top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-02

Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

http://phoboslab.org/ztype/

13 years ago

730 upvotes – 252 comments

Smart Air

http://smartairfilters.com/

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 91 comments

Can Snowden be targeted using the Adobe breach?

http://7habitsofhighlyeffectivehackers.blogspot.com/2013/11/can-someone-be-targeted-using-adobe.html

13 years ago

229 upvotes – 91 comments

Git 2.0 changes push default to ‘simple’

http://blog.nicoschuele.com/?p=217

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 79 comments

Django plugins you shouldn't start without

http://blog.hndigest.com/django-plugins-i-start-my-with/

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 85 comments

Smooth Online Signatures, Open Source

http://blog.ezliu.com/online-signatures/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 54 comments

Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131101-when-does-daylight-savings-time-end-november-3-science/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 126 comments

An interview with Bill Gates

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dacd1f84-41bf-11e3-b064-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2jOv8ZdDW

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 167 comments

Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 24 comments

An analysis of the C#/.NET platform

http://pauloortins.com/diving-into-csharp-dotnet-ecosystem/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 302 comments

Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book

http://orangetide.com/graphics_programming_black_book/html/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 29 comments

NSA Fallout Thwarts AT&T

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304073204579167873091999730-lMyQjAxMTAzMDMwMDEzNDAyWj

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 43 comments

OpenPGP Best Practices

https://we.riseup.net/riseuplabs+paow/openpgp-best-practices

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 31 comments

The Devil's Dictionary of Programming

http://programmingisterrible.com/post/65781074112/devils-dictionary-of-programming

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: Getting paid to work on open source full-time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6660923

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 67 comments

Learn Web Development: From Novice to Employable

http://howtocode.io

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

The Writings of Leslie Lamport

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.html

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 15 comments

How did ancient Greek music sound?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24611454

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 43 comments

Secrets of the world's happiest cities

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/01/secrets-worlds-happiest-cities-commute-property-prices

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 66 comments

Microsoft to retire Skype Desktop API

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsoft-can-skype-api

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 72 comments

UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in 'espionage' and 'terrorism'

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/01/us-uk-nsa-idUSBRE9A013O20131101?p=1

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 28 comments

No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/world/no-morsel-too-minuscule-for-all-consuming-nsa.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 37 comments

Autodesk's Idea to Knit the Hyperloop Out of Carbon Fiber

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-31/autodesks-idea-to-knit-the-hyperloop-out-of-carbon-fiber

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 25 comments

iOS 7 and the Iconography of ‘Alien’

http://design.iconfactory.com/ios-7-and-alien/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Firmware Update Improves Battery Life

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7478/microsoft-surface-pro-2-firmware-update-improves-battery-life

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 41 comments

How to Get an A- in Organic Chemistry

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/education/edlife/how-to-get-an-a-in-organic-chemistry.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 58 comments

DOOM 3 BFG Technical Note [pdf]

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3_documentation/DOOM-3-BFG-Technical-Note.pdf

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

Yet Another Android Master Key Bug

http://www.saurik.com/id/19

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible for All, Except the Feds

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/dark-wallet-will-make-bitcoin-accessible-for-allexcept-the-feds

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 42 comments

Bypass Quora signup wall by appending "?share=1" to URL

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6658995

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

How General Motors Was Really Saved

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danbigman/2013/10/30/how-general-motors-was-really-saved-the-untold-true-story-of-the-most-important-bankruptcy-in-u-s-history/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 44 comments

Grasp: Structural Search and Replace for JavaScript

http://graspjs.com

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

What is the best office design you have seen?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6660729

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 54 comments

Healthcare.gov failed despite agile practices

http://gcn.com/blogs/reality-check/2013/11/healthcare-agile.aspx

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: An open-source mobile RPG engine in CoffeeScript

http://pents90.github.io/eburp

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments
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