top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-05

We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

https://weworkremotely.com/

13 years ago

599 upvotes – 254 comments

Apple hides a Patriot-Act-busting "warrant canary" in its transparency report

http://boingboing.net/2013/11/05/apple-hides-a-patriot-act-bust.html

13 years ago

380 upvotes – 214 comments

Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission

http://www.nextbigwhat.com/mangalyaan-india-mars-mission-isro-297/

13 years ago

368 upvotes – 146 comments

Statistics Done Wrong – The woefully complete guide

http://www.refsmmat.com/statistics

13 years ago

331 upvotes – 70 comments

Everpix was great. This is how it died

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup

13 years ago

320 upvotes – 258 comments

Let's have coffee.

http://coffee.tgriff3.com

13 years ago

299 upvotes – 142 comments

MacKenzie Bezos Writes Amazon Review for Jeff Bezos Biography

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2I0T26SV0ELPP/

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 157 comments

A Critique of Lavabit

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/lavabit-critique/

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 118 comments

Debian: Change default desktop to xfce

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git;a=commitdiff;h=dfca406eb694e0ac00ea04b12fc912237e01c9b5

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 152 comments

Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong

http://willweinraub.com/post/66100105668/dear-google-thanks-for-copying-my-startup-but-youre

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 129 comments

We're going to send out invitations to YC interviews close to midnight

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6672578

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 119 comments

Angular Announces AngularDart

http://news.dartlang.org/2013/11/angular-announces-angulardart.html

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 175 comments

Introducing Google Helpouts

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/introducing-helpouts-help-when-you-need.html

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 115 comments

InfluxDB – Open-source distributed time-series, events, and metrics database

http://influxdb.org/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 76 comments

Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac

http://www.knocktounlock.com/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 163 comments

Bigger than Google Fiber: LA plans citywide gigabit for homes and businesses

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/bigger-than-google-fiber-la-plans-citywide-gigabit-for-homes-and-businesses/

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 59 comments

South Korea is stuck with Internet Explorer for online shopping

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/due-to-security-law-south-korea-is-stuck-with-internet-explorer-for-online-shopping/2013/11/03/ffd2528a-3eff-11e3-b028-de922d7a3f47_story.html

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 159 comments

Adobe confirms stolen passwords were encrypted, not hashed

http://www.csoonline.com/article/742570/adobe-confirms-stolen-passwords-were-encrypted-not-hashed

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: No YC interview, but here's my application

https://www.penflip.com/loren/yc-application

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 92 comments

Features Firefox should implement to weaken Facebook's stranglehold of the web

http://blogg.forteller.net/2013/first-steps/

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 104 comments

Everpix is Shutting Down

https://www.everpix.com/landing.html#adieu

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 89 comments

Programmable 6,000-Part Drawing Boy Automaton Built 240 Years Ago

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/11/the-writer-automata/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 39 comments

Things You Should Know About AWS

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/11/5/10-things-you-should-know-about-aws.html

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 50 comments

Nexus 5 Teardown

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+5+Teardown/19016

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 118 comments

The World Chess Championship is an anachronism

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2013/11/the_world_chess_championship_is_an_embarrassing_anachronism_it_s_time_to.single.html

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 73 comments

Do “Shitty” Work

http://ryanhoover.me/post/66092903567/do-shitty-work

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

How Minecraft Was Born

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/11/minecraft-book/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 71 comments

On Game Development

https://akbiggs.silvrback.com/on-game-development

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 55 comments

Mercurial 2.8 Released

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_2.8_.282013-11-1.29

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 124 comments

Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company

http://usesold.com/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 78 comments

History of the browser user-agent string

http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 32 comments

The Cheapest Generation

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/the-cheapest-generation/309060/1/?single_page=true

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 147 comments

OpenNote – an open web-based alternative to Microsoft OneNote and EverNote

https://github.com/FoxUSA/OpenNote

13 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript MIT
91 upvotes – 63 comments

Mozilla Circus 0.10 released

https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2013/11/05/circus-0-10-released/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/10/21/dude/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 39 comments

Scramble.io: secure email for everyone

http://dcposch.github.io/scramble

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 139 comments

Will Scala ever be enterprise-ready?

http://alblue.bandlem.com/2013/08/will-scala-ever-be-enterprise-ready.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 102 comments

Google bots follow SQL-injected URLs from third party sites

http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/11/google-bots-doing-sql-injection-attacks.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

Rejected from YC? Here is what you're missing out on

http://www.techendo.co/posts/tell-techendo-rejected-from-yc-here-is-what-you-re-missing-out-on

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 61 comments

Cool C Programming

http://sathyamvellal.in/blog/cool-c-programming/?d=5

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 60 comments

Secrets of running a six-figure Airbnb business

http://www.fastcompany.com/3021179/secrets-of-running-a-six-figure-airbnb-business

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 46 comments

Say hello to offline first

http://blog.hood.ie/2013/11/say-hello-to-offline-first/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 48 comments

AOL Smacks Startup for Using CrunchBase Content It Gave Away

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/aol-crunchbase-cc-flap/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

Zeros in JavaScript

http://zero.milosz.ca

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 87 comments

Welcome to Performance Cloud Servers – Have Some Benchmarks

http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/welcome-to-performance-cloud-servers-have-some-benchmarks.html

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 50 comments

If you got rejected from YC, your life is over

http://jessepollak.me/if-you-got-rejected-from-yc-your-life-is-over/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

BitTorrent Sync Beta API Now Available to Developers

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2013/11/05/bittorrent-sync-beta-api-now-available-to-developers/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: WebMenu, a platform to discover new web apps

https://webmenu.org/apps/webmenu

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Sustainable Micro Home that Costs Less Than $30,000

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/ian-lorne-kent-nomad-micro-home

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 59 comments

Man compelled by police to undergo surgical procedure to "search for drugs"

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3209305.shtml#.UnlKY5TEqG9

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 33 comments

How to Launder Billions of Digital Dollars

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/how-to-launder-billions-and-billions-of-digital-dollars/281091/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 56 comments

Apple Opening Arizona Plant With 2,000 Workers to Make Parts

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-04/apple-to-build-plant-in-arizona-with-2-000-workers-to-make-parts.html

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 31 comments

Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Under Attack

http://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-warns-zero-day-under-attack

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 21 comments

Bjarne Stroustrup Discusses C++

http://electronicdesign.com/dev-tools/interview-bjarne-stroustrup-discusses-c

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 68 comments

Treat strangers to coffee

https://treatings.co

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 46 comments

Outsourcing your chores is a good thing

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/magazine/outsource-your-way-to-success.html?hp&_r=0

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 56 comments
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