top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-01

2013 Automobile of the Year: Tesla Model S

http://www.automobilemag.com/features/awards/1301_2013_automobile_of_the_year_tesla_model_s/viewall.html

14 years ago

447 upvotes – 280 comments

Richard Stallman: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-software-patents

14 years ago

355 upvotes – 98 comments

Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on front page until Dec 14th

http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/01/apple-told-to-rewrite-samsung-did-not-copy-statement-post-it/

14 years ago

308 upvotes – 233 comments

Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.

http://blog.danhulton.com/2012/11/01/fine-ebay-heres-your-two-dollars-i-hope-you-choke-on-it/

14 years ago

292 upvotes – 122 comments

Why you should take your 20's seriously

http://jasonevanish.com/2012/11/01/why-you-should-take-your-20s-seriously/

14 years ago

235 upvotes – 166 comments

Do You Wanna Touch

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/11/do-you-wanna-touch.html

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 143 comments

Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727241

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 261 comments

Programming is a Pop Culture

http://raganwald.posterous.com/programming-is-a-pop-culture

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 115 comments

Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-chomsky-on-where-artificial-intelligence-went-wrong/261637/?single_page=true

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 177 comments

Mario 3 recreated with CSS3 animations and media queries

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/media-query-mario

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 44 comments

Man faces 3 years in prison for tweeting about finance minister in India

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/iac-volunteer-tweets-himself-into-trouble-faces-three-years-in-jail/article4051769.ece

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 81 comments

Goldeneye 64's inspirational startup story

http://www.alexbaldwin.com/goldeneye/

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 74 comments

Kim Dotcom's new Mega project

http://kim.com/mega

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: UChicago admissions asked me to find Waldo. I did.

https://github.com/jacobsevart/waldo_uchicago

14 years ago

★ 62 Python
149 upvotes – 57 comments

George Lucas Will Use Disney $4 Billion to Fund Education

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-deal-george-lucas-will-384947

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 92 comments

We're shutting down ArcticStartup - please help my team find work

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/11/01/its-a-magical-world-out-there-hobbes-ol-buddy-lets-go-exploring

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 31 comments

New EC2 Standard Instances and Price Reductions

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/10/new-ec2-second-generation-standard-instances-and-price-reductions-1.html

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 66 comments

Apollo Flight Controller 101: Every console explained

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/apollo-flight-controller-101-every-console-explained/

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 14 comments

Build your own FPGA

http://blog.notdot.net/2012/10/Build-your-own-FPGA

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 39 comments

HTML5 Mythbusting

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/11/html5-mythbusting/

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 35 comments

Warning to YC applicants: We're going to restart HN tonight

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4730251

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 69 comments

Levels of programmers (2009)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/04/the-eight-levels-of-programmers.html

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 38 comments

Plasma Jet Electric Thrusters for Spacecraft

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2027072188/plasma-jet-electric-thrusters-for-spacecraft

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

OpenBSD 5.2 released

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20121101150347

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 75 comments

Ruby 2.0 patch that could make Rails startup 2.2x faster

http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7158

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727254

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 122 comments

Webshell.io: the shell for scripting and combining APIs in Javascript

http://webshell.io/home

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

Startups that TechCrunch missed out on – October 2012

http://www.startupplays.com/blog/top-35-startups-in-tech-that-techcrunch-missed-out-on-october-2012/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Generate REST APIs for Existing Applications

http://www.emergentone.com

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

The most common failure mode is failing to show up

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2012/11/the-most-common-failure-mode-is-failing-to-show-up/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

Why an Airline That Travelers Love Is Failing

http://business.time.com/2012/10/25/why-an-airline-that-travelers-love-is-failing/?ftcamp=crm/email/20121031/nbe/AlphavilleHongKong/product#prclt-fOXHm21v

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 86 comments

EFF Demands Answers About Predator Drone Flights in the U.S.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-demands-answers-about-predator-drone-flights-us

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 41 comments

FTC files suit against "Rachel from Cardholder Services"

http://www.networkworld.com/community/print/81719

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

Designing Javascript APIs

http://blog.filepicker.io/post/34767202473/designing-javascript-apis

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

My mom and dad’s house might explode, but Comcast wants its cable box back

http://sethclifford.me/2012/11/01/my-mom-and-dads-house-might-explode-but-comcast-wants-its-cable-box-back/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 71 comments

Competing on easy

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3302-competing-on-easy

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

Airbnb waives fees for Hurricane Sandy affected area

http://blog.airbnb.com/waiving-fees-for-hurricane-sandyaffected-area

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

How Manpacks boosted their average order size 84% and reduced churn to under 2%

http://blog.perfectaudience.com/2012/11/01/manpacks-grow-customer-base-customer-service/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

If you’ve done your work, you’ve only done half of your job

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/34779305695/the-other-half-of-your-job

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 5 comments

How to Hit 4 million Users in 6 months – A Startup Case Study

http://www.startupremarkable.com/grow-startup-to-millions-of-users

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Apple releases iOS 6.0.1 with improvements and bug fixes

http://9to5mac.com/2012/11/01/apple-releases-ios-6-0-1-with-improvements-and-bug-fixes/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 54 comments

Uber Increases Fares 2x in NYC

http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/31/assholes-shrug/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 79 comments

How I Wrote a Book in 3 Days

http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/how-i-wrote-a-book-in-3-days

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Linux sysadmin skills for anyone - a new online course

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726827

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 32 comments

PageLever (YC S11) Releases PageLever Now - Realtime Facebook Analytics

http://mashable.com/2012/11/01/facebook-analytics-real-time/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: PicDigest - Send social photos to people who aren't on social networks

http://picdigest.com

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 32 comments
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