top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-05

Reverse OCR

http://reverseocr.tumblr.com/

12 years ago

745 upvotes – 89 comments

On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs

https://libcom.org/library/phenomenon-bullshit-jobs-david-graeber

12 years ago

506 upvotes – 381 comments

How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes

http://features.jsomers.net/how-i-reverse-engineered-google-docs/

12 years ago

501 upvotes – 115 comments

Creating 3D worlds with HTML and CSS

http://keithclark.co.uk/articles/creating-3d-worlds-with-html-and-css/

12 years ago

339 upvotes – 47 comments

Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP Framework

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1503205539947302/introducing-proxygen-facebook-s-c-http-framework/

12 years ago

324 upvotes – 89 comments

Alaskans vote to legalize marijuana

http://www.adn.com/article/20141104/alaskans-vote-legalize-marijuana

12 years ago

319 upvotes – 211 comments

Reflected File Download: A New Web Attack Vector

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0KLoHg_gR_XQnV4RVhlNl96MHM/view

12 years ago

285 upvotes – 76 comments

EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/11/eff-asks-for-the-right-to-revive-abandoned-online-games

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 46 comments

The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014)

https://libcom.org/blog/xulizhi-foxconn-suicide-poetry

12 years ago

245 upvotes – 83 comments

AngularJS: The Bad Parts

http://larseidnes.com/2014/11/05/angularjs-the-bad-parts/

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 127 comments

IntelliJ IDEA 14 Released

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoksq%2FNZKXonjHpfsX%2F4%2BovWK6%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4FSsFqI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFTrLDMbF23rgMWhX0TD7slJfbfYRPf6Ba2Jwwrw%3D%3D

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 83 comments

Building C Projects

http://nethack4.org/blog/building-c.html

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 45 comments

Universal Fund

https://watsi.org/universal-fund

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 29 comments

Lyft Accuses Former COO of Stealing Confidential Docs Before Joining Uber

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/05/lyft-sues-travis-vanderzanden

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 83 comments

Nature: IPython interactive demo

http://www.nature.com/news/ipython-interactive-demo-7.21492

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 29 comments

Delegative Democracy – a scalable voting model

http://www.andrewbadr.com/log/24/delegative-democracy-a-scalable-voting-model/

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 113 comments

If you use a Mac or Android, e-commerce sites may be charging you more

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/03/if-you-use-a-mac-or-an-android-e-commerce-sites-may-be-charging-you-more/?tid=rssfeed

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 91 comments

An Introduction to Servo [video]

https://air.mozilla.org/an-introduction-to-servo/

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 33 comments

C# Autocomplete Demo Using Bing Code Search Engine

http://codesnippet.research.microsoft.com/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 48 comments

Drop dead

http://tilde.club/~mathowie/files/e0c99a3e95d5d907ab156fca2ba889bf-36.html

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 89 comments

PyPy IO improvements

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2014/11/pypy-io-improvements.html

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 7 comments

A free, complete guide to Technical Analysis

http://zerodha.com/varsity/module/technical-analysis/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 49 comments

The Mysterious Mental Side Effects of Traveling into Space

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3036887/out-of-this-world-the-mysterious-mental-side-effects-of-traveling-into-space

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 43 comments

Metafilter, The Internet's First Family

http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/longreads/internets-first-family

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 16 comments

Jessie Freeze Policy

https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

Let's build a browser engine, part 7: Intro to Painting

http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2014/11/05/toy-layout-engine-7-painting.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 9 comments

Airport ABCs: An Explanation of Airport Identifier Codes (1994)

http://www.skygod.com/asstd/abc.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 36 comments

Study shows brain interface between humans

http://www.washington.edu/news/2014/11/05/uw-study-shows-direct-brain-interface-between-humans/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 33 comments

McFly – Flux Architecture Made Easy

https://github.com/kenwheeler/mcfly

12 years ago

★ 757 JavaScript BSD-3-Clause
86 upvotes – 38 comments

Segment SQL, Powered by Amazon Redshift

https://segment.com/blog/segment-sql-amazon-redshift/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=redshift

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

Duke Engines' compact, lightweight valveless axial engine

http://www.gizmag.com/duke-engines-axial/33631/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Timely for iPhone – Scheduling and Time Tracking, Simultaneously

http://www.timelyapp.com/iphone

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN

https://hn-follow.desh.es/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 51 comments

Gravity Might Explain Why Time Never Runs Backward

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/time-gravity/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

Attack Surface: Why I Unikernel, Part 1

http://www.somerandomidiot.com/blog/2014/08/11/attack-surface-area/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: I updated the Smackbook script for OS X Yosemite

https://github.com/dabockster/Smackbook-Yosemite

12 years ago

★ 102 Perl GPL-2.0
65 upvotes – 35 comments

How Google Will Use Firebase to Supercharge Its Cloud Computing

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/why-google-acquired-firebase/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

Neovim: input encoding and you

http://www.aktau.be/2014/11/04/neovim-input-encoding-and-you/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

NSA Director Says Agency Shares Vast Majority of Bugs It Finds

http://threatpost.com/nsa-director-says-agency-shares-vast-majority-of-bugs-it-finds/109170

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 59 comments

Peter Sunde: 'In prison, you become brain-dead'

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/05/sp-pirate-bay-cofounder-peter-sunde-in-prison

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 56 comments

React.js: VelocityTransitionGroup, a replacement for ReactCSSTransitionGroup

https://gist.github.com/tkafka/0d94c6ec94297bb67091

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8561842

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 120 comments

C:\ONGRTLNS.W95, OneDrive

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2014/11/05/onedrive/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 50 comments

Badassify your terminal and shell

http://jilles.me/badassify-your-terminal-and-shell/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 52 comments

Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics

http://news.rice.edu/2014/11/05/next-for-darpa-autocomplete-for-programmers-2/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 33 comments

The People Who Run Wikipedia

https://medium.com/matter/the-36-people-who-run-wikipedia-21ecca70bcca

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

A Categorical Manifesto (1991) [pdf]

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13.362&rep=rep1&type=pdf

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 20 comments
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