top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-09

Hey developers, stop forcing me to login to unsubscribe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6704027

13 years ago

453 upvotes – 133 comments

Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Racket

http://www.pyret.org

13 years ago

396 upvotes – 283 comments

From a Model S owner in Tennessee

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/model-s-owner-tennessee

13 years ago

355 upvotes – 264 comments

Questions to ask your potential employer

http://www.stefankendall.com/2013/11/10-questions-to-ask-your-potential.html

13 years ago

314 upvotes – 162 comments

Shopify accepts Bitcoin

http://ecommerce.shopify.com/c/payments-shipping-fulfilment/t/bitcoin-135352

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 121 comments

The Big Data Brain Drain: Why Science is in Trouble

http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/10/26/big-data-brain-drain

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 94 comments

Super Soaker creator awarded $72.9M from Hasbro

http://www.ajc.com/news/business/super-soaker-creator-awarded-729m-from-hasbro/nbjmm/#!

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 64 comments

ClojureScript 101

http://swannodette.github.io/2013/11/07/clojurescript-101/

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 42 comments

Try Hy

http://try-hy.appspot.com/

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 64 comments

GIMP Windows Installers move from Sourceforge to ftp.gimp.org

http://www.gimp.org/?

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 75 comments

Marelle: logic programming for devops

http://quietlyamused.org/blog/2013/11/09/marelle-for-devops/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 49 comments

It's the Umami – Why the Truth About MSG is So Easy to Swallow

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2013/11/its-the-umami-stupid-why-the-truth-about-msg-is-so-easy-to-swallow/

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 160 comments

The NY Times endorsed a secretive trade agreement that the public can’t read

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/08/the-new-york-times-endorsed-a-secretive-trade-agreement-that-the-public-cant-read/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 86 comments

Ask HN: What's the best place in Europe to live and work cheaply?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6703058

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 161 comments

Python 2 vs. Python 3: A retrospective

https://www.dropbox.com/s/83ppa5iykqmr14z/Py2v3Hackers2013.pptx

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 109 comments

Why Teenagers Are Fleeing Facebook

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/5-reasons-teenagers-are-fleeing-facebook-182756430.html

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 94 comments

Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger China

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/world/asia/bloomberg-news-is-said-to-curb-articles-that-might-anger-china.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=0

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 72 comments

High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python

http://preshing.com/20110926/high-resolution-mandelbrot-in-obfuscated-python/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 20 comments

S.F. programmers build alternative to HealthCare.gov [video]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57611592/s.f-programmers-build-alternative-to-healthcare.gov/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 90 comments

Qatar: Abolish Exit Visas for Migrant Workers

http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/30/qatar-abolish-exit-visas-migrant-workers

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 54 comments

$100K traded through Vancouver's Bitcoin ATM in one week [video]

http://www.vancouversun.com/100K+traded+through+Vancouver+Bitcoin+week/9145774/story.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

ISO 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_1

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

Ulam spiral

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

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

Surnames offer depressing clues to extent of social mobility over generations

http://www.economist.com/node/21571399

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 78 comments

Filther.io – Search for images and only get the unsafe ones (NSFW)

http://filther.io

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 28 comments

How a blacksmith learned to code

http://joshuakemp.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-blacksmith-learned-to-code-and-9.html

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: What's the best place in the U.S. to live and work cheaply?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6702111

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 119 comments

Is It O.K. to Kill Cyclists?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to-kill-cyclists.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 164 comments

Why Do Brits Accept Surveillance?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/opinion/why-do-brits-accept-surveillance.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 80 comments

This site produces a browsable tree of related info if you enter a keyword

http://exploresion.org

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

Meet the American Nomads of Walmart's Plentiful Parking Lots

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/11/walmart-parking-lots

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 45 comments

They Loved Your G.P.A., Then They Saw Your Tweets

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/business/they-loved-your-gpa-then-they-saw-your-tweets.html?ref=technology&_r=0&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 69 comments

Lans.py: capture usernames, passwords, messages and inject arbitrary HTML

https://github.com/DanMcInerney/LANs.py

13 years ago

★ 2.6k Python GPL-3.0
64 upvotes – 24 comments

Row over US mobile phone 'cockroach backpack' app

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24455141

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 71 comments
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