top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-19

Pencil

http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil

13 years ago

882 upvotes – 366 comments

This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan

http://pri.org/stories/2013-11-16/google-ad-has-moved-people-tears-across-indian-and-pakistan?re

13 years ago

557 upvotes – 271 comments

Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States

http://www.alternet.org/why-i-will-never-ever-go-back-united-states?paging=off

13 years ago

400 upvotes – 360 comments

The first Bitcoin post on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852

13 years ago

395 upvotes – 289 comments

Booting to Rust

http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2013/11/18/booting-to-rust/

13 years ago

369 upvotes – 40 comments

The Mission of Tesla

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/mission-tesla

13 years ago

348 upvotes – 191 comments

English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/english-has-a-new-preposition-because-internet/281601/

13 years ago

300 upvotes – 149 comments

LG Smart TVs log USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers

http://doctorbeet.blogspot.com/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html

13 years ago

297 upvotes – 178 comments

Recursive raytracer in 35 lines of JavaScript

http://jsfiddle.net/vz5aZ/2/

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 101 comments

JavaScript particle simulator

http://www.cake23.de/fmx/turing-fluid-particle-projection-feedback.html

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 90 comments

"Like A Rolling Stone" – Interactive Video

http://video.bobdylan.com/desktop.html?

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 50 comments

DigitalOcean Sucks. Use DigitalOcean

https://raymii.org/s/articles/Digital_Ocean_Sucks._Use_Digital_Ocean.html

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 186 comments

The Mature Optimization Handbook

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/the-mature-optimization-handbook/10151784131623920

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 20 comments

The Right Way to Grant Equity to Your Employees

http://firstround.com/article/The-Right-Way-to-Grant-Equity-to-Your-Employees

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: MMORPG in 55KB of Javascript

http://aberoth.com/index.php?jsClient=1

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 51 comments

Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/drone-imagery-openstreetmap/

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 48 comments

The United States is isolated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2013/11/18/the-united-states-is-isolated-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership-negotiations/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 47 comments

How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

http://hbr.org/2013/12/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-management/ar/1

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 45 comments

Whoosh – Fast, full-text indexing and searching library in Python

https://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh/wiki/Home

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 44 comments

LXC Networking introduction

http://containerops.org/2013/11/19/lxc-networking/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 42 comments

Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-4547)

http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2013/000125.html

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 55 comments

From a Frat Social Network to a GPU Compiler for Hadoop

https://medium.com/game-changing-ideas/c3c516146599

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 75 comments

How to Sell a Blog for $36,200

http://amandatinney.com/how-to-sell-a-blog-for-36200/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 90 comments

Kano: A computer anyone can make

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexklein/kano-a-computer-anyone-can-make

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 51 comments

Visual Studio 2013

http://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 127 comments

The Median Isn't the Message, by Stephen Jay Gould

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/gould

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 11 comments

Chernobyl Fungus Feeds On Radiation (2007)

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20070422222547data_trunc_sys.shtml

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 53 comments

Launching developer Q&A on Stack Overflow

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/11/launching-developer-forums-on-stack-overflow/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 53 comments

Wikimedia Foundation sends cease and desist letter to WikiPR

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/19/wikimedia-foundation-sends-cease-and-desist-letter-to-wikipr/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 39 comments

Why We Chose API First Development at Our Startup

http://blog.pop.co/post/67465239611/why-we-chose-api-first-development

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 73 comments

Linux Kernel Modules in Haskell (2009)

http://tommd.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/kernel-modules-in-haskell/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 48 comments

Is Google signing your chat messages?

https://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2013/11/19/is-google-signing-your-chat-messages/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 39 comments

How Square moves Cash

http://jonbwhite.tumblr.com/post/66853226398/how-square-moves-cash

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

Gaming Company Fined $1M for Secretly Using Players' Computers to Mine Bitcoin

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/19/brilliant-but-evil-gaming-company-turned-players-computers-into-unwitting-bitcoin-mining-slaves/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 54 comments

Additional FISA Documents Declassified

http://www.odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/191-press-releases-2013/964-dni-clapper-declassifies-additional-intelligence-community-documents-regarding-collection-under-section-501-of-the-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act-nov

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

Cloud Cost Calculator

https://www.scalyr.com/cloud

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

High risk transactions

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/44046687068/high-risk-transactions

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 58 comments

8192+ bit RSA keys in OS X

http://shizmob.tumblr.com/post/67305143330/8192-bit-rsa-keys-in-os-x

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: IP Lookup

https://iplook.herokuapp.com

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 47 comments

In Venture Capital Deals, Not Every Founder Will Be a Zuckerberg

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/in-venture-capital-deals-not-every-founder-will-be-a-zuckerberg/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 37 comments

Report: Dropbox seeks new funding, valuing company at $8 billion

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/19/us-dropbox-funding-idUSBRE9AI01R20131119

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 77 comments

PS4 costs $381 to build in teardown – only $18 less than retail price

http://allthingsd.com/20131119/teardown-shows-sonys-playstation-4-costs-381-to-build/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 93 comments

How Ghostery breaks simple websites

http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/11/fixing-ghoulish-html-behaviour-after.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 80 comments

Github seems to be experiencing security issues

https://github.com/settings/security

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Capture a screen area in OS X and automatically pin it

http://snappy-app.com/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 65 comments

Nginx Server Configs

https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx

13 years ago

★ 11.5k MIT
59 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Interestin

http://www.interestin.co/essay/55

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

Keeping a debugging journal

http://steverydz.com/2013/11/19/keeping-a-debugging-journal/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

New Plan for a Disabled Kepler

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/science/space/new-plan-for-a-disabled-kepler.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fscience%2Findex.jsonp

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

OpenSUSE 13.1 Released

http://news.opensuse.org/2013/11/19/opensuse-13-1-ready-for-action/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 40 comments

The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse

http://blog.nickwinter.net/the-120-hour-workweek-epic-coding-time-lapse

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 48 comments
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