top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-14

100,000 stars

http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/

14 years ago

746 upvotes – 109 comments

Algorithms [pdf]

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms/all.pdf

14 years ago

429 upvotes – 92 comments

Why aren't we all using Japanese toilets?

http://priceonomics.com/toilets/#japanese

14 years ago

402 upvotes – 371 comments

CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org

http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/psa-transition-to-cyanogenmod-org

14 years ago

381 upvotes – 102 comments

Skype vulnerability allowing hijacking of an account if you know just the email

http://pixus-ru.blogspot.ru/2012/11/hack-any-skype-account-in-6-easy-steps.html

14 years ago

362 upvotes – 119 comments

Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/11/13/10367904.aspx

14 years ago

347 upvotes – 30 comments

Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700 Mbps

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/11/google-fiber-is-live-in-kansas-city-real-world-speeds-at-700-mbps/

14 years ago

282 upvotes – 146 comments

Rob Pike on Object Oriented programming

https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/hoJdanihKwb

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 168 comments

Brian Harvey: Why SICP matters

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/sicp.html

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 48 comments

OOP Isn't a Fundamental Particle of Computing

http://prog21.dadgum.com/156.html

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 158 comments

CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database

http://labs.codernity.com/codernitydb

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 49 comments

Understanding Like-gate

http://daltoncaldwell.com/understanding-likegate

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 50 comments

Detect iPad Mini in HTML5?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13248493/detect-ipad-mini-in-html5

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 114 comments

iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages

http://labs.prx.org/2012/11/14/ios-6-0-devours-data-plans-causes-cdn-overages/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 92 comments

Internet Explorer becomes Korean election issue

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/14/ahn_lab_internet_explorer_seed_replace_korea/

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 37 comments

Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 94 comments

CyanogenMod 10.0 Release

http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/cyanogenmod-10-0-release

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 73 comments

Unity 4 is here

http://unity3d.com/promo/unity4/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 69 comments

In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428610/in-the-olympics-of-algorithms-a-russian-keeps-winning-gold/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 53 comments

Features of Solr vs. ElasticSearch

http://solr-vs-elasticsearch.com/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 48 comments

Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13375357/android-usermanager-isuseragoat

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 19 comments

Interview: Linus Torvalds – I don't read code any more

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Interview-Linus-Torvalds-I-don-t-read-code-any-more-1748462.html

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 69 comments

Peter Molyneux’s staff work 36 hours non-stop

http://ilovecrunch.co.uk/?p=230

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 78 comments

Tips for C libraries on GNU/Linux

https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kay/libabc.git;a=blob_plain;f=README

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 66 comments

CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

http://CodeWa.rs

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 65 comments

Early sketches from web designers

http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/35721297597/early-sketches-from-the-webs-finest

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 22 comments

Starbucks acquires Teavana for $620 Million

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/11/14/tea-time-for-starbucks-coffee-giant-to-spend-620-million-on-teavana/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 57 comments

Why Mark Cuban is wrong about Facebook

http://pagelever.com/fact-check-why-mark-cuban-is-wrong-about-facebook/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 73 comments

Google still hasn't removed "deleted" private Docs data from 2007

http://www.line-of-reasoning.com/issues/privacy-issue-google-docs-seems-to-not-delete-but-only-hide-documents-when-the-trash-is-emptied/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 24 comments

If it Didn’t Happen on Twitter it Didn’t Really Happen

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/11/13/if-it-didnt-happen-on-twitter-it-didnt-really-happen-heres-why/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 7 comments

The Ten Year Decline of Sony

http://www.notenoughshaders.com/2012/09/08/the-ten-year-decline-of-sony/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 68 comments

Lyft, SideCar, and Uber all slapped with $20K fines from CA regulator

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/lyft-sidecar-and-uber-all-slapped-with-20k-fines-from-ca-regulator/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 97 comments

Why GL Now

http://timothylottes.blogspot.se/2012/11/why-gl-now.html

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

Google opens up on seven years of its data center history

http://gigaom.com/cloud/google-opens-up-on-seven-years-of-its-data-center-history/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: HoRNDIS - an Android USB tethering driver for Mac OS X

http://joshuawise.com/horndis

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: My "weekend" project, an ML dialect and compiler

http://texodus.github.com/formal/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Original IBM PC (Intel 8088) in Javascript with Visicalc

http://jsmachines.net/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

Archiving Amazon S3 Data to Amazon Glacier

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/archive-s3-to-glacier.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

The Genius of Starting a Company Without Outside Capital

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/the-genius-of-starting-a-company-without-outside-capital/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 16 comments

Lonely ‘homeless’ planet found for the first time

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/lonely-homeless-planet-found-for-the-first-time/article4095149.ece

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 43 comments

Instacart (YC S12) launches website to complement its grocery delivery app

http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/14/mobile-first-desktop-second-instacart-launches-website-to-complement-its-grocery-delivery-app/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments
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