top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-18

What It's Like to Fail

http://priceonomics.com/what-its-like-to-fail/

13 years ago

834 upvotes – 317 comments

Code Firefox

http://codefirefox.com/

13 years ago

540 upvotes – 84 comments

Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2013/11/australis-is-landing-in-firefox-nightly/

13 years ago

288 upvotes – 193 comments

GitHub Résumé

http://resume.github.io/

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 108 comments

Visual Cryptography

http://datagenetics.com/blog/november32013/index.html

13 years ago

274 upvotes – 40 comments

Senate hearing on Bitcoin [video]

http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/beyond-silk-road-potential-risks-threats-and-promises-of-virtual-currencies

13 years ago

270 upvotes – 169 comments

Ask HN: I'm 15, won a grant to develop a suicide prevention app, what next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6754953

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 157 comments

Idiomatic Clojure with LightTable

https://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/idiomatic-clojure-with-lighttable/

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Russians Are Not Smiling (2011)

http://blog.properrussian.com/2011/05/why-russians-are-not-smiling.html

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 221 comments

Show HN: My new project - ask.io

http://ask.io/

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 106 comments

Circuit Stickers

http://www.crowdsupply.com/chibitronics/circuit-stickers

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 61 comments

Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on China Was Not Published

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/world/asia/reporter-on-unpublished-bloomberg-article-is-suspended.html

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 81 comments

Third Party Sellers Need To Rethink The Amazon FBA Program

http://www.startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-business/third-party-sellers-need-to-rethink-theamazon-fba-program/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 73 comments

You can't beat politics with new technology all the time

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/18/peter-sunde-hemlis-political-apathy

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 151 comments

Browser logos

https://github.com/paulirish/browser-logos

13 years ago

★ 6k MIT
150 upvotes – 57 comments

Work Can Wait

http://37signals.com/remote/workcanwait

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 48 comments

Breakout in 30 lines of JavaScript

http://jsfiddle.net/martin_/Fq8F4/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 44 comments

How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 7 comments

Time to abandon Gmail?

http://www.zdnet.com/debate/time-to-abandon-gmail/10131024/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 118 comments

U.S. Agencies to say Bitcoins Offer Legitimate Benefits

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-18/u-s-agencies-to-say-bitcoins-offer-legitimate-benefits.html

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 38 comments

Advanced Javascript and Web Debugging Techniques

http://techblog.badoo.com/blog/2013/11/18/5-advanced-javascript-and-web-debugging-techniques-you-should-know-about/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

How To Bid For Cost Per Click Campaigns

http://blog.ezliu.com/how-to-bid-for-cpc-campaigns-aka-stop-doing-adwords-wrong/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 33 comments

Results of the 2013 State of Clojure and ClojureScript survey

http://cemerick.com/2013/11/18/results-of-the-2013-state-of-clojure-clojurescript-survey/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color? (1996)

http://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 20 comments

Bayes and Big Data: The Consensus Monte Carlo Algorithm

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41849.html

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

How the Feds Took Down the Silk Road Drug Wonderland

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/silk-road/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 63 comments

Research: Cubicles Are the Absolute Worst

http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/11/research-cubicles-are-the-absolute-worst/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 74 comments

Advice from Harvard Business School's Class of 1963

http://hbs1963.com/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 23 comments

Snap Out of It: Kids Aren't Reliable Tech Predictors

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303559504579202623459037550

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 73 comments

Hardening Perl's Hash Function

http://blog.booking.com/hardening-perls-hash-function.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 13 comments

Boston policemen complain about new plan to watch their movements

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/boston-police-set-to-track-its-own-patrol-cars-via-gps-to-improve-dispatching/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 78 comments

Why China is leading the global rise of Bitcoin

http://www.coindesk.com/china-leading-global-rise-bitcoin/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

Why a Frozen Head Slows My Films Right Down

http://www.strangecompany.org/why-a-frozen-head-slows-my-films-right-down/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 42 comments

Capnproto-rust vs. C++

http://dwrensha.github.io/capnproto-rust/2013/11/16/benchmark.html

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

Why The Value of Bitcoin is Skyrocketing

https://bitcorati.com/2013/11/13/10-reasons-why-the-value-of-bitcoin-is-skyrocketing/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 102 comments

Groovy, the Python of Java

http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2011/04/09/groovy-the-python-of-java

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 41 comments

The Insanity of Our Food Policy

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/the-insanity-of-our-food-policy/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

Groovy 2.2 released

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+2.2+release+notes

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 58 comments

M.V.P., not M.V.P.O.S.

http://robertnealan.com/m-v-p-not-m-v-p-o-s/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

Bitcoin $600

https://data.mtgox.com/api/0/png/24hours.png?Currency=USD?

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 129 comments

Redesigning Techcrunch

http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/post/techcrunch/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Frontend: The web visual editor

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/emoriz/frontend-the-web-visual-editor

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 67 comments

Bitcoin broke $700 ($750 at this moment)

http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/?blah

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 172 comments

NFL, MLB Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts

http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/nfl-major-league-baseball-warn-supreme-court-that-aereo-could-trigger-end-to-games-on-free-tv-1200847089/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 135 comments

Show HN: EndDash

http://www.enddash.com/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

What Naps Do For Your Brain

http://m.fastcompany.com/3017356/work-smart/the-revealing-science-behind-what-naps-do-to-your-brain-and-why-you-should-have-o

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

NSA email addresses from Adobe leak

http://pastebin.com/MR3zymiT

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

YouTube is down

http://www.youtube.com?x=1

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments

Drawing Code for iOS 7 Rounded Rectangles

http://www.paintcodeapp.com/blogpost/code-for-ios-7-rounded-rectangles

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments
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