top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-11-20

Low-cost Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines

http://m.good.is/posts/hauntingly-beautiful-wildly-low-cost-solution-to-clearing-afghan-landmines

14 years ago

548 upvotes – 171 comments

US patent chief to software patent critics: "Give it a rest already"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/us-patent-chief-to-software-patent-critics-give-it-a-rest-already/

14 years ago

330 upvotes – 202 comments

The last day

http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/20/the-last-day/

14 years ago

320 upvotes – 158 comments

Pickadate.js

https://github.com/amsul/pickadate.js

14 years ago

★ 7.6k JavaScript MIT
278 upvotes – 125 comments

Airport Security Is Killing Us

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-18/how-airport-security-is-killing-us

14 years ago

263 upvotes – 254 comments

Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

http://academic.udayton.edu/tobyrush/theorypages/

14 years ago

236 upvotes – 55 comments

EU Scolds Visa et al. For Killing WikiLeaks Donations, Initiates Regulation

http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/20/europarliament-scolds-visa-mastercard-paypal-for-killing-wikileaks-donations-initiates-regulation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy+%28Falkvinge+on+Infopolicy%29

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 61 comments

Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 137 comments

Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513016/big-news-from-mars-rover-scientists-mum-for-now

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 88 comments

Apple Broke My iPhone, and Their Policies Prevent Them from Fixing It

http://www.anderson-net.com/~nathan/apple-broke-my-phone

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 116 comments

Jail Looms for Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507661/jail-looms-for-man-who-revealed-att-leaked-ipad-user-e-mails/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 112 comments

HP takes a $8.8 billion writeoff, alleging Autonomy accounting fraud

http://h30261.www3.hp.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71087&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1760639&highlight=

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 104 comments

Pixel-Based Websites: Resources, Tutorials, And Examples

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/pixel-based-websites/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 12 comments

Oracle Surprised by the Present

http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2012/11/20/oracle-surprised-by-the-present.aspx

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 48 comments

San Diego Refuses To Answer FOIA Requests About Drones

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121119/13591421096/san-diego-refuses-to-answer-foia-requests-about-drones-because-there-is-very-little-public-benefit.shtml

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 25 comments

What you should know about IPv6

http://lucb1e.com/?p=post&id=98

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

Color Will Shut Down on December 31st

http://www.color.com

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 61 comments

When REST isn't Good Enough

https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintrust/when-rest-isnt-good-enough

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 92 comments

Python Web Frameworks' Complexity

http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/11/python-web-excessive-complexity.html

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN/PG: What causes this sudden drop-off behaviour on HN submissions?

http://hnrankings.info/4805154/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments
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