top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-26

How We Did It: SNL Title Sequence

http://www.alex-buono.com/how-we-did-it-snl-titles-sequence/

12 years ago

470 upvotes – 56 comments

A Eulogy for RadioShack

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7281129/radioshack-eulogy-stories

12 years ago

412 upvotes – 167 comments

W3C HTML JSON form submission

http://www.w3.org/TR/html-json-forms/

12 years ago

262 upvotes – 100 comments

Ten seconds of math

http://www.mental-math-trainer.com/

12 years ago

248 upvotes – 117 comments

After Threatening Hacker with 440 Years, Prosecutors Settle for a Misdemeanor

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/from-440-years-to-misdemeanor/

12 years ago

238 upvotes – 113 comments

HSBC, Goldman Rigged Metals’ Prices for Years, Suit Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-25/hsbc-goldman-rigged-metals-prices-for-years-suit-says.html

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 128 comments

Yahoo Mail moving to React

http://www.slideshare.net/rmsguhan/react-meetup-mailonreact

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 293 comments

Mozilla accepting Bitcoin donations

https://sendto.mozilla.org/page/content/give-bitcoin

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 74 comments

Solving the Mystery of Link Imbalance: A Metastable Failure State at Scale

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1499322996995183/solving-the-mystery-of-link-imbalance-a-metastable-failure-state-at-scale/

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 36 comments

DragonFly BSD 4.0 released

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release40

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8662376

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 114 comments

FbStart – A new program designed to help early stage mobile startups

http://fbstart.com/

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 58 comments

Is the NYPD About to Start Ticketing More Cyclists Due to a Mathematical Error?

http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/103635652409/is-the-nypd-about-to-start-ticketing-more-cyclists

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 138 comments

Escaping the Safari sandbox with a kernel GPU bug

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2014/11/pwn4fun-spring-2014-safari-part-ii.html

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 30 comments

Regulex – JavaScript Regular Expression Visualizer

http://jex.im/regulex/

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 28 comments

Amazon is hiring Clojure devs

http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/clojure-software-development-engineers-amazon-com/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 81 comments

The Animated Guide to Emacs Paredit

http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.html

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 21 comments

Try Git

https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 37 comments

NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/van-allen-probes-spot-impenetrable-barrier-in-space/

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 38 comments

Linux kernel coding style

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 101 comments

Publishing: The peer-review scam

http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-the-peer-review-scam-1.16400

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 42 comments

How Grigori Perelman solved one of math's greatest mysteries

https://medium.com/@phacks/how-grigori-perelman-solved-one-of-maths-greatest-mystery-89426275cb7

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 30 comments

OpenBSD kernel source file style guide

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/style.9?query=style&arch=i386

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 46 comments

How an EBay Bookseller Defeated a Publishing Giant at the Supreme Court

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/how-an-ebay-bookseller-defeated-a-publishing-giant-at-the-supreme-court

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 28 comments

The Increasing Trend of Online Extortion

http://www.troyhunt.com/2014/11/ransom-is-new-black-increasing-trend-of.html

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 60 comments

Wikipedia’s ‘complicated’ relationship with net neutrality

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/25/wikipedias-complicated-relationship-with-net-neutrality/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 85 comments

Moving the joyent/libuv repository to libuv/libuv

https://github.com/joyent/libuv/issues/1573#issuecomment-64534328

12 years ago

★ 3.2k C
101 upvotes – 35 comments

Internet companies should not be monitoring terrorists or anyone else

http://techfruit.com/2014/11/26/internet-companies-not-monitoring-terrorists-anyone-else/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 46 comments

A little known hack from Japan to get your notebook organized

http://blog.highfivehq.com/posts/a-little-known-hack-from-japan-to-get-your-notebook-organized

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 11 comments

St – simple terminal

http://st.suckless.org/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 83 comments

The First 3-D Printer in Space Makes Its First Object: A Spare Part

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/first-3-d-printer-space-makes-its-first-object-spare-n255516

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

War and Peace in the Bhagavad Gita

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/dec/04/war-and-peace-bhagavad-gita

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 67 comments

Kim Dotcom: “I'm broke” (german article)

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2FKim-Dotcom-Ich-bin-pleite-2465551.html&edit-text=

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 102 comments

The Future of Asynchronous IO in Python

https://medium.com/@paulcolomiets/the-future-of-asynchronous-io-in-python-ce200536d847

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 50 comments

An economist explains what is happening to the global economy

http://qz.com/298405/an-economist-explains-what-the-heck-is-happening-to-the-global-economy/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 66 comments

FPGA Programming: Where to Begin? (2012)

http://741mhz.com/fpga-where-to-begin/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

Virtual reality Jobs at Apple

https://jobs.apple.com/us/search#&ss=virtual%20reality&t=1&so=&lo=0*USA&pN=0&openJobId=37025954

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

Purging proc from Rust

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/11/26/purging-proc/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 55 comments

Netflix Sues Yahoo CIO Mike Kail for Alleged Fraud

http://recode.net/2014/11/25/netflix-sues-a-former-exec-now-yahoos-cio-for-allegedly-collecting-kickbacks/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

The strange world of computer-generated novels

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/25/7276157/nanogenmo-robot-author-novel

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

If 16-bit Windows had a single input queue, how did you debug applications?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/11/26/10576044.aspx

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 28 comments

An FPGA Is an Impoverished Accelerator

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~asampson/blog/fpga.html

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

Lobster is a game programming language

http://strlen.com/lobster

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

Java Garbage Collection Distilled (2013)

http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2013/07/java-garbage-collection-distilled.html

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

DNA Can Survive Reentry from Space

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dna-can-survive-reentry-from-space/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Taskulu, Next-gen role based project management platform

https://taskulu.com

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: From zero to IT career, what is the fastest path?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8662940

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 57 comments

Cloudscale – Swiss virtual servers

https://www.cloudscale.ch/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 36 comments

Alexander Grothendieck – A Country Known Only by Name

http://inference-review.com/article/a-country-known-only-by-name

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 0 comments

How shaving 0.001s from a function saved $400/mo on Amazon EC2

http://benmilleare.com/how-shaving-0-001s-from-a-function-saved-us-400-dollars/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 41 comments

The University of Florida Sparse Matrix Collection

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/matrices/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Top Martin Gardner Physics Stumpers

http://martin-gardner.org/Top10MGPhysics.html

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 46 comments

Friendsgiving, a new tradition to be thankful for

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/friendsgiving-a-new-tradition-to-be-thankful-for/2014/11/25/66aab37a-74b6-11e4-a755-e32227229e7b_story.html

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 49 comments

Doubling SVG Frame Rates at Khan Academy

http://www.princeton.edu/~crmarsh/svg-performance/?

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments

HTTP API Design Guide

https://github.com/interagent/http-api-design

12 years ago

★ 13.6k
50 upvotes – 8 comments

Renting a 1-bedroom apartment near BART in the Bay Area

http://blog.onradpad.com/renting-a-1-bedroom-apartment-near-bart-in-san-francisco/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 45 comments

Tracing bare-metal systems: a multi-core story

http://lttng.org/blog/2014/11/25/tracing-bare-metal-systems/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 0 comments

Rationality and Intelligence: A Brief Update [pdf]

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/papers/ptai13-intelligence.pdf

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 1 comments

Tech Superstars Build 'Startup Factories'

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/startup-factories/?mbid=social_fb

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 17 comments

How do I draw a pair of buttocks?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/66538/how-do-i-draw-a-pair-of-buttocks

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 2 comments

What If Money Were Designed to Celebrate Science Instead of Presidents?

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/money-designed-celebrate-science-instead-presidents/

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 29 comments

Scale Model WWII Craft Takes Flight With Fuel From the Sea Concept

http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-releases/2014/scale-model-wwii-craft-takes-flight-with-fuel-from-the-sea-concept

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 21 comments
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