top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-27

Pirated Courses on Udemy

https://medium.com/@robconery/how-udemy-is-profiting-from-piracy-5638b929ffca#.pv6r512t8

11 years ago

701 upvotes – 236 comments

The Triumph of Stupidity (1933)

http://russell-j.com/0583TS.HTM

11 years ago

392 upvotes – 269 comments

0 A.D.: A free, open-source game of ancient warfare

http://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-alpha-19-syllepsis/

11 years ago

313 upvotes – 48 comments

Less than 24 hours on Udemy as an instructor and I’m close to leaving

http://blog.nickjanetakis.com/post/133482093993/less-than-24-hours-on-udemy-as-an-instructor-and

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 37 comments

Perl 6 Introduction

http://perl6intro.com/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 105 comments

Listening to satellites for $30

http://blog.nobugware.com/post/2015/listening_to_satellites_for_30_dollars/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 36 comments

Why use ECC?

http://danluu.com/why-ecc/

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 95 comments

Must-See JavaScript Dev Tools

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/must-see-javascript-dev-tools-that-put-other-dev-tools-to-shame-aca6d3e3d925

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 72 comments

Paris Attacks Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight

http://www.wsj.com/articles/paris-attacks-plot-was-hatched-in-plain-sight-1448587309

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 111 comments

Cards Against Humanity Has Made Over $54K Selling Nothing on Black Friday

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/27/cards-against-humanity-has-made-over-54k-selling-nothing-on-black-friday/

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 67 comments

2015 AIIDE Starcraft AI Competition – Report and Results

http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~cdavid/starcraftaicomp/report2015.shtml

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 39 comments

How the Atari ST Almost Had Real Unix (2011)

http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1383

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 73 comments

How to Prosecute Abusive Prosecutors

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/opinion/how-to-prosecute-abusive-prosecutors.html?ref=opinion

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 86 comments

ES6 Overview in Bullet Points

https://github.com/bevacqua/es6

11 years ago

★ 4.2k MIT
146 upvotes – 45 comments

A Simulation in Emoji

http://ncase.me/emoji-prototype/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 32 comments

Alchemy – Open Source AI

http://alchemy.cs.washington.edu/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 22 comments

Please petition GitHub to support HTTPS on GitHub pages

https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/e07d42f5961c68fc1fc8

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 68 comments

Telegram stalking

http://oflisback.github.io/telegram-stalking/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 45 comments

How to fix a bad user interface

http://scotthurff.com/posts/why-your-user-interface-is-awkward-youre-ignoring-the-ui-stack

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 23 comments

Pg_paxos: High Availability Data Replication for PostgreSQL

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/14-marco/335-pgpaxos-high-availability-table-replication-postgresql

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

Study: Rich are less generous when they think there’s high economic inequality

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/the-rich-are-less-generous-when-they-think-theres-high-economic-inequality/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 51 comments

The Visual ARM1

http://blog.visual6502.org/2015/11/the-visual-arm1.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 14 comments

SpaceX Falcon 9 debris from failed CRS-7 launch found in sea off Scilly

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-34941462

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 45 comments

Employee Equity (2014)

http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 74 comments

The Canadian who wants to dethrone Facebook

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/the-canadian-who-wants-to-dethrone-facebook/article27455324/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Sisyphus Kinetic Lego Sculpture

http://jkbrickworks.com/sisyphus-kinetic-sculpture/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 11 comments

Notes on Writing Makefiles

http://eigenstate.org/notes/makefiles

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

TCP Over IP Anycast – Pipe Dream or Reality?

http://engineering.linkedin.com/network-performance/tcp-over-ip-anycast-pipe-dream-or-reality

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

Superfish 2.0: Now Dell Is Breaking HTTPS

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/superfish-20-now-dell-breaking-https

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 68 comments

The right way to start a company

https://medium.com/@gerstenzang/the-right-way-to-start-a-company-8fe4932b59d0#.1gogp5oyi

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

The 68000 Wars, Part 4: Rock Lobster

http://www.filfre.net/2015/11/the-68000-wars-part-4-rock-lobster/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

Get Lamp

http://www.getlamp.com/introduction.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34942685

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 70 comments

Thinking Like a Mathematician (1985)

http://news.psu.edu/story/141474/1985/03/01/research/thinking-mathematician

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 4 comments

Building for HTTP/2

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/11/25/building-for-http2

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

NSA to shut down bulk phone surveillance program by Sunday

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/27/us-usa-nsa-termination-idUSKBN0TG27120151127

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments

Sneaky Microsoft renamed its data slurper before sticking it back in Windows 10

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/26/microsoft_renamed_data_slurper_reinserted_windows_10/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 34 comments

How We Moved from Heroku to Containers with No Docker Experience

http://stackshare.io/proleads/how-we-moved-from-heroku-to-containers-with-no-docker-experience

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 33 comments

Porting Go to Linux on IBM Z Architecture

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/y-mlM-XYysk

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

If Lisp Is So Great (2003)

http://paulgraham.com/iflisp.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 64 comments

A new form of gold, almost as light as air

https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2015/11/a-new-form-of-real-gold-almost-as-light-as-air.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

The C11 and C++11 Concurrency Model (2014) [pdf]

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/mjb211/toc.pdf

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

Usenet, what have you become? (2012)

http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2012/08/28/usenet-what-have-you-become/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 57 comments

CMU Binary Bomb meets Symbolic Execution and Radare

http://ctfhacker.com/ctf/python/symbolic/execution/reverse/radare/2015/11/28/cmu-binary-bomb-flag2.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

Formula E to feature autonomous car racing

http://current-e.com/chatter/autonomous-car-racing-comes-to-formula-e/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

Storing solar, wind, and water energy underground could replace burning fuel

http://www.kurzweilai.net/storing-solar-wind-and-water-energy-underground-could-replace-burning-fuel

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Raspberry Pi Zero Power Consumption Comparison

http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-zero-power

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 29 comments

Light therapy effective for treating depression, not just winter blues

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/11/18/light-therapy-effective-for-treating-depression-not-just-winter-blues/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

H.P. Lovecraft's Philosophy of Horror (2014)

https://newrepublic.com/article/119996/hp-lovecrafts-philosophy-horror

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments

Native Intelligence: The Indians who feasted with the English colonists (2005)

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/native-intelligence-109314481/?no-ist

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 31 comments

The Marketing Stack of a Lazy SaaS Company

https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/saas-marketing-stack/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Quill – Compile-Time Language Integrated Query for Scala

http://getquill.io

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 18 comments

Some Turn to Church; Others, to CrossFit

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/us/some-turn-to-church-others-to-crossfit.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 33 comments

Reading List for Getting Started with Service Workers

https://changelog.com/essential-reading-list-for-getting-started-with-service-workers/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments

Why Ruby’s Timeout is dangerous and Thread.raise is terrifying

http://jvns.ca/blog/2015/11/27/why-rubys-timeout-is-dangerous-and-thread-dot-raise-is-terrifying/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 20 comments

Setting up iOS continuous delivery with Jenkins and Fastlane

https://labs.kunstmaan.be/blog/ios-continuous-delivery-with-jenkins-and-fastlane

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Real Time Black Friday Dashboard – using Perl, Postgres, Geckoboard

https://thanksgiving.semantics3.com/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 6 comments

China stocks hit hard, rest of world shrugs

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/27/us-global-markets-idUSKBN0TG02420151127#2Ha5wPmaTAoitcaP.97

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 3 comments

John Conway's contributions on mathforum.org (1993-2004)

http://mathforum.org/kb/profile.jspa?userID=526

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 0 comments
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