top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-30

Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/30/smartphone_spying_app

15 years ago

700 upvotes – 189 comments

Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

http://www.amitguptaneedsyou.com

15 years ago

652 upvotes – 234 comments

Show HN: Entire concerts algorithmically "reconstructed" from YouTube videos

http://switchcam.com/

15 years ago

435 upvotes – 129 comments

Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming

http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/index.html

15 years ago

400 upvotes – 51 comments

The mental gymnastics involved in having a high security clearance.

http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsberg-limitations-knowledge

15 years ago

260 upvotes – 150 comments

You'll be dead soon - Carpe Diem

http://steveblank.com/2011/11/30/youll-be-dead-soon-carpe-diem/

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 41 comments

US Road Fatalities 2001-09 mapped with OpenStreetMap

http://map.itoworld.com/road-casualties-usa

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 100 comments

IOS App Store Submission Checklist - anything else to add?

https://ontestpad.com/library/201/ios-app-store-submission-checklist

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 72 comments

The Rest of the Story (Yammer & Scala)

http://codahale.com/the-rest-of-the-story/

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 60 comments

Why Hypercard Had to Die

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 140 comments

Researcher shows how to "friend" anyone on Facebook within 24 hours

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/researcher-shows-how-to-friend-anyone-on-facebook-within-24-hours.ars

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 58 comments

Music artist: "Why I prefer piracy to Spotify"

http://derekwebb.tumblr.com/post/13503899950/giving-it-away-how-free-music-makes-more-than-sense

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 103 comments

Postgresql 9.2 will have boat-loads of performance enhancements

http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2011.html#November_29_2011

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 27 comments

Opensource tool to create slowmotion videos from your footage

http://slowmovideo.granjow.net/videos.html

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 15 comments

Researcher’s Video Shows Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/secret-software-logging-video/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 36 comments

Making Coffeescript’s Whitespace More Significant

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/11/sans-titre.md#readme

15 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby
143 upvotes – 91 comments

The node.js aesthetic

http://substack.net/posts/b96642

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 76 comments

Only fast languages are interesting

http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/only-fast-languages-are-interesting/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 86 comments

Move The Web Forward

http://movethewebforward.org/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 19 comments

Moving on from Rails

http://broadcastingadam.com/2011/11/moving_on_from_rails

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 53 comments

A Google Patent mentions my prior art

http://cmdrtaco.net/2011/11/google-patent-mentions-my-prior-art/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 22 comments

Patient sues dentist over gag order, gets Medical Justice to backtrack

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/patient-sues-dentist-over-gag-order-causing-medical-justice-to-drop-it.ars

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Slowy app, Real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter

http://slowyapp.com/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 32 comments

House votes to end country limits for skilled workers seeking green cards

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-government/house-bill-ends-country-limits-for-skilled-workers-seeking-visas/2011/11/29/gIQA7BQ99N_story.html

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 45 comments

The PC is dead. Why no angry nerds?

http://futureoftheinternet.org/the-pc-is-dead-why-no-angry-nerds

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 123 comments

Kendo UI is out of beta

http://www.kendoui.com/get-kendo-ui.aspx

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 51 comments

Rich Hickey: STMs vs Locks [2008]

http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff/2008-05-27-clojure-stms-vs-locks

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Restrospective

https://allthingsd.com/20111129/the-apologies-of-zuckerberg-a-retrospective/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

It Could Be Old Age, or It Could Be Low B12

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/health/vitamin-b12-deficiency-can-cause-symptoms-that-mimic-aging.html?src=me&ref=general

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 26 comments

Why are entrepreneurs leaving the U.S.?

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201112/the-returnees.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 67 comments

Oracle checks in -XX:+UnlockCommercialVMOptions in JVM

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hotspot-rt/hotspot/rev/763f01599ff4

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 44 comments

IPad disrupting global DRAM market, causing chipmakers to lose billions

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/11/30/ipad_disrupting_global_dram_market_causing_chipmakers_to_lose_billions.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

Hug an OSS Developer or just don't be a dick

http://www.theautomatedtester.co.uk/blog/2011/hug-an-oss-developer-or-dont-be-a-dick.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 48 comments

Pivoting is really hard.

http://sahillavingia.com/blog/pivoting-is-really-hard/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Spotify announces music app store - Spotify Platform

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/spotify-announces-music-app-store-1044396

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

Web Consistency Testing

http://webconsistencytesting.com/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 2 comments
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