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Top of Month - Nov 2013

1. A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used
   (13 Nov 2013 | 1447 points | Comments)

2. Coin
   (14 Nov 2013 | 1387 points | Comments)

3. Started a stupid company. Failed.
   (27 Nov 2013 | 1344 points | Comments)

4. Sprite Lamp
   (8 Nov 2013 | 1323 points | Comments)

5. Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"
   (6 Nov 2013 | 1217 points | Comments)

6. The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone
   (12 Nov 2013 | 1036 points | Comments)

7. Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
   (20 Nov 2013 | 957 points | Comments)

8. What 4chan thinks of HN
   (17 Nov 2013 | 942 points | Comments)

9. How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties
   (26 Nov 2013 | 920 points | Comments)

10. Pencil
    (19 Nov 2013 | 882 points | Comments)

11. What It's Like to Fail
    (18 Nov 2013 | 834 points | Comments)

12. Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google
    (1 Nov 2013 | 785 points | Comments)

13. Dear Googles: Stop asking
    (16 Nov 2013 | 751 points | Comments)

14. Jolla
    (27 Nov 2013 | 734 points | Comments)

15. Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It
    (2 Nov 2013 | 730 points | Comments)

16. Web GL Ocean Simulation
    (26 Nov 2013 | 695 points | Comments)

17. Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles
    (28 Nov 2013 | 683 points | Comments)

18. Basic Data Structures and Algorithms in the Linux Kernel
    (23 Nov 2013 | 682 points | Comments)

19. High Frequency Dating
    (21 Nov 2013 | 678 points | Comments)

20. A living death: Sentenced to die behind bars for what?
    (16 Nov 2013 | 656 points | Comments)

21. Dear Spike Lee
    (27 Nov 2013 | 652 points | Comments)

22. Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
    (13 Nov 2013 | 650 points | Comments)

23. Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer
    (22 Nov 2013 | 638 points | Comments)

24. Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me
    (16 Nov 2013 | 630 points | Comments)

25. We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals
    (5 Nov 2013 | 599 points | Comments)

26. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
    (14 Nov 2013 | 593 points | Comments)

27. Id Software founder John Carmack resigns
    (22 Nov 2013 | 590 points | Comments)

28. I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb
    (1 Nov 2013 | 583 points | Comments)

29. Fix Ubuntu
    (8 Nov 2013 | 581 points | Comments)

30. Why You Should Never Use MongoDB
    (11 Nov 2013 | 568 points | Comments)

31. This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan
    (19 Nov 2013 | 557 points | Comments)

32. End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now
    (26 Nov 2013 | 552 points | Comments)

33. Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million
    (26 Nov 2013 | 550 points | Comments)

34. Code Firefox
    (18 Nov 2013 | 540 points | Comments)

35. Software patent reform just died in the House
    (20 Nov 2013 | 525 points | Comments)

36. Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years
    (8 Nov 2013 | 520 points | Comments)

37. How Money Moves Around The Banking System
    (25 Nov 2013 | 518 points | Comments)

38. My deadly disease was just a 23andme bug
    (25 Nov 2013 | 516 points | Comments)

39. Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds “fair use,” cites many benefits
    (14 Nov 2013 | 500 points | Comments)

40. Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
    (28 Nov 2013 | 495 points | Comments)

41. Microsoft does away with stack ranking
    (12 Nov 2013 | 489 points | Comments)

42. Moving forward on improving HTTP's security
    (13 Nov 2013 | 489 points | Comments)

43. Amazon WorkSpaces
    (13 Nov 2013 | 484 points | Comments)

44. Nonplussed
    (10 Nov 2013 | 477 points | Comments)

45. Deleting my Google+ profile
    (17 Nov 2013 | 470 points | Comments)

46. Walmart Node.js Memory Leak
    (23 Nov 2013 | 466 points | Comments)

47. TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms
    (14 Nov 2013 | 463 points | Comments)

48. Machine learning is easier than it looks
    (20 Nov 2013 | 459 points | Comments)

49. FixYT
    (15 Nov 2013 | 458 points | Comments)

50. Hey developers, stop forcing me to login to unsubscribe
    (9 Nov 2013 | 453 points | Comments)

51. Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions
    (26 Nov 2013 | 435 points | Comments)

52. Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion
    (22 Nov 2013 | 430 points | Comments)

53. Why open-office layouts are bad for employees, bosses, and productivity
    (21 Nov 2013 | 426 points | Comments)

54. Why Class?
    (24 Nov 2013 | 426 points | Comments)

55. Penny Arcade’s Insultingly Horrible Job
    (26 Nov 2013 | 423 points | Comments)

56. HTML5 game written in 0 lines of JS
    (22 Nov 2013 | 418 points | Comments)

57. My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
    (1 Nov 2013 | 413 points | Comments)

58. Google's Decline Really Bugs Me
    (17 Nov 2013 | 411 points | Comments)

59. Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
    (4 Nov 2013 | 409 points | Comments)

60. Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt
    (12 Nov 2013 | 409 points | Comments)

61. Winning at Candy Crush
    (15 Nov 2013 | 409 points | Comments)

62. TWTR
    (7 Nov 2013 | 405 points | Comments)

63. Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States
    (19 Nov 2013 | 400 points | Comments)

64. Zurb Foundation 5 Released
    (21 Nov 2013 | 400 points | Comments)

65. I Hope My Father Dies Soon
    (24 Nov 2013 | 400 points | Comments)

66. Read less HN
    (17 Nov 2013 | 399 points | Comments)

67. Zurb Ink: Responsive HTML Email Framework
    (7 Nov 2013 | 396 points | Comments)

68. Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Racket
    (9 Nov 2013 | 396 points | Comments)

69. The first Bitcoin post on HN
    (19 Nov 2013 | 395 points | Comments)

70. Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can Help
    (12 Nov 2013 | 392 points | Comments)

71. Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement
    (6 Nov 2013 | 387 points | Comments)

72. Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5
    (7 Nov 2013 | 387 points | Comments)

73. The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
    (4 Nov 2013 | 385 points | Comments)

74. Get Shit Done: The Worst Startup Culture
    (4 Nov 2013 | 382 points | Comments)

75. What happened when my co-founder quit the night before our YC interview
    (14 Nov 2013 | 381 points | Comments)

76. Apple hides a Patriot-Act-busting "warrant canary" in its transparency report
    (5 Nov 2013 | 380 points | Comments)

77. Dogescript
    (3 Nov 2013 | 369 points | Comments)

78. Booting to Rust
    (19 Nov 2013 | 369 points | Comments)

79. Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission
    (5 Nov 2013 | 368 points | Comments)

80. Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails
    (15 Nov 2013 | 366 points | Comments)

81. A culture of beer and overtime
    (7 Nov 2013 | 359 points | Comments)

82. Kofi Annan: Stop 'war on drugs'
    (6 Nov 2013 | 357 points | Comments)

83. Fourier Transforms – The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face
    (6 Nov 2013 | 356 points | Comments)

84. DOJ lied to Supreme Court to avoid judicial review of warrantless surveillance
    (22 Nov 2013 | 356 points | Comments)

85. Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location
    (8 Nov 2013 | 355 points | Comments)

86. From a Model S owner in Tennessee
    (9 Nov 2013 | 355 points | Comments)

87. Django 1.6 released
    (6 Nov 2013 | 354 points | Comments)

88. Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than your users?
    (17 Nov 2013 | 353 points | Comments)

89. Fourier Toy
    (6 Nov 2013 | 348 points | Comments)

90. The Mission of Tesla
    (19 Nov 2013 | 348 points | Comments)

91. Heirloom Chemistry Set
    (12 Nov 2013 | 346 points | Comments)

92. My Hardest Bug Ever
    (1 Nov 2013 | 345 points | Comments)

93. In CSS, “px” is not an angular measurement and it is not non-linear
    (4 Nov 2013 | 345 points | Comments)

94. Coin: A step in the wrong direction
    (14 Nov 2013 | 342 points | Comments)

95. Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor leak
    (15 Nov 2013 | 342 points | Comments)

96. “MongoDB is dead. Long live Postgresql”
    (26 Nov 2013 | 342 points | Comments)

97. Stop Freelancing
    (13 Nov 2013 | 339 points | Comments)

98. FDA Warning Letter to 23andMe
    (25 Nov 2013 | 338 points | Comments)

99. Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook
    (6 Nov 2013 | 336 points | Comments)

100. What is the enlightenment I'm supposed to attain after studying finite automata?
     (24 Nov 2013 | 336 points | Comments)