Hacker News

Hacker News

1.		Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states (plus.google.com)
		404 points by btilly 8 hours ago \| 150 comments
2.		Microsoft and Skype to axe world's most popular IM client early 2013 (theregister.co.uk)
		19 points by esalazar 51 minutes ago \| 18 comments
3.		The birthday paradox in action: calculating the probability of a hash collision (solipsys.co.uk)
		40 points by ColinWright 2 hours ago \| 13 comments
4.		Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes (coloradodaily.com)
		316 points by neverm0re 8 hours ago \| 90 comments
5.		Washington voters approve legalized marijuana (mynorthwest.com)
		285 points by llambda 8 hours ago \| 53 comments
6.		PhDs from the Faculty's Perspective (acm.org)
		13 points by jnazario 1 hour ago \| 2 comments
7.		Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes (thenextweb.com)
		937 points by jipumarino 19 hours ago \| 603 comments
8.		Tiny Piano sales quadruple due to Apple commercial (squarepoet.com)
		24 points by ronyeh 2 hours ago \| 16 comments
9.		A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance [scribd] (mit.edu)
		10 points by denzil_correa 1 hour ago \| 1 comment
10.		Obama Wins The Election. Here’s His Technology Agenda. (techcrunch.com)
		130 points by jabo 8 hours ago \| 28 comments
11.		Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild (arstechnica.com)
		46 points by glymor 5 hours ago \| 7 comments
12.		Show HN : My weekend(s) project - Strapfolio (strapfolio.com)
		7 points by anujkk 1 hour ago \| discuss
13.		Bountify \| Crowdsource small coding tasks (bountify.co)
		18 points by redDragon 2 hours ago \| 8 comments
14.		RISC OS for Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.org)
		37 points by wiradikusuma 5 hours ago \| 17 comments
15.		The Biggest Changes in C++11 (and Why You Should Care) (smartbear.com)
		16 points by redDragon 2 hours ago \| 6 comments
16.		The Fifth problem: math and anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union (newcriterion.com)
		97 points by cup 10 hours ago \| 48 comments
17.		How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading (jspauld.com)
		487 points by jspaulding 23 hours ago \| 268 comments
18.		Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works (cloudflare.com)
		632 points by ColinWright 1 day ago \| 143 comments
19.		Me.ga Hackers: We’re Real Pirates & We’ll Sell Dotcom’s Domain To Universal (torrentfreak.com)
		29 points by Garbage 5 hours ago \| 8 comments
20.		Steam for Linux Beta Now Available (steampowered.com)
		252 points by mukyu 17 hours ago \| 76 comments
21.		The perfect email (davidgcohen.com)
		141 points by ColinWright 14 hours ago \| 39 comments
22.		Meet the new Light Table (chris-granger.com)
		335 points by bergie 21 hours ago \| 94 comments
23.		Four African teenagers invent a urine-powered generator (makerfaireafrica.com)
		23 points by AlexanderHektor 3 hours ago \| 5 comments
24.		Google Election Results (google.com)
		140 points by fjordan 14 hours ago \| 38 comments
25.		Sergey Brin Calls On Politicians To Abandon Political Parties (techcrunch.com)
		277 points by jaredtking 19 hours ago \| 126 comments
26.		Show HN: JIRA plugin to crowdfund Free Software projects issues (github.com)
		4 points by tonylampada 1 hour ago \| 2 comments
27.		Robot Dragonfly (indiegogo.com)
		47 points by blueintegral 9 hours ago \| 16 comments
28.		Kim Dotcom's new Me.ga site barred by Gabon (theregister.co.uk)
		42 points by neotek 10 hours ago \| 20 comments
29.		Nate Silver Is a One-Man Traffic Machine for the Times (tnr.com)
		139 points by joejohnson 16 hours ago \| 43 comments
30.		Rationality for Entrepreneurs: Awesome workshop in the Bay Area (appliedrationality.org)
		65 points by rms 13 hours ago \| 13 comments
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