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

Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon

https://www.gnome.org/groupon/

12 years ago

722 upvotes – 208 comments

Show HN: Meet me, I'll buy you coffee

http://letstalkover.coffee

12 years ago

427 upvotes – 199 comments

Bringing SSD Performance to the DIMM form factor

http://www.sandisk.com.br/enterprise/ulltradimm-ssd/

12 years ago

409 upvotes – 201 comments

Partnering with Mozilla

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/partnering-mozilla

12 years ago

388 upvotes – 102 comments

Foobar

https://www.google.com/foobar/

12 years ago

355 upvotes – 169 comments

ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/starttls-downgrade-attacks

12 years ago

333 upvotes – 126 comments

Vulnerability in Microsoft TLS library could allow remote code execution

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms14-066

12 years ago

300 upvotes – 125 comments

SpaceX Will Announce Micro-Satellites for Low Cost Internet Within Three Months

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/10/spacex-will-announce-micro-satellites-for-low-cost-internet-within-three-months/

12 years ago

280 upvotes – 113 comments

The Day I Lost a Shit-ton of Money, Part I

http://ptotrading.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-day-i-lost-sht-ton-of-money-part-i.html

12 years ago

279 upvotes – 163 comments

Intro to Distributed Hash Tables

http://www.freedomlayer.org/articles/dht_intro.html

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 37 comments

PCB rework

https://home.comcast.net/~rburn/PCB-rework/

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 49 comments

Tesla: The Origin Story

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-10

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 35 comments

Police Can Seize and Sell Assets Even When the Owner Broke No Law

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/10/363102433/police-can-seize-and-sell-assets-even-when-the-owner-broke-no-law

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 89 comments

GNU Emacs conversion to Git

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-11/msg00548.html

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 64 comments

Deis v1.0 – Production Ready

http://deis.io/deis-1-0-production-ready/

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 74 comments

TCP is harder than it looks

http://jsnell.iki.fi/blog/archive/2014-11-11-tcp-is-harder-than-it-looks.html

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 64 comments

Board Members

http://blog.samaltman.com/board-members

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 46 comments

GitHub Enterprise 2.0

https://enterprise.github.com/releases/2.0.0

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 65 comments

Lecture 15: How to Manage

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec15/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 31 comments

“Time Collapse” and My Broken Brain

http://uncrunched.com/2014/11/10/time-collapse-and-a-broken-brain/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 64 comments

What women in technology really think (150 of them at least)

http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/11/11/the-best-thing-ive-ever-read-about-women-in-technology/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 182 comments

Plants talk to each other using an internet of fungus

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 31 comments

Hack.summit()

https://hacksummit.org/

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 34 comments

The Art of Unix Usability (2004)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/html/

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 27 comments

What neurons tell us about the 'hipster effect' when contrarians look the same

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/11/11/the-mathematician-who-proved-why-hipsters-all-look-alike/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 44 comments

Fast immutable vectors in C#

http://julesjacobs.github.io/2014/11/11/immutable-vectors-csharp.html

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 24 comments

A practical Git introduction

http://mrchlblng.me/2014/09/practical-git-introduction/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 33 comments

Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated

https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-and-groupon-product-names/#updated

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 42 comments

Startups can now buy insurance against threat of patent trolls

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/startups-can-now-buy-insurance-against-threat-of-patent-trolls/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 30 comments

Alibaba's Singles' Day sales exceed predictions at $9.3B

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29999289

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 70 comments

The Math Behind Bitcoin

http://www.coindesk.com/math-behind-bitcoin/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 7 comments

Foo.Bar with Google?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588080

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 20 comments

Stuxnet: Zero Victims

http://securelist.com/analysis/publications/67483/stuxnet-zero-victims/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 9 comments

Larry Page's Java question – 1996

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.java/aSPAJO05LIU/ushhUIQQ-ogJ

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon

https://gnome.org/groupon/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 8 comments

Startup depression

http://startupdepression.com/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

Things I learned from reading and writing the PouchDB source

http://pouchdb.com/2014/10/26/10-things-i-learned-from-reading-and-writing-the-pouchdb-source.html

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

The Leading Causes of Death from 1900-2010

http://www.businessinsider.com/leading-causes-of-death-from-1900-2010-2012-6?op=1

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 53 comments

Google’s Chromebooks Rule Schools as IDC Pegs Them as Top Sellers in K-12

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/10/googles-chromebooks-rule-schools-as-idc-pegs-them-as-top-sellers-in-k-12/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

Node-iMessage – Query iMessage from terminal and Node.js

https://github.com/nicola/node-imessage

12 years ago

★ 434 JavaScript
81 upvotes – 24 comments

Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAsM30MAHLg

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 11 comments

Analog's answer to FPGA opens field to masses (2008)

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1167814

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 39 comments

Infrastructure for Data Streams

http://vilkeliskis.com/blog/2014/11/10/infrastructure_for_data_streams.html

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Pfs – A Git-like distributed file system for the Docker ecosystem

http://pachyderm-io.github.io/pfs/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 28 comments

Txt – A canvas font and typesetting engine

http://txtjs.com/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Time lapse of the Sun reveals the largest sunspot in 24 years

http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/10/7186251/time-lapse-sun-sunspot-ar2192-solar-flares

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 26 comments

Investigation of an Airborne Aircraft Carrier Concept (1973) [pdf]

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/529372.pdf

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 33 comments

Listen to a melody made by Wikipedia article changes

http://listen.hatnote.com/#fr,en

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Yahoo to Acquire BrightRoll

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/102392414764/yahoo-to-acquire-brightroll

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

The Ladies Vanish

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-ladies-vanish/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 28 comments

Prime number patterns

http://chrisdavies.github.io/primepattern/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 45 comments

Race in Silicon Valley

http://www.fastcompany.com/3037940/a-different-kind-of-valley-life?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fast-company-daily-manual-newsletter&position=erin&partner=newsletter&campaign_date=12102014

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 68 comments

A Billion Holes Can Make a Battery

http://www.umdrightnow.umd.edu/news/billion-holes-can-make-battery

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Philae Lander Nears a Cosmic Touchdown

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/science/space/philae-lander-nears-a-cosmic-touchdown.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments

The Leap

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/539/transcript

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

The Life of a Pot Critic for the Denver Post

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/fashion/the-life-of-a-pot-critic-denver-post-clean-with-citrus-notes.html

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 41 comments

The Twilight of the Indoor Mall

http://www.theawl.com/2014/11/the-twilight-of-the-indoor-mall

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: TradeMore – Generate a return on your Bitcoin

https://trademoremargin.com

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 33 comments

The Lives of Elevators (2008)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 15 comments

Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon

http://www.gnome.org/groupon/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 2 comments
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