top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-17

What 4chan thinks of HN

http://rbt.asia/g/thread/S38087806

13 years ago

942 upvotes – 248 comments

Deleting my Google+ profile

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1044503?hl=en-GB

13 years ago

470 upvotes – 89 comments

Google's Decline Really Bugs Me

http://blackhole12.blogspot.com/2013/11/googles-decline-really-bugs-me.html

13 years ago

411 upvotes – 277 comments

Read less HN

http://johnmurray.io/log/2013/11/17/Read-Less-HN.md

13 years ago

399 upvotes – 132 comments

Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than your users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747713

13 years ago

353 upvotes – 274 comments

Petition against forced Google+ integration on YouTube hits 112,000

http://www.zdnet.com/forced-google-plus-integration-on-youtube-backfires-petition-hits-112000-7000023196/

13 years ago

261 upvotes – 158 comments

Two million Raspberry Pi sold

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/5265

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 115 comments

Battle-ready Nginx – an optimization guide

http://blog.zachorr.com/nginx-setup/

13 years ago

221 upvotes – 40 comments

Mercurial developer responds to "Switch to git?"

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/codereview-discuss/ilUffSph68I/NCldEt2Ii-4J

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 198 comments

Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6748001

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 110 comments

Advanced R programming

http://adv-r.had.co.nz

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 40 comments

Alcohol without the hangover?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/alcohol-benefits-no-dangers-closer-think

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: A game I've been working on for the last year is out today

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/asteroid-smash/id730150968

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 64 comments

How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system

http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 81 comments

Code robots in Python. Fight other players. Climb to the top

http://robotgame.org/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 44 comments

How statically linked programs run on Linux

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/13/how-statically-linked-programs-run-on-linux/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 17 comments

PrimeSense bought by Apple for $345M

http://www.geektime.com/2013/11/17/a-sensible-exit-primesense-bought-by-apple-for-345m/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 82 comments

Saving 9 GB of RAM with Python's __slots__

http://tech.oyster.com/save-ram-with-python-slots/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 43 comments

Bitcoin $500

https://cloudup.com/c8CN2Jj3GHk

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 139 comments

Amazon bares its computers

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/amazon-bares-its-computers/?_r=0

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 71 comments

When to use assert

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-November/660401.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 41 comments

Shell script mistakes

http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/shell_script_mistakes.html

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 34 comments

Hipster CEO

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hipster-ceo/id731368826

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 38 comments

Julia 0.2 released

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/05c6461b55d9a66f05ead24926f5ee062b920d6b/NEWS.md

13 years ago

★ 48.6k Julia MIT
107 upvotes – 42 comments

New FCC chairman tells wireless carriers to unlock cell phones

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/new-fcc-chairman-tells-wireless-carriers-to-unlock-cell-phones/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

My Favorite Database is the Network

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/11/17/my-favorite-database/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 10 comments

Why I use a 20-year-old IBM Model M keyboard

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/why-i-use-a-20-year-old-ibm-model-m-keyboard/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 102 comments

Your Phone Number Is Going To Get A Reputation Score

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/13/your-phone-number-is-going-to-be-scored/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 47 comments

Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users (2011)

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/09/14/mexico.violence/index.html

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

Achieving 10Gbps Line-rate Key-value Stores with FPGAs [pdf]

http://0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f.r43.cf2.rackcdn.com/11566-hotcloud13-blott.pdf

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

Eben Moglen on Privacy: The Union, May it Be Preserved

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: CS Degree, felony conviction, need not apply?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750043

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 92 comments

MobilECG

http://mobilecg.hu/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

Author interactive math equations and diagrams online using LATEX and PSTricks

http://latex2html5.com/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux

http://falkvinge.net/2013/11/17/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments
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