top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-30

Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

http://www.isro.gov.in/mars/updates.aspx

13 years ago

324 upvotes – 81 comments

Fold the DOM like paper

http://oridomi.com/

13 years ago

315 upvotes – 51 comments

Powerchair: A dad hacks a wheelchair for his disabled 2-year-old son

http://www.hackingsma.com/?p=257

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 33 comments

Why I Wrote PGP (1999)

http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 109 comments

Combine your Wi-Fi, Ethernet and 3G connections to increase your download speed

http://github.com/Morhaus/dispatch-proxy

13 years ago

★ 3.4k CoffeeScript MIT
247 upvotes – 62 comments

The Mystery of the Creepiest Television Hack

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/headroom-hacker

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 11 comments

Vermeer’s Secret Tool: Testing Whether The Artist Used Mirrors and Lenses

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/11/vermeer-secret-tool-mirrors-lenses

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 44 comments

San Francisco’s Secret DC Grid

http://mobileorigin.spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/san-franciscos-secret-dc-grid

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 44 comments

RJS leaking vulnerability in multiple Rails applications

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/11/rjs-leaking-vulnerability-in-multiple.html

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 67 comments

Writing a Program in Pokemon Blue

http://forums.glitchcity.info/index.php/topic,6638.0.html

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 24 comments

Redis Cluster Tutorial

http://redis.io/topics/cluster-tutorial

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 28 comments

The Power of a Pronoun

http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 184 comments

A society of phone zombies

http://stevegattuso.me/2013/11/30/a-society-of-phone-zombies.html

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 137 comments

I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/india-garment-factories-sumangali

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 136 comments

Thrun pivots Udacity toward vocational education

http://cis471.blogspot.com/2013/11/thrun-pivots-udacity-toward-vocational.html

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 95 comments

Clojure from the ground up: Macros

http://aphyr.com/posts/305-clojure-from-the-ground-up-macros

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 16 comments

Lisp Tips

http://lisptips.com/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 13 comments

An example of fast numerical computation using Haskell

http://www.mit.edu/~mtikekar/posts/stream-fusion.html

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 76 comments

A glimpse of undefined behavior in C

http://blog.chris-cole.net/2013/11/30/a-glimpse-of-undefined-behavior-in-c/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 64 comments

The last moments of Lac-Mégantic

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lac-megantic-musi-cafe/article15656116/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Headline Smasher

http://www.headlinesmasher.com

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 42 comments

Dutch intelligence agency AIVD hacks internet forums

http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/11/30/dutch-intelligence-agency-aivd-hacks-internet-fora/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 38 comments

24 Pull Requests - Giving gifts of code back for Christmas

http://24pullrequests.com/?

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: How do you come back from a failed acquisition?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6822578

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday

http://www.thenation.com/article/177377/holiday-crush?page=full

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 67 comments

Learn C the Hard Way: A Clear and Direct Intro To Modern C Programming

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321884922

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Jolla CEO: You will soon be able turn your Android device into a Sailfish device

http://www.talouselama.fi/nakoislehti/jolla%20ceo%20you%20will%20soon%20be%20able%20turn%20your%20android%20device%20into%20a%20sailfish%20device/a2218386

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 66 comments

Apple Doesn’t Want to Pay the Feds’ E-Book Lawyer $70,000 a Week

http://allthingsd.com/20131129/apple-doesnt-want-to-pay-the-feds-e-book-lawyer-70000-a-week/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 96 comments

An inside look at Stephen Wolfram's computational paradigm

http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/29/sentient-code-an-inside-look-at-stephen-wolframs-utterly-new-insanely-ambitious-computational-paradigm/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 41 comments

Americans don't trust each other anymore

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20131130/DAACV0QO2.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 66 comments

Cryptosphere - Encrypted P2P web application platform

https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere

13 years ago

★ 1.1k Ruby MIT
73 upvotes – 14 comments

Bitcoins stolen from the users of Sheep Market Place?

https://blockchain.info/address/1EiVHZnDVjFH6Tic1YmWUSfYmVUnUZdnMU

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 63 comments

To my friends in the Node community

http://jacobian.org/writing/dear-node-community/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 77 comments

The fight against sexism is not a free pass

http://antirez.com/news/64

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 135 comments

Linux Mint 16 "Petra" MATE released

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2493

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 42 comments

Brushing your teeth: no longer the best thing for your teeth?

http://bio230fall2010.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/brushing-your-teeth-no-longer-the-best-thing-for-your-teeth/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 67 comments

ProofPeer – Collaborative Theorem Proving

http://www.proofpeer.net/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

Some Thoughts on Unicode in Perl 6

http://rdstar.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/some-thoughts-on-unicode-in-perl-6/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Improving the Command-Line Postgres Experience

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/improving-the-command-line-postgres-experience/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Being A Victim Of Revenge Porn Forced Me To Change My Name

http://thoughtcatalog.com/dr-holly-jacobs/2013/11/being-a-victim-of-revenge-porn-forced-me-to-change-my-name/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

Inside the race to rescue a health site, and Obama

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/us/politics/inside-the-race-to-rescue-a-health-site-and-obama.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 73 comments

Software projects have an inherent bias towards unpredictability

http://gist.io/6949301

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 17 comments
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