top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-22

Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4819792

14 years ago

475 upvotes – 94 comments

Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl

http://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-9-year-old-pirate-bay-girl-confiscate-winnie-the-pooh-laptop-121122/

14 years ago

472 upvotes – 159 comments

Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/student-suspension/

14 years ago

311 upvotes – 231 comments

Leaving Microsoft

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2012-November/023566.html

14 years ago

304 upvotes – 97 comments

Google's campaign for a free and open internet

https://www.google.com/takeaction/#

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 61 comments

Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/22/saudi-arabia-implements-electronic-tracking-system-for-women/

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 122 comments

PyPy 2.0 beta 1 released

http://morepypy.blogspot.se/2012/11/pypy-20-beta-1.html

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 35 comments

Introducing the Rails API Project

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2012-11-22-introducing-the-rails-api-project

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 86 comments

A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript

http://addyosmani.com/blog/a-few-new-things-coming-to-javascript/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 58 comments

Elon Musk - The Future of Energy and Transport [video]

http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/view/211

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 81 comments

Google competitor DuckDuckGo says it's getting shut out

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-google-duckduckgobre8al00i-20121121,0,6650221.story

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 162 comments

The ‘Bloop’ mystery solved

http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/11/the-bloop-mystery-solved/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 36 comments

Yang Jisheng: The man who discovered 36 million dead

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20410424

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 61 comments

Disqus: Scaling the World’s Largest Django Application (2010) [video]

http://ontwik.com/python/disqus-scaling-the-world%E2%80%99s-largest-django-application/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Heyoffline.js warns your users when their network becomes unreachable

http://oskarkrawczyk.github.com/heyoffline.js/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 34 comments

Why 2.4GHz? Chasing wireless history

http://www.indiegogo.com/why2point4

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 53 comments

Giles Bowkett: You Fuckers Are Adorable

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.ca/2012/10/you-fuckers-are-adorable.html

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

EU Parliament Passes Resolution Against ITU Asserting Control Over Internet

http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/22/european-parliament-unanimously-passed-resolution-against-itu-asserting-control-over-internet/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 6 comments

Startup Ideas: a response

http://mattmaroon.com/2012/11/21/startup-ideas/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments

Ghosts of WW2 Blended Into Present Day Pictures

http://www.demilked.com/ghosts-of-world-war-2-blended-into-present/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 7 comments

The Hacker News effect

https://medium.com/open-source/7d4fa461a9

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

On Being Not Dead

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/opinion/on-being-not-dead.html?ref=global&_r=0

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 65 comments

Using Slate: A Hacker's Window Manager for OSX

http://thume.ca/howto/2012/11/19/using-slate/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

South Pacific Sandy Island 'proven not to exist'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20442487

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

Generating Music (with an algorithm)

http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1021

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 50 comments

61-year-old computer springs back to life

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/21/tech/innovation/witch-computer-restoration/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

Systems Programming at Twitter

http://monkey.org/~marius/talks/twittersystems/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

The Erlang Stack

http://thewebdev.de/the-erlang-stack/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

Make legal documents subject to software patent laws

https://plus.google.com/112752620647547057360/posts/9BMqpLS6i31

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 49 comments

A Chinese Education, for a Price

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/world/asia/in-china-schools-a-culture-of-bribery-spreads.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 53 comments

Freelancing, half a year in.

http://alanhollis.com/freelancing-half-a-year-in/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 58 comments

Windows Store and the GPL

http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2012/Windows-Store-and-the-GPL

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

Microsoft's Most Valuable Asset

http://padgeblog.com/2012/10/29/microsofts-most-valuable-asset/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 55 comments

64-bit Firefox discontinued on Windows

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.planning/EmXonELGjVM/discussion

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 75 comments
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