top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-01

Editorial: "How piracy changed my life"

http://www.neowin.net/news/editorial-how-piracy-changed-my-life

14 years ago

248 upvotes – 229 comments

Norway is building thorium reactor

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/norway-ringing-in-thorium-nuclear-new-year-with-westinghouse-at-the-party/6421

14 years ago

231 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857714

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 284 comments

Microsoft releases tool for creating Windows 8 apps in the browser

https://www.touchdevelop.com/app/

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 68 comments

A single line of Basic sends readers into a labyrinth

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/books/2012/11/computer_programming_10_print_chr_205_5_rnd_1_goto_10_from_mit_press_reviewed.html

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 89 comments

Netflix open sources resilience engineering library

https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/wiki

14 years ago

★ 24.4k Java
148 upvotes – 34 comments

A static website generator in Python

https://github.com/koenbok/Cactus

14 years ago

★ 3.4k Python BSD-3-Clause
140 upvotes – 44 comments

Taleb: The future will not be cool

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/01/nassim_nicholas_taleb_the_future_will_not_be_cool/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 160 comments

Attention founders: Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company

http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/30/attention-founders-heres-how-you-respond-to-an-unfair-post-about-your-company/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 15 comments

A tour of the world in d3.js

http://bl.ocks.org/4183330

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 50 comments

Drone crashes mount at civilian airports

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/drone-crashes-mount-at-civilian-airports-overseas/2012/11/30/e75a13e4-3a39-11e2-83f9-fb7ac9b29fad_story.html

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857717

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 124 comments

My Raspberry Pi WordPress server survived the front page of Hacker News

http://pipress.vo3.net/?p=16

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: Do coding coaches exist?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857854

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 67 comments

Ruby 2.0.0-preview2 released

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/50443

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

CEOs Don’t Come Pre-Made. Authentic Leadership Has To Be Learned

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/01/the-path-to-a-culture-of-success-is-paved-with-authentic-leadership/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

The Organism Will Do What It Pleases

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/12/the-organism-will-do-what-it-damn-well-pleases.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: Who is meeting up? (December 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857727

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 61 comments

San Francisco can become a world capital. First it needs to get over itself

http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/01/san-francisco-can-become-a-world-capital-first-it-needs-to-get-over-itself/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 84 comments

The Nexus 4 is a dud

https://plus.google.com/101823054067706876820/posts/h2SdJQuBotw

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 70 comments

Multitasking makes you dumb

http://sirupsen.com/multitasking-makes-you-dumb/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 28 comments

From H.P., a Blunder That Seems to Beat All

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/business/hps-autonomy-blunder-might-be-one-for-the-record-books.html?pagewanted=1&nl=business&emc=edit_dlbkpm_20121130

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 53 comments

American Higher Education: Not what it used to be

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21567373-american-universities-represent-declining-value-money-their-students-not-what-it

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 28 comments

Zynga Stock Dives as Facebook Keeps Backing Away

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/11/zynga-facebook-chill/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 35 comments

Free UI PSDs for Smartphones

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/freebies/40-free-ui-kit-psd-for-smartphones/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments

Can Art be Games?

http://www.sophiehoulden.com/can-art-be-games/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 36 comments

Speak Up - Speaking mentorship

http://speakup.io/mentors.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 15 comments

Is Python The New Basic? ("Python For Kids")

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/11/24/is-python-the-new-basic-python-for-kids/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 48 comments

Technology giants at war

http://www.economist.com/news/21567361-google-apple-facebook-and-amazon-are-each-others-throats-all-sorts-ways-another-game

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 21 comments

HackPad is expanding its reach, maybe even to the White House

http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/30/hackpad-is-expanding-its-reach-maybe-even-to-the-white-house/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments

For A Stranger In Silicon Valley, Success Isn’t Only About Who You Know

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/01/stranger-in-the-valley/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 14 comments

Hypersonic Flight ‘Breakthrough’ Could Have Us in Tokyo by Lunch

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/11/reaction-engines-hypersonic/

14 years ago

43 upvotes – 45 comments

McAfee Interviewed in Secret Location

http://mashable.com/2012/12/01/mcafee-interviewed/

14 years ago

42 upvotes – 26 comments
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