top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-11-28

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http://grantslatton.com/hngen/

13 years ago

683 upvotes – 260 comments

Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html

13 years ago

495 upvotes – 129 comments

Facebook

http://stallman.org/facebook.html?

13 years ago

317 upvotes – 145 comments

A universal income is not such a silly idea

http://timharford.com/2013/11/a-universal-income-is-not-such-a-silly-idea/

13 years ago

308 upvotes – 333 comments

A JavaScript parser and interpreter written in Go

https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto

13 years ago

★ 8.4k Go MIT
232 upvotes – 67 comments

Clojure: The JFDI language

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15-7qFy6URdE7Owi2LitkQI_OHBu1AFWPUwHxgBc-O4E/edit?usp=sharing

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 128 comments

Myth: The astronauts didn’t float away because they had heavy boots

http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/11/09/myth-because-the-astronauts-had-heavy-boots/

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 165 comments

The Jolla phone – first impressions

http://seravo.fi/2013/jolla-phone-first-impressions

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 99 comments

How SQLite is tested

http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 37 comments

Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving? Join Us

http://buttr.co/alone-san-francisco-thanksgiving-join-us/

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 54 comments

Disabled woman denied entry to U.S. after agent cites private medical details

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/11/28/disabled_woman_denied_entry_to_us_after_agent_cites_supposedly_private_medical_details.html

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 85 comments

I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday (2011)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20207.0

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 57 comments

How to Buy Bitcoin

http://markmaunder.com/2013/11/28/how-to-buy-bitcoin/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 119 comments

To create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation

http://theconversation.com/to-create-a-super-intelligent-machine-start-with-an-equation-20756

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 84 comments

Monocle.io Open Sourced

https://github.com/maccman/monocle

13 years ago

★ 1.4k Ruby MIT
115 upvotes – 11 comments

IBM Research produces staph-killing polymers that leave healthy cells alone

http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/nanomedicine.shtml

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 60 comments

MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin

http://www.bitcoins.com

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 113 comments

It's practically impossible for regular people to buy Bitcoin

http://levels.io/regular-people-bitcoin/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 136 comments

Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?2

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 67 comments

String types are fine. How about your code?

http://eteeselink.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/string-types-are-fine

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 62 comments
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