top 50% 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

Ask HN: Open Source alternatives to Disqus?

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

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 71 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

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

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

Thoughts on Undercover Communication

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

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

How does LuaJIT's trace compiler work?

http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/How-does-LuaJITs-trace-compiler-work,1

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Hacker News in your system tray

https://github.com/captn3m0/hackertray/

13 years ago

★ 249 Python MIT
91 upvotes – 38 comments

What's new in Creative Commons 4.0

http://creativecommons.org/Version4

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments

NSA Spying Risks $35 Billion in U.S. Technology Sales

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-26/nsa-spying-risks-35-billion-in-u-s-technology-sales.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 52 comments

Google Fonts: more than a trillion served

http://www.google.com/fonts?1#Analytics:total

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 81 comments

Reflecting on Steve Pavlina's 2011 post, "Why I Shut Down the Forums"

http://chrishateswriting.com/post/68484046612/reflecting-on-steve-pavlinas-blog-post

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 39 comments

Rivals can create copycat software through testing and user manuals: UK court

http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/november/rivals-can-create-copycat-software-through-testing-developers-software-and-interpreting-their-user-manuals-rules-uk-court/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Japanese 'Prince' Switched At Birth Was Raised A Pauper

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/29/247807768/japanese-prince-switched-at-birth-was-raised-a-pauper

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 71 comments

Open Hardware Bitcoin Miner

https://github.com/GeorgeHahn/Avalon

13 years ago

★ 255 C
76 upvotes – 24 comments

2013 NIPS Proceedings – Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

http://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-26-2013?

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Leakers, privacy activists find new home in Berlin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/leakers-privacy-activists-find-new-home-in-berlin/2013/11/26/272dc7fc-4e1d-11e3-97f6-ed8e3053083b_story.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

Collaborative Programmable Music

http://overtone.github.io/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

A static website editor and server written in Clojure and ClojureScript

http://github.com/runexec/Static-Prime/#static-prime

13 years ago

★ 86 Clojure
68 upvotes – 0 comments

LiteCoin Mining on EC2 is currently profitable

http://www.completefusion.com/profitable-litecoin-mining-on-ec2/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 65 comments

Obfuscated Game of Life in 9 lines of C

https://github.com/duckythescientist/obfuscatedLife

13 years ago

★ 306 C
66 upvotes – 23 comments

Today’s an international prime day

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/11/29/todays-a-prime-day/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Unseen JD Salinger stories leaked on to filesharing site

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/28/jd-salinger-unseen-stories-leaked-filesharing

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

Proof of Existence: Storing Hashed Files in the Bitcoin Block Chain

http://www.proofofexistence.com/about

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 41 comments

What happens when you run "Hello, world"

http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/11/29/what-happens-when-you-run-a-unix-program/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: How do I stay "on" all the time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6821105

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 59 comments

Bruce Sterling: Internet (1993)

http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/the_internet.html

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 59 comments

Soy's Negative Effects (2009)

http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/soys-negative-effects

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 46 comments

Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000) [pdf]

http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/rob/utah2000.pdf

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

Study linking GM maize to rat tumours is retracted

http://www.nature.com/news/study-linking-gm-maize-to-rat-tumours-is-retracted-1.14268

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments
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