top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-11-26

Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XOR with "RANDOM_STRING"

https://plus.google.com/101700526665328331501/posts/Yk71MgkvAXx

14 years ago

720 upvotes – 254 comments

The YC VC Program

http://ycombinator.com/ycvc.html

14 years ago

404 upvotes – 165 comments

Apple's Module proposal to replace headers for C-based languages [pdf]

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-11/Gregor-Modules.pdf?=submit

14 years ago

385 upvotes – 177 comments

Iā€™m writing my own OS

http://gusc.lv/2012/11/im-writing-my-own-os/

14 years ago

299 upvotes – 200 comments

On 81st birthday, Oregon man gives company to employees (2010)

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/on-81st-birthday-oregon-man-gives-company-to-employees/

14 years ago

265 upvotes – 57 comments

Why we can't process Emoji anymore

http://gist.github.com/1707371

14 years ago

258 upvotes – 152 comments

Stripe's 22-Year-Old Irish-Born Founder Is Just Getting Started

http://www.inc.com/matthew-wong/stripe-john-collison-irish-entrepreneur-tipperary-to-silicon-valley.html

14 years ago

223 upvotes – 89 comments

Cosmo: A free Metro-inspired theme for Bootstrap

http://news.bootswatch.com/post/36588968129/cosmo-a-free-metro-inspired-theme-for-bootstrap

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 57 comments

Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on Earth

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google-spanner-time/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 70 comments

Kickstarter, Trademarks and Lies

http://arduino.cc/blog/2012/11/26/kickstarter-trademarks-and-lies

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 75 comments

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 67 comments

Doom 3 BFG Edition source code released

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG

14 years ago

ā˜… 5.2k C++ GPL-3.0
172 upvotes – 31 comments

Redline Smalltalk V1.0

http://www.indiegogo.com/smalltalk?a=1793720

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 139 comments

Posting a notice on your Facebook wall will not protect your privacy rights

http://www.snopes.com/computer/facebook/privacy.asp

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 84 comments

The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur (2009)

http://www.kauffman.org/research-and-policy/the-anatomy-of-an-entrepreneur.aspx

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 106 comments

The Founder's Lie About Comfort Zones

http://klinger.io/post/36585126176/the-founders-lie-about-comfort-zones

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 25 comments

Want to create a new habit? Get ready to break it.

http://joel.is/post/36591651818/want-to-create-a-new-habit-get-ready-to-break-it

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 38 comments

Bank of America Telephone Access Security Hole

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2012/11/even-a-vpn-service-cant-protect-your-privacy-if-youre-using-bank-of-america/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 58 comments

Using Erlang, C And Lisp To Fight The Tsunami Of Mobile Data

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/11/26/bigdata-using-erlang-c-and-lisp-to-fight-the-tsunami-of-mobi.html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 32 comments

Anatomy of a Native Feeling HTML5 iOS App

http://justinvincent.com/page/2043/anatomy-of-a-beautiful-native-feeling-ios-app

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 60 comments
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