top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-29

Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/dell-releases-powerful-well-supported-linux-ultrabook/

14 years ago

520 upvotes – 349 comments

Tor exit node operator raided in Austria

http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/6283/raided-for-running-a-tor-exit-accepting-donations-for-legal-expenses

14 years ago

495 upvotes – 310 comments

How Syria Turned Off the Internet

http://blog.cloudflare.com/how-syria-turned-off-the-internet

14 years ago

435 upvotes – 82 comments

Staples Announces In-Store 3D Printing Service

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/staples-goes-3-d/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29

14 years ago

315 upvotes – 78 comments

Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/11/syria-off-the-air.shtml

14 years ago

301 upvotes – 57 comments

B&N Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121126/18084721154/barnes-noble-decides-that-purchased-ebooks-are-only-yours-until-your-credit-card-expires.shtml

14 years ago

288 upvotes – 131 comments

A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/tutorial-how-create-anonymous-email-accounts

14 years ago

248 upvotes – 104 comments

Speeding up PHP with the HipHop VM

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/speeding-up-php-based-development-with-hiphop-vm/10151170460698920

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 118 comments

Telomerase – Mouse lifespan extended up to 24% with single treatment (May 2012)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120514204050.htm

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 89 comments

What storytelling does to our brains

http://blog.bufferapp.com/science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 32 comments

Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch

http://www.gigpeppers.com/post-mortem-of-a-failed-hackernews-launch/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 101 comments

NASA Probe Finds Ice and Organics on Mercury

http://blogs.discovery.com/inscider/2012/11/nasa-mercury-announcement.html#mkcpgn=fbsci1

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 45 comments

Moj.io: Connect your car to the world around you

http://moj.io/

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 82 comments

Eric Lippert is leaving Microsoft

http://ericlippert.com/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 65 comments

The Kickstarter Game Successes: Where Are They Now?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/28/the-kickstarter-successes-where-are-they-now/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 71 comments

The Myth of American Meritocracy

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-american-meritocracy/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 129 comments

China Mafia-Style Hack Attack Drives California Firm to Brink

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-27/china-mafia-style-hack-attack-drives-california-firm-to-brink.html

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: My side project CreateMyInvoice.com creates PDF invoices from email

http://createmyinvoice.com

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 66 comments

Surface with Windows 8 Pro – Pricing

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/11/29/next-up-for-the-surface-family-surface-with-windows-8-pro-pricing.aspx

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 120 comments

Google cuts Cloud Storage prices another 10% after Amazon S3 price cut

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/11/29/in-response-to-amazons-price-cuts-google-cuts-cloud-storage-prices-by-another-10-for-a-total-of-30/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 76 comments

Obama opposes House passage of H.R. 6429

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57556074-38/obama-opposes-silicon-valley-firms-on-immigration-reform/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 109 comments

How to hack your way into a hot startup with no experience

http://blog.vidyard.com/the-ultimate-hack-how-our-newest-growth-hacke

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 79 comments

Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/need-the-lord-of-the-rings-timeline-its-on-your-mac

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 49 comments

Jeff Bezos raised $1M from 22 people to get Amazon started

http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/11/29/in-the-early-days-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-attended-60-investor-meetings-to-raise-1m-from-22-people/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

World’s narrowest house by Jakub Szczesny

http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/31/worlds-narrowest-house-by-jakub-szczesny/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 42 comments

The Humble THQ Bundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/?thq

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 90 comments

Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/11/recent-human-evolution-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 64 comments

Swedish Exchange paralyzed by buy order for "-6 stocks"

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.svd.se%2Fnaringsliv%2Fnyheter%2Fsverige%2Fmonsterorder-stoppade-borsen_7708362.svd&act=url

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 50 comments

Sputnik – Dell’s Ubuntu-based developer laptop is here

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/11/29/sputnik-dells-ubuntu-based-developer-laptop-is-here/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

"I decided not to introduce full refinement for Ruby 2.0."

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4085#note-175

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

Am I (Un)Hireable As A Coder?

http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/am-i-unhireable-as-a-coder.html

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 105 comments

Math Envy and CoffeeScript's Foibles

http://johnbender.us/2012/11/27/math-envy-and-coffeescripts-foibles/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Real-time application performance monitoring

https://dashboard.graphdat.com/landing

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

Free DNS management service

https://entrydns.net/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 35 comments

VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience fundraiser

http://www.videolan.org/press/win8ks.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 33 comments

Announcing Google Drive Site Publishing

http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2012/11/announcing-google-drive-site-publishing.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans

http://qz.com/31446/formula-one-like-soccer-and-the-metric-system-is-ok-for-everyone-except-americans/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 69 comments

Ask PG: Fix the broken flagging system? Surface article just got flagged off FP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4849814

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 28 comments

New York City celebrates day without violent crime

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20536201

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 26 comments

Microsoft Announces Pricing Details on Surface With Windows 8 Pro

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/microsoft-announces-pricing-details-on-surface-pro/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 64 comments

Apple releases iTunes 11

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/11/29/apple-releases-itunes-11-with-simplified-player-redesigned-store-and-more/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 72 comments

StickNFind – Bluetooth Powered ultra small Location Stickers

http://www.indiegogo.com/sticknfind

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 30 comments

The Secret to Iranian Drone Technology? Just Add Photoshop

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/11/iran-drone-photoshopped/59404/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments

It's never too late to become an entrepreneur

http://www.dailybreeze.com/lifeandculture/ci_22083255/helen-dennis-its-never-too-late-become-an

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

Twitter’s Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: ‘This Is Contracts 101′

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/28/twitter-responds-to-peoplebrowsr/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

Vayable Guides Travelers Off the Beaten Path

http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/goldman-sachs-progress/archive/2012/11/vayable-guides-travelers-off-the-beaten-path/265495/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 7 comments

The Myth of the Lone Hacker

http://ashtonkemerling.com/2012/11/27/the-myth-of-the-lone-hacker/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 18 comments

Telcos charge more to send a text next door than cost of sending data from Mars

http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/28/free-market-failure-telcos-charge-more-for-sending-a-text-next-door-than-cost-of-sending-data-from-mars/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 45 comments

Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/11/29/new-prismatic-web

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Kung Fu Typing - Keyboard Finger Movement Diagrams

http://www.datapointed.net/2010/01/typing-styles-compared/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 54 comments

The New AWS Data Pipeline

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/the-new-amazon-data-pipeline.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments
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