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Stories from November 6, 2014
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1.The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (medium.com/message)
799 points by daddy_drank on Nov 6, 2014 | 90 comments
2.The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy (toddwschneider.com)
485 points by lil_tee on Nov 6, 2014 | 147 comments
3.SF Engineer Dan Ha Has Been Missing Since 10/31 (techcrunch.com)
474 points by coloneltcb on Nov 6, 2014 | 65 comments
4.Colorado communities secure the right to build their own broadband (washingtonpost.com)
313 points by Libertatea on Nov 6, 2014 | 129 comments
5.Winamp 2 in HTML5 (jordaneldredge.com)
299 points by jazzychad on Nov 6, 2014 | 105 comments
6.Operator of Silk Road 2.0 Website Charged in Manhattan Federal Court (fbi.gov)
289 points by pc on Nov 6, 2014 | 251 comments
7.Independence Day (microsoft.com)
273 points by AndrewGaspar on Nov 6, 2014 | 69 comments
8.Microsoft Changes Tack, Making Office Suite Free on Mobile (nytimes.com)
248 points by shitehawk on Nov 6, 2014 | 102 comments
9.Show HN: StackShare – discover and discuss software stacks (stackshare.io)
218 points by yonasb on Nov 6, 2014 | 75 comments
10.GnuPG 2.1.0 “modern” released (gnupg.org)
197 points by bruo on Nov 6, 2014 | 66 comments
11.Making a brain for my model plane (story.glass)
194 points by evansd on Nov 6, 2014 | 70 comments
12.Welcome, Ali (blog.ycombinator.com)
201 points by sama on Nov 6, 2014 | 28 comments
13.How to Survive in SF as a Broke Startup (wlimdo.com)
168 points by wlimdo on Nov 6, 2014 | 114 comments
14.Running a South Pole data center (arstechnica.com)
162 points by davidw on Nov 6, 2014 | 58 comments
15.Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go (moesen.nu)
169 points by beltex on Nov 6, 2014 | 83 comments
16.Hobby kernel and userspace, built mostly from scratch (github.com/klange)
154 points by carlesfe on Nov 6, 2014 | 26 comments
17.Terrorists used false DMCA claims to get personal data of anti-islamic YouTuber (slashdot.org)
150 points by amalag on Nov 6, 2014 | 23 comments
18.Weekly Coding Interview Problems by Email (interviewcake.com)
208 points by gameguy43 on Nov 6, 2014 | 61 comments
19.Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words (manugarri.com)
157 points by manueslapera on Nov 6, 2014 | 39 comments
20.Building a simple VGA-adapter for an 8-bit self made computer (tldr.fi)
134 points by Arjuna on Nov 6, 2014 | 17 comments
21.Improved Error Handling in Rust (pocoo.org)
132 points by steveklabnik on Nov 6, 2014 | 28 comments
22.Database of all H1B petitions by company (visadoor.com)
130 points by ambrood on Nov 6, 2014 | 39 comments
23.How to Start a Startup – Lecture 14: How to Operate (samaltman.com)
127 points by kqr2 on Nov 6, 2014 | 33 comments
24.An easier way of using polyfills (hacks.mozilla.org)
117 points by rnyman on Nov 6, 2014 | 76 comments
25.Why Intel is adding instructions to speed up non-volatile memory (danluu.com)
118 points by joe_bleau on Nov 6, 2014 | 43 comments
26.On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head (2013) (wsj.com)
104 points by gwern on Nov 6, 2014 | 39 comments
27.Confluent, a company for Apache Kafka and realtime data (linkedin.com)
108 points by sbilstein on Nov 6, 2014 | 30 comments
28. [dupe] Ex-Googlers CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore (github.com/cockroachdb)
98 points by ethanjones on Nov 6, 2014 | 66 comments
29.Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up online budgets (theglobeandmail.com)
95 points by pastycrinkles on Nov 6, 2014 | 94 comments
30.Secrets of the Magus: Ricky Jay does closeup magic that flouts reality (1993) (newyorker.com)
88 points by gwern on Nov 6, 2014 | 38 comments

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