top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-09

Against Productivity

https://medium.com/message/against-productivity-b19f56b67da6

12 years ago

329 upvotes – 104 comments

Logs of compromised Tor site released

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007731.html

12 years ago

317 upvotes – 77 comments

Berlin’s digital exiles: where tech activists go to escape the NSA

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/09/berlins-digital-exiles-tech-activists-escape-nsa

12 years ago

297 upvotes – 112 comments

The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html

12 years ago

270 upvotes – 100 comments

Why I love databases

https://medium.com/@jeeyoungk/why-i-love-databases-1d4cc433685f

12 years ago

238 upvotes – 168 comments

Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence

http://www.automata.website/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 69 comments

Why You Don’t Want to Give Financial Information to All of Your Investors

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/11/09/why-you-dont-want-to-give-financial-information-to-all-of-your-investors/

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 39 comments

Purplecoat.js – Simple Labeled Overlays

http://ellekasai.github.io/purplecoat.js/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 16 comments

Cory Doctorow: Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/09/worse-than-nothing/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 51 comments

Cult of the Dead Cow Publications

http://w3.cultdeadcow.com/cms/texXxt.html

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 35 comments

Sherlock Holmes Debugging

http://blog.seancassidy.me/sherlock-holmes-debugging.html

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 28 comments

2.5M Installs Later, R.I.P. Downloader for SoundCloud

http://passy.svbtle.com/25-million-installs-later-rip-downloader-for-soundcloud

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 27 comments

Thoughts and Concerns about Operation Onymous

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/thoughts-and-concerns-about-operation-onymous

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 9 comments

Detailed Cross-section of the Kowloon Walled City

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2014/10/28/detailed-cross-section-of-the-kowloon-walled-city-created-by-japanese-researchers/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 13 comments

Mapping High-Level Constructs to LLVM IR

http://llvm.lyngvig.org/Articles/Mapping-High-Level-Constructs-to-LLVM-IR#

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 16 comments

Kurzgesagt Information Design

http://kurzgesagt.org

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 30 comments

Less.js, a CSS pre-processor, releases 2.0

https://github.com/less/less.js/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

12 years ago

★ 17k JavaScript Apache-2.0
77 upvotes – 5 comments

The First Rule of DevOps Club

http://bridgetkromhout.com/blog/2014/11/03/the-first-rule-of-devops-club/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 54 comments

Life as a Fake Beauty Queen in Small-Town China

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/life-as-a-fake-beauty-queen-in-small-town-china/382409/?single_page=true

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 28 comments

Reactive MVC and the Virtual DOM

http://futurice.com/blog/reactive-mvc-and-the-virtual-dom/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments

Big Hero 6 – CMU Robotics Institute

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cga/bighero6/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

Hound: Review JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and Ruby code for style guide violations

https://houndci.com

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

Emacs Outshine

https://github.com/tj64/outshine

12 years ago

★ 140 Emacs Lisp
66 upvotes – 13 comments

OAuth Playground

https://grant-oauth.herokuapp.com/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Problem Details for HTTP APIs

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-http-problem-00

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Founders whose startups failed, what happens to VC/angel relationships?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8580300

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

The Science of Interstellar [video]

https://interstellar.withgoogle.com/transmissions#/kipthorne/detail

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 29 comments

Here for Android beta

http://here.com/beta/android/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 50 comments

On the Science of Interstellar

http://ikjyotsinghkohli24.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/on-the-science-of-interstellar/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 30 comments

The next generation of DIYBio tools are coming

https://medium.com/backchannel/diybio-comes-of-age-4a5b15d1131f

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Subduction is not the end

http://all-geo.org/metageologist/2014/11/subduction-is-not-the-end/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 5 comments

A Build Engineering Team’s Journey of Infrastructure as Code

http://www.slideshare.net/PeterLeschev/puppet-camp-melbourne-nov-2014-a-build-engineering-teams-journey-of-infrastructure-as-code

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 0 comments

The Interplanetary Transport Network (2006) [pdf]

http://www2.esm.vt.edu/~sdross/papers/AmericanScientist2006.pdf

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 2 comments

MultiQueues: Simpler, Faster, and Better Relaxed Concurrent Priority Queues

http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1209

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/17/smile-in-eighteenth-century-paris-review-colin-jones

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 0 comments

Chinese Routing Errors Redirect Russian Traffic

http://research.dyn.com/2014/11/chinese-routing-errors-redirect-russian-traffic/

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 15 comments

GitHub vs. Bitbucket: It's More Than Just Features

http://www.takipiblog.com/bitbucket-vs-github-its-more-than-just-features/

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 12 comments
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