top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-08

Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/11/08/microsoft-demos-amazing-english-to-mandarin-translation-allowing-for-real-time-audible-translations/?fromcat=all

14 years ago

583 upvotes – 121 comments

Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/10/02/162163801/obama-s-secret-weapon-in-the-south-small-dead-but-still-kickin

14 years ago

461 upvotes – 301 comments

GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes

https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotting-in-threes/

14 years ago

258 upvotes – 199 comments

I am a terrible programmer

http://danshipper.com/i-am-a-terrible-programmer

14 years ago

245 upvotes – 140 comments

Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/11/08/priceline-com-acquiring-travel-company-kayak-for-1-8b-in-cash-and-stocks/?utm_source=Twitter&awesm=tnw.to_isx7&utm_campaign=social%20media&utm_medium=Spreadus

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 125 comments

Jam With Chrome

http://jamwithchrome.com/

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 78 comments

More HTML5 APIs

http://davidwalsh.name/more-html5-apis

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 67 comments

Buildy, a real-time HTML5 building game - come build in our biggest world yet

http://playbuildy.com/world?id=50736d9452572c7481000000#x=61840&y=0&z=-289040&s=32

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 45 comments

Photo of a Nuclear Explosion Less than 1 Millisecond After Detonation

http://www.petapixel.com/2011/12/09/photo-of-a-nuclear-explosion-less-than-1-millisecond-after-detonation/

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 51 comments

The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing

http://www.fastcompany.com/3002676/magical-tech-behind-paper-ipads-color-mixing-perfection

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 42 comments

Nexus 4 Review: Beautifully Crafted, Premium Android Phone

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/11/07/google-nexus-4-review-the-beautifully-crafted-premium-flagship-phone-that-android-deserves/

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 161 comments

No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Procrastination’s Ass

http://blog.seangransee.com/post/35254966580/no-studying-after-5pm-using-parkinsons-law-to-kick

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 53 comments

NASA May Unveil New Manned Moon Missions Soon

http://www.space.com/18380-nasa-moon-missions-obama-election.html

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 62 comments

ChesSMS: Using Unicode to play Chess over SMS

http://www.twilio.com/engineering/2012/11/08/adventures-in-unicode-sms

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 22 comments

E17 (Enlightenment) enters alpha after 12 years

http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=news/show&l=en&news_id=62

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 75 comments

For Zelda-playing daughter, Dad gives Link a sex change

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11/i-am-no-man-for-zelda-playing-daughter-dad-gives-link-a-sex-change/

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 119 comments

The Best Time to Post on Hacker News

http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker-news-a-comprehensive-answer/

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 46 comments

Humble Bundle 4 for android

https://www.humblebundle.com/?hb=4

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 32 comments

Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-JVM move

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/08/twitter_epic_traffic_saved_by_java/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 167 comments

Bounce ball camera to help first responders

http://bounceimaging.com

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 42 comments

Jewish Problems

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.1556v2.pdf

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 69 comments

Building 'From Holden', an apparel manufacturer, from the ground up

http://blog.fromholden.com/post/35254471808/building-from-holden-an-apparel-manufacturer-from

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 96 comments

Typography Spacing Research

http://aldusleaf.org/rhea.php

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 22 comments

Why the hell does this mouse need to connect to the Internet?

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/why-the-hell-does-this-mouse-need-to-connect-to-the-internet/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 79 comments

Kernel Drivers Compiled to Javascript and Run in Browser

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/kernel_drivers_compiled_to_javascript

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 5 comments

Teaching Programming To A Highly Motivated Beginner

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/156836-teaching-programming-to-a-highly-motivated-beginner/fulltext

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

PyCon US 2013 adds 6th talk track

http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/11/pycon-us-2013-how-many-talk-tracks-are.html

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

F# Foundation Launch : Open-source, cross-platform F# (1PM PST/9PM GMT Today)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2012/11/06/commmunity-for-f-online-meetup-quot-the-f-foundation-quot-with-tomas-petricek-and-phil-trelford-thursday-nov-8-2012.aspx

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

CheckIO - a programming game

http://www.checkio.org/welcome/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments

Making something people want - the GoCardless story

http://tomblomfield.com/post/33506878578/making-something-people-want-the-gocardless-story

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

High blood pressure damages brain long before old age

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-blood-pressure-brain-damage-20121101,0,3791840.story

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

Simplicity

http://francispedraza.com/simplicity

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

Fork Your Application's Data (Not Just Your Code)

https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/11/8/fork_your_data/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Art.sy, a collection of the world's greatest art

http://art.sy/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Fact-checkers: Talking crap in Holland v America

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/08/fact-checkers

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 47 comments

How MIT Became the Most Important University in the World

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/2012/10/mit-important-university-world-harvard/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments

Video About Fair Use, Remix and Culture Taken Down Over Copyright Claim

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121107/18062520968/video-about-fair-use-remix-culture-taken-down-over-copyright-claim-course.shtml

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 19 comments

Product Performances

http://dcurt.is/magic

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

AMD dismisses numerous open source developers

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/AMD-dismisses-numerous-open-source-developers-1745131.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

Was Intrade being manipulated over the last month?

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/11/was-intrade-being-manipulated-over-the-last-month.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Sweden Needs More Trash, Because It Has Turned All It's Got Into Energy

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680763/sweden-needs-more-trash-because-it-has-turned-all-its-got-into-energy

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments
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