top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-02

Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal

http://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/

15 years ago

389 upvotes – 212 comments

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's Resume. Anyone interested?

http://cmdrtaco.net/resume.pdf

15 years ago

376 upvotes – 154 comments

This Site’s Domain is Stolen

http://css-tricks.com/15377-this-sites-domain-is-stolen/

15 years ago

355 upvotes – 167 comments

Ask HN: How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3303776

15 years ago

287 upvotes – 188 comments

[Django] Python 3 port - all tests now pass on 2.7.2 and 3.2.2

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/XjrX3FIPT-U

15 years ago

282 upvotes – 53 comments

If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/if-everyone-else-is-such-an-idiot-how-come-youre-not-rich/249430/

15 years ago

261 upvotes – 113 comments

Rand Fishkin: Inbound Marketing for Startups

http://hackersandfounders.tv/RDmt/rand-fishkin-inbound-marketing-for-startups/

15 years ago

244 upvotes – 39 comments

What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances-dozens-of

15 years ago

237 upvotes – 41 comments

LLVM 3.0 Released

http://llvm.org/releases/3.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 32 comments

Moving from SVN to Git in 1,000 easy steps

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/12/02/moving-from-svn-to-git-in-1000-easy-steps/

15 years ago

194 upvotes – 64 comments

How to build a data mining web app?

https://github.com/entaroadun/hnpickup#readme

15 years ago

★ 358 JavaScript
178 upvotes – 25 comments

A primer on Bezier curves

http://processingjs.nihongoresources.com/bezierinfo/

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 8 comments

Notch is no longer lead developer on Minecraft

http://notch.tumblr.com/

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 42 comments

CyanogenMod will never have Carrier IQ

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-will-never-have-carrier-iq

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 39 comments

Amit Gupta Could Have Marrow Transplant by End of Year

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/12/amit-gupta-marrow-transplant/

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 62 comments

The Modern Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or web.py lover)

http://arantaday.com/the-modern-java-ecosystem

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 68 comments

Google's Indexing Javascript more than we thought

http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/google-stop-playing-the-jig-is-still-up-guest-post/

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 30 comments

QEMU 1.0 released

http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.0

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 19 comments

VP trees: A data structure for finding stuff fast

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=130

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 9 comments

Is Haskell a Good Choice for Web Applications? (2009)

http://jekor.com/article/is-haskell-a-good-choice-for-web-applications

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments

RMS on evil developers, spying social networks, the legitimacy of Anonymous

http://rt.com/news/richard-stallman-free-software-875/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 112 comments

Gitbox is 1 year old: status report

http://blog.oleganza.com/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: How has your life changed after selling your startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3304359

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

How I stopped worrying and switched to C++ for my Bob Scheme VM

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/11/30/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-switched-to-c-for-my-bob-scheme-vm/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

The OAuth chronicles: I am not stupid

http://ashfurrow.com/2011/12/oauth_sucks/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 61 comments

Go Isn't C

http://iottmco.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/go-isnt-c/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

Path and Instagram are making Facebook look incredibly uninventive at mobile

http://www.splatf.com/2011/11/path-facebook/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 32 comments

Marco's eReader Roundup (Kindle 4, Kindle Touch, Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Touch)

http://www.marco.org/2011/12/02/kindle-touch-vs-nook-simple-touch-kobo-touch-kindle-4

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 51 comments

How Zencoder became the largest transcoding service on the market

http://blog.zencoder.com/2011/12/02/how-zencoder-became-the-largest-cloud-transcoding-service-on-the-market/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 43 comments

“Otherwise do something else”

http://cdixon.org/2011/12/02/otherwise-do-something-else/?repost-because-hn-should-discuss

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Zynga Files for $1B IPO

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketnewsvideo/2011/12/02/zynga-files-for-1b-ipo/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 64 comments

Facebook To Open Engineering Office In NYC

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/02/facebook-to-open-engineering-office-in-nyc/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments

A better Hackerbuddy

http://hackerbuddy.com/posts/2

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Is Talent Underrated? Making Sense of a Recent Attack on Practice

http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/12/02/is-talent-underrated-making-sense-of-a-recent-attack-on-practice/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

SOPA on the ropes? Bipartisan alternative to 'Net censorship emerges

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/sopa-on-the-ropes-bipartisan-alternative-to-net-censorship-emerges.ars

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

How to use Firebug on your iPad and iPhone

http://martinkool.com/post/13629963755/firebug-on-ipad-and-iphone

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

How to Use UTF-8 with Python

http://www.evanjones.ca/python-utf8.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments

Wikileaks: Security vendors help governments spy on their citizens

http://www.itworld.com/security/229897/security-vendors-help-covert-agencies-spy-their-own-citizend-wikileaks

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

Donors of bone marrow can now be paid

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/02/us-donors-bone-marrow-idUSTRE7B11FR20111202

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 35 comments

Interactive Bezier curve demo using D3.js

http://www.jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

How Carrier IQ was wrongly accused of keylogging

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57335715-281/how-carrier-iq-was-wrongly-accused-of-keylogging/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 58 comments

A Modern Guide to Threads

http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/10/11/a-modern-guide-to-threads/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

Aussie hacks Siri to automate home

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/aussie-hacks-siri-to-automate-home-20111202-1o9zj.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 7 comments

How Heroku Works - Hiring

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2011/12/02/how-heroku-works-hiring/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments

Node.js modules you should know about: optimist

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

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

Engadget Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) review

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/01/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-review/?m=false

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments
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