top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-26

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

920 upvotes – 190 comments

Web GL Ocean Simulation

http://david.li/waves/

13 years ago

695 upvotes – 134 comments

End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/opinion/end-the-nsa-dragnet-now.html?hp&rref=opinion

13 years ago

552 upvotes – 168 comments

Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/jury-newegg-infringes-spangenberg-patent-must-pay-2-3-million/

13 years ago

550 upvotes – 280 comments

Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions

http://blog.docker.io/2013/11/docker-0-7-docker-now-runs-on-any-linux-distribution/

13 years ago

435 upvotes – 128 comments

Penny Arcade’s Insultingly Horrible Job

http://www.marco.org/2013/11/26/penny-arcade-awful-job

13 years ago

423 upvotes – 295 comments

“MongoDB is dead. Long live Postgresql”

https://github.com/errbit/errbit/issues/614

13 years ago

★ 4.2k Ruby MIT
342 upvotes – 151 comments

I Am Not Satoshi

http://blog.dustintrammell.com/2013/11/26/i-am-not-satoshi/

13 years ago

336 upvotes – 170 comments

Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

http://poy.time.com/2013/11/25/vote-now-who-should-be-times-person-of-the-year/slide/edward-snowden/

13 years ago

288 upvotes – 131 comments

On Penny Arcade, Exploitation, and the Myth of the Do-Everything Rock Star

http://cwbuecheler.tumblr.com/post/68163195864/on-penny-arcade-exploitation-and-the-myth-of-the

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 178 comments

Cmder: portable console emulator for windows

http://bliker.github.io/cmder/

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 54 comments

UK Prime Minister: We have put in place Internet filters to block extremism

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131023/debtext/131023-0001.htm#13102356000002

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 115 comments

Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later

http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/11/26/farming-hard-drives-2-years-and-1m-later/

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 107 comments

UK porn filter to also block "extremist narrative"?

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131023/debtext/131023-0001.htm

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 57 comments

Bitcoin Black Friday: Why Namecheap is Participating

http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2013/11/25/bitcoin-black-friday/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 67 comments

What Every Hardware Startup Should Know About the Electronic Component Landscape

http://octopart.com/blog/archives/2013/11/what-every-hardware-startup-should-know-about-the-electronic-component-landscape

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 39 comments

Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10

http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/26/google-shows-how-to-scale-apps-from-zero-to-one-million-requests-per-second-for-10/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 68 comments

Help Scale NPM

http://scalenpm.org/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 60 comments

On launching AngularJS 1.2: what we learned, what we're changing

http://blog.angularjs.org/2013/11/on-launching-angular-12-what-we-learned.html

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 33 comments

Friends and Family Funding and Why I'm Dreading Thanksgiving

http://datodaily.tumblr.com/post/68087290627/friends-and-family-funding-and-why-im-dreading

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 84 comments

RethinkDB 1.11 is out: query profiler, new streaming algorithm, devops features

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/1.11-release/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments

Silicon Chasm: The class divide on America’s cutting edge

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/silicon-chasm_768037.html?page=1

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 89 comments

Libsass – C implementation of a Sass compiler

https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass

13 years ago

★ 4.3k C++
117 upvotes – 75 comments

Visualizing Garbage Collection in Ruby and Python

http://patshaughnessy.net/2013/10/24/visualizing-garbage-collection-in-ruby-and-python/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 8 comments

Introducing the Priceonomics Business Model: Data Crawling Services

http://priceonomics.com/introducing-the-priceonomics-business-model-data/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

We Should Ditch Nginx

http://www.hipyoungstartup.com/2013/11/we-should-ditch-nginx/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 170 comments

CSS Raindrops on a Window

http://codepen.io/lbebber/pen/uIiJp

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 25 comments

The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the-monarch-didnt-appear.html

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: What kind of side projects are you working on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799694

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 122 comments

Aria2 – Next-generation download utility

http://aria2.sourceforge.net/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 26 comments

Salesforce’s Hackathon Scandal: Secret Judging, Favoritism, Cheating?

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/11/25/salesforce-hack-scandal/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 33 comments

Dark Matter Developers != Bad Developers

http://mat-mcloughlin.net/2013/11/26/dark-matter-developers-do-not-equal-bad-developers.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 65 comments

Gadget: A smallish web framework for Go

http://redneckbeard.github.io/gadget/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 50 comments

Introversion is not the opposite of extroversion

http://joshuaspodek.com/introversion-opposite-extroversion

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 75 comments

In Silicon Valley, Partying Like It’s 1999 Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/technology/in-silicon-valley-partying-like-its-1999-again.html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimesbusiness&_r=0

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 90 comments

Learn PHP – Free interactive PHP tutorial

http://learn-php.org

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 84 comments

Quantum Light Harvesting Hints at Entirely New Form of Computing

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/522016/quantum-light-harvesting-hints-at-entirely-new-form-of-computing/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

Black Friday death count

http://blackfridaydeathcount.com/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 41 comments

Edward Snowden nominated for TIME's person of the year

http://poy.time.com/2013/11/25/vote-now-who-should-be-times-person-of-the-year/slide/edward-snowden

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

Open-source app releases first complete copy of English Wikipedia with images

http://xowa.sourceforge.net/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 74 comments

The $179 Moto G hits the US early

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57613701-94/moto-g-launches-in-us-on-motorola-site-ahead-of-schedule

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 100 comments

AMD releases APPML source code, creates clMath library

http://developer.amd.com/community/blog/2013/08/13/amd-releases-appml-source-code-creates-clmath-library/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

Julia for Numerical Computation in MIT Courses

https://github.com/stevengj/julia-mit/

13 years ago

★ 808 Jupyter Notebook
80 upvotes – 50 comments

FDA Orders Genetic Testing Firm 23andMe to Halt Sales

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/25/technology/fda-23andme/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 73 comments

NGINX syslog-ing without breaking the bank or patching the code

http://syshero.org/post/68174083489/nginx-syslog-ing-without-breaking-the-bank-or-patching

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

YouTube Addresses Massive Spam Problem Following Rollout of Google+ Commenting

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/26/youtube-addresses-massive-spam-problem-following-rollout-of-much-maligned-google-commenting-system/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 64 comments

Go Data Structures (2009)

http://research.swtch.com/godata

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments

Naval Ravikant: Eventually startups will be everywhere

http://blog.djinni.co/post/68061191934/naval-ravikant-angellist-eventually-startups-will-be

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: Hacker News Person Of the Year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6800515

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 62 comments

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006)

http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 46 comments

Julian Assange unlikely to be charged in US

http://www.smh.com.au/world/julian-assange-unlikely-to-be-charged-in-us-20131126-2y7uk.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 82 comments
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