top 50% 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

FTL: Advanced Edition

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

13 years ago

311 upvotes – 142 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

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

Benchmarking Codswallop: Node.js vs. PHP

http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2013/11/benchmarking-codswallop-nodejs-v-php

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 82 comments

Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/switzerlands-proposal-to-pay-people-for-being-alive.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 287 comments

Show HN: A search engine that lets you 'add' words as vectors

http://insightdatascience.com/blog/thisplusthat_a_search_engine_that_lets_you_add_words_as_vectors.html

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 64 comments

Quant turned whistle blower explains how the market is rigged [video]

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/11/11/video-the-wall-street-code/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: We built our startup in 100 days

https://giveit100.com/@100

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 102 comments

The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal (1995)

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/magazine/the-great-ivy-league-nude-posture-photo-scandal.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 71 comments

The plot against France

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/opinion/krugman-the-plot-against-france.html

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 80 comments

Google launches Portable Native Client

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/11/12/google-launches-portable-native-client-lets-developers-compile-code-run-hardware-site/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 111 comments

CyanogenMod Installer Release

http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/cyanogenmod-installer-release

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 46 comments

MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmful way

http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2013-10-01/mysql-is-to-sql-like-mongodb-to-nosql

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 121 comments

Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum

http://9to5mac.com/2013/11/12/apple-ii-dos-source-code-released-by-computer-history-museum/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 18 comments

Page not found

http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/meeting-astronauts-on-necker-kitsurfing-with-the-pages

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 104 comments

Czech bitcoin exchange Bitcash.cz hacked, up to 4,000 user wallets emptied

http://www.coindesk.com/czech-bitcoin-exchange-bitcash-cz-hacked-4000-user-wallets-emptied/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 84 comments

Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6720789

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 102 comments

Tormented typhoon victims scour for food

http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issues/disasters/typhoon-yolanda/43381-tormented-typhoon-victims-scour-for-food-yolanda

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 32 comments

Adobe credentials and the serious insecurity of password hints

http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/11/adobe-credentials-and-serious.html

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

What's new in Unity 4.3

http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 77 comments

How JavaScript closures are garbage collected

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19798803/how-javascript-closures-are-garbage-collected?newsletter=1&nlcode=91287%7caea8

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

"Future of JavaScript" doc from our internal "JavaScript Summit" (2010)

https://gist.github.com/paulmillr/1208618

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 55 comments

If Gmail were built with Drupal

http://bryanbraun.com/2013/11/09/if-gmail-were-built-with-drupal

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 92 comments

An Introduction to Nitra

http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/11/12/an-introduction-to-nitra/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Friends don't let friends use Eclipse

http://blog.databaseanimals.com/friends-don-t-let-friends-use-eclipse

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 86 comments

Eliminate HTTP requests using JavaScript diffs and LocalStorage

http://nodeknockout.com/teams/waving

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

Thoughts on a New Dylan Ecosystem

http://dylanfoundry.org/2013/11/12/thoughts-on-a-new-dylan-ecosystem/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

Pure JS in-browser Excel file parser

http://oss.sheetjs.com/#

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

Little Data: How do we query personal data?

https://www.petekeen.net/little-data

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 39 comments

Any Tech Sites that don't always talk about Google, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6717046

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: Most successful startup that applied but never got into YC?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6719289

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 33 comments

18 hours, $33K, and 156,314 cores: Amazon cloud HPC hits a “petaflop”

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/18-hours-33k-and-156314-cores-amazon-cloud-hpc-hits-a-petaflop/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments
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