top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-23

Basic Data Structures and Algorithms in the Linux Kernel

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/19759/core-algorithms-deployed/19773#19773

13 years ago

682 upvotes – 59 comments

Walmart Node.js Memory Leak

http://www.joyent.com/blog/walmart-node-js-memory-leak

13 years ago

466 upvotes – 75 comments

The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/11/the-neuroscientist-who-discovered-he-was-a-psychopath/

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 140 comments

What does "HREF" stand for? (2008)

http://tomayko.com/writings/wtf-is-an-href-anyway

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 49 comments

How to launder Bitcoins

http://blog.oleganza.com/post/67885463476/how-to-launder-bitcoins-perfectly

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 78 comments

Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/study-suggests-link-between-dread-pirate-roberts-and-satoshi-nakamoto/?_r=0

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 120 comments

Here’s who probably did that $150 million Bitcoin transaction

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/23/heres-who-probably-did-that-massive-150000000-bitcoin-transaction/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 111 comments

Life of solitude: A loneliness crisis is looming

http://theglobeandmail.com/life/life-of-solitude-a-loneliness-crisis-is-looming/article15573187/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 161 comments

Namecoin, A Replacement For SSL

http://blog.mediocregopher.com/namecoind-ssl.html

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 93 comments

NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software

http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/11/23/nsa-infected-50000-computer-networks-with-malicious-software/

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 93 comments

Store owner installs surveillance cameras to spy on police

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57613501-71/store-owner-installs-surveillance-cameras-to-spy-on-police

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 67 comments

GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code

http://blog.gitlab.org/gitlab-ce-6-dot-3-released/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 53 comments

16 years after a mass suicide, the webpage is still up

http://www.heavensgate.com/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 103 comments

Aluminium: The metal that just keeps on giving

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25020651

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 70 comments

Aldous Huxley: the prophet of our brave new digital dystopia

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/22/aldous-huxley-prophet-dystopia-cs-lewis

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 44 comments

MySQL 5.7: over 1M queries/sec on a single machine

http://dimitrik.free.fr/blog/archives/11-01-2013_11-30-2013.html#2013-11-22

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 50 comments

The Story of Marion Stokes, Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years Of TV News

http://www.fastcompany.com/3022022/the-incredible-story-of-marion-stokes-who-single-handedly-taped-35-years-of-tv-news?nid=3022022

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 15 comments

I made a distributed, anonymous network for online discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6787807

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 45 comments

Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/hackable-robot-assisted-virtual-sex-is-nigh

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 95 comments

Photographer wins $1.2M from companies that took pics off Twitter

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/22/media-copyright-twitter-idUSL2N0J71Y220131122

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 65 comments

Bitcoin Surpasses PayPal in Transaction Volume?

http://coinowl.com/bitcoin-surpasses-paypal-in-transaction-volume/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 50 comments

N.S.A. Report Outlined Goals for More Power

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/us/politics/nsa-report-outlined-goals-for-more-power.html?hp&_r=2&pagewanted=all&

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 28 comments

Ancient Abandoned Websites That Still Work

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53792/17-ancient-abandoned-websites-still-work

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 37 comments

Addressing Questions about the Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon

http://blogs.developerforce.com/developer-relations/2013/11/addressing-questions-about-the-salesforce-1-million-hackathon.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

PayPal releases Kraken, Node.js framework

http://www.krakenjs.com/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments

Chrome Extension Programming: Illustrating a Basic Survival Skill

http://karpathy.ca/myblog/2013/11/23/chrome-extension-programming-illustrating-a-basic-survival-skill-with-a-twitter-case-study/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

Google Can Bring an End to Censorship in 10 Days

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/nov/google-can-bring-end-censorship-10-days-heres-how

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 73 comments

America's underground market for adopted children

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/adoption/#article/part1

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 36 comments

Kraken.js: Enterprise-grade Node.js web application framework

http://krakenjs.com/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

US police force pay Bitcoin ransom in Cryptolocker malware scam

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/21/us-police-force-pay-bitcoin-ransom-in-cryptolocker-malware-scam

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 31 comments
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