top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-11-04

Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/

13 years ago

409 upvotes – 78 comments

The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998

http://www.microsoft.com/games/monster/default.htm

13 years ago

385 upvotes – 235 comments

Get Shit Done: The Worst Startup Culture

http://whatspinksthinks.com/2013/11/04/get-shit-done-the-worst-startup-culture-ever/

13 years ago

382 upvotes – 199 comments

In CSS, “px” is not an angular measurement and it is not non-linear

http://omnicognate.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/in-css-px-is-not-an-angular-measurement-and-it-is-not-non-linear/

13 years ago

345 upvotes – 89 comments

Use a Google Spreadsheet as your JSON backend

https://coderwall.com/p/duapqq

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

http://volafile.io/r/GAKbA

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 97 comments

Avoiding Heart Disease

http://blog.harjtaggar.com/my-heart

13 years ago

215 upvotes – 141 comments

Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 87 comments

All around the world, labour is losing out to capital

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21588900-all-around-world-labour-losing-out-capital-labour-pains

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 280 comments

Wayback machine gets a facelift, new features

https://archive.org/web/

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 77 comments

Chuck Moore's Creations

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashleyf/archive/2013/09/21/chuck-moores-creations.aspx

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 72 comments

Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable

http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0243

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 86 comments

Hawala

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 55 comments

My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131029100222-95015-my-first-job-fired-and-rehired-on-day-1?trk=tod-home-art-list-small_1

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 113 comments

Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/07/long-before-trees-overtook-the-land-earth-was-covered-by-giant-mushrooms/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 49 comments

Massachusetts man uses 3-D printer to make prosthetic hand for his son

http://now.msn.com/paul-mccarthy-massachusetts-man-uses-3-d-printer-to-make-prosthetic-hand-for-his-son

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 47 comments

How we test fake sites on live traffic

http://blog.42floors.com/we-test-fake-versions-of-our-site

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: RinohType – A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python

http://www.mos6581.org/introducing-rinohtype

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 99 comments

XPath is actually pretty useful once it stops being confusing

http://news.rapgenius.com/Mat-brown-xpath-is-actually-pretty-useful-once-it-stops-being-confusing-lyrics

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 75 comments

Writing a FUSE filesystem in Python

http://www.stavros.io/posts/python-fuse-filesystem/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 48 comments
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