top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-27

Started a stupid company. Failed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6805699

13 years ago

1344 upvotes – 407 comments

Jolla

http://jolla.com/

13 years ago

734 upvotes – 250 comments

Dear Spike Lee

http://juanluisgarcia.com/dear-spike-lee/

13 years ago

652 upvotes – 158 comments

The string type is broken

http://mortoray.com/2013/11/27/the-string-type-is-broken/

13 years ago

302 upvotes – 222 comments

CyanogenMod Installer Application Removed from Play Store

http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/cyanogenmod-installer-application-removed-from-play-store

13 years ago

290 upvotes – 188 comments

CMS Trap

http://hakunin.com/cms-trap

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 61 comments

On Asm.js

http://acko.net/blog/on-asmjs/

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 182 comments

102TB of New Crawl Data Available

http://commoncrawl.org/new-crawl-data-available/

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 37 comments

New Bacterial Life-Form Discovered in NASA and ESA Spacecraft Clean Rooms

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bacteria-discovered-spacecraft-clean-rooms&WT.mc_id=SA_sharetool_Twitter

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 51 comments

Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits To Discredit 'Radicalizers'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail

https://github.com/KartikTalwar/gmail.js

13 years ago

★ 3.8k JavaScript MIT
212 upvotes – 56 comments

Bitcoin Reaches 1000 USD

https://www.mtgox.com/?Currency=EUR

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 388 comments

Once-great SSD manufacturer OCZ filing for bankruptcy

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/once-great-ssd-manufacturer-ocz-filing-for-bankruptcy/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 91 comments

A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/a-prediction-bitcoin-is-doomed-to-fail/

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 426 comments

Service lets you "certify" a document using the Bitcoin blockchain

http://www.proofofexistence.com/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 83 comments

A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular web sites from its index

https://millionshort.com/

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 79 comments

Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/27/hard-drive-bitcoin-landfill-site

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 123 comments

Time POY: Snowden's 200,000+ votes go missing, now behind Miley Cyrus

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

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 71 comments

Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money

http://reason.com/archives/2013/11/26/scrap-the-welfare-state-give-people-free

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 260 comments

Processing Hour of Code

http://hello.processing.org/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 29 comments

Chrome and Opera Optimize for Mozilla-Pioneered Asm.js

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/11/26/chrome-and-opera-optimize-for-mozilla-pioneered-asm-js/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 94 comments

About the Penny Arcade Job Posting

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/185114/about-the-penny-arcade-job-posting

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 120 comments

UN Committee Approves Text Titled ‘Right to Privacy in the Digital Age’

https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2013/gashc4094.doc.htm

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

Linux memory manager and your big data

http://citusdata.com/blog/72-linux-memory-manager-and-your-big-data

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 41 comments

23andMe Is Terrifying, But Not for the Reasons the FDA Thinks

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=23andme-is-terrifying-but-not-for-reasons-fda

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 109 comments

Rails 3.2 Performance: Another Step Slower

http://www.williambharding.com/blog/rails/rails-3-2-performance-another-step-slower/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 95 comments

Non-Creepy Networking: Party Etiquette

http://jessicahische.is/helpingyoubelesscreepy

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 67 comments

Darien Gap: The Most Dangerous (Absence of a) Road

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/darien-gap-most-dangerous-absence-of.html

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 45 comments

62% of 16-24s prefer books as physical products

http://www.voxburner.com/publications/347-62-of-16-24s-prefer-books-as-physical-products

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 130 comments

Text normalization in Go

http://blog.golang.org/normalization

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 26 comments

On “On Asm.js”

http://calculist.org/blog/2013/11/27/on-on-asm-js/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 61 comments

Umberto Eco: Exploring Imaginary Lands With One of Italy’s Masters of Fiction

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/arts/international/umberto-eco-a-master-of-fiction-considers-historys-lies.html?hpw&rref=arts&_r=0

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 27 comments

Shopify Merchants Can Now Accept Bitcoin

http://www.shopify.com/blog/10446157-shopify-merchants-can-now-accept-bitcoin

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 29 comments

Report linking Bitcoin and Silk Road retracted

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/27/technology/bitcoin-silk-road/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

Advanced cryptographic ratcheting

https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

"Patent Trolls" Threaten to Drain Silicon Valley Startups [video]

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Patent-Trolls-Threaten-to-Drain-Silicon-Valley-Startups-233570431.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 42 comments
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