top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-20

Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2

https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/7-rules-for-creating-gorgeous-ui-part-2-430de537ba96

12 years ago

551 upvotes – 111 comments

Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason

https://lobste.rs/s/kiq75p/stop_changing_uis_for_no_good_reason

12 years ago

402 upvotes – 323 comments

Senator Al Franken's Letter to Uber [pdf]

http://www.franken.senate.gov/files/letter/141119UberLetter.pdf

12 years ago

353 upvotes – 134 comments

Say No

http://boz.com/articles/say-no.html

12 years ago

336 upvotes – 91 comments

APIs.io – The API search engine

http://apis.io

12 years ago

272 upvotes – 84 comments

The Rust community's crate host

https://crates.io/

12 years ago

260 upvotes – 139 comments

CotEditor – Text Editor for OS X

http://coteditor.com/

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 194 comments

Lecture 18: Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec18/

12 years ago

247 upvotes – 92 comments

How Magic Leap Is Creating an Alternate Reality

http://gizmodo.com/how-magic-leap-is-secretly-creating-a-new-alternate-rea-1660441103

12 years ago

230 upvotes – 110 comments

Spooky Alignment of Quasars Across Billions of Light-years

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1438/

12 years ago

225 upvotes – 70 comments

Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2849263/doxxing-defense-remove-your-personal-info-from-data-brokers.html#tk.cwfb

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 152 comments

The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Bros

http://forrestthewoods.com/unbalanced-design-of-super-smash-brothers/

12 years ago

203 upvotes – 79 comments

A New Malware Detection Tool That Can Expose Illegitimate State Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/detekt-new-malware-detection-tool-can-expose-illegitimate-state-surveillance

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 52 comments

Your developers aren’t slow

https://sprint.ly/blog/your-developers-arent-slow/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 75 comments

Brands Are Wasting Money on Facebook and Twitter, Forrester Says

http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2014/11/17/brands-are-wasting-money-on-facebook-and-twitter-forrester-says/?mod=trending_now_2

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 102 comments

Understanding the iPhone 6 Plus Screen

http://oleb.net/blog/2014/11/iphone-6-plus-screen/

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 54 comments

Surviving the Series A Crunch

http://blog.42floors.com/surviving-series-crunch/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 55 comments

Statistical Inference for Everyone

http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais/statistical-inference-for-everyone-sie.html

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 21 comments

Google launches Contributor, a crowdfunding tool for publishers

https://gigaom.com/2014/11/20/google-launches-contributor-a-crowdfunding-tool-for-publishers/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 52 comments

The Man Who Made Tetris

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-man-who-made-tetris

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 19 comments

The Group That Rules the Web

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/group-rules-web

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 31 comments

The Secret Life of Passwords

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-of-passwords.html

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 56 comments

Say hello to x86_64 assembly, part 4

http://0xax.blogspot.com/2014/11/say-hello-to-x64-assembly-part-4.html

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 34 comments

Get Visual Studio Community 2013 for Free

http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs?loc=zTS1z&prod=zOTprodz&tech=zSdz&prog=zOTprogz&type=znewsz&media=zOTmediaz&country=zUSz

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 98 comments

The Shazam Effect

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/the-shazam-effect/382237/?single_page=true

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Can't I Take an Orange Through Customs?

http://priceonomics.com/why-cant-i-take-an-orange-through-customs/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 82 comments

Going under the hood of Inbox

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/going-under-hood-of-inbox.html

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 40 comments

Unicorn Unix Magic Tricks

http://thorstenball.com/blog/2014/11/20/unicorn-unix-magic-tricks/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 11 comments

Internal Uber Deck Reveals Revenue, Rides, Drivers and Fares

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-revenue-rides-drivers-and-fares-2014-11?op=1

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 73 comments

You can’t get entangled without a wormhole (2013)

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2013/you-cant-get-entangled-without-a-wormhole-1205

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

New Scrutiny of Goldman's Ties to the New York Fed After a Leak

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/rising-scrutiny-as-banks-hire-from-the-fed/?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: WebGL Playground

http://jessevdk.github.io/webgl-play/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

Ionic Creator – Fast Visual Ionic Prototyping

http://creator.ionic.io/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

Is Food the New Sex? (2009)

http://www.hoover.org/research/food-new-sex

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Hacker News iOS client using the new official API

http://hnclient.weebly.com

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

The Roots of Midlife Crisis

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/the-real-roots-of-midlife-crisis/382235/?single_page=true

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

Standards for Scientific Graphic Presentation

http://www.juretriglav.si/standards-for-graphic-presentation/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Conspiracy Santa: A Better Secret Santa for Teams

http://conspiracysanta.com/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: From Them to Us, Elderly Folks Sharing Their Take on Life in Video

http://fromthemtous.com/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments

Retiring crypt

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/retiring-crypt

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Two New Subatomic Particles Found Using Large Hadron Collider

http://phys.org/news/2014-11-lhcb-baryon-particles.html#inlRlv

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 1 comments

CERN Open Data Portal Demo

http://opendata.cern.ch/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

Minesweeper Fanfiction

https://www.fanfiction.net/game/Minesweeper/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments

Human Artifacts on the Moon

http://history.nasa.gov/humanartifacts.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

Bastion hosts

https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20141113-bastion-hosts

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 57 comments

How QuizUp Mastered Android Device Fragmentation

http://blog.testmunk.com/quizup-mastering-android-device-fragmentation-automated-testing/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Netflix takes up 9.5% of upstream traffic on the North American Internet

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/netflix-takes-up-9-5-of-upstream-traffic-on-the-north-american-internet/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 57 comments

Machine Learning Showdown: Apache Mahout vs. Weka

http://blog.algorithmia.com/post/103009975044/machine-learning-showdown-apache-mahout-vs-weka

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 33 comments

Libuv 1.0.0 released

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/libuv/GIqzv-Ve1og

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

How the moon stirs tension between the conscious and subconscious minds

http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/your-brain-cant-handle-the-moon

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Otto Jukebox – A multi-user streaming anti-cloud music player

http://ottojukebox.com/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments
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