top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-06

Amazon Echo

http://www.amazon.com/oc/echo

12 years ago

924 upvotes – 716 comments

The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing

https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100/

12 years ago

799 upvotes – 90 comments

The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/the-reddit-front-page-is-not-a-meritocracy/

12 years ago

485 upvotes – 150 comments

SF Engineer Dan Ha Has Been Missing Since 10/31

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/06/sf-engineer-dan-ha-has-been-missing-since-halloween-night/

12 years ago

474 upvotes – 65 comments

Colorado communities secure the right to build their own broadband

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/05/7-colorado-communities-just-voted-themselves-the-right-to-build-their-own-broadband/

12 years ago

313 upvotes – 129 comments

Winamp 2 in HTML5

http://jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/

12 years ago

299 upvotes – 105 comments

Operator of Silk Road 2.0 Website Charged in Manhattan Federal Court

http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2014/operator-of-silk-road-2.0-website-charged-in-manhattan-federal-court

12 years ago

289 upvotes – 251 comments

Independence Day

http://news.microsoft.com/stories/independence-day/

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 69 comments

Microsoft Changes Tack, Making Office Suite Free on Mobile

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/technology/microsoft-to-give-away-mobile-version-of-office-software.html?src=twr&_r=0

12 years ago

248 upvotes – 102 comments

Show HN: StackShare – discover and discuss software stacks

http://stackshare.io/

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 75 comments

Weekly Coding Interview Problems by Email

https://www.interviewcake.com/free-weekly-coding-interview-problem-newsletter

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 61 comments

Welcome, Ali

http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-ali

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 28 comments

GnuPG 2.1.0 “modern” released

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q4/000358.html

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 66 comments

Making a brain for my model plane

http://story.glass/uav

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 70 comments

Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go

http://jan.moesen.nu/2014/11/06/apple-crawler.txt

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 83 comments

How to Survive in SF as a Broke Startup

http://wlimdo.com/how-to-survive-in-sf-as-a-broke-startup

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 114 comments

Running a South Pole data center

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/coolest-jobs-in-tech-literally-running-a-south-pole-data-center/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

http://colores.manugarri.com

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 39 comments

Hobby kernel and userspace, built mostly from scratch

https://github.com/klange/toaruos

12 years ago

★ 6.6k C NCSA
154 upvotes – 26 comments

Terrorists used false DMCA claims to get personal data of anti-islamic YouTuber

http://beta.slashdot.org/submission/3961131/terrorists-used-false-dmca-claims-to-get-personal-data-of-anti-islamic-youtuber

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 23 comments

Building a simple VGA-adapter for an 8-bit self made computer

http://tldr.fi/2014/09/27/zc160-vga-adapter1

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 17 comments

Improved Error Handling in Rust

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/11/6/error-handling-in-rust/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 28 comments

Database of all H1B petitions by company

http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-database#.VFssBVPF-hE

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 39 comments

How to Start a Startup – Lecture 14: How to Operate

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec14/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 33 comments

Why Intel is adding instructions to speed up non-volatile memory

http://danluu.com/clwb-pcommit/

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 43 comments

An easier way of using polyfills

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/11/an-easier-way-of-using-polyfills/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 76 comments

Confluent, a company for Apache Kafka and realtime data

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141106180403-2945786-announcing-confluent-a-company-for-apache-kafka-and-realtime-data?trk=hp-feed-article-title

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 30 comments

On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head (2013)

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324900204578286272195339456

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 39 comments

Ex-Googlers CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/README.md

12 years ago

★ 32.1k Go
98 upvotes – 66 comments

Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up online budgets

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/marketing/advertisers-scramble-as-non-human-traffic-gets-better-at-eating-up-online-budgets/article19965043/?page=all

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 94 comments

How My Printer Caused Excessive Syscalls and UDP Traffic

http://zinascii.com/2014/how-my-printer-caused-excessive-syscalls.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Wall of Text

http://walloftext.co

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

Mexican Cartels Enslave Engineers to Build Radio Network (2012)

http://www.wired.com/2012/11/zeta-radio/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 66 comments

Secrets of the Magus: Ricky Jay does closeup magic that flouts reality (1993)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the-magus

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 38 comments

Fooled by Your Own Brain

http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/fooled-by-your-own-brain-rd

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 5 comments

Euclidean Drum Machine

http://www.groovemechanics.com/euclid/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 23 comments

This Startup Built Internal Tools to Fuel Major Growth

http://firstround.com/article/This-Startup-Built-Internal-Tools-to-Fuel-Major-Growth-Heres-Their-Approach

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

ARM multiprocessor support

http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/working_arm_multiprocessor_support

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

Rails JS frameworks: Ember.js vs. AngularJS

http://www.airpair.com/ruby-on-rails/posts/ember-vs-angular-with-rails

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Assembly – Help build a product, get a share of it

https://assembly.com

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

Integrating with LLVM

http://dylanfoundry.org/2014/11/05/integrating-with-llvm/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Artificial Neural Networks – Introduction

http://www.rzagabe.com/artificial-neural-network-introduction/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

What Do You Need?

http://developer.amd.com/community/blog/2014/11/04/what-do-you-need/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 21 comments

Supporting the Anonymous Use of Facebook via Tor

https://blog.digicert.com/anonymous-facebook-via-tor/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 29 comments

Who has been running this classified ad for more than ten years?

http://workingwithwords.blogspot.com/2004/08/gee-i-wonder-if-this-will-attract-any.html

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: How do I get my team to write better code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8567134

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 81 comments

You Should Write Blogs (2005)

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/you-should-write-blogs

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

SmartDataCenter and Manta are now open source

http://www.joyent.com/blog/sdc-and-manta-are-now-open-source

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Stop Using Constructors in JS (2012)

http://ericleads.com/2012/09/stop-using-constructor-functions-in-javascript/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 79 comments

Leaked Documents Expose Global Companies’ Secret Tax Deals in Luxembourg

http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/leaked-documents-expose-global-companies-secret-tax-deals-luxembourg

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 72 comments

Feet-On With Boosted Boards’ New Faster And Cheaper Electric Skateboards

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/06/electric-skateboards/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 50 comments

Where We're Going With LXD

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/11/where-were-going-with-lxd.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 19 comments

How Accurate Are These Smartphone Sound Measurement Apps?

http://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2014/04/09/sound-apps/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 17 comments

Microsoft Office Now Free on iOS and Android

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/6/7163789/microsoft-office-free-for-ipad-iphone-android

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 1 comments

Sorry, We Have No Imagery Here: When Google Earth Goes Blind

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/investigating-censored-spots-on-google-earth

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 17 comments
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