top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-21

Let's Encrypt: How It Works

https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/

12 years ago

408 upvotes – 121 comments

Open Sourcing a Failed Startup

http://nirvdrum.com/2014/11/20/open-sourcing-mogotest.html

12 years ago

344 upvotes – 159 comments

Monkey Island – Insult Swordfighting Game

http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/

12 years ago

294 upvotes – 70 comments

A peek at the massive scale of AWS

http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/11/14/rare-peek-massive-scale-aws/

12 years ago

241 upvotes – 45 comments

Systemd redux: The end of Linux

http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 446 comments

Rides of Glory – Uber Blog (2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140827195715/http://blog.uber.com/ridesofglory

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 112 comments

Li-Fi Gets Ready to Compete with Wi-Fi

http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/lifi-gets-ready-to-compete-with-wifi#.VG6wkfFznwI.hackernews

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 59 comments

The Next Chapter

http://blog.aereo.com/2014/11/next-chapter/

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 179 comments

Ursula K. Le Guin at the National Book Awards

http://parkerhiggins.net/2014/11/will-need-writers-can-remember-freedom-ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards/

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 88 comments

The Algorithm Design Manual

http://www.algorist.com/

12 years ago

183 upvotes – 44 comments

Why I do not want to work at Google (2011)

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00268.html

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 112 comments

Representing Trees in PostgreSQL

http://woss.name/articles/representing-trees-in-postgresql/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 58 comments

High-DPI displays and Linux

http://lwn.net/Articles/619784/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 105 comments

What Was Said at the Uber Dinner

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicole-campbell/what-was-said-at-the-uber_b_6198250.html

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 114 comments

Astral – Organize Your GitHub Stars with Ease

http://astralapp.com

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 64 comments

The House Always Wins

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/house-always-wins

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 54 comments

What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be Launching?

https://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/data-usage-what-are-the-different-plans-launching

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 226 comments

Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol-58-no-3/intelligence-officer2019s-bookshelf.html

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 48 comments

Harvard researchers build $10 robot to teach kids to code

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/10-dollar-education-robot/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Premium Medical Marijuana Subscription – SF Only

https://marvina.com

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 76 comments

Ten Years of World of Warcraft

http://www.raphkoster.com/2014/11/21/ten-years-of-world-of-warcraft/

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 100 comments

How Hy backported “yield from” to Python 2

http://dustycloud.org/blog/how-hy-backported-yield-from-to-python2/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 22 comments

Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Monster Data Center

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/utah-considers-cutting-water-nsas-monster-data-center/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 94 comments

A Suicide Epidemic in Utah, and One Neuroscientist Thinks He Knows Why

http://mic.com/articles/104096/there-s-a-suicide-epidemic-in-utah-and-one-neuroscientist-thinks-he-knows-why

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

http://www.discofingers.com

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 41 comments

Rich Hickey – Inside Transducers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KqUvG8HPYo

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 49 comments

A New Clue to Solve the CIA's Mysterious Kryptos Sculpture

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/second-kryptos-clue/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 20 comments

Grumpy Gamer – SCUMM Notes from the C64

http://grumpygamer.com/scumm_notes

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 10 comments

How Bad Luck and Bad Networking Cost Douglas Prasher a Nobel Prize (2011)

http://discovermagazine.com/2011/apr/30-how-bad-luck-networking-cost-prasher-nobel

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 35 comments

BitQuest – Minecraft server with Bitcoin-denominated economy

http://bitquest.co

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 36 comments

Visualising dependencies in Go

http://dave.cheney.net/2014/11/21/visualising-dependencies

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 9 comments

Ninjhax – 3DS Homebrew Exploit

http://smealum.net/ninjhax/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

With Assembly (YC W12), anyone can contribute to open-source and get paid

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/21/7258667/assembly-collaborative-work-open-source

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Berkeley Logo

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository

http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 14 comments

Electricity stored as temperature difference

http://www.windpowerengineering.com/featured/business-news-projects/didnt-think-electricity-stored-temperature-difference/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 42 comments

Arc4random – randomization for all occasions

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/index.html

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

Orwell and China: Nineteen Eighty-four in Chinese

http://ibisbill.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/nineteen-eighty-four-in-chinese/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Google Chrome and the future of Virtual Reality

http://wemo.io/google-chrome-and-the-future-of-virtual-reality-interview-with-531

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

The Plague Pits of London

http://thechirurgeonsapprentice.com/2014/11/20/death-is-all-around-us-the-plague-pits-of-london/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

Julia Package Ecosystem Pulse

http://pkg.julialang.org/pulse.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 51 comments

Flic – The Wireless Smart Button (Indiegogo)

http://flic.io

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 1 comments

Block rewriting with Clang

https://techtalk.intersec.com/2014/11/blocks-rewriting-with-clang/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

Droidicon – Customizable icons for Android

https://github.com/theDazzler/droidicon

12 years ago

★ 2.1k Java
58 upvotes – 4 comments

Researchers Advance 'Quantum Teleportation'

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4384

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

Ironclad Apps: End-to-End Security via Automated Full-System Verification

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=230123

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 19 comments

Gorename: easy refactoring tool for Golang

https://texlution.com/post/gorename/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

'Sophisticated' Android malware hits phones

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30143283

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 18 comments

European parliament may propose search services split in threat to Google

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/21/us-google-antitrust-idUSKCN0J525V20141121

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 46 comments

PCH International in Talks to Buy Fab for $15M

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/20/pch-international-in-talks-to-buy-fab-for-15-million/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 23 comments

Bash Keyboard Shortcuts Stickers

http://cmd.club/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 25 comments

Give HN: *.til.io resolves to 127.0.0.1

http://til.io

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 79 comments

The Teensy Files: Creating teensy ELF executables for Linux

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/home.html

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 7 comments

Emotion Detection in Suicide Notes Using Maximum Entropy Classification [pdf]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3409489/pdf/bii-suppl-1-2012-051.pdf

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 0 comments

The Cat Went Over Radioactive Mountain

http://www.methodquarterly.com/2014/11/the-cat-went-over-radioactive-mountain/

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 40 comments
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