top 50% 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

Python Web Frameworks' Complexity

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

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 63 comments

When REST isn't Good Enough

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

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 92 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

World's tallest skyscraper to be built in just 90 days

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57552186-1/developer-reaffirms-plan-to-finish-worlds-tallest-building-in-90-days

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 67 comments

NVD3 is back

http://nvd3.org/statement.html

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

$750,000 per day with 2 iOS apps

http://www.treysmithblog.com/700000-per-day/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 68 comments

Why won't anyone talk to me? What recruiters look for in a resume

http://dandreamsofcoding.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/why-wont-anyone-talk-to-me-what-recruiters-look-for-in-a-resume/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 80 comments

Leahy scuttles his warrantless e-mail surveillance bill

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552687-38/leahy-scuttles-his-warrantless-email-surveillance-bill/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments

Mixpanel Activity Feed

https://mixpanel.com/activity-feed/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

How to Build an Email Client

http://levinianconstant.tumblr.com/post/36029166991/how-to-build-an-email-client

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 38 comments

Windows Server 2012 Now Available on AWS

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/windows-server-2012-now-available-on-aws.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Rules of the seat-acquisition game on the Overground

http://www.brelson.com/2011/10/sit-down-on-overground-prepare-for-war/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

What's new in Firefox 17 (shipping today)

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/17.0/releasenotes/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 74 comments

Sorry, No Calls

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/92302/Sorry-No-Calls.aspx

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 83 comments

Autonomy misled HP about finances, Hewlett Packard says

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20412186

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 30 comments

Conway’s Game of Life for Curved Surfaces - Part 1

http://0fps.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/conways-game-of-life-for-curved-surfaces-part-1/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 1 comments

Unveiling Play 2.1 JSON API Bonus: JSON Inception with Scala 2.10 macros

http://mandubian.com/2012/11/11/JSON-inception/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 32 comments

Google Promises To Bring December Back To Android 4.2 “Soon”

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/20/google-promises-to-bring-december-back-to-android-4-2-soon/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 59 comments

Meteor Platform Roadmap

https://trello.com/board/meteor-roadmap/508721606e02bb9d570016ae

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 7 comments

Lotus: Farewell to a Once-Great Tech Brand

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/20/lotus-farewell-to-a-once-great-tech-brand/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 40 comments

World Bank envisions a +4°C future

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/world-bank-envisions-a-4c-future/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 60 comments

HTC’s Peter Chou: We Don’t Pay Apple $6-$8 per Android Phone

http://mashable.com/2012/11/20/htcs-peter-chou-we-dont-pay-apple-6-8-per-android-phone/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

Gentoo developers start udev fork

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Gentoo-developers-start-udev-fork-1752421.html

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 44 comments
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