top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-29

Watch a VC use my name to sell a con

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-sell-a-con/

15 years ago

2376 upvotes – 292 comments

I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make

http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/hvv2m/i_work_for_a_large_multinational_tech_company_i/

15 years ago

601 upvotes – 277 comments

US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/us-judge-orders-hundreds-of-sites-de-indexed-from-google-twitter-bing-facebook.ars

15 years ago

434 upvotes – 216 comments

How does SOPA threaten Stack Overflow?

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/114005/133693

15 years ago

380 upvotes – 74 comments

"What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm

http://eseanews.com/css/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=10446

15 years ago

339 upvotes – 101 comments

Facebook settles with FTC, under privacy watch for 20 years

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/11/privacysettlement.shtm

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 131 comments

Yammer moving from Scala to Java

http://blog.joda.org/2011/11/real-life-scala-feedback-from-yammer.html

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 86 comments

Realtime metrics using Redis bitmaps

http://blog.getspool.com/2011/11/29/fast-easy-realtime-metrics-using-redis-bitmaps/

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 19 comments

Little Printer prints you a beautiful mini-newspaper.

http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 78 comments

Google Bar: The next stage in Google redesign

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/next-stage-in-our-redesign.html

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 118 comments

Matrix multiplication in O(n^2.373)

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=839

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 52 comments

Stanford Free Class: Computer Security

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

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 16 comments

EU: Copyright Doesn't Cover Functionality, Programming Language

http://www.osnews.com/story/25373/EU_Copyright_Doesn_t_Cover_Functionality_Programming_Language

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Version 1.1 of our $99 hackable Bluetooth smartwatch

http://wwww.getinpulse.com/?

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: elegant open-source pastebin server (node.js & redis)

http://hastebin.com

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 68 comments

Security researcher responds to CarrierIQ with video proof

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/security-researcher-responds-to-carrieriq-with-video-proof-20111129/

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 33 comments

Documents Reveal TSA Proposal To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/03/02/docs-reveal-tsa-plan-to-body-scan-pedestrians-train-passengers/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 43 comments

Avout: Distributed State in Clojure

http://clojure.com/blog/2011/11/29/avout.html

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 5 comments

The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/the-cognitive-benefits-of-chewing-gum/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 29 comments

API Half-lives

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/11/api-half-lives.html

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 44 comments

Another free course: Model Thinking

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

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 22 comments

WordPress Launches Google Adsense Alternative, WordAds

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/wordads/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 28 comments

Think you understand Monty Hall? Try the Tuesday boy problem.

http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2011/11/the_tuesday_birthday_problem.php

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 141 comments

Fuzzy string search

http://ntz-develop.blogspot.com/2011/03/fuzzy-string-search.html

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 9 comments

Programming languages cannot be copyrighted, says senior EU court adviser

http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/228621/programming-languages-cannot-be-copyrighted-says-senior-eu-court-advise

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 15 comments

X86's Days as a Consumer Microarchitecture are Numbered

https://plus.google.com/100838276097451809262/posts/1K5RYkiTyTU

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 78 comments

Tornado twice as fast with PyPy 1.7 compared to Python 2.7

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-tornado/VkOPfrbhaXE/discussion

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 22 comments

Open-source skills best hope for landing a good job

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/29/open_source_and_the_job_market/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Why Noir doesn't have controllers

http://groups.google.com/group/clj-noir/msg/502c3c7e24f7319c?pli=1

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

SublimeVideo HTML5 Video Player Now Free & Unlimited, Real-Time Stats & More

http://blog.jilion.com/2011/11/29/sublimevideo-unleashed

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Earning Money as an Amazon Affiliate, A Small Experiment

http://alexn.org/blog/2011/11/29/earning-money-as-an-amazon-affiliate.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 43 comments

This Is Why Your Website Is Slow

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27371/?p1=A3

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/29/yacy_google_open_source_engine/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

The Little Printer

http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: a Lisp that uses JSON instead of S-expressions (in .js)

https://github.com/jes5199/brid.js

15 years ago

★ 45 JavaScript MIT
69 upvotes – 70 comments

Business development: the Goldilocks principle

http://cdixon.org/2011/11/28/business-development-the-goldilocks-principle/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 2 comments

DesktopBootstrap: like Twitter Bootstrap, but for desktop apps

https://github.com/adamsmith/DesktopBootstrap

15 years ago

★ 164 C#
65 upvotes – 21 comments

Apple Approves Tethering App For the iPhone

http://tether.com/iphone

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 75 comments
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