top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-08

Sprite Lamp

http://www.spritelamp.com/

13 years ago

1323 upvotes – 126 comments

Fix Ubuntu

https://fixubuntu.com/

13 years ago

581 upvotes – 299 comments

Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

http://www.youtube.com/user/jawed

13 years ago

520 upvotes – 259 comments

Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

http://tynan.com/cruisework

13 years ago

355 upvotes – 311 comments

Rotate the world

http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/rotate/

13 years ago

316 upvotes – 71 comments

The Surveillance State Puts U.S. Elections at Risk of Manipulation

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/the-surveillance-state-puts-us-elections-at-risk-of-manipulation/281232/

13 years ago

280 upvotes – 96 comments

Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/11/08/why-i-wont-use-a-gplus-custom-url/

13 years ago

259 upvotes – 162 comments

Git Cheatsheet

http://www.ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 53 comments

AngularJS 1.2.0: timely-delivery

http://blog.angularjs.org/2013/11/angularjs-120-timely-delivery.html

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 63 comments

Amazon Analytics Service

http://developer.amazon.com/sdk/analytics.html

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 95 comments

An open letter to the media, by Anonymous

http://pastebin.com/sK6Zi3EM

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 87 comments

Wounded QR Codes

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/november12013/index.html

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 49 comments

Everpix, Snapchat, and the Startup Lie

http://subimage.com/blog/2013/11/07/everpix-snapchat-and-the-startup-lie/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 89 comments

OpenSSH security advisory

http://www.openssh.com/txt/gcmrekey.adv

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 88 comments

The Curious Case of Polywater

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/11/polywater_history_and_science_mistakes_the_u_s_and_ussr_raced_to_create.single.html

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 37 comments

Startup CEOs: you are overestimating your tech talent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697988

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 126 comments

Time for Internet Engineers to Fight Back Against the “Surveillance Internet”

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/521306/time-for-internet-engineers-to-fight-back-against-the-surveillance-internet/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 46 comments

Preferred number

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

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 16 comments

Yahoos Bristle at Mayer’s New QPR Ranking System and “Silent Layoffs”

http://allthingsd.com/20131108/because-marissa-said-so-yahoos-bristle-at-mayers-new-qpr-ranking-system-and-silent-layoffs

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 148 comments

Build Tools for iOS

http://www.objc.io/issue-6/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 25 comments

Apple Bought $578M Worth of Sapphire

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/08/why-apple-bought-578m-worth-of-sapphire-in-advance/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 86 comments

The Onion quits print

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20131108/NEWS06/131109836/onion-quits-print

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 73 comments

Cruise Sheet: Find cruise deals

http://cruisesheet.com/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 37 comments

“Remove occurrences of the short name of the Debian derivative from Canonical”

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/debmirror.git;a=commitdiff;h=fcd972395b0201fcde4915d282982926f0d04c56;hp=7fcdf0d225c480b386c5a1f487e68dc39b57e771

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 79 comments

Datomic Pro Starter Edition

http://blog.datomic.com/2013/11/datomic-pro-starter-edition.html

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 57 comments

Kickstarter pledger scammed multiple projects for rewards

http://comicsbeat.com/report-kickstarter-scammer-encik-farhan/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 59 comments

Why Twitter's IPO is Bad for Startups

http://jackealtman.com/why-twitters-ipo-is-bad-for-startups

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 101 comments

The $100,000 Battery That Could Help Hotels Save Bundles of Money

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/the-100-000-battery-that-could-help-hotels-save-bundles-of-money/281194/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 61 comments

Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/11/-em-starship-troopers-em-one-of-the-most-misunderstood-movies-ever/281236/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

http://getrather.com/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 60 comments

Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

http://i.imgur.com/WIApJHX.png

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

XKCD Substitutions Chrome extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xkcd-substitutions/jkgogmboalmaijfgfhfepckdgjeopfhk?hl=en&gl=001

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

100% Compression Using Pi

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

13 years ago

★ 6.8k C GPL-3.0
87 upvotes – 32 comments

Inkjet-Based Circuits at Fraction of Time and Cost

http://www.news.gatech.edu/2013/11/05/georgia-tech-develops-inkjet-based-circuits-fraction-time-and-cost

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 21 comments

MariaDB 10.0 Beta launched

https://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-10-0-beta-launched-an-important-milestone/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 23 comments

French PM releases the G8 Open Data Charter Action Plan for France

http://www.etalab.gouv.fr/article-french-prime-minister-releases-the-g8-open-data-charter-action-plan-for-france-121016042.html

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Are Computers Making Society More Unequal?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/11/when-machines-replace-humans-at-work.html

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 110 comments

The Quality of Embedded Software, or the Mess Has Happened

http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0083/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 55 comments

The anterolateral ligament: Wrong information on the Internet

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/11/08/anterolateral-ligament-internet-information/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 41 comments

Self-host the web with ArkOS

https://arkos.io

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

A map of depression rates around the world

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/11/07/a-stunning-map-of-depression-rates-around-the-world/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 43 comments

Dear Clueless About Marketing Programmer: Yes it’s hard, but not impossible.

http://www.chrisle.me/2013/11/dear-clueless-about-marketing-programmer-yes-its-hard-but-not-impossible/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments
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