top 50% 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

Why time is not running out

http://paraschopra.com/blog/personal/why-time-is-not-running-out.htm

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 52 comments

When It Comes to Security, Weā€™re Back to Feudalism

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/feudal-security/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 34 comments

A better, prettier, cross-browser OK plateau typing tutor

http://thume.ca/keyzen/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments

50% off O'Reilly ebooks and videos today

http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/cyber-monday.do

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 43 comments

What Hasnā€™t Changed: The Internet Keeps Getting Bigger

http://500hats.com/what-hasnt-changed

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 39 comments

A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/opinion/buffett-a-minimum-tax-for-the-wealthy.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 145 comments

Macy's parade: 'Shredded police papers in confetti'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20487235

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

Which U.S. coastal areas could disappear due to sea level rise

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/24/opinion/sunday/what-could-disappear.html

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 76 comments

Publishers shouldn't be app developers

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3333-publishers-shouldnt-be-app-developers

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 35 comments

Why play when you can code? MakeGamesWithUs helps the new generation make games

http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/26/why-play-when-you-can-code-makegameswithus-breeds-next-generation-of-gaming-prodigies/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

Subcompact Publishing

http://craigmod.com/journal/subcompact_publishing/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Google does not acquire wireless Internet network provider ICOA

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/11/26/google-acquires-wireless-internet-network-provider-icoa-for-400-million/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

My open source cure for brain cancer

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/25/opinion/iaconesi-cure-open-source/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 75 comments

ElasticSearch pre-flight checklist

http://asquera.de/opensource/2012/11/25/elasticsearch-pre-flight-checklist/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 4 comments

OECD: Telcos Overcharging By Five Orders Of Magnitude

https://falkvinge.net/2012/11/26/oecd-telcos-overcharging-by-five-orders-of-magnitude/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy+%28Falkvinge+on+Infopolicy%29

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments

Wifi performance and the new iPad

http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/36557748875/wifi-performance-and-the-new-ipad-counterintuitive

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

Not Wanting Kids Is Entirely Normal

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/09/not-wanting-kids-is-entirely-normal/262367/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: Dubjoy makes it easy to voice translate any video

http://dubjoy.com/demo

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 16 comments

The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention

http://cristinajcordova.com/post/36553000358/the-biggest-problem-in-mobile-retention

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 9 comments

Bay Area Rental Price Heatmap by ZIP Code

http://kwelia.tumblr.com/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 40 comments

For a Bit of Colored Ribbon

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/11/for-a-bit-of-colored-ribbon.html

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 46 comments

Day Job: A Story of Chasing Dreams

http://www.indiegogo.com/dayjobdocumentary

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 13 comments

How Art.sy survived a NYTimes.com homepage launch with Heroku + MongoHQ

http://success.heroku.com/artsy

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 38 comments

Get ready for the YC interviews: make sure you know the partners

http://yc-partners.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 25 comments

Philly Area Meetup ā€“ Thursday 11/29, 6PM

https://www.facebook.com/groups/phillyhack

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 6 comments
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