top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-12

Python Libraries you should know about

http://doda.co/7-python-libraries-you-should-know-about

14 years ago

483 upvotes – 69 comments

Alone Together, Again

http://al3x.net/2012/11/11/alone-together-again.html

14 years ago

433 upvotes – 126 comments

Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For All Developers

http://blog.anylistapp.com/2012/11/push-notifications/

14 years ago

316 upvotes – 142 comments

My favorite regex of all time

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/my-favorite-regex/

14 years ago

272 upvotes – 111 comments

A billion dollar software tech company is founded every three months in the U.S.

http://blog.minming.net/post/35553963889/a-billion-dollar-software-tech-company-is-founded-every

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 111 comments

Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters

http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/2012/11/12/microsoft-sends-two-million-null-characters-hangs-opera

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 115 comments

Y Combinator interview decisions postponed to November 15

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4774288

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 96 comments

Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin

http://betabeat.com/2012/11/reddit-considering-accepting-bitcoin-as-payment-for-reddit-gold-subscriptions/

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 139 comments

Shumway: a SWF interpreter entirely in JavaScript

http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2012-11-12/shumway-a-swf-interpreter-entirely-in-javascript/

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 57 comments

LuaJit 2.0 is out

http://luajit.org/download.html

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 72 comments

Stackoverflow abuses nofollow (2011)

http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/104/stackoverflow-amongst-nofollow-web-abuse-sites

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 69 comments

What is a music player?

https://github.com/albertz/music-player/blob/master/WhatIsAMusicPlayer.md

14 years ago

★ 496 Python BSD-2-Clause
123 upvotes – 68 comments

Upstream vendors and why they can be harmful

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=135220552521529&w=2

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 104 comments

New AWS Region in Sydney, Australia

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/asia-pacific-sydney-region-open.html

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 36 comments

The BufferApp Welcome Email

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4772709

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 16 comments

How to generate more revenue from your web application today

http://nathanbarry.com/generate-revenue-web-application-today/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

Apple fires up its version of Google’s "20% time"

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/11/12/apple-fires-up-its-version-of-googles-20-time-giving-some-employees-2-weeks-for-special-projects

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 79 comments

U.S. Oil Output to Overtake Saudi Arabia’s by 2020

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-12/u-s-to-overtake-saudi-arabia-s-oil-production-by-2020-iea-says.html

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 95 comments

IcoMoon - Custom Built and Crisp Icon Fonts

http://icomoon.io

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 20 comments

The Aha Moments That Made Paul Graham's Y Combinator Possible

http://www.fastcompany.com/3002810/aha-moments-made-paul-grahams-y-combinator-possible

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 52 comments

Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz

http://mega.co.nz/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 73 comments

Demonoid Is Back, BitTorrent Tracker is Now Online

http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-is-back-bittorrent-tracker-is-now-online-121112/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

How To Become An Apprentice Developer

http://hugomelo.com/post/35533342698/becoming-an-apprentice

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

How The Copyright Industry Drives A Big Brother Dystopia

http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/12/how-the-copyright-industry-drives-a-big-brother-dystopia

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 7 comments

When it comes to DRM, Amazon is a bottom feeding Hell Beast

http://www.attendly.com/when-it-comes-to-drm-amazon-is-a-bottom-feeding-hell-beast/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

Why Programming Languages Are Hard To Teach [video]

http://oredev.org/2012/sessions/its-not-you-its-them-why-programming-languages-are-hard-to-teach

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Supersymmetry theory in doubt. Researchers detect rare particle decay at LHC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20300100

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

Preventing memory leaks in Backbone.js

https://paydirtapp.com/blog/backbone-in-practice-memory-management-and-event-bindings/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

ChromaShift: Browser-based game written in ClojureScript

http://kodowa.nko3.jit.su/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

Mistakes when Applying Computational Intelligence & ML to Stock Market Modeling

http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4429

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

I built a tool to hack Letterpress

http://finite.state.io/blog/2012/11/09/hacking-letterpress/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 51 comments

McAfee Security founder wanted for murder in Belize

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/mcafee-security-founder-wanted-for-murder-in-belize/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

Talk About Your Startup Idea with Paul Graham

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/bingschool/giving_harvestmoon_2012.html

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

It is Now Illegal to Break DRM on E-Books in Canada

http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/it-is-now-illegal-to-break-drm-on-e-books-in-canada/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

Samsung hits Apple with 20% price hike: report

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/samsung-hits-apple-with-20-price-hike-report-2012-11-11

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 53 comments

C#’s async/await compared to protothreads in C++

http://blog.brush.co.nz/2012/11/async-await-protothreads-cpp/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

Thoughtcrime in Britain

http://azizonomics.com/2012/11/12/thoughtcrime-in-britain/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

UCLA's new transparent solar film could be game-changer

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-ucla-transparent-solar-game-changer.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 16 comments

Pruning: Making room for something new

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3318-pruning-making-room-for-something-new

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

The new Acer Chromebook

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-new-acer-chromebook.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 77 comments

Transparent, sprayable solar film developed at UCLA

http://m.phys.org/news/2012-08-ucla-transparent-solar-game-changer.html

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

Bring Time Tracking Into Your Application

http://www.getharvest.com/blog/2012/11/the-harvest-platform-bring-time-tracking-into-your-application/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

The Old MacDonald Hackathon

http://blog.dwolla.com/cows-code-and-money-the-old-mcdonald-hackathon-haveacow/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 41 comments

Valve confirms work on 'Source 2' engine

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/377934/valve-confirms-work-on-source-2-engine/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

Increasing battery life in linux

http://pranavk.github.com/linux/power-saving-and-increasing-battery-backup-in-linux/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 34 comments

All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites (2005)

http://craphound.com/complexecosystems.txt

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments
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