Hacker News

Hacker News

1.		Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states (plus.google.com)
		446 points by btilly 9 hours ago \| 165 comments
2.		A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance [scribd] (mit.edu)
		34 points by denzil_correa 2 hours ago \| 8 comments
3.		Inside the Secret World of Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win (time.com)
		19 points by sek 1 hour ago \| 3 comments
4.		PhDs from the Faculty's Perspective (acm.org)
		32 points by jnazario 2 hours ago \| 4 comments
5.		The birthday paradox in action: calculating the probability of a hash collision (solipsys.co.uk)
		55 points by ColinWright 3 hours ago \| 18 comments
6.		Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes (coloradodaily.com)
		343 points by neverm0re 9 hours ago \| 100 comments
7.		Washington voters approve legalized marijuana (mynorthwest.com)
		303 points by llambda 9 hours ago \| 64 comments
8.		Tiny Piano sales quadruple due to Apple commercial (squarepoet.com)
		39 points by ronyeh 3 hours ago \| 21 comments
9.		Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes (thenextweb.com)
		941 points by jipumarino 20 hours ago \| 608 comments
10.		Microsoft and Skype to axe world's most popular IM client early 2013 (theregister.co.uk)
		44 points by esalazar 1 hour ago \| 47 comments
11.		Show HN : My weekend(s) project - Strapfolio (strapfolio.com)
		15 points by anujkk 2 hours ago \| 6 comments
12.		Obama Wins The Election. Here’s His Technology Agenda. (techcrunch.com)
		140 points by jabo 9 hours ago \| 36 comments
13.		Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild (arstechnica.com)
		53 points by glymor 6 hours ago \| 11 comments
14.		Bountify \| Crowdsource small coding tasks (bountify.co)
		26 points by redDragon 3 hours ago \| 12 comments
15.		The Biggest Changes in C++11 (and Why You Should Care) (smartbear.com)
		25 points by redDragon 3 hours ago \| 9 comments
16.		RISC OS for Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.org)
		40 points by wiradikusuma 6 hours ago \| 19 comments
17.		Four African teenagers invent a urine-powered generator (makerfaireafrica.com)
		32 points by AlexanderHektor 4 hours ago \| 6 comments
18.		How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading (jspauld.com)
		492 points by jspaulding 1 day ago \| 269 comments
19.		Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works (cloudflare.com)
		633 points by ColinWright 1 day ago \| 143 comments
20.		The Fifth problem: math and anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union (newcriterion.com)
		100 points by cup 11 hours ago \| 51 comments
21.		Me.ga Hackers: We’re Real Pirates & We’ll Sell Dotcom’s Domain To Universal (torrentfreak.com)
		36 points by Garbage 6 hours ago \| 10 comments
22.		Steam for Linux Beta Now Available (steampowered.com)
		255 points by mukyu 18 hours ago \| 79 comments
23.		Show HN: JIRA plugin to crowdfund Free Software projects issues (github.com)
		8 points by tonylampada 2 hours ago \| 2 comments
24.		The perfect email (davidgcohen.com)
		148 points by ColinWright 15 hours ago \| 39 comments
25.		Meet the new Light Table (chris-granger.com)
		340 points by bergie 22 hours ago \| 95 comments
26.		Google Election Results (google.com)
		140 points by fjordan 15 hours ago \| 39 comments
27.		Sergey Brin Calls On Politicians To Abandon Political Parties (techcrunch.com)
		282 points by jaredtking 20 hours ago \| 127 comments
28.		Robot Dragonfly (indiegogo.com)
		49 points by blueintegral 10 hours ago \| 18 comments
29.		Kim Dotcom's new Me.ga site barred by Gabon (theregister.co.uk)
		47 points by neotek 11 hours ago \| 22 comments
30.		Nate Silver Is a One-Man Traffic Machine for the Times (tnr.com)
		143 points by joejohnson 17 hours ago \| 43 comments
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