top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-28

Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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

Go 1.3 Linker Overhaul

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xN-g6qjjWflecSP08LNgh2uFsKjWb-rR9KA11ip_DIE/edit

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

DIY Cellphone

http://web.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/index.html

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments

Choosing Scala

http://teaching.software-carpentry.org/2013/11/28/choosing-scala/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 63 comments

Bot or Not: Hacker News

http://botornot.nathan.ca/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

Tor Appliance

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/tor_appliance.html

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 24 comments

DynoSRC - Eliminate HTTP requests for JavaScript files

http://dinosrc.it/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Legendary Akihabara Radio Store closing its doors after six decades

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/25/national/legendary-akihabara-radio-store-closing-its-doors-after-six-decades

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

Do We Live in the Matrix?

http://discovermagazine.com/2013/dec/09-do-we-live-in-the-matrix?curator=MediaREDEF

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 160 comments

Build a RESTful API with Martini

http://0value.com/build-a-restful-API-with-Martini

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 8 comments

List.js – Adds search, sort, and filters to HTML lists, tables

http://listjs.com

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 10 comments

Carry Your Instrument On The Plane – It's The Law

http://aristake.com/?post=87

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 83 comments

A Thanksgiving Request from Priceonomics

http://priceonomics.com/a-thanksgiving-request-from-priceonomics/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 11 comments

Claiming Bitcoin's Bug Bounty

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/27/bitcoin-leveldb/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Bitcoin – How high can it go?

http://simonwinder.com/2013/11/bitcoin-how-high-can-it-go/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

LED street lighting the newest challenge to old utility business models

http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2013_11_26_Street_Fight

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 57 comments

Privacy And Why It Really Matters

https://markopolojarvi.com/privacy.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Why does Facebook respect my data more than HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813046

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 50 comments

US agrees to pay $50m after 'piracy' of software

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25137089

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Cicada 3301

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

GNU Denemo 1.1

http://www.denemo.org/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

How I got blacklisted by Uber

http://blog.will3942.com/blacklisted-uber-cab

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 53 comments
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