top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-03

512 Paths to the White House

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/02/us/politics/paths-to-the-white-house.html

14 years ago

365 upvotes – 170 comments

Learn a Programming Language Faster by Copying Unix

http://www.rodrigoalvesvieira.com/copy-unix/

14 years ago

267 upvotes – 107 comments

US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/11/02/1737219/us-government-you-dont-own-your-cloud-data-so-we-can-access-it-at-any-time

14 years ago

245 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: I built a thing

http://www.boxcarsurgery.com/2012/11/03/i-built-a-thing.html

14 years ago

242 upvotes – 102 comments

Apple script resizes iPad banner and pushes Samsung verdict out of view

https://ssl.apple.com/v/home/n/scripts/hero_resize.js

14 years ago

240 upvotes – 135 comments

Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver

http://markcoddington.com/2012/10/31/nate-silver-journalism-politics-knowledge-epistemology/

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 176 comments

The Background Noise Was Louder than I Realized

http://prog21.dadgum.com/155.html

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 56 comments

Google Address Sanitizer ("compile-time valgrind") to be part of GCC 4.8

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-11/msg00088.html

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 27 comments

Stop Procrastinating by “Clearing to Neutral”

http://updates.lifehacker.com/post/34850636076/stop-procrastinating-by-clearing-to-neutral

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 51 comments

New Jersey To Allow Voting By Email

http://www.state.nj.us/governor/news/news/552012/approved/20121103d.html

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 67 comments

How Do You Raise a Prodigy?

http://nytimes.com/2012/11/04/magazine/how-do-you-raise-a-prodigy.html?src=dayp

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 17 comments

How a Norco case killed 13TB of our data

http://wsyntax.com/cs/killer-norco-case/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 47 comments

Now 0-for-3, SpaceX's Elon Musk Vows to Make Orbit (2008)

http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/08/musk_qa

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 40 comments

Self-Portrait by Curiosity Rover Arm Camera

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4845

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 36 comments

Ideas have a 2 week shelf life

http://stevecorona.com/ideas-have-a-2-week-shelf-life?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+stevecorona+%28Steve+Corona%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

Apple posts revised Samsung statement

http://www.apple.co.uk/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 65 comments

29C3 presale has started

http://events.ccc.de/2012/11/03/ticket-sale-has-opened/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 21 comments

Sharing secrets and distributing passwords

http://datagenetics.com/blog/november22012/index.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

What makes a great API?

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2012/07/19/what-makes-a-great-api-the-five-keys/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments

Nonsense Accusations of Spaghetti Code Considered Harmful

http://rtfeldman.com/post/34886239691/nonsense-accusations-of-spaghetti-code-considered

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

Meet the Most Indebted Man in the World

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/meet-the-most-indebted-man-in-the-world/264413/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

HDMI – Hacking Displays Made Interesting

http://media.blackhat.com/bh-eu-12/Davis/bh-eu-12-Davis-HDMI-WP.pdf

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 2 comments

Massive Open Online Courses Are Multiplying at a Rapid Pace

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/massive-open-online-courses-are-multiplying-at-a-rapid-pace.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

A painful Apple recall process

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28613587/apple_letter.html

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 45 comments
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