top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-11-17

WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation

http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/11/freebsd-foundation-announces-generous.html?HN

12 years ago

1230 upvotes – 204 comments

The Programmer's Price: Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-price

12 years ago

374 upvotes – 216 comments

How I Start: Haskell

http://howistart.org/posts/haskell/1

12 years ago

369 upvotes – 57 comments

Algorithms on Khan Academy – a collaboration with Dartmouth College professors

http://cs-blog.khanacademy.org/2014/11/teaching-algorithms-on-khan-academy.html

12 years ago

360 upvotes – 43 comments

Bup – towards the perfect backup

http://wrouesnel.github.io/articles/bup%20-%20towards%20the%20perfect%20backup/

12 years ago

287 upvotes – 96 comments

For Sale: 50,000 Bitcoins

http://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2014/dpr-bitcoins/

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 136 comments

Introducing Snapcash

http://blog.snapchat.com/post/102895720555/introducing-snapcash

12 years ago

269 upvotes – 193 comments

Some REST best practices

https://bourgeois.me/rest/

12 years ago

257 upvotes – 162 comments

OSIRIS spots Philae drifting across the comet

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/17/osiris-spots-Philae-drifting-across-the-comet/

12 years ago

245 upvotes – 125 comments

Keeping Secrets

https://medium.com/stanford-select/keeping-secrets-84a7697bf89f

12 years ago

240 upvotes – 27 comments

Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: Indexing JSON data with jsonb data type

http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-4-feature-highlight-indexing-jsonb/

12 years ago

200 upvotes – 39 comments

Japan Falls into Recession

http://online.wsj.com/articles/japan-falls-into-recession-1416182404

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 199 comments

The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/usa-freedom-act-week-whats-come-and-what-you-need-know

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 45 comments

All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score

http://contextly.com/blog/2014/11/hacker-news-evergreen-stories-ordered-score/

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 27 comments

Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/39700

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 159 comments

Why curl defaults to stdout

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/11/17/why-curl-defaults-to-stdout/

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 96 comments

Tornado Without a GIL on PyPy STM

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2014/11/tornado-without-gil-on-pypy-stm.html

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: A Python Spider System with Web UI

https://github.com/binux/pyspider

12 years ago

★ 16.8k Python Apache-2.0
159 upvotes – 40 comments

Unraveling NSA's TURBULENCE Programs

https://robert.sesek.com/2014/9/unraveling_nsa_s_turbulence_programs.html

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 26 comments

Shit recruiters say

http://shit-recruiters-say.tumblr.com/

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 110 comments
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