top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-20

Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

http://www.winamp.com/media-player/en

13 years ago

957 upvotes – 500 comments

Software patent reform just died in the House

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/20/software-patent-reform-just-died-in-the-house-thanks-to-ibm-and-microsoft/

13 years ago

525 upvotes – 225 comments

Machine learning is easier than it looks

http://insideintercom.io/machine-learning-way-easier-than-it-looks/

13 years ago

459 upvotes – 167 comments

Undo

http://sachagreif.com/undo/

13 years ago

300 upvotes – 98 comments

Mathematicians Team Up on Twin Primes Conjecture

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-the-prime-gap/

13 years ago

288 upvotes – 94 comments

What happens when the U.S. President uses your startup for a conference call

http://blog.mixlr.com/2013/11/what-happens-when-the-president-barack-obama-uses-your-startup-for-a-conference-call/?

13 years ago

283 upvotes – 62 comments

When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lose Too

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/end-abx/

13 years ago

273 upvotes – 175 comments

The American Police State

http://chronicle.com/article/The-American-Police-State/142965/

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 182 comments

Bokeh – Interactive web visualization library in Python

http://bokeh.pydata.org/

13 years ago

234 upvotes – 64 comments

Can anyone tell me what these services do?

https://communities.intel.com/thread/33910

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 96 comments

US senators say there’s “no evidence” bulk metadata surveillance is useful

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/us-senators-say-theres-no-evidence-bulk-metadata-surveillance-is-useful/

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: DotNetFiddle – JsFiddle for .Net

http://www.dotnetfiddle.net

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 88 comments

Weak passwords brute forced

https://github.com/blog/1698-weak-passwords-brute-forced

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 143 comments

US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-deal-surveillance-personal-data

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 51 comments

Hack of Cupid Media dating website exposes 42 million plaintext passwords

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/hack-of-cupid-media-dating-website-exposes-42-million-plaintext-passwords/

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 166 comments

PostgreSQL: Don't use CHAR or VARCHAR

http://blog.jonanin.com/2013/11/20/postgresql-char-varchar/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 79 comments

Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/11/deadly-premonition-pc-durante/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 63 comments

Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Our Society Frays

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-20/blame-rich-overeducated-elites-as-our-society-frays.html

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 187 comments

How to make fake data look meaningful

http://danbirken.com/statistics/2013/11/19/ways-to-make-fake-data-look-meaningful.html

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 41 comments

Stuxnet's Secret Twin

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/19/stuxnets_secret_twin_iran_nukes_cyber_attack

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 56 comments

DNA genius and double Nobel Prize winner Fred Sanger dies aged 95

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/DNA-genius-and-double-Nobel-Prize-winner-Fred-Sanger-of-Cambridge-dies-aged-95-20131120113300.htm

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 44 comments

You can no longer just leave Syracuse airport [video]

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/53594630

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 140 comments

Show HN: Fully-featured Nil interpreter in less than 1 line of JavaScript

http://ajf.me/demos/nil/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 29 comments

R-Fiddle

http://www.r-fiddle.org/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

The Transparent Chinese

http://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20131120/c20murong/en-us/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 54 comments

Lua Fun: A high-performance functional programming library designed for LuaJIT

https://github.com/rtsisyk/luafun

13 years ago

★ 2.2k Lua
102 upvotes – 31 comments

ELF101 a Linux executable walkthrough

https://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/ELF101

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 20 comments

The engineer who fixed his own heart

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24524027

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

Xbox One: The Review

http://www.polygon.com/a/xbox-one-review

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 104 comments

Want to use my wifi?

http://thejh.net/written-stuff/want-to-use-my-wifi?

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 56 comments

Hacker School Residency

http://pgbovine.net/hacker-school-residency.htm

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

NSNotificationCenter with blocks considered harmful

http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsnotificationcenter-with-blocks-considered-harmful/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 35 comments

Word Lens for Google Glass

http://blog.questvisual.com/post/67443954608/an-eye-towards-the-future-with-word-lens-theres

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: CodePair - etherpad + codechecker + analytics for interviews

https://www.interviewstreet.com/recruit2/codepair

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 51 comments

Here's Waldo

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/11/where_s_waldo_a_new_strategy_for_locating_the_missing_man_in_martin_hanford.html

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 50 comments

Failure Friday: How We Ensure PagerDuty is Always Reliable

http://blog.pagerduty.com/2013/11/failure-friday-at-pagerduty/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 6 comments

14 Year old Thiel Fellow creates his own nuclear fusion plant [video]

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp/52207962#52207962

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

EndDash

http://www.enddash.com

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

We Analyzed 30K GitHub Projects: Top Libraries in Java, JS, Ruby

http://www.takipiblog.com/2013/11/20/we-analyzed-30000-github-projects-here-are-the-top-100-libraries-in-java-js-and-ruby/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

How This Freelancer Hacked His Hourly Rate

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3021904/open-company/how-this-freelancer-hacked-his-hourly-rate

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 53 comments

Videos from CascadiaJS

http://2013.cascadiajs.com/#speakers

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

Introducing Instagram for Windows Phone

http://blog.instagram.com/post/67574689360/instagramforwindowsphone

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 50 comments

Why I Canceled Amazon Prime

http://tck.io/posts/why_i_canceled_amazon_prime.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 105 comments

This Founder Made $99 from $82.5mn Exit; The Lesson?

http://www.nextbigwhat.com/founder-exit-negotiation-casestudy-297/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Employee Equity

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/11/employee-equity.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments

Hordes Of Novices

http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2013/11/19/HoardsOfNovices.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 87 comments

Jailhouse: A Linux-based Partitioning Hypervisor

https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse

13 years ago

★ 1.9k C
56 upvotes – 16 comments

Why There Are No Women on Twitter’s Board, and So Few in Technology

http://mikaschiller.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/why-there-are-no-women-on-twitters-board-and-so-few-in-technology/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 131 comments
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