top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-03

Dogescript

http://zachbruggeman.me/dogescript/

13 years ago

369 upvotes – 140 comments

The Quest to Build a Truly Free Version of Android

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/10/replicant/

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 128 comments

How much money are you earning from your software products?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6663444

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 190 comments

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? (2011)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 43 comments

Few successful entrepreneurs blog

https://twitter.com/rabois/status/397075060499812352

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 126 comments

Fake femme fatale dupes IT guys at US government agency

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/03/fake-femme-fatale-dupes-it-guys-at-us-government-agency/

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 92 comments

Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens

http://m.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/05/very-brief-history-why-its-so-hard-get-brooklyn-queens/5738

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 109 comments

Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open source

https://github.com/sprang/Inkpad/blob/develop/README.md

13 years ago

★ 2.6k Objective-C MPL-2.0
164 upvotes – 43 comments

Seattle Mayor: I have Comcast, and I would like better service

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/01/seattle-mayor-i-have-comcast-and-i-would-like-better-service/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 44 comments

If there's no 16-bit layer in 64-bit Windows, how come 16-bit installers run?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/10/31/10461992.aspx

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: Where do you find interesting papers to read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6663174

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 56 comments

Thorax: An opinionated, battle-tested, Backbone and Handlebars framework

http://thoraxjs.org/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 32 comments

Google Taking Aim at Device Modders in Android 4.4 KitKat

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/google-taking-aim-at-device-modders-in-android-4-4-kitkat/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 66 comments

Guido van Rossum, John Resig, DHH, and Pamela Fox are Judges on CreateHS

http://www.createhs.com/challenge

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 33 comments

My experience hiring a developer on Elance to build my first iPhone app

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2013/11/03/hired-developer-elance-build-first-iphone-app-experience/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 131 comments

Why having an MBA is a negative hiring signal for startups (2012)

http://daltoncaldwell.com/why-having-an-mba-is-a-negative-hiring-signal

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 112 comments

iPad from T-Mobile with free monthly 200MB data for life

http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=251624&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1867397

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 81 comments

Your user agent

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=user+agent

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 71 comments

In Latvia, young people discover new passions in bad economic times

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-latvia-young-people-discover-new-passions-in-bad-economic-times/2013/07/29/ac638cac-efbf-11e2-8c36-0e868255a989_story.html

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

Painless Decorators in Python

http://hackflow.com/blog/2013/11/03/painless-decorators/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison

http://www.ec2instances.info

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: Why is PGP not used widely?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6662798

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 72 comments

Play Fantasy Even If You Hate Football

http://jere.in/why-you-should-play-fantasy-even-if-especially-if-you-hate-football

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 65 comments

The Parable of Mustache.js

http://writing.jan.io/2013/11/01/the-parable-of-mustache-js.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts

http://fontcombiner.com/docs/whyfontcombiner

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Your best passive income sources?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661536

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 33 comments

Thanks HN: That time you saved a bunch of lives

http://tumblr.amitgupta.com/post/65865424421/why-scott-blaine-is-great

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

A Vital Measure: Your Surgeon’s Skill

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/a-vital-measure-your-surgeons-skill/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 48 comments

Here's The Evidence That The Tech Sector Is In A Massive Bubble

http://www.businessinsider.com/evidence-that-tech-sector-is-in-a-bubble-2013-11

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 77 comments

Daylight Saving Time Is Terrible: Here's a Simple Plan to Fix It

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/daylight-saving-time-is-terrible-heres-a-simple-plan-to-fix-it/281075/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 79 comments

Wisp: Small-but-featureful embeddable Lisp interpreter written in Haskell

https://github.com/walpurgisriot/wisp

13 years ago

★ 115 Haskell
73 upvotes – 25 comments

A Dig Through Old Files Reminds Me Why I’m So Critical of Science

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/11/02/a-dig-through-old-files-reminds-me-why-im-so-critical-of-science/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 57 comments

The Man Who Became a Billionaire Through His Fight to the Death With Barbie

http://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2013/10/30/the-toy-mogul-who-became-a-billionaire-through-his-fight-to-the-death-with-barbie/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 47 comments

Why most published scientific research is probably false [video]

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/10/daily-chart-2

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 53 comments

Moving from Ubuntu to Debian

http://magnatecha.com/moving-from-ubuntu-to-debian/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 72 comments

APK Downloader

http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 33 comments

French Startups to Look Out For

http://rerral.com/six-french-startups/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments

Smoothed Analysis: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time

http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DS/0111050

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

DC Police Department monitors gunshots with acoustic rooftop sensors

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/shotspotter-detection-system-documents-39000-shooting-incidents-in-the-district/2013/11/02/055f8e9c-2ab1-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 42 comments

Commit Every Day, Blog Every Week

http://nathanleclaire.com/blog/2013/10/16/commit-every-day/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

The Haskell Road to Logic, Math and Programming (2004) [pdf]

http://fldit-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~peter/PS07/HR.pdf

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments
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