top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-27

The Worst

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-worst/

14 years ago

770 upvotes – 207 comments

The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/11/the-greatest-google-mail-feature-you.html

14 years ago

426 upvotes – 173 comments

Redis crashes - a small rant about software reliability

http://antirez.com/news/43

14 years ago

332 upvotes – 107 comments

Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

http://ninja-ide.org/

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 132 comments

Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/gmail-and-drive-new-way-to-send-files.html

14 years ago

231 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Telescope, an open-source social news app built with Meteor

http://www.telesc.pe/

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 80 comments

Einstein's list of conditions for staying together with his wife

http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/04/einsteins-demands.html#

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 185 comments

Silicon Valley's dirty secret - age bias

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/us-valley-ageism-idUSBRE8AQ0JK20121127

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 244 comments

Google's Digital Creative Guidebook

http://www.creativesandbox.com/guidebook

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 40 comments

Django 1.5 beta release notes

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.5-beta-1/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 44 comments

$15 Dedicated servers from OVH

http://www.ruchirablog.com/15dollar-dedicated-servers/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 123 comments

Bash One-Liners Explained, Part V: Navigating around

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-one-liners-explained-part-five/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 32 comments

Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first

http://philosophically.com/why-were-pivoting-from-mobile-first-to-web-first

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 57 comments

Linode Simplifies Plans, Reveals CPU Priority

https://www.linode.com/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 91 comments

64-bit Firefox for Windows should be prioritized, not suspended

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/64-bit-firefox-for-windows-should-be-prioritized-not-suspended/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 118 comments

My eBook build process and some PDF, EPUB and MOBI tips

http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/11/27/my-ebook-build-process-and-some-pdf-epub-and-mobi-tips

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 35 comments

The Troubling Dean-to-Professor Ratio

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-21/the-troubling-dean-to-professor-ratio?

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 110 comments

Show HN: I built a website that lets you freelance for bitcoins

https://www.btcworkers.com/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 89 comments

Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest a new type of matter

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/lead-proton-collisions-at-large-hadron-collider-yield-surprising-results-1127.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

New Project: Nashorn – Lightweight High-Performance JavaScript Runtime in Java

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2012-November/000139.html

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Voting is a Sham Mathematically Speaking

http://haacked.com/archive/2012/11/27/condorcet-paradox.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+haacked+%28you%27ve+been+HAACKED%29

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 74 comments

San Francisco Hacker News meetup happening this Thursday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4834791

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

Space as a Service

http://www.judegomila.com/2012/11/space-as-service.html

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

Google connects Play Store with Google+, reviews will feature name and picture

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/11/27/google-connects-its-play-store-with-google-public-reviews-will-now-feature-your-name-and-picture/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 93 comments

Google launches “Defend Your Net” campaign in Germany against copyright plans

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/11/27/google-launches-defend-your-network-campaign-in-germany-to-protest-planned-copyright-laws/?fromcat=all

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments

Equations for Organic Motion

http://codepen.io/soulwire/full/kqHxB

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Lekh Diagram, sketch recognition diagramming app for ipad

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lekh-diagram/id576124115

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 53 comments

Apple Said to Fire Maps Manager After Flaws Hurt iPhone 5

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-27/apple-said-to-fire-maps-manager-after-flaws-hurt-iphone-5-debut.html

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 89 comments

CodeHS Wants To Teach Every American High Schooler How To Code

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/26/codehs/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 90 comments

An Interview with Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto

http://fredwu.me/post/36493181321/an-interview-with-yukihiro-matz-matsumoto

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

ShowHN: buddycloud, a distributed social network

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4837135

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 38 comments

Open Source Entrepreneurship

http://steveblank.com/2012/11/27/open-source-entrepreneurship/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

Offline First – A better HTML5 User Experience

http://blog.joelambert.co.uk/2012/11/26/offline-first-a-better-html5-user-experience/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

Gondolas Could Be the Next Great Urban Transportation Device

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/11/austin-gondola/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 54 comments

Alert: Backdoor placed in Piwik

http://piwik.org/blog/2012/11/security-report-piwik-org-webserver-hacked-for-a-few-hours-on-2012-nov-26th/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 41 comments

MongoDB writes to be safe/verified by default

http://blog.mongodb.org/post/36666163412/introducing-mongoclient?yey

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

Advice to a Young Mathematician [pdf]

http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/gowers/gowers_VIII_6.pdf

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

Classic Sega Rally Arcade machine meets RC cars using Arduinos

http://www.artica.cc/blog/2012/11/21/segarallychampionship/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: "Kestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity," free online

http://combinators.info/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 5 comments

SEOs are Growth Hackers

http://www.johnfdoherty.com/seos-growth-hackers/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: What is the highest trafficked website run by an individual?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4837866

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 69 comments

Nexus 4 available for purchase again today at 12pm PST

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16gb&utm_source=nexus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=N4_1121_%20Notify%20Me&pcampaignid=112112EMN41

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 87 comments
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