hackerNews

1

Bill Gates: Good News You Might Have Missed in 2013 (www.thegatesnotes.com)

348 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013123003 166 comments

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What is it like to be a geek in a prison? (www.quora.com)

347 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013123003 248 comments

3

Steve Jobs Danced To My Song (medium.com)

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2

Chicago makes Computer Science a core subject (www.edtechmagazine.com)

191 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013123000 152 comments

4

New Twist in International Relations: Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-U.S. Clause (www.bloomberg.com)

149 points first seen 2013122715 last seen 2013123000 100 comments

2

”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls” (digitstodollars.com)

146 points first seen 2013122721 last seen 2013123000 86 comments

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Ubuntu HTML5 SDK (developer.ubuntu.com)

141 points first seen 2013122703 last seen 2013122909 49 comments

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Don't Support Information Architects (www.candlerblog.com)

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Inside Nick Denton's phony, hypocritical class war against tech workers (pando.com)

138 points first seen 2013122715 last seen 2013122803 35 comments

8

Is Ruby Fast Yet? (www.isrubyfastyet.com)

125 points first seen 2013122703 last seen 2013122903 88 comments

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Show HN: The best Markdown editor (and it's free) (clockworkengine.com)

123 points first seen 2013122721 last seen 2013122915 76 comments

4

Admob refunds all purchases you ever made..And then recharges you. (forums.makingmoneywithandroid.com)

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Show HN: I make my family postcards every year. Here's this year's. (http://postcards.lekevicius.com)

101 points first seen 2013122700 last seen 2013122900 26 comments

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Rapgenius.com Traffic and Demographic Statistics (www.quantcast.com)

101 points first seen 2013122703 last seen 2013122721 121 comments

17

What are the 'real numbers', really? (www.math.vanderbilt.edu)

100 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122903 95 comments

1

A useful Caps Lock key (brettterpstra.com)

96 points first seen 2013122715 last seen 2013122909 135 comments

3

Snapchat - GibSec Full Disclosure (gibsonsec.org)

96 points first seen 2013122721 last seen 2013122909 39 comments

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Ask HN: How to fire your co-founder? (item?id=6967516)

95 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122803 81 comments

10

What languages fix (paulgraham.com)

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Professor admits faking AIDS vaccine to get $19M in grants (nypost.com)

89 points first seen 2013122712 last seen 2013122903 50 comments

5

Why Entrepreneurs Are Bad At Finding Their Competition (www.berserkia.com)

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7

Exposing Houdini’s Tricks of Magic (1929) (blog.modernmechanix.com)

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3

Boardinghouses: where the city was born (www.bostonglobe.com)

75 points first seen 2013122712 last seen 2013122903 19 comments

12

Serious Science (http://serious-science.org)

71 points first seen 2013122700 last seen 2013122806 26 comments

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Show HN: I mapped 30k+ paintings around the world (www.artnear.me)

62 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122900 24 comments

10

Baidu IME secretly transmitting Japanese users’ data (ajw.asahi.com)

61 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122806 17 comments

4

Google offering free Chromebooks to Indian schools (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

59 points first seen 2013122718 last seen 2013122903 48 comments

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What Surveillance Valley knows about you (pando.com)

58 points first seen 2013122718 last seen 2013122906 19 comments

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First time in the country, ED raids a Bitcoin seller in Ahmedabad (India) (www.dnaindia.com)

58 points first seen 2013122721 last seen 2013122903 39 comments

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ReText - Markdown editor for Ubuntu (sourceforge.net)

58 points first seen 2013122721 last seen 2013122909 31 comments

2

Top 100 Most Popular Scala Libraries – Based on 10,000 GitHub Projects (www.takipiblog.com)

54 points first seen 2013122700 last seen 2013122715 24 comments

10

Y Combinator Reaches Farther Beyond Silicon Valley (www.bloomberg.com)

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In a Car-Culture Clash, It’s the Los Angeles Police vs. Pedestrians (www.nytimes.com)

52 points first seen 2013122703 last seen 2013122706 79 comments

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How Google Is Cleaning The Web Of Comment Spam (www.forbes.com)

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Whistleblower Snowden hailed by internet founder (www.independent.ie)

48 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122721 25 comments

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User Culture Versus Programmer Culture (pgbovine.net)

48 points first seen 2013122718 last seen 2013122809 48 comments

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Devtools Console, from Novice to Ninja (daker.me)

47 points first seen 2013122712 last seen 2013122815 6 comments

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FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 images available (ftp.freebsd.org)

46 points first seen 2013122703 last seen 2013122803 31 comments

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Code Like a Chef: Work Clean (blog.baugues.com)

42 points first seen 2013122712 last seen 2013122721 22 comments

17

In the Human Brain, Size Really Isn’t Everything (www.nytimes.com)

41 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122806 8 comments

41

Discworld Reading Order Guides (www.lspace.org)

41 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122718 20 comments

45

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (www.cbsnews.com)

41 points first seen 2013122712 last seen 2013122718 38 comments

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JavaScript becoming the lingua franca for mobile development (www.sdtimes.com)

40 points first seen 2013122703 last seen 2013122706 44 comments

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Brookyln (www.kickstarter.com)

39 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122721 27 comments

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Oracle to Amazon: It’s on (gigaom.com)

38 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122715 54 comments

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What Happens While Your Brain Sleeps is Like How Computers Stay Sane (highscalability.com)

37 points first seen 2013122703 last seen 2013122803 22 comments

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What It's Like to Be a Tech Geek... in Prison (www.slate.com)

35 points first seen 2013122703 last seen 2013122703 16 comments

14

Alan Turing's Body (theatlantic.com)

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2014 Predictions for Web Design (inside.envato.com)

34 points first seen 2013122721 last seen 2013122806 21 comments

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Testing the ‘Apple tax’ (news.yahoo.com)

34 points first seen 2013122721 last seen 2013122803 48 comments

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7 Deadly Sins of Mobile Websites (10kloc.wordpress.com)

33 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122806 26 comments

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Poll: Do you have a Facebook account? (item?id=6968026)

31 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122709 66 comments

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Stross on explaining Unix to non-techies: an (over-extended) metaphor (www.antipope.org)

29 points first seen 2013122700 last seen 2013122706 18 comments

20

Get Started With GitHub Pages (Plus Bonus Jekyll) (24ways.org)

29 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122803 9 comments

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Operation Vula (www.schneier.com)

24 points first seen 2013122718 last seen 2013122806 4 comments

0

Ask HN: How many YC companies have African American founders? (item?id=6966969)

21 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122706 49 comments

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Has RapGenius been getting away with cloaking? (item?id=6966544)

17 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122715 8 comments

0

Ask HN: What's your new year resolution? (item?id=6969791)

14 points first seen 2013122721 last seen 2013122721 37 comments

0

Amazon’s holiday success and UPS’ holiday fail (gigaom.com)

12 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122706 11 comments

90

Thiel Fellowship Application Advice (delian.io)

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2013 was a lost year for tech - "Not a single breakthrough product was unveiled" (qz.com)

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Show HN: Read Gawker posts without giving them your clicks (github.com)

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Ask HN: Should I use Wordpress to power the front end of my Rails web app? (item?id=6967329)

10 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122715 22 comments

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Ask HN: Forming an IT service organization, how much do I charge per month? (item?id=6898713)

10 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2014010909 4 comments

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GM or Ford to buy Elon Musk's Tesla in 2014? (www.usatoday.com)

8 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122709 11 comments

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Ask HN: How long before you leave? (item?id=6968265)

8 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122715 12 comments

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So This Is What It Feels Like to Be A Millionaire (medium.com)

8 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122712 0 comments

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Ask HN: How do I develop fanatical resolve? (item?id=6967425)

8 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122712 6 comments

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Pixel Art with Normal Maps in WebGL (mattdesl.github.io)

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Bletchley Park accused of airbrushing Edward Snowden from history (www.theguardian.com)

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Why do you use Pandas instead of SQL? (www.reddit.com)

6 points first seen 2013122703 last seen 2013122706 0 comments

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Warrantless Vaginal Searches Conducted By Texas Police (benswann.com)

6 points first seen 2013122703 last seen 2013122703 0 comments

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Old Computers - rare, vintage, and obsolete computers (oldcomputers.net)

6 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122715 2 comments

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Praises Edward Snowden In Help To Protect Open Web (thenextweb.com)

6 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122709 0 comments

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Ask HN: Developers to Designers (item?id=6968029)

6 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122712 4 comments

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Ask HN: Have you remapped the Caps Lock key? [Poll] (item?id=6969671)

6 points first seen 2013122718 last seen 2013122718 8 comments

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Become a Hustler (medium.com)

6 points first seen 2013122718 last seen 2013122721 0 comments

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On the Design of Application Protocols (www.rfc-editor.org)

6 points first seen 2013122721 last seen 2013122803 2 comments

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French Team Invents Faster Code-Breaking Algorithm (cacm.acm.org)

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Social logins: Google more accepted than Facebook (blog.oauth.io)

5 points first seen 2013122703 last seen 2013122706 4 comments

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Recruiting advice no one tells you (medium.com)

5 points first seen 2013122703 last seen 2013122703 3 comments

0

Free Screenshot tools (www.itsmdaily.com)

5 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122706 0 comments

0

How to Fake "Working Remotely" While Home for the Holidays (www.slate.com)

5 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122706 0 comments

0

Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow in eBook Format (item?id=6949380)

5 points first seen 2013122706 last seen 2013122706 3 comments

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Linux is Everywhere: We Show you Exactly Where (www.linuxfederation.com)

5 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122715 0 comments

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Ask HN: How do you measure your software dev productivity? (item?id=6905316)

5 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122709 2 comments

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2013 in Review: The Year the NSA Finally Admitted Its "Collect It All" Strategy (www.eff.org)

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OpalRB 0.6 successfully runs all specs against MRI 1.8-2.0, JRuby and Rubinius (github.com)

5 points first seen 2013122718 last seen 2013122800 2 comments

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So You Want a Zillion Developers… (jasonpunyon.com)

5 points first seen 2013122718 last seen 2013122721 2 comments

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Where is the Internet headed? (2014 & Beyond) (item?id=6969579)

5 points first seen 2013122718 last seen 2014010909 4 comments

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Interview with a blogger turned growth hacker turned entrepreneur (blog.sushrutbidwai.com)

5 points first seen 2013122721 last seen 2013122800 0 comments

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Hacker News: Welcome (repost) (ycombinator.com)

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0

The Worst Lies You've Been Told About the Singularity (io9.com)

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So I sold my first business and here’s what I learned (blog.cnizz.com)

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Mass., Vt. halt payments to firm behind health sites (www.bostonglobe.com)

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(Almost) No One Is Reading Your Tweets (allthingsd.com)

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Twitter now worth over $40 billion (finance.yahoo.com)

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JetBrains JetPad Projectional Editing Framework (github.com)

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Record-Setting Holiday Season for Amazon Prime (phx.corporate-ir.net)

4 points first seen 2013122709 last seen 2013122715 0 comments

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Bashing Perl5 (perladvent.org)

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2013 Was a Lost Year for Tech (qz.com)

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The Dark Roots Of 'The Nutcracker' And The Man Who Wrote It (www.npr.org)

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Hackers may have just exposed entire database of Snapchat usernames (www.dailydot.com)

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Dell has a limit of 10 servers per invoice, sends 750 letters to online.net (twitter.com)

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EX-GOOGLERS are launching KRUSH (play.google.com)

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Speech Recognition in Javascript (github.com)

4 points first seen 2013122721 last seen 2013122800 0 comments

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EBay XMAS listings: UK consumers are selling iPads, but keep Android tablets (thenextweb.com)

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Book: Jony Ive - The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products (www.amazon.com)

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Benefits to end Saturday for long-term jobless (www.washingtonpost.com)

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OpenEmu - Multiple Video Game System (openemu.org)