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

Why You Should Never Use MongoDB

http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never-use-mongodb/

13 years ago

568 upvotes – 337 comments

Severing Ties with the NSA

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2013/11/severing_ties_with_the_nsa.html

13 years ago

326 upvotes – 81 comments

Jenkin developers accidentally do "git push --force" to over 150 repos on github

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/jenkinsci-dev/force$20push/jenkinsci-dev/-myjRIPcVwU/mrwn8VkyXagJ

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 192 comments

Simpsons in CSS

http://pattle.github.io/simpsons-in-css/

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 78 comments

GitHub's Explore Email

https://github.com/explore/subscribe

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 58 comments

Tetris and The Power Of CSS

http://www.heydonworks.com/article/tetris-the-power-of-css

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 46 comments

Why are Amazon, Facebook and Yahoo copying Microsoft's stack ranking system?

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2013/11/11/StackRankingWhyAreAmazonFacebookAndYahooCopyingMicrosoftsPerformanceReviewSystem.aspx

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 164 comments

Linux ate my RAM

http://www.linuxatemyram.com/

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 125 comments

Microsoft Research Publications

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=publications

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 28 comments

Real World OCaml

https://realworldocaml.org

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 79 comments

Introducing the Humble Store

https://www.humblebundle.com/store

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 99 comments

Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304868404579190091121691258-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwMDExNDAyWj

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 127 comments

Two years of production Go at CloudFlare

http://blog.cloudflare.com/what-weve-been-doing-with-go

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 65 comments

Isomorphic JavaScript: The Future of Web Apps

http://nerds.airbnb.com/isomorphic-javascript-future-web-apps/

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 117 comments

Bitcoin's UK future looks bleak

https://www.scirra.com/blog/tom/4/bitcoins-uk-future-looks-bleak

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 102 comments

Duplicity + S3: Easy, cheap, encrypted, automated full-disk backups

http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/11/11/duplicity-s3-easy-cheap-encrypted-automated-full-disk-backups-for-your-servers/

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 98 comments

The Narcissism of Small Code Differences (2008)

http://raganwald.com/2008/05/narcissism-of-small-code-differences.html

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 126 comments

CSS text filling with water

http://codepen.io/lbebber/pen/xrwja

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 36 comments

CMU's Introduction to Machine Learning Course

http://alex.smola.org/teaching/cmu2013-10-701x/index.html

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 38 comments

You’re only getting the nice feedback

http://blog.42floors.com/youre-getting-nice-feedback/

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 35 comments

NSA's Surveillance Powers Extend Far Beyond Counterterrorism

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/nsas-surveillance-powers-extend-far-beyond-terrorism-despite-governments

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 38 comments

The secret world of cargo ships

http://theweek.com/article/index/252438/the-secret-world-of-cargo-ships

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 102 comments

Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/11/apple-maps-google-iphone-users

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 181 comments

RFC: Replace Java with Go in default languages

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-11/msg00153.html

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 15 comments

Docker and Go: why did we decide to write Docker in Go?

http://www.slideshare.net/jpetazzo/docker-and-go-why-did-we-decide-to-write-docker-in-go

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 62 comments

Amazon Code Ninjas

http://india.amazon.com/CodeNinjas.html

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 71 comments

McCain says NSA chief Keith Alexander 'should resign or be fired'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/10/john-mccain-nsa-keith-alexander-snowden

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 43 comments

International Space Station Infected With USB Stick Malware

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/521246/20131111/international-space-station-infected-malware-russian-astronaut.htm

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 66 comments

Linux Voice – A new Linux magazine that gives back

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/linux-voice/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 53 comments

Web Latency Benchmark: A new kind of browser benchmark

http://google.github.io/latency-benchmark/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 54 comments

Towards a More Modular Future for JavaScript Libraries

http://flippinawesome.org/2013/11/11/towards-a-more-modular-future-for-javascript-libraries/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 47 comments

Why Hardware Development is Hard, Part 2: The Physical World is Unforgiving

http://danluu.com/hardware-unforgiving/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 40 comments

Empty-Stomach Intelligence

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section1C.t-1.html

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 70 comments

75-year study on what men require to live a happy life.

http://www.feelguide.com/2013/04/29/75-years-in-th-making-harvard-just-released-its-epic-study-on-what-men-require-to-live-a-happy-life/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 50 comments

Functional data structures in JavaScript with Mori

http://sitr.us/2013/11/04/functional-data-structures.html

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

Common Species Of Code

http://www.willa.me/2013/11/the-six-most-common-species-of-code.html?m=1

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

Why Hardware Development Is Hard, Part 1: Verilog Is Weird

http://danluu.com/why-hardware-development-is-hard/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Remote workers, tell us how you got started

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6709601

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

My Biggest Takeaway on 37Signals’s New Book on Remote Work

http://www.jasonshen.com/2013/my-biggest-takeaway-on-37signalss-new-book-on-remote-work-hint-its-not-technology/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 62 comments

Tidbit: Client-Side Bitcoin Mining

http://www.tidbit.co.in/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 53 comments

Research at Google

http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

The First Car You Can Build Yourself in an Hour [video]

http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2013-10-16/the-first-car-you-can-build-yourself-dot-in-an-hour

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

Getting website registration completely wrong

http://reprog.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/getting-website-registration-completely-wrong/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 85 comments

Find your health plan on Health Sherpa

http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 50 comments

Snapchat images that have "disappeared forever" stay right on your phone...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/05/10/snapchat-images-that-have-disappeared-forever-stay-right-on-your-phone/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 50 comments

Facts About the Military Empire of Switzerland

http://www.brouhaha.io/switzerland/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

What is a y-combinator? (2008)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/93526/what-is-a-y-combinator

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Messaging App Line Now Brings in Nearly $100M a Quarter

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/10/messaging-app-line/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 41 comments

Why is virt-builder written in OCaml?

http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/why-is-virt-builder-written-in-ocaml

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments

Google supports Java 7 features on Android

http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide#TOC-Using-sourceCompatibility-1.7

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments
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