top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-09

RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years

http://www.rethinkdb.com

14 years ago

739 upvotes – 237 comments

Uses for cURL

https://httpkit.com/resources/HTTP-from-the-Command-Line/

14 years ago

339 upvotes – 71 comments

How to get your IP unbanned on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761102

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 76 comments

The People's Bailout

http://howtosharpenpencils.tumblr.com/post/35285338188/the-peoples-bailout

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 313 comments

Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/inside-team-romneys-whale-of-an-it-meltdown/

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 189 comments

The Nature of Lisp

http://defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 77 comments

Inventing a Soccer Ball for Poor Countries

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/giving/the-one-world-futbol-promises-a-lasting-source-of-fun-in-poor-countries.html?hp

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 122 comments

Chinese government blocks Google.com, Gmail, Google+, Maps, Docs and more

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/11/09/chinese-government-blocks-google-com-gmail-google-maps-docs-analytics-drive-more/

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 102 comments

How to Detect a Toxic Customer (2010)

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/12/09/how-to-detect-a-toxic-customer/

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 64 comments

The UK Court Sanctions Apple, Hopes "Lack of Integrity" Is Not "Typical"

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20121109130213229

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 97 comments

Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software

http://apebox.org/wordpress/rants/456/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 184 comments

Eight Years of Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/11/09/eight-years-of-firefox/

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 58 comments

An inside look behind Romney's loss: An epic failure of its Orca big-data app

http://blogs.computerworld.com/governmentindustries/21310/inside-look-behind-romneys-loss-epic-failure-its-orca-big-data-app

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 105 comments

Objective-C in The Cloud

http://objective-cloud.com/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 68 comments

Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election

http://www.floatingsheep.org/2012/11/mapping-racist-tweets-in-response-to.html

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 100 comments

Writing A Lisp Interpreter In Haskell

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp-in-haskell.html

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 31 comments

What Programmers Want Is Less Stupid And More Programming

http://thecodist.com/article/what_programmers_want_is_less_stupid_and_more_programming

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

That'll Never Work

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/11/thatll-never-work.html?

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 30 comments

Rosalind is a platform for learning bioinformatics through problem solving.

http://rosalind.info/problems/as-table/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 22 comments

How Zara Grew Into the World’s Largest Fashion Retailer

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/magazine/how-zara-grew-into-the-worlds-largest-fashion-retailer.html?_r=0

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 49 comments

Supreme Court of Canada Voids Viagra Patent for Insufficient Disclosure

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6693/125/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: HTTPretty, an easy way to mock http requests in python

http://falcao.it/HTTPretty/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 15 comments

Was Nate Silver the Most Accurate 2012 Election Pundit?

http://appliedrationality.org/2012/11/09/was-nate-silver-the-most-accurate-2012-election-pundit/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 59 comments

The Nuclear Scientist Who Skipped College

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/taylor-wilson/309132/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 50 comments

Redis data model and eventual consistency

http://antirez.com/news/36

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 5 comments

Txtbirds

http://www.jsvine.com/txtbirds/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

Arduino Micro shrinks your favorite DIY platform down

http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/08/arduino-micro-shrinks-your-favorite-diy-platform/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments

dōmo: Markup, style, and code in one language

http://domo-js.com

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 75 comments

Git push over XMPP

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/git_push_over_XMPP/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

How a single person can make a huge difference to your startup in 24 hours

http://blog.tray.io/post/35358252787/how-a-single-person-can-make-a-huge-difference-to-your

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

How I came to love big data

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3315-how-i-came-to-love-big-data-or-at-least-acknowledge-its-existence

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Stripe Would Be Perfect If...

http://liamkaufman.com/blog/2012/11/09/stripe-would-be-perfect-if/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 39 comments

Introducing Wakari - Scientific Python in the cloud

http://continuum.io/blog/introducing-wakari

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 31 comments

Australian Bank Anonymizes and Releases Billions of Records

http://peoplelikeu.com.au/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 37 comments

Google Free Zone - Share and search on your phone with no data charges

http://www.google.com.ph/intl/en/mobile/landing/freezone/stp.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/08/introducing-wikipedias-new-html5-video-player/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

MIT’s Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679878/mits-freaky-non-stick-coating-keeps-ketchup-flowing

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook's Legendary Hackathons

http://www.fastcompany.com/3002845/secrets-facebooks-legendary-hackathons-revealed?utm_source=twitter

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Reimagining the Windows Command Line

http://tltjr.github.com/2012/11/08/reimagining-the-windows-command-line/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 72 comments

Microsoft patents spying on you with your TV's camera

http://boingboing.net/2012/11/08/microsoft-patents-spying-on-yo.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 44 comments

Rolling Jubilee - A Bailout Of The People By The People

http://rollingjubilee.org/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

Buy a car with Bitcoins, save $5,000

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/09/bitcoin_friday_sale_event/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments

The Delpan Incident

http://blog.gittip.com/post/35314128322/the-delpan-incident

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 31 comments

Reddit CEO Asks Users To Buy Revamped Membership

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/08/reddit-digg/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 50 comments

Multicast in Ruby: Building a Peer-to-Peer Chat System

http://tx.pignata.com/2012/11/multicast-in-ruby-building-a-peer-to-peer-chat-system.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 7 comments

Stop telling people to vote

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/11/stop-telling-people-to-vote/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 57 comments

How We Built USA Today's Election Night Maps

http://mapbox.com/blog/election-mapping-usatoday/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 19 comments
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