top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-03

Facebook buys Gowalla

http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/02/technology/gowalla_facebook/index.htm?iid=HP_LN

15 years ago

310 upvotes – 105 comments

I too know the websites you visited

http://oxplot.github.com/visipisi/visipisi.html

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 93 comments

Indian Railways stations, trains and schedules database in JSON and SQL formats

http://sramana.in/indianrail-db/

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 28 comments

The raster tragedy at low resolution (1997)

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tools/trtalr.aspx

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 40 comments

Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'

http://news.yahoo.com/asians-college-strategy-dont-check-asian-174442977.html

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 194 comments

NYC Man Earns $55,000 A Year Peddling Candy On Subway

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/12/02/nyc-man-earns-55-000-a-year-peddling-candy-on-the-subway/

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 181 comments

Paul Graham and not being as right as he could be in “The Age of the Essay”

http://jseliger.com/2011/12/02/paul-graham-and-not-being-as-right-as-he-could-be-in-the-age-of-the-essay/

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 51 comments

Mountains and buried ice on Mars

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMUGI2XFVG_index_0.html

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 15 comments

Email banned at 75,000-employee company

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/11/tech-company-implements-employee-zero-email-policy/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 73 comments

Node.js 0.6.4 was blocked in China

http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/8803e5fbe28984af?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

I know the websites you visited

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cachetime/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

ME student discovers a unique fact about polar bears

http://coe.berkeley.edu/engnews/fall02/3S/polarbear.html

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments

Windows Phone is currently five times more profitable for us than the iPhone

http://blog.anlock.com/?p=28

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

Carrier IQ Detector is available on the Android Market - find out if you have it

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.carrieriqdetector

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Apple's suggestions to Samsung to work-around its iPhone and iPad design patents

http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/2/2596527/apple-samsung-design-patent-iphone-ipad-work-around

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 82 comments

Google is Creating an Amazon Prime Competitor

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204012004577072323400561792-lMyQjAxMTAxMDAwMTEwNDEyWj.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

SAP To Acquire SuccessFactors For $3.4 Billion

http://allthingsd.com/20111203/sap-to-acquire-successfactors-for-3-4-billion/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 49 comments

EA relaunches Tetris on iOS with a $30/year subscription (really)

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/02/ea-relaunches-tetris-on-ios-with-a-30-year-subscription-really/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Is Firefox Doomed?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_firefox_doomed.php#.TtqVTl2ZdU4.hackernews

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 122 comments

GNU Stow 2.1.0 released

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2011-12/msg00001.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

How to create a biased coin and prove it with math

http://izbicki.me/blog/how-to-create-an-unfair-coin-and-prove-it-with-math

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

Solarized color theme for Emacs 24

http://batsov.com/articles/2011/12/03/solarized-for-emacs/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

Realtime laser graphics

http://marcansoft.com/blog/2010/11/openlase-open-realtime-laser-graphics/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Science Exchange (YC S11) Gets A $1.5 Million Boost

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/02/science-exchanges-marketplace-for-research-facilities-gets-a-1-5-million-boost/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

Welcome to Armageddon, USA: A Tour of America’s Most Toxic Town

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_madmaxtown/all/1

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 12 comments

Repos.io is the del.icio.us of forges

http://repos.io/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

DARPA: Shredder Challenge Solved. See images from the winning entry.

http://www.shredderchallenge.com

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Why are you using Google Plus for Blogging?

http://zerodistraction.com/blog/2011/12/2/why-are-you-using-google-plus-for-blogging.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 44 comments

First RasberryPi PCBs ready

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/389

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments

Markdress - Render any markdown URL

http://www.s-anand.net/blog/markdress/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

How do I prevent accidental rm -rf /*?

http://serverfault.com/questions/337082/how-do-i-prevent-accidental-rm-rf

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 51 comments

Quadcopters build a 6 meter tower

http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/Research_DAndrea/fmec

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

How Entrepreneurs Can Increase Productivity By 500%

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/03/how-entrepreneurs-can-increase-productivity-by-500/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 17 comments

Xeni Jardin Tweets Breast-Cancer Diagnosis

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2011/12/02/143072567/xeni-jardin-tells-twitter-fans-she-has-breast-cancer

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 7 comments

While you’re up, print me a solar cell

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/printable-solar-cells-0711.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 2 comments

Apple Doesn't Want My Filthy Disabled Money

http://deborah.dreamwidth.org/63403.html

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 21 comments

Poorly Designed, Broken Websites Are Costing Canadian Corporations Millions

http://factore.ca/on-the-floor/116-poorly-designed-canadian-corporate-websites-are-costing-them-millions

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 27 comments
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