top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-04

Zendesk CEO calls Freshdesk a freaking rip off - Freshdesk responds

http://ripoffornot.org

15 years ago

310 upvotes – 188 comments

The Mature Programmer

http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2011/11/11-22-11-mature-programmer.html

15 years ago

226 upvotes – 70 comments

How about some Android graphics true facts?

https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x93s

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 104 comments

Path menu in pure CSS3

http://lab.victorcoulon.fr/css/path-menu/

15 years ago

213 upvotes – 53 comments

Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki

15 years ago

★ 6.6k NSIS
181 upvotes – 93 comments

The secret history of the about:jwz url

http://www.jwz.org/doc/about-jwz.html

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 18 comments

Firefox 11 Targeted for SPDY Support

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528288

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 39 comments

Superstitious users and the FreeBSD logo

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2011-November/006642.html

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 132 comments

Harvard 1869 entrance exam

http://spectrum.columbiaspectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/harvardexam.pdf

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 135 comments

The Future of Ground-Based Transportation Systems

http://swiftprt.com/blog/2011/12/the-future-of-ground-based-transportation-systems/

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 97 comments

Anti-pattern theater: how to get women to quit

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/12/04/meeting/

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 176 comments

Who's really making money on the Chinese internet?

http://techrice.com/2011/06/07/the-story-of-wl-chinas-great-internet-divide/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 12 comments

Ted Dziuba's take on Hubot

https://github.com/teddziuba/hubot

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 65 comments

Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/08/24/full-body-scan-technology-deployed-in-street-roving-vans/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 59 comments

From Facebook's Hackathon, TCP re-implemented over chat in a post-SOPA world

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3310036

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 25 comments

JQuery Shutters Plugin Site

http://plugins.jquery.com/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 46 comments

Realtime visualization of Wikipedia edit streams

http://inkdroid.org:3000/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

Seasteading: Cities on the ocean

http://www.economist.com/node/21540395?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/citiesontheocean

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 112 comments

Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years - Slashdot

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/1435217/half-life-of-a-tech-worker-15-years?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 92 comments

The Pest Who Shames Companies Into Fixing Security Flaws

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/mf_soghoian/all/1

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 14 comments

Sprint.ly: New software development management tool from Joe Stump

https://sprint.ly/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 51 comments

Microsoft Research applying spam-fighting techniques to attack HIV

http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/4/2609172/microsoft-research-applying-spam-fighting-techniques-to-attack-hiv?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 13 comments

Spare Me From “Product Guys”

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/03/spare-me-from-product-guys/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 60 comments

Ebay launches query language

http://ql.io/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

Brainfuck in one line of Python

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ynaamad/misc/bf.htm

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

The open source code powering Occupy Wall Street

https://github.com/FLOSolutions

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 30 comments

Freelance Rates Survey, 2011 (UK)

http://cole007.net/blog/86/freelance-rates-survey-2011

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 32 comments

How Integers Should Work (In Systems Programming Languages)

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/642

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 37 comments

The Berkeley pit

http://failuremag.com/index.php/site/print/the_berkeley_pit/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Is BSD the new GPL?

http://zedshaw.com/essays/is_bsd_the_new_gpl.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 38 comments

Linus Torvalds Has Changed His Mind About Gnome 3

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/WTLyn7dqYoR

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Cheap Willl Be Smart. Expensive Will Be Dumb.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/12/cheap-willl-be-smart-expensive-will-be-dumb.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments

Why is “Everything is a File” unique to Unix operating systems?

http://superuser.com/q/364152/4377

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 18 comments

Kodak's long fade to black

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20111204,0,507980.column

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 28 comments
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