hackerNews

8

What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space [video] (boingboing.net)

643 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042303 109 comments

1

You are not Steve Jobs (medium.com)

596 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042303 292 comments

2

Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights? (www.slate.com)

363 points first seen 2013042015 last seen 2013042221 255 comments

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Could HN stop participating in the witchhunt? (news.ycombinator.com)

362 points first seen 2013042000 last seen 2013042012 61 comments

1

Basics of the Unix Philosophy (www.catb.org)

340 points first seen 2013042021 last seen 2015062703 241 comments

1

Verlet-js - Open source dynamic body physics engine (subprotocol.com)

309 points first seen 2013042018 last seen 2013042300 53 comments

2

Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge (arstechnica.com)

280 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042221 84 comments

3

At first I thought that bing was down. (bing.com)

270 points first seen 2013042000 last seen 2013042100 151 comments

4

CipherCloud used DMCA Takedown on StackExchange discussion of their cryptography (meta.crypto.stackexchange.com)

242 points first seen 2013042015 last seen 2013042221 81 comments

18

Play an accordion recording by resizing your browser window (artpolikarpov.github.io)

226 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042106 44 comments

6

Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence (www.insidescience.org)

225 points first seen 2013042012 last seen 2013042215 129 comments

4

We've Open-sourced Rendr (nerds.airbnb.com)

219 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042212 53 comments

5

Ack 2.0 has been released (perlbuzz.com)

203 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042212 43 comments

6

Why Maybe Is Better Than Null (nickknowlson.com)

158 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042203 130 comments

0

Richard Stallman response to Boston Police efforts (pastebin.com)

139 points first seen 2013042015 last seen 2013042015 223 comments

5

Clang: C++11 support is now feature-complete. (lists.cs.uiuc.edu)

129 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042206 40 comments

5

PG chooses healthcare non-profit Watsi as his first board seat (thenextweb.com)

121 points first seen 2013042012 last seen 2013042206 30 comments

7

Obscure C++ Features (madebyevan.com)

120 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042203 52 comments

10

The Linux kernel MultiPath TCP project (multipath-tcp.org)

117 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042203 68 comments

14

Former Hostgator employee arrested, charged with rooting 2,700 servers (arstechnica.com)

106 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042203 56 comments

12

A new search engine (www.samuru.com)

101 points first seen 2013042015 last seen 2013042121 97 comments

16

Sailfish- An open source mobile OS (sailfishos.org)

99 points first seen 2013042000 last seen 2013042115 49 comments

10

Closure (words.steveklabnik.com)

89 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042121 20 comments

7

The Death of Upcoming.org (waxy.org)

83 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042200 29 comments

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Boston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Apprehended Alive (mashable.com)

77 points first seen 2013042012 last seen 2013042015 117 comments

32

When crowdsourcing goes wrong: Reddit, Boston and the missing student (www.newstatesman.com)

75 points first seen 2013042000 last seen 2013042006 66 comments

28

Marissa Mayer breaks her silence on Yahoo's telecommuting policy (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

72 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042103 75 comments

5

The market for paid iOS apps isn’t dead (www.marco.org)

72 points first seen 2013042015 last seen 2013042118 65 comments

11

Give Yourself Time To Think (doriandargan.com)

63 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042118 11 comments

21

IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash (arstechnica.com)

61 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042109 43 comments

17

Bitcoin, Energy, And The Future Of Money (medium.com)

59 points first seen 2013042000 last seen 2013042021 59 comments

21

Yahoo shuts down six products (ycorpblog.com)

55 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042103 46 comments

18

Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Scan-To-Cloud Device (blog.doctape.com)

48 points first seen 2013042000 last seen 2013042106 16 comments

15

Lessons Learned After Two Years as a Startup Founder (thederek.com)

48 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042109 14 comments

18

Conception - a live programming environment experiment after 1 year (zef.me)

48 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042112 22 comments

70

'Disabled' Gamer Banned from Twitch.tv After Standing Up Mid Stream (www.gameskinny.com)

41 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042009 13 comments

76

_why is offering you something (www.whytheluckystiff.net)

39 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042009 12 comments

65

Things I Learned Building The Most Powerful Language Processing Engine (www.xyhd.tv)

37 points first seen 2013042012 last seen 2013042018 53 comments

19

What happens when your startup gets debunked by science? (www.fastcompany.com)

37 points first seen 2013042012 last seen 2013042106 38 comments

25

Content Security Policy (github.com)

35 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042103 12 comments

23

So you want to do a PhD (2012) (youshottheinvisibleswordsman.co.uk)

34 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042103 36 comments

17

Improving the Fedora boot experience (blog.linuxgrrl.com)

32 points first seen 2013042021 last seen 2013042118 9 comments

90

I'm tired of trying to meet new people. So I've built another social network (blog.interestin.co)

31 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042006 61 comments

42

Ask HN: Is an Autonomy Fund a viable business model? (news.ycombinator.com)

31 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042018 30 comments

17

What Was on the First SAT? (www.smithsonianmag.com)

30 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042106 15 comments

37

Verbling (YC S11) announces Courses, 1.5M classes taken (venturebeat.com)

28 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042018 0 comments

18

This Is the Modern Manhunt: The FBI, the Hive Mind and the Boston Bombers (www.wired.com)

27 points first seen 2013042015 last seen 2013042109 14 comments

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One Boston Bombing Suspect Is Dead (www.nytimes.com)

25 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042018 7 comments

18

Want Google without the input field? (plus.google.com)

25 points first seen 2013042018 last seen 2013042112 12 comments

32

A mobilized Hacker News in 15 minutes [video] (blog.moovweb.com)

24 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042021 0 comments

12

We built a multiplayer game last week (like Battleship) and would love feedback (http://www.sinkabuddy.com)

23 points first seen 2013042021 last seen 2013042103 36 comments

82

Developing a Backbone.js Edge (bleedingedgepress.com)

22 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042009 7 comments

0

What is the international arms trade and who are the major players? (blog.priceonomics.com)

21 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042003 5 comments

18

Entrepreneur First 2012 graduate startups worth £15m (entrepreneurfirst.org.uk)

21 points first seen 2013042021 last seen 2013042115 6 comments

41

CoffeeStrap is in open beta (blog.coffeestrap.com)

20 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042021 13 comments

35

Genome complexity puts origin of life 9.7B years ago (science.slashdot.org)

18 points first seen 2013042018 last seen 2013042106 14 comments

46

Setting up 2 Factor Auth for your Google account and Microsoft account (www.hanselman.com)

16 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042018 8 comments

33

Even graphene has weak spots (news.rice.edu)

16 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042100 0 comments

83

_why oh _why (debu.gs)

16 points first seen 2013042012 last seen 2013042015 6 comments

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Return-Oriented Vulnerabilities in ARM Executables [pdf] (cryptome.org)

15 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042100 0 comments

53

10x programmers - 10x more selective (www.yosefk.com)

14 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042021 5 comments

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Show HN: Cupcloud lets you save everything you're doing, and do it later (http://cupcloud.com)

14 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042021 0 comments

75

Boston bombing: How Internet detectives got it very wrong (www.bbc.co.uk)

13 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042012 10 comments

78

Ask HN: How does your company handle deployments? (news.ycombinator.com)

12 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042009 6 comments

84

Victims of 'hacking' should be allowed to hack back says Texas rep (www.techdirt.com)

12 points first seen 2013042012 last seen 2013042015 10 comments

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Get a signature and get paid with Stripe (inkdit.com)

11 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042003 0 comments

64

The "Public Safety" Exception to Miranda (www.fbi.gov)

11 points first seen 2013042015 last seen 2013042021 7 comments

83

When the Intern Writes the Billing System (tghw.com)

10 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042006 5 comments

58

Know someone in Boston? Have dinner with them tonight. (news.ycombinator.com)

10 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042015 2 comments

75

Ask HN: What are we decrypting with bitcoin? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2013042000 last seen 2013042003 10 comments

55

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer: Should he stay as boss? (www.bbc.co.uk)

8 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042018 0 comments

0

Feds Seize Barrett Brown’s Legal Defense Fund (frontburner.dmagazine.com)

7 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042006 0 comments

68

DynamoDB Announces Support for Local Secondary Indexes (aws.amazon.com)

6 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042012 0 comments

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Duane Campbell, a Microsoft coding legend who’s retiring after 28 years (www.geekwire.com)

6 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042009 0 comments

0

No Miranda rights for now for Bombing suspect (www.politico.com)

6 points first seen 2013042015 last seen 2013042015 0 comments

80

Ask HN: Anyone use Dart JS on a production app? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042009 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Why is there not a better way to search for houses and apts? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013042015 last seen 2013042015 6 comments

69

Rise in U.S. Gas Production Fuels Unexpected Plunge in Emissions (online.wsj.com)

5 points first seen 2013042018 last seen 2013042021 0 comments

90

Ask HN: Which ways of finding new clients works for you? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013042021 last seen 2013050303 0 comments

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If the plural of ‘man’ is ‘men,’ shouldn’t the plural of ‘German’ be ‘Germen’? (english.stackexchange.com)

4 points first seen 2013042000 last seen 2013042003 0 comments

84

When does your baby become conscious? (www.kurzweilai.net)

4 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042006 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How to assemble a Development Team to build-out my (SaaS) project? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042003 15 comments

0

Why 'Innovate or die' is a lie (boss.blogs.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042006 0 comments

0

Ask HN: what do you HN think about Eckhart Tolle? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042006 2 comments

86

Ask HN: Any contact from 10x? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042012 0 comments

79

The simple function call (qblog.aaronsw.com)

4 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042012 0 comments

0

Marissa Mayer Defends Her Work From Home Ban (www.businessinsider.com)

4 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042009 0 comments

0

The Eternal Mainframe (throwww.com)

4 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042009 0 comments

0

Dove Real Beauty Sketches [Guy Version Parody] (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2013042012 last seen 2013042012 0 comments

0

2nd year Comp Sci student that just now figured out I have ADD (wporter.com)

4 points first seen 2013042015 last seen 2013042015 9 comments

85

The Most Difficult Bug (2012) (en.ricbit.com)

4 points first seen 2013042018 last seen 2013042021 0 comments

78

Durex creates vibrating underwear you can control via smartphone apps (venturebeat.com)

4 points first seen 2013042018 last seen 2013042021 0 comments

0

Ron Conway's Campaign to Remove 45 Senators from Office (www.theverge.com)

4 points first seen 2013042018 last seen 2013042018 0 comments

89

Debian 7 to be released on the first weekend in May (www.h-online.com)

3 points first seen 2013042000 last seen 2013042003 0 comments

0

Meteor Introduces Tighter NPM Integration, Overhauled Package Management (www.infoq.com)

3 points first seen 2013042003 last seen 2013042003 0 comments

0

Learning Functional Programming without Growing a Neckbeard (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042006 0 comments

0

I know jQuery. Now what? (remysharp.com)

3 points first seen 2013042006 last seen 2013042006 0 comments

90

The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster (www.theatlantic.com)

3 points first seen 2013042009 last seen 2013042012 0 comments

85

Paul Graham Joins Watsi's Board of Directors (twitter.com)

3 points first seen 2013042012 last seen 2013042015 0 comments

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Prosthetics with Personality: London Artist Creates Intricate Limbs (www.healthline.com)