Hacker News on 17 November 2012

• You can do it alone
• They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside
• The Year 2512
• Silk — Interactive generative art
• Republicans Repudiate 40 Years of Tougher Copyright Laws
• Fast JVM launching without the hassle of persistent JVMs
• Twitter's descent into the extractive
• NVD3 Erased From Existence
• Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure
• Why I cycled a hundred miles to meet my first customer