Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2015-11-29

top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-11-29

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102

Show HN: Something pointless I made

http://dn.ht/picklecat/

11 years ago

747 upvotes – 102 comments

395

159

Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10644518

11 years ago

395 upvotes – 159 comments

356

103

Double paid traffic

http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Double_Paid_Traffic/en

11 years ago

356 upvotes – 103 comments

354

127

What Web Can Do Today

https://whatwebcando.today

11 years ago

354 upvotes – 127 comments

344

112

WebGL water scene

https://c1.goote.ch/c8a05c9a6d4a4929a3fa50e6ebdee0c3.scene/

11 years ago

344 upvotes – 112 comments

281

168

Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone with Hybrid Design

http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8037720011

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 168 comments

263

129

Addicted to Distraction

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/opinion/sunday/addicted-to-distraction.html

11 years ago

263 upvotes – 129 comments

256

161

Switching from OS X to FreeBSD – Both Desktop and Laptop

http://mirrorshades.net/post/132753032310

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 161 comments

226

How to Structure React Projects

http://reactjsnews.com/structuring-react-projects/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 43 comments

205

The day I did something

http://www.frankwiles.com/posts/2015/day-i-did-something/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 37 comments

184

The McDonalds Monopoly Fraud (2014)

http://priceonomics.com/the-mcdonalds-monopoly-fraud/

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 63 comments

162

Show HN: HackerCouch

https://hackercouch.com/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 43 comments

156

How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/29/arm-cambridge-britain-tech-company-iphone

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 91 comments

154

Hugo – Golang static site editor

http://www.gohugo.io/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 45 comments

153

128

Ask HN: How do develop a side project when you have a 40hr/week job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10644373

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 128 comments

153

Swedish court: 'We cannot ban Pirate Bay'

http://www.thelocal.se/20151127/swedish-court-we-cannot-ban-pirate-bay

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 44 comments

142

A whirlwind tour of Go’s runtime environment variables

http://dave.cheney.net/2015/11/29/a-whirlwind-tour-of-gos-runtime-environment-variables

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 12 comments

132

Bilingual people are twice as likely to recover from a stroke, study finds

http://www.sciencealert.com/bilingual-people-are-twice-as-likely-to-recover-from-a-stroke-study-finds

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 56 comments

115

How I stay happy making open source software

http://www.snarky.ca/how-i-stay-happy-making-open-source-software

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 34 comments

109

Judge: There’s no proof Yelp manipulates reviews

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/judge-theres-no-proof-yelp-manipulates-reviews/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 109 comments

109

XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix

http://www.xinu.cs.purdue.edu/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

108

Creating standalone Mac OS X applications with Python and py2app

https://www.metachris.com/2015/11/create-standalone-mac-os-x-applications-with-python-and-py2app/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 14 comments

106

My father had one job, I've had six, my kids will have six at the same time

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/29/future-of-work-gig-sharing-economy-juggling-jobs

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 81 comments

104

WordsEye – Type words and tech creates a picture

https://www.wordseye.com/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 24 comments

103

This is what a Tor Supporter looks like: Laura Poitras

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/what-tor-supporter-looks-laura-poitras

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 10 comments

Jeff Kell, ListServ and IRC pioneer, has died

http://3000newswire.blogs.com/3000_newswire/2015/11/3000-community-keystone-jeff-kell-dies.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 8 comments

On Radical Candor

http://firstround.com/review/radical-candor-the-surprising-secret-to-being-a-good-boss/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 58 comments

15B More Reasons to Worry About Facebook (2007)

http://allthingsd.com/20070925/15-billion-more-reasons-to-worry-about-facebook/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

Magit: a Git porcelain inside emacs

http://magit.vc/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 14 comments

The World Is Not Falling Apart (2014)

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/12/the_world_is_not_falling_apart_the_trend_lines_reveal_an_increasingly_peaceful.single.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 72 comments

Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth (2014)

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments

IBM's SystemML Machine Learning – Now Apache SystemML

https://github.com/SparkTC/systemml

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: How do you handle customer support on your site?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10644539

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 56 comments

The problem of sleeping without sleeping

https://books.google.com/books?id=8xAAWySuWckC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=salvador+dali+slumber+with+a+key&source=bl&ots=ZA99dL59SS&sig=FbjpX8QoQVobfd5dn22c5hRuyvo&hl=en&ei=jMDITe37Deby0gHP3uzmBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

Permutations of a children's trainset visualized