Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2013-11-06 login
Stories from November 6, 2013
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1. Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement (khamidou.github.io)
387 points by vorador on Nov 6, 2013 | 180 comments
2. Fourier Transforms – The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face (nautil.us)
356 points by aatish on Nov 6, 2013 | 100 comments
3. Kofi Annan: Stop 'war on drugs' (cnn.com)
357 points by weedow on Nov 6, 2013 | 183 comments
4. Django 1.6 released (djangoproject.com)
354 points by philippbosch on Nov 6, 2013 | 102 comments
5. Fourier Toy (toxicdump.org)
348 points by alxndr on Nov 6, 2013 | 70 comments
6. Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook (facebook.com)
336 points by ternaryoperator on Nov 6, 2013 | 97 comments
7. Silk Road 2.0 Launches (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
322 points by teawithcarl on Nov 6, 2013 | 225 comments
8. Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing (neat.io)
307 points by basil on Nov 6, 2013 | 144 comments
9. Lifestyle programming (successfulsoftware.net)
288 points by FollowSteph3 on Nov 6, 2013 | 51 comments
10. After traffic stop, man forced to have x-ray, enema, anal probes and colonoscopy (kob.com)
285 points by yapcguy on Nov 6, 2013 | 243 comments
11. Google Apps drop support for IE9 (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
251 points by ritchiea on Nov 6, 2013 | 179 comments
12. What Long Hours Really Mean (wearemammoth.com)
220 points by johnjlocke on Nov 6, 2013 | 219 comments
13. USPS: ZIP Codes are “proprietary business information” (weblaws.org)
188 points by joelgrus on Nov 6, 2013 | 138 comments
14. Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death (aljazeera.com)
183 points by jdmitch on Nov 6, 2013 | 139 comments
15. Google SEO Starter Guide [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)
169 points by matant on Nov 6, 2013 | 59 comments
16. Float Label Pattern (bradfrostweb.com)
162 points by ryanjodonnell on Nov 6, 2013 | 33 comments
17. Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on Web (blog.mozilla.org)
157 points by praxxis on Nov 6, 2013 | 77 comments
18. The Monster Truck Madness 2 website has been taken down (microsoft.com)
156 points by fuzzix on Nov 6, 2013 | 114 comments
19. Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag (gofundme.com)
146 points by cheeaun on Nov 6, 2013 | 75 comments
20. Ways That Startup Lawyers Overcharge (medium.com/entrepreneur-advice)
146 points by audreymelnik on Nov 6, 2013 | 63 comments
21. There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work (lessaccounting.com)
143 points by thibaut_barrere on Nov 6, 2013 | 44 comments
22. Microsoft Earns $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties? (businessinsider.com)
138 points by jonathansizz on Nov 6, 2013 | 82 comments
23. Abandoning segmented stacks in Rust (mail.mozilla.org)
134 points by dbaupp on Nov 6, 2013 | 32 comments
24. Firefox Developer Tools: Break on DOM Events, Edit as HTML, Codemirror (hacks.mozilla.org)
138 points by rnyman on Nov 6, 2013 | 28 comments
25. Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent (arstechnica.com)
130 points by jusben1369 on Nov 6, 2013 | 96 comments
26. Using Snap.svg to animate SVG icons (tympanus.net)
109 points by bpierre on Nov 6, 2013 | 19 comments
27. Want: The airbag scarf that replaces a bulky bicycle helmet, inflates in 100ms (garrytan.com)
98 points by sethbannon on Nov 6, 2013 | 120 comments
28. Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains (lifehacker.com)
94 points by sethbannon on Nov 6, 2013 | 26 comments
29. How the Terrible, Insufferable Six-Day Water Fast Made Me a New Man (gq.com)
91 points by cliveowen on Nov 6, 2013 | 66 comments
30. 1000 Days on Hacker News – My Experience So Far (pandoralive.info)
89 points by ekianjo on Nov 6, 2013 | 41 comments

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: