top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-11-12

The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone

http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone

13 years ago

1036 upvotes – 261 comments

Microsoft does away with stack ranking

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-does-away-with-stack-ranking-7000023103/

13 years ago

489 upvotes – 157 comments

Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/12/occupy-wall-street-activists-15m-personal-debt

13 years ago

409 upvotes – 267 comments

Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can Help

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/11/bill-gates-wired-essay/

13 years ago

392 upvotes – 358 comments

Heirloom Chemistry Set

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1742632993/heirloom-chemistry-set

13 years ago

346 upvotes – 143 comments

How long do disk drives last?

http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/11/12/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

13 years ago

311 upvotes – 158 comments

FTL: Advanced Edition

http://www.ftlgame.com/?p=598

13 years ago

311 upvotes – 142 comments

End of Inception decoded [video]

http://sourcefed.com/end-inception-de-coded/

13 years ago

279 upvotes – 121 comments

Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different

http://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-different

13 years ago

270 upvotes – 129 comments

What's wrong with Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming

https://yinwang0.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/oop-fp/

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 142 comments

How I Ate No Food for 30 Days

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/soylent-no-food-for-30-days

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 287 comments

Dataset: Databases for lazy people

https://dataset.readthedocs.org/

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 49 comments

The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup

http://fpgacomputing.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-stanford-startup-and-mit-startup.html

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 85 comments

Sweden closes four prisons as number of inmates plummets

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/sweden-closes-prisons-number-inmates-plummets

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 175 comments

Web.go – Web applications with Go

http://webgo.io/

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 56 comments

Soylent on the latest Vice piece

http://blog.soylent.me/post/66807143901/this-morning-vices-brian-merchant-published-a

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 195 comments

Live editing WebGL shaders with Firefox Developer Tools

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/11/live-editing-webgl-shaders-with-firefox-developer-tools/

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 18 comments

Portable Native Client

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/portable-native-client-pinnacle-of.html

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 135 comments

The perils of mixing open source and money

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2013/the-perils-of-mixing-open-source-and-money.html

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 49 comments

$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes

http://www.coindesk.com/4-1m-goes-missing-chinese-bitcoin-trading-platform-gbl-vanishes/

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 173 comments
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