top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-11-16

Emacs Rocks

http://emacsrocks.com

12 years ago

361 upvotes – 112 comments

ChartSQL: Create Charts and Dashboards from SQL

http://fnordmetric.io/chartsql/

12 years ago

271 upvotes – 72 comments

Getting Better at Getting Better

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/better-time

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 76 comments

What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers?

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2059

12 years ago

229 upvotes – 34 comments

Still Here, Part 1: A Memoir

http://randi.io/wp/archives/86

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 210 comments

The Beauty of LaTeX (2011)

http://www.nitens.org/taraborelli/latex

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 128 comments

Resignation from the pkg-systemd maintainer team

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-systemd-maintainers/2014-November/004563.html

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 162 comments

Somebody’s Already Using Verizon’s ID to Track Users

http://www.propublica.org/article/somebodys-already-using-verizons-id-to-track-users?hn

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 104 comments

Google’s NSA alliance: Deals between Silicon Valley and the security state

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/googles_secret_nsa_alliance_the_terrifying_deals_between_silicon_valley_and_the_security_state/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 37 comments

VP8 and H.264 to both become mandatory for WebRTC

http://andreasgal.com/2014/11/16/vp8-and-h-264-to-both-become-mandatory-for-webrtc/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 74 comments

PostgreSQL vs. MS SQL

http://www.pg-versus-ms.com

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 103 comments

Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Make Year-End Lobbying Push to Curb NSA Spying

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-14/companies-call-on-senate-to-pass-bill-curbing-nsa-powers.html

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: SineRider, a game inspired by my TI-86

http://sineridergame.com

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 32 comments

Netflix Pulls Plug on Public API

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/16/netflix-api/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 100 comments

Why Did Google Decide to Split Inbox from Gmail?

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/16/why-did-google-decide-to-split-inbox-from-gmail/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 97 comments

A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf]

http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 64 comments

The Move from Linux to FreeBSD

http://nileshgr.com/2013/06/07/the-move-from-linux-to-freebsd

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 95 comments

Lyra: An Interactive Visualization Design Environment

http://idl.cs.washington.edu/projects/lyra

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 12 comments

Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible? (1997)

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 86 comments

Level Playing Field

https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/level-playing-field/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 72 comments
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