top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-19

How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consulting_1

14 years ago

1034 upvotes – 261 comments

How to Get Startup Ideas

http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

14 years ago

914 upvotes – 231 comments

Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html

14 years ago

340 upvotes – 248 comments

Q: “How much does an app cost?” A: “About as much as a car.”

http://blog.darwinapps.com/post/36041399961/appcostscar

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 89 comments

Mumbai girl arrested for Facebook post

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2012111920121119043152921e12f57e1/In-Palghar-cops-book-21yearold-for-FB-post.html

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 115 comments

Chris Dixon Joins Andreessen Horowitz

http://cdixon.org/2012/11/19/a16z/

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 21 comments

Elon Musk: 'Europe's rocket has no chance'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20389148

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 94 comments

Refining Ruby

http://blog.headius.com/2012/11/refining-ruby.html

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 54 comments

How you can do it alone as a solo entrepreneur

http://peternixey.com/post/36061229722/how-you-can-do-it-alone

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 21 comments

The official Blog of John McAfee

http://www.whoismcafee.com/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 70 comments

The Depressing Day After You Get TechCrunched

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2012/11/19/the-depressing-day-after-you-get-techcrunched/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 47 comments

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2012?

http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2012/pre-1976

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 82 comments

Elon Musk: With Jobs Gone, Google Will Win Mobile (And Look Out For Hyperloop)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/elon-musk-with-jobs-gone-google-will-win-mobile-and-look-out-for-the-hyperloop/

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 103 comments

Color Labs And Bill Nguyen Sued By Ex-Employee Alleging Retaliation

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/color-labs-and-bill-nguyen-sued-by-ex-employee-alleging-retaliation-emotional-distress/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 85 comments

Build an iOS App on Heroku in 10 Minutes

http://mobile.heroku.com

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: A personal Gmail

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804690

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 103 comments

Entrepreneurshit? Please.

http://blog.davidkatz.me/post/36010138674/entrepreneurshit-please

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 65 comments

Join Us In The Fight Against Patent Trolls

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/join-us-in-the-fight-against-patent-trolls/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 23 comments

How to Choose Health Insurance – Startup Edition

http://blog.getsimplyinsured.com/how-to-choose-health-insurance-startup-edition/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 61 comments

Touch Laptops

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/11/touch-laptops.html

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 98 comments

Use Adwords to find the best title for your Hacker News post

http://blog.chargeback.cc/2012/11/19/use-adwords-to-find-the-best-title-for-your-hacker-news-post/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 44 comments

Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012/11/19/intel-ceo-paul-otellini-to-retire-in-may?cid=rss-90004-c1-278408

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 37 comments

A list of systems, applications, and libraries that are written in C++

http://www.stroustrup.com/applications.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 98 comments

Do not register a domain name with your hosting provider

http://weblog.masukomi.org/2012/11/19/never-register-a-domain-name-with-your-hosting-provider

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 74 comments

Musk's Hyperloop

http://prattleat.us/post/5

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 65 comments

Attacking hardened Linux systems with kernel JIT spraying

http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2012/11/attacking-hardened-linux-systems-with.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

Elixir 0.7.1 — A meta-programmable language built on the Erlang VM [video]

http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2012/11/18/elixir-v0-7-1-released-and-the-end-of-a-journey/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

Basic Option Strategies, Part 2 - Options Pricing

https://www.datanitro.com/blog/2012/11/19/Options2/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 29 comments

How we built the new Exec iPhone App

http://blog.iamexec.com/post/36088710407/how-we-built-the-new-exec-iphone-app

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 34 comments

The Cost of Ruby 1.9.3's GC::Profiler

http://jamesgolick.com/2012/11/19/the-cost-of-ruby-1.9.3-s-gc-profiler.html

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

An Ode To W3Schools

http://www.jonkuperman.com/an-ode-to-w3schools/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 62 comments

Back to the Mac: Parse Adds OS X Support

http://blog.parse.com/2012/11/19/back-to-the-mac-parse-adds-os-x-support/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

Why consistency in icons is important and how to achieve it

http://blog.scoutzie.com/post/36068395929/consistency-in-icon-design

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 31 comments

Go is PHP for the Backend

http://skife.org/go/2012/11/18/go_part_1.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 66 comments

Cisco acquires Meraki: how 3 guys from MIT transformed the networking industry

http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/36033519237/cisco-acquires-meraki-how-3-guys-from-mit-transformed

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

Your team should work like an open source project

http://tomayko.com/writings/adopt-an-open-source-process-constraints

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

Fraud fighter: 'Faked research is endemic in China'

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628910.300-fraud-fighter-faked-research-is-endemic-in-china.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments

AMD denies killing off big cores (Kaveri, Steamroller, and Excavator)

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/19/amd-kills-off-big-cores-kaveri-steamroller-and-excavator/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 51 comments

Letter to Maharashtra CM

http://justicekatju.blogspot.in/2012/11/a-letter-to-maharashtra-cm.html

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

How Nintendo DRM trapped $400 of downloaded games on my failing Wii

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11/how-nintendo-drm-trapped-400-of-downloaded-games-on-my-failing-wii/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 44 comments

Better remote collaboration will make protectionism harder

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3330-better-remote-collaboration-will-make-protectionism-harder

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

On BritRuby

http://devblog.avdi.org/2012/11/19/on-britruby/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 48 comments
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