top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-29

Mean People Fail

http://paulgraham.com/mean.html

12 years ago

489 upvotes – 479 comments

Regex Crossword

http://www.regexcrossword.com/

12 years ago

330 upvotes – 108 comments

The Economics of Seinfeld

http://yadayadayadaecon.com

12 years ago

219 upvotes – 23 comments

New optimizations for X86 in upcoming GCC 5.0

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/11/24/what-is-new-for-x86-in-upcoming-gcc-50

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 39 comments

What do all the controls in an aeroplane cockpit do?

http://www.quora.com/What-do-all-the-controls-in-an-aeroplane-cockpit-do?share=1

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 36 comments

How speakers make sound

http://animagraffs.com/loudspeaker/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 17 comments

Has Travel Become Another Exercise in Narcissism?

https://medium.com/human-parts/has-travel-becoming-another-exercise-in-narcissism-bfb3ccbcdc3a

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 131 comments

What's wrong with statistics in Julia?

http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2014/11/29/whats-wrong-with-statistics-in-julia/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 52 comments

Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language (2012)

http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2012/07/30/why-markdown-is-not-my-favourite-language/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 97 comments

“Start Rails 5 development”

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f25ad07f5ade46eb978fa82658463232d0247c65

12 years ago

★ 58.3k Ruby MIT
109 upvotes – 62 comments

Inline PGP signatures considered harmful

https://dkg.fifthhorseman.net/notes/inline-pgp-harmful/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

Testing Legal Highs Would Save Lives

http://www.buzzfeed.com/timchester/testing-legal-highs-would-save-lives-so-why-isnt-it-happenin

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 64 comments

Interoperating Between Objective-C and Rust

http://sasheldon.com/blog/2014/11/28/interoperating-between-objective-c-and-rust/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 15 comments

Sailor – A Lua MVC framework

http://sailorproject.org/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

NIPS 2014 papers

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/nips2014/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 14 comments

Voxelstein 3d

http://voxelstein3d.sourceforge.net/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: GitBook WebEditor

https://www.gitbook.com/blog/releases/webeditor

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

The world's smallest self-replicating program

http://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 63 comments

Experimental Ebola vaccine appears safe, prompts immune response

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/nov2014/niaid-28.htm

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: The best Linux laptop

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8673709

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 80 comments

Nintendo files Patent Application for Hand-Held Video Game Emulation

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=940813

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 47 comments

Black Beauty: a shiny, scaly-skinned, 4.4B years old rock from Mars

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6213/1044.full

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Building a Game with a 6-Year-Old

http://johnpolacek.com/2014/11/29/building-game-6-year-old/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

'Being homeless is better than working for Amazon'

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/nov/28/being-homeless-is-better-than-working-for-amazon

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Humans.txt

https://github.com/humans.txt

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

Metasepi Report: Writing NetBSD Sound Drivers in Haskell [pdf]

http://www.metasepi.org/doc/metasepi-icfp2014.pdf

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

How electric superchargers went from fantasy to feasibility

http://www.roadandtrack.com/voices/why-electric-superchargers-make-sense-now

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 18 comments

Detroit gentrifiers face daunting task buying $500 homes evicting poor residents

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/nov/27/detroits-young-gentrifiers-face-a-daunting-task-in-buying-500-homes-evicting-poor-residents

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 75 comments

Why I vertically align my code

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/11/why-i-vertically-align-my-code-and-you-should-too/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 58 comments

Visual Transistor-level Simulation of the 6502 CPU

http://visual6502.org/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

SoundStream – A simple-as-possible, fast audio I/O stream for Rust

https://github.com/mitchmindtree/sound_stream

12 years ago

★ 28 Rust
54 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: How to find a co-founder that would help you sell your product?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8673280

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 36 comments

The Seven Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing Research (2012)

https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud12/workshop-program/presentation/schwarzkopf

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: How did Microsoft hold back the Internet for 6-7 years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8674644

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 69 comments

Alchemist Release v0.8.0 Elixir Tooling Emacs Integration

https://github.com/tonini/alchemist.el/releases/tag/v0.8.0

12 years ago

★ 911 Emacs Lisp
43 upvotes – 5 comments

Thoughts on Google+: I fucked up. So has Google

https://medium.com/@chrismessina/thoughts-on-google-8883844a9ca4

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 15 comments

Laplace’s Demon

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/laplaces-demon/

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 28 comments

Google Play Store in Numbers. Open Source Crawler for Mobile Apps Data

https://github.com/MarcelloLins/GooglePlayAppsCrawler

12 years ago

39 upvotes – 15 comments

Epigrams in programming (1982)

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

12 years ago

39 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: Confused software developer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8673907

12 years ago

38 upvotes – 55 comments
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