top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-05

Ghost — rethinking WordPress

http://john.onolan.org/ghost/

14 years ago

502 upvotes – 224 comments

Show HN: Non-Confusing, Visually Correct Slider Toggle UI

http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2012/11/invention-multiple-choice-windowed-slider-ui/

14 years ago

441 upvotes – 79 comments

Don't re-elect SOPA supporters on Tuesday

http://blog.nahurst.com/dont-re-elect-sopa-supporters

14 years ago

435 upvotes – 172 comments

Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS

http://maker.github.com/ratchet/

14 years ago

394 upvotes – 83 comments

MongoDB Gotchas and How To Avoid Them

http://rsmith.co/2012/11/05/mongodb-gotchas-and-how-to-avoid-them/

14 years ago

353 upvotes – 90 comments

Stolen Money on Gittip, Part 1

http://blog.gittip.com/post/35057426257/money-laundering-on-gittip-part-1

14 years ago

296 upvotes – 162 comments

Perfectum Dashboard

http://wrapbootstrap.com/preview/WB0PHMG9K

14 years ago

254 upvotes – 47 comments

Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Khosla fund LightSail Energy in $37M Deal

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/11/05/peter-thiel-bill-gates-khosla-get-behind-energy-storage-start-up-lightsail-in-37m-deal/

14 years ago

235 upvotes – 123 comments

The Waiting Place

http://dcurt.is/the-waiting-place

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 31 comments

Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/11/05/writing-fast-memory-efficient-javascript/

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 30 comments

Git add -p: a powerful git feature

http://johnkary.net/git-add-p-the-most-powerful-git-feature-youre-not-using-yet/

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 107 comments

Follow the goal creep

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3304-follow-the-goal-creep

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 28 comments

Magic keywords on Google and the consequences of tailoring results

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/10/magic-keywords-on-google-and-the-consequences-of-search-tailoring-results.html

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 51 comments

Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp competitor

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/11/05/foursquare-now-gives-1-10-ratings-for-locations-in-its-ios-app-becomes-yelp-competitor-overnight/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 58 comments

A tcpdump Tutorial and Primer

http://danielmiessler.com/study/tcpdump

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 26 comments

Dolphins deserve same rights as humans, say scientists

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17116882

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 189 comments

Neil deGrasse Tyson: If I Were President...

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2011/08/21/if-i-were-president

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 99 comments

Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts?

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/11/is-facebook-broken-on-purpose-to-sell-promoted-posts/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 73 comments

Federal judge tosses Apple patent lawsuit against Motorola

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57545283-37/federal-judge-tosses-apple-patent-lawsuit-against-motorola/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 82 comments

Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

http://blog.instagram.com/post/35068144047/announcing-instagram-profiles-on-the-web

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 64 comments

The NYT's Visual Election Outcome Explorer - How we made the D3 decision tree

http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/nyts-512-paths-white-house/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: an alternative to AdSense

http://emberads.com/

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 78 comments

Highly relativistic spaceflight would be fatal for passengers and instruments

http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=23913

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 69 comments

AMD ships 16-core x86 3ghz CPU

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/amd_puts_servers_datacenters_piledriver_opteron_6300_series_processors

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: liffect — CSS3 animation effects for lists

http://ademilter.com/lab/liffect/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

:syntax Off

http://www.kyleisom.net/blog/2012/10/17/syntax-off/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 82 comments

Free ebooks from Microsoft Press

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukschools/archive/2012/05/21/free-ebooks-great-content-from-microsoft-press-that-won-t-cost-you-a-penny.aspx

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

Android is 5 years old today: Here's how it all began

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/android-is-5-years-old-today-heres-how-it-all-began-50009685/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

We Need a Programmer for President

http://java.dzone.com/articles/would-you-vote-programmer

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: hackathon for introverts

http://hackalone.org

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 48 comments

My popular Twitter Analytics app has reached technical limits. Need help

http://tphq.tumblr.com/post/35052036358/fruji-i-need-help

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 82 comments

No user agent detection for the iPad Mini

http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/ipad-mini-detection-for-html5-user-agent

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 64 comments

The Coming Collapse of Average Managers and Employees

http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2012/10/the-coming-collapse-of-average.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 50 comments

Apple Sells Three Million iPads in Three Days

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/11/05Apple-Sells-Three-Million-iPads-in-Three-Days.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 71 comments

Tiny Clever Quadrotors Now on Kickstarter

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/tiny-clever-quadrotors-now-on-kickstarter#.UJgZOllWS58.hackernews

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

Startup lessons learned after two and a half years

http://blog.latentflip.com/post/33902095607/startup-lessons-learned

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 30 comments

ClippyJS - Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia

http://www.smore.com/clippy-js

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Review: Google Nexus 4 Android Smartphone by LG

http://www.wired.com/reviews/2012/11/google-nexus-4

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 59 comments

Accidental Startup Office Manager: Ordering Food

http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2012/11/accidental-startup-office-manager-ordering-food/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 47 comments

Mathematics meets real life

http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/mathematics-meets-real-life/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

10,000 Artists Sign Up for Pirate Bay Promotion

http://torrentfreak.com/10000-artists-signed-up-for-pirate-bay-promotion-121103/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

NASA rover yet to find methane on Mars

http://www.nature.com/news/nasa-rover-finds-no-methane-on-mars-yet-1.11730

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

It's fine to get an MBA but don't be an MBA

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121104000733-7298-it-s-fine-to-get-an-mba-but-don-t-be-an-mba

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Multiple critical vulnerabilities in Sophos (antivirus) products

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Nov/31

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

Amputee scales 103 floors with mind-controlled 'bionic leg'

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/04/health/illinois-bionic-leg/index.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

The Tesla Model S is one of Time's Best Inventions of the Year

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/01/best-inventions-of-the-year-2012/slide/the-tesla-model-s/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments
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