top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-15

Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

http://www.soundslice.com/

14 years ago

492 upvotes – 124 comments

Engineers suck at finding the right jobs

http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/11/14/engineers-suck-at-finding-right-jobs/

14 years ago

329 upvotes – 131 comments

Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11575

14 years ago

328 upvotes – 118 comments

Animated Factorisation Diagrams

http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/#

14 years ago

325 upvotes – 72 comments

Why Coke Cost A Nickel For 70 Years

http://www.weku.fm/post/why-coke-cost-nickel-70-years

14 years ago

319 upvotes – 124 comments

Facebook Pages: Why I don’t like Nest thermostat or anything else anymore

http://ninjasandrobots.com/facebook-pages-nest-thermostat

14 years ago

318 upvotes – 133 comments

Prototyping iPhone apps on paper with POP

http://popapp.in

14 years ago

309 upvotes – 96 comments

"Why don't you sell Triple Town for 99 cents and make tons of money?"

https://plus.google.com/105363132599081141035/posts/Lce7wEJApEr

14 years ago

309 upvotes – 126 comments

Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

http://allthingsd.com/20121115/google-launches-ingress-a-worldwide-mobile-alternate-reality-game/

14 years ago

287 upvotes – 141 comments

WordPress.com accepts Bitcoin

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/pay-another-way-bitcoin/

14 years ago

287 upvotes – 117 comments

VLC Core is LGPL

http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2012/I-did-it

14 years ago

251 upvotes – 148 comments

Glitch Is Closing

http://www.glitch.com/closing/

14 years ago

242 upvotes – 104 comments

Migrating a large JavaScript project from DOM spaghetti to Backbone.js

http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2012/11/13/backbonification-migrating-javascript-to-backbone/

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 113 comments

CyanogenMod domain situation has been resolved

http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/domain-situation-has-been-resolved

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 15 comments

Making MathBox: Presentation-Quality Math with Three.js and WebGL

http://acko.net/blog/making-mathbox/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 22 comments

Dropbox Chooser

https://blog.dropbox.com/2012/11/meet-the-dropbox-chooser-a-new-way-to-add-stuff-from-dropbox/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 37 comments

Rules for Work: The Zaarly Employee Handbook

http://handbook.zaarly.com/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 89 comments

Intel's 50-Core Xeon Phi: The New Era of Inexpensive Supercomputing

http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/intels-50-core-xeon-phi-the-new-era-of-i/240105810?donkey

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 57 comments

Nokia Unveils a Maps Service

http://www.here.com

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 70 comments

Message Oriented Programming

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2012/11/15/message-oriented-programming/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 62 comments

Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 116 comments

IE10: How does it really stack up?

http://www.lucidchart.com/blog/2012/11/14/ie10-how-does-it-really-stack-up/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 66 comments

First Teleportation From One Macroscopic Object to Another

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507531/first-teleportation-from-one-macroscopic-object-to-another/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 67 comments

A $650 transmitter can disable an entire city’s high speed mobile phone network

http://bgr.com/2012/11/15/4g-lte-network-jammer/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 63 comments

Social Media Companies Have Absolutely No Idea How to Handle the Gaza Conflict

http://betabeat.com/2012/11/social-media-companies-have-absolutely-no-idea-how-to-handle-the-gaza-conflict/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 78 comments

YC W13 Applicants

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFFONm5RVVFuOG5RWDRZVGxKdHVkU1E6MQ

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 84 comments

Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Have we always eaten them?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20243692

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 40 comments

Israel live-tweets assault on Gaza

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/israel-live-tweets-assault-on-gaza-provides-video-of-assassination/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 162 comments

How to detect DOM changes in CSS

http://blog.streak.com/2012/11/how-to-detect-dom-changes-in-css.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Android Rises to 90% of Smartphone Market in China

http://www.techinasia.com/android-market-share-china-2012/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 49 comments

Google invests $75M in a 50MW wind farm, total $1B to renewable energy sector

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/11/15/google-invests-75m-in-a-50mw-wind-farm-has-contributed-almost-1b-to-the-renewable-energy-sector/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments

More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20187.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Defold - Win/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS game engine

http://www.defold.com/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 44 comments

Free worldwide calls for a month

http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/prices/subscriptions/unlimited-world

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 49 comments

Mozilla: The problem is mobile, not money

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57550227-93/mozilla-the-problem-is-mobile-not-money/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 57 comments

Mocl: Common Lisp for iPhone/iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms

http://wukix.com/mocl

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

Asynchronous Processing in Web Apps, Part 1: A Database Is Not a Queue

http://blog.gomiso.com/2012/11/15/asynchronous-processing-in-web-applications-part-1-a-database-is-not-a-queue/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 27 comments

FizzBuzz Still Works

http://www.globalnerdy.com/2012/11/15/fizzbuzz-still-works/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 138 comments

Google Preps Maps App for Apple iPhones

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324595904578121361589950722-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwNTExNDUyWj.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 36 comments

Unbelievable: The IDF Has Gamified Its War Blog

http://readwrite.com/2012/11/15/unbelievable-the-idf-has-gamified-its-war-blog

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 35 comments
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