top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-13

Show HN: An IDE for poets

http://tranquillpoet.com/

14 years ago

398 upvotes – 113 comments

Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft

http://allthingsd.com/20121112/breaking-windows-head-steven-sinofsky-to-leave-microsoft/

14 years ago

357 upvotes – 221 comments

Bring Back the 40-hour work week (March 2012)

http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/

14 years ago

304 upvotes – 237 comments

Motor Trend Car of the Year: Tesla Model S

http://www.motortrend.com/oftheyear/car/1301_2013_motor_trend_car_of_the_year_tesla_model_s

14 years ago

291 upvotes – 106 comments

Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts

http://www.pocketables.com/2012/11/enfour-inc-screws-up-big-time-makes-dictionary-app-auto-post-false-accusations-on-users-twitter-accounts.html

14 years ago

277 upvotes – 124 comments

A SSD in Your Pocket

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/11/a-ssd-in-your-pocket.html

14 years ago

264 upvotes – 165 comments

Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/11/13/googles-nexus-4-smartphone-sells-out-in-the-us-in-50-minutes/

14 years ago

246 upvotes – 207 comments

Commercial freedom

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3324-commercial-freedom

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 73 comments

Taobao.com breaks record for online sales in a day - $3.1 billion USD

http://westiseast.co.uk/blog/taobao-sales-19-billion-bonanza/

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 119 comments

How Lanyrd moved from AWS to SoftLayer and MySQL to PostgreSQL with no downtime

http://lanyrd.com/blog/2012/lanyrds-big-move/

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 58 comments

Life in the Universe

http://www.hawking.org.uk/life-in-the-universe.html

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 75 comments

Starbucks, Google and Amazon: the tax crash of Monday afternoon

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2012/11/13/starbucks-google-and-amazon-the-tax-crash-of-monday-afternoon/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 197 comments

Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands - Starting With Mine

http://readwrite.com/2012/11/13/mark-cuban-facebooks-sponsored-posts-are-driving-away-brands

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 138 comments

HN saved us millions; we need to change our name

http://blog.fromholden.com/post/35645875302/hn-saved-us-millions-we-need-to-change-our-name

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 112 comments

Wingman: Git + GitHub + OS X

http://www.wingmanapp.com/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 66 comments

Google Nexus 4 Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 122 comments

Taobao's branch of Nginx

http://tengine.taobao.org/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown

http://socrates.io/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 44 comments

All the crypto code you've ever written is probably broken

http://tonyarcieri.com/all-the-crypto-code-youve-ever-written-is-probably-broken

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 128 comments

Google Nexus 4 Sells Out In Less Than An Hour (in Australia)

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/11/google-nexus-4-sells-out-in-less-than-an-hour/

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 83 comments

Basic Option Strategies

https://datanitro.com/blog/2012/11/13/Options/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 83 comments

Netflix Open Source

http://netflix.github.com/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 50 comments

First robots have arrived in plan to replace 1 million Foxconn workers

http://singularityhub.com/2012/11/12/1-million-robots-to-replace-1-million-human-jobs-at-foxconn-first-robots-have-arrived/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 81 comments

Amicus (YC S12) Pulls In $3.2M To Bring Social Smarts To Non-Profit Fundraising

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/amicus/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 7 comments

How To Hire A Data Scientist

http://blog.bright.com/2012/11/13/how-to-hire-a-data-scientist/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 48 comments

How to name your startup: A 9 month first-hand journey through rebranding

http://www.learndot.com/findings/how-to-name-your-startup/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

All-in-one iPad Mount and Stand

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/649000063/boomerang-first-ever-all-in-one-ipad-mount-and-sta?ref=category

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

Places to Start Acquiring Users

http://www.growhack.com/2012/11/12/places-to-start-acquiring-users/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 21 comments

Large Scale Distributed Deep Networks (by Jeff Dean et al)

http://research.google.com/archive/large_deep_networks_nips2012.html?

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 39 comments

Murder Suspect John McAfee: I'm Innocent

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/threatlevel_1112_mcafee/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 72 comments

A Founder's Constant State of Rejection

http://founderdating.com/a-founders-constant-state-of-rejection

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

The Most Engaging Sites on Hacker News

http://blog.lookmark.com/post/35652256460/the-most-engaging-sites-on-hacker-news

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

Why Erlang matters

http://petrohi.me/post/35644212001/why-erlang-matters

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 74 comments

Chartio (YC S10) Improves The Way You Visualize Your Data

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/chartio-improves-the-way-you-visualize-your-data/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

Why we have never hired an MBA

http://mattjackrob.com/2012/11/13/why-we-dont-hire-anyone-with-an-mba/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 68 comments

CS in HS - Read Write Code

http://csinhs.com/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

Samsung Galaxy S3 stores passwords in plain text

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/samsung-galaxy-s3-stores-passwords-in-plain-text-20121112/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 37 comments

Why Steven Sinofsky is out at Microsoft - Several plausible reasons

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/why-steven-sinofsky-is-out-at-microsoft/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

BMW Invests in Embark (YC S11)

https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/pressclub/p/us/pressDetail.html?title=bmw-i-ventures-announces-strategic-investment-in-award-winning-mobility-app-company-embark-further&outputChannelId=9&id=T0134391EN_US&left_menu_item=node__6729&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/an-amazon-engineer-had-a-little-idea-that-turned-into-a-billion-dollar-business/265124/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 32 comments

Shopify turns into an iPad marketplace today by launching "Catalog"

http://www.shopify.com/blog/6845306-a-preview-of-catalog-our-new-ipad-shopping-app

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

IE10 review: still disappointing for HTML5 games

https://www.scirra.com/blog/103/ie10-review-still-disappointing-for-html5-games

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 38 comments

Here’s the e-mail trick Petraeus and Broadwell used to communicate

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/12/heres-the-e-mail-trick-petraeus-and-broadwell-used-to-communicate/?hpid=z2

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 52 comments

Petraeus case shows FBI's authority to read email

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PETRAEUS_RESIGNS_EMAIL_PRIVACY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-11-12-17-33-37

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 37 comments

Developers: We are no longer Apple’s target market

http://johnkary.net/developers-we-are-no-longer-apples-target-market

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Turning a subreddit Into a store

http://refer.ly/bifl___kitchen_essentials/c/f5b46e542de011e2a4ec22000a1d0d51

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 22 comments

'Vegetative' patient communicates

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20268044

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 16 comments

A Solar City Story

http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/solar-city-story

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 2 comments

Behind the Scenes: Twitter, Part 1

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3317-behind-the-scenes-twitter-part-1

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 6 comments

Google pledges 1 million € to Berlin startub hub The Factory

http://www.whiteboardmag.com/google-pledges-e1m-to-berlin-startub-hub-the-factory/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

“Involuntary porn” site tests the boundaries of legal extortion

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/involuntary-porn-site-tests-the-boundaries-of-legal-extortion/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 57 comments
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