top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-17

You can do it alone

http://ryancarson.com/post/35939367603/you-can-do-it-alone

14 years ago

534 upvotes – 170 comments

They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/all/

14 years ago

427 upvotes – 36 comments

The Year 2512

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/11/2512.html

14 years ago

231 upvotes – 89 comments

Silk — Interactive generative art

http://new.weavesilk.com/

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 69 comments

Republicans Repudiate 40 Years of Tougher Copyright Laws

http://www.volokh.com/2012/11/16/republicans-repudiate-40-years-of-tougher-copyright-laws/

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 92 comments

Fast JVM launching without the hassle of persistent JVMs

https://github.com/flatland/drip

14 years ago

★ 267 Shell EPL-1.0
174 upvotes – 45 comments

Twitter's descent into the extractive

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3328-twitters-descent-into-the-extractive

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 49 comments

NVD3 Erased From Existence

http://loopj.com/2012/11/16/nvd3-erased-from-existence/

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 69 comments

Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure

http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 34 comments

Why I cycled a hundred miles to meet my first customer

http://www.cyclelove.net/?p=2190

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 34 comments

Maker of Airport Body Scanners Suspected of Falsifying Software Tests

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/rapiscan-fraudulent-tests/

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: v0.1 of my book "Why programmers work at night"

https://leanpub.com/nightowls

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 70 comments

Android 4.2: December month missing in calendar

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39692

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 41 comments

Crowding out OpenBSD

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/524606/611b3cb2f33e32ae/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry

http://diy.github.com/wizardry/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 86 comments

Rewriting Reddit (2005)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 35 comments

Google Nexus 4 Actually Has an LTE Chip

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+4+Teardown/11781/3

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

First job platform exclusively for FOSS jobs

http://www.fossjobs.net/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 33 comments

Ingress proves once again: Google gets its users

http://imtheirwebguy.com/ingress-proves-once-again-google-gets-its-users/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

My First Recommendation to New Scientific Coders: Learn Visualization

http://vincebuffalo.org/2012/11/08/learn-visualization.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

Z3 : An LLVM backed runtime for OCaml

http://raph-amiard.github.com/Z3/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

42Floors Raises $5M, Expands Office Search Site To New York

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/16/42floors-raises-5m-from-dave-mcclure-alexis-ohanian-others-expands-office-search-site-to-new-york/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Tutorial: How to build your own peer-to-peer chat app (like Couple)

https://www.hipmob.com/documentation/tutorials/couple.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

WebSockets and WebGL used to create multiplayer shoot'em up

https://turbulenz.com/games/scorerush-mp/multiplayer

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 36 comments
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