top 50% 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

Valgrind Release 3.9.0

http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.news.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 34 comments

Writing a FUSE filesystem in Python

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

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 48 comments

Scoop – A command-line installer for Windows

http://scoop.sh/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 55 comments

Hackpad

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/11/hackpad.html

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 46 comments

Xkcd: Encryptic

http://xkcd.com/1286/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 62 comments

Doctors participated in torture of suspects after 9/11, taskforce finds

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/cia-doctors-torture-suspected-terrorists-9-11

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 63 comments

Firefox Developer Tools, Part 2: Scratchpad and Style Editor

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/11/reintroducing-the-firefox-developer-tools-part-2-the-scratchpad-and-the-style-editor/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

Snapchat is Intrinsically Worthless

http://roymurdock.com/essays/2013/11/snapchat-is-intrinsically-worthless/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 117 comments

6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decrease power use

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9243751/6TB_helium_filled_hard_drives_take_flight_bump_capacity_50_

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 82 comments

Actualvim – Sublime Text 3 input mode powered by Vim itself

https://github.com/lunixbochs/actualvim

13 years ago

★ 1.5k Python MIT
107 upvotes – 111 comments

The 3.12 kernel is out

http://lwn.net/Articles/572704/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

Google Search Now Includes Etymology

https://www.google.com/search?q=etymology+onomatopoeia

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 65 comments

PredictionIO, a machine learning server for software developers & data engineers

http://prediction.io/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Backtick – A console for bookmarklets and scripts

http://backtick.io/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 30 comments

The End of Coding

http://alexn.id.au/2013/10/30/the-end-of-coding/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 105 comments

Clojure RethinkDB client library released

https://github.com/bitemyapp/revise/

13 years ago

★ 146 Clojure
85 upvotes – 6 comments

Helping a stranger, and why you should understand NP-complete

http://lifebeyondfife.com/helping/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/so-the-internets-about-to-lose-its-net-neutrality/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

http://www.policymic.com/articles/71255/10-corporations-control-almost-everything-you-buy-this-chart-shows-how

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 36 comments

An exclusive interview with Bill Gates

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

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 54 comments

What's new in Unicode 7.0?

http://babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/whats-new-in-unicode-70.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 37 comments

Workplace Equality Is Good for Business

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304527504579172302377638002-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwMjEwNDIyWj

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 137 comments

We're auctioning off a chance for your kid to come to a YC dinner

http://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/item/Item.action;jsessionid=WNDnv5zHrGioxBktnO4qdw**.app4?id=202802658

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 83 comments

Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303661404579175712015473766-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwMzEwNDMyWj

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 58 comments

Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

http://arcticstartup.com/2013/11/04/the-third-stage-of-grief-nokita-a-plan-to-buy-out-nokia-before-microsoft

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 77 comments

John Boyd and the four qualities of victorious organizations

http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/03/how-winners-win-john-boyd-and-the-four-qualities-of-victorious-organizations/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: See where in the world the F-bomb is being dropped

http://www.fbomb.co

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 37 comments

CSS “px” is an Angular Measurement?

http://inamidst.com/stuff/notes/csspx

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the Wind’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/04/north-koreas-tablet-comes-pre-loaded-with-gone-with-the-wind-heres-why/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

“Productivity” Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me)

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/11/03/productivity-hacks/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 19 comments

BlackBerry-Fairfax takeover dies; Thorsten Heins out

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/blackberry-fairfax-deal-dies-thorsten-heins-out/article15240310/?click=tglobe

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 66 comments

TuProlog: Making Prolog Ubiquitous

http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/2013/10/tuprolog-making-prolog-ubiquitous/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Ant On A Rubber Rope

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_on_a_rubber_rope

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

https://github.com/skazhy/github-decorator

13 years ago

★ 225 Python MIT
57 upvotes – 19 comments

Extreme dogfooding

http://blog.rainforestqa.com/2013-11-04-extreme-dogfooding/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

PLATO (computer system)

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

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

In Praise of Haskell

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/in-praise-of-haskell/240163246/#1

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 61 comments

How StatusPage.io Built Their MVP

http://blog.leanstack.io/how-statuspage-io-built-their-mvp/

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6671987

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 49 comments

Goodbye R scripts, hello R packages

http://statwonk.github.io/blog/2013/11/03/goodbye-scripts/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 32 comments
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