top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-11-29

Why are software development estimates regularly off by a factor of 2-3?

http://michaelrwolfe.com/2013/10/19/50/

13 years ago

311 upvotes – 168 comments

What I’ve learned in 5 years of running a SaaS

http://mir.aculo.us/2013/11/27/5-things-ive-learned-in-5-years-of-running-a-saas/

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 71 comments

How Software Companies Die (1995)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/jokepg/joke_19970213_01.txt#

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 168 comments

Facebook reveals friends list even when it’s set to private

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/25/facebook-reveals-friends-list-even-when-its-set-to-private/

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 60 comments

Nimrod: A new approach to metaprogramming

http://nimrod-lang.org/talk01/slides.html

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 57 comments

Go 1.2

https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=87dea3f5ebe7

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 107 comments

Shaft passer

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

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 65 comments

An engineer's emergency kit business card

http://boldport.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/an-engineers-emergency-kit-business-card.html

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 75 comments

'Learn Ruby on Rails' is free today

http://learn-rails.com/download-offer.html

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 63 comments

Announcing Scala.js v0.1

http://www.scala-lang.org/news/2013/11/29/announcing-scala-js-v0.1.html

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 88 comments

HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

http://jsfiddle.net/WGSNX/7/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 92 comments

Ask HN: Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6817450

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 121 comments

For Nearly Two Decades the Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/nearly-two-decades-nuclear-launch-code-minuteman-silos-united-states-00000000/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: Open Source alternatives to Disqus?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818416

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 71 comments

A Low Level Curriculum for C and C++

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/11/09/a-low-level-curriculum-for-c-and-c/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 26 comments

IRCCloud

http://irccloud.com

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 75 comments

PgREST: Node.js in the Database, compatible with MongoLab and Firebase API

http://pgre.st/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

Is work necessary?

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/09/11/is-work-necessary/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 169 comments

Thoughts on Undercover Communication

http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/68391438761/thoughts-on-undercover-communication

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

An IPv6-only VPS that costs less

https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-11-27/1166-ipv6-only_servers/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 80 comments
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