and deploy web apps

http://www.dojoapp.com

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 29 comments

Google can search backwards

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%E2%80%AEthe%20answer%20to%20life%20the%20universe%20and%20everything

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

Humane.js 2.1 released - simple modern notification system

http://wavded.github.com/humane-js/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 28 comments

Scrolling: it’s really OK to have some white space at the bottom of the window

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/11/26/Misscrolling

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 56 comments

Vim on Cloud9 IDE

http://cloud9ide.posterous.com/vim-mode-for-advanced-editing-in-cloud9-ide

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

Python Koans: Learn Python by making tests pass

https://bitbucket.org/gregmalcolm/python_koans/wiki/Home

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 9 comments

Does a terabyte of illegal downloads constitute art?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-08/24/illegal-downloads-as-art

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 74 comments

How OpenBSD Leverages Malloc to Find Bugs

http://os-blog.com/how-openbsd-leverages-malloc-to-find-bugs/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

Apple iPhone spontaneously combusts aboard flight in Australia

http://www.bgr.com/2011/11/28/apple-iphone-spontaneously-combusts-aboard-flight-in-australia/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 63 comments

A turing machine in 133 bytes of javascript

http://swizec.com/blog/a-turing-machine-in-133-bytes-of-javascript/swizec/3069

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

An Illustrated Guide to Cryptographic Hashes

http://unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-crypto-hashes.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

Defining Churn Rate

http://www.shopify.com/technology/4018382-defining-churn-rate-no-really-this-actually-requires-an-entire-blog-post

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 8 comments

The Evil Zynga

http://uncrunched.com/2011/11/27/the-evil-zynga/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

Facebook’s entire business model is under fire in the EU

http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/28/facebook-advertising-eu/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 27 comments

Copycats

http://mattgemmell.com/2011/11/27/copycats/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments

Method chaining and lazy evaluation in Ruby

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2011/method-chaining-and-lazy-evaluation/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 5 comments

Mac Text Editors and Navigation

http://inessential.com/2011/11/27/mac_text_editors_and_navigation

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 49 comments

Even my grandmother got immutability

http://www.mrspeaker.net/2011/11/28/immutable-nanna/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

Entrepreneurship Sucks

http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2011/11/entrepreneurship-sucks.php

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

CyanogenMod 9 (ICS) for Nexus S

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/106809-cyanogenmod-9-ice-cream-sandwich-for-nexus-s

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

BBC Trust Vice Chairman on net neutrality

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/comment/open_internet.shtml

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 32 comments

The Golden Age of Internet Marketing?

http://blog.aweissman.com/2011/11/golden-age-of-internet-marketing.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 14 comments

“Reforming the Mathematical Language of Physics” (pdf)

http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/OerstedMedalLecture.pdf

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 16 comments

Mining Allrecipes.com’s Ingredient Networks for Recipe Recommendations

http://www.foodandtechconnect.com/site/2011/11/28/mining-allrecipes-coms-ingredient-networks-for-recipe-recommendations/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments
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