top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-01

Dwolla: transactions under $10 are free

http://blog.dwolla.com/all-transactions-under-10-are-now-free-1-for-small-business/

15 years ago

333 upvotes – 90 comments

Carrier IQ references discovered in Apple's iOS

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/30/2601875/carrier-iq-references-discovered-apple-ios-iphone

15 years ago

305 upvotes – 85 comments

WikiLeaks: The Spy Files

http://wikileaks.org/the-spyfiles.html

15 years ago

298 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3300290

15 years ago

290 upvotes – 251 comments

Ivo – a reimagined Unix terminal system

http://lubutu.com/idea/ivo

15 years ago

284 upvotes – 151 comments

Learn Regex The Hard Way

http://regex.learncodethehardway.org/?

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 62 comments

Tyranny of the Tools

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/12/tyranny-of-the-1.php

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 31 comments

Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally for First Time

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/chrome-overtakes-firefox-globally-for-first-time

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 110 comments

Google rips Senate's online piracy bill: 'This is what is wrong with Washington'

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/196385-google-piracy-bill-a-trial-lawyers-dream

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 45 comments

Luvit - Lua + UV + Jit = NodeJS re-implemented in Lua

http://lua-list.2524044.n2.nabble.com/ANN-Luvit-Lua-UV-Jit-NodeJS-re-implemented-in-Lua-td7048032.html

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 37 comments

CarrierIQ is on iOS, sans keylogger

http://blog.chpwn.com/post/13572216737

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 10 comments

Translation of Carrier IQ's Media Release

http://daringfireball.net/2011/12/translation_carrier_iq

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 23 comments

Apple: We Don’t Use Carrier IQ… In Most Of Our Products… Anymore.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/01/apple-we-dont-use-carrier-iq-in-most-of-our-products-anymore/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 51 comments

Scala At Yammer (Official position on Scala)

http://eng.yammer.com/blog/2011/11/30/scala-at-yammer.html

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 62 comments

Copyright Corruption Scandal Surrounds Anti-Piracy Campaign

http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-corruption-scandal-surrounds-anti-piracy-campaign-111201/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29&asid=03cabdde

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 7 comments

Path(v2) fly out menu already recreated and open sourced.

https://github.com/levey/QuadCurveMenu

15 years ago

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124 upvotes – 37 comments

Google's Address-sanitizer: a fast memory error detector (10x valgrind)

http://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerAlgorithm

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 25 comments

The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix/0

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 12 comments

Google+ Now Lets You Conference People Into Hangouts With Free Voice Calls

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/01/hangouts-voice-calls/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 11 comments

Arduino 1.0 now available

http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/11/30/arduino-1-0-now-available/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 16 comments

How ZeroCater (W2011) got started

http://blog.zerocater.com/hello-world

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

Google Nexus Android phones do not include Carrier IQ tracking software

http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/1/2602313/google-nexus-android-phones-and-original-xoom-tablet-do-not-include

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 21 comments

Senator Al Franken Asks Carrier IQ to Explain Itself

http://franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1868

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 28 comments

Find His Porn: Evil Website of the Week

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/find_his_porn_evil_website_of_the_week.php

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 110 comments

The Pirate Bay Dancing for Firefox Bypasses National IP & DNS Blocks

http://lifehacker.com/5863932/the-pirate-bay-dancing-for-firefox-bypasses-national-ip-and-dns-blocks

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 15 comments

Inaugural Kalzumeus Podcast: Japan, Startups, A/B Testing, And More

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/12/01/inaugural-kalzumeus-podcast-japan-startups-ab-testing-and-more/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 28 comments

How to Make an Impact During the First Month of Your Startup Job

http://estromberg.com/post/13592135871/how-to-make-an-impact-during-the-first-month-of-your

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

Gitdocs: Open-source Dropbox using Ruby + Git

http://www.rubyflow.com/items/6883-gitdocs-open-source-dropbox-using-ruby-+-git

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 29 comments

A Case for Open-Source GPU Drivers

http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2011/11/30/a-case-for-open-source-gpu-drivers/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 46 comments

Reducing website spam

http://www.scirra.com/blog/61/reducing-website-spam

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

Android 4.0 Released for x86

http://www.osnews.com/story/25383/Android_4_0_Released_for_x86

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 38 comments

Dispatch Author Responds to the Scala Email

http://code.technically.us/post/13548980134/the-gist-of-it

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

Friction simulation on touchscreen

http://cnettv.cnet.com/senseg-demos-prototype-touch-feedback-technology/9742-1_53-50115714.html?tag=cnetRiver

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Academia.edu raises $4.5 million to help academics share research papers

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/30/academia-edu-raises

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

You'll Get a Cow if You Work at This Company

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/12/01/work-at-this-company-and-youll-get-a-cow-a-fixie-and-an-unlimited-supply-of-your-favorite-beer/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 58 comments

Node.js modules you should know about: dnode

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/nodejs-modules-dnode/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

A new version of the Joel Test

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/09/new-version-of-joel-test-draft.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 19 comments

Undiscriminating Skepticism

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ww/undiscriminating_skepticism/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 14 comments

GCHQ Code Cracking Challenge to recruit code breakers

http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Nyan cat in the terminal

http://miku.acm.uiuc.edu/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 17 comments

How to find a business cofounder that doesn't suck

http://www.humbledmba.com/how-to-find-a-business-cofounder-that-doesnt

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments

How I come up with (and kill) new startup ideas

http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/2011/12/how-i-come-up-with-new-startup-ideas-in-4-steps/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments

Wall Street and hedge fund analyst: "Financial markets are rigged"

http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/muqzv/wall_of_text_i_work_in_wall_street_and_work_in/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 27 comments

Why HTML5 Media is not Enough

http://ofmlabs.org/articles/dublin.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments
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