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2

How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google (nenadseo.com)

471 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2014010100 155 comments

2

Gfycat - GIF sucks, HTML5 video no (gfycat.com)

222 points first seen 2013122903 last seen 2013123103 71 comments

1

Bitcoin is Evil (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)

188 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013123103 497 comments

3

Rust is surprisingly expressive (words.steveklabnik.com)

181 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013123103 146 comments

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Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013? (item?id=6975638)

177 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013123003 162 comments

8

A Soft Murmur – Ambient sounds to wash away distraction (http://asoftmurmur.com)

176 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013123103 76 comments

4

How Blender started, twenty years ago (code.blender.org)

175 points first seen 2013122903 last seen 2013123103 36 comments

3

The Rust standard library no longer has any scheduling baked into it (mail.mozilla.org)

159 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013123103 66 comments

1

The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites (bsdly.blogspot.co.uk)

144 points first seen 2013122921 last seen 2013123009 71 comments

1

Do I Really Need a Programming Language? (ayudasystems.tumblr.com)

143 points first seen 2013122918 last seen 2013123100 140 comments

2

Announcing Ubuntu and Android dual boot developer preview (discourse.ubuntu.com)

137 points first seen 2013122918 last seen 2013123106 71 comments

7

Huge Collection of MAME ROMs from The Internet Archive (archive.org)

125 points first seen 2013122903 last seen 2013123100 46 comments

3

OpenSSL.org hacked? (www.openssl.org)

118 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013123103 91 comments

7

Immutability, MVCC, and garbage collection (www.xaprb.com)

115 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013123103 43 comments

5

ARIN migrated from Oracle to PostgreSQL (lists.arin.net)

108 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013123103 30 comments

6

A Patent From 2004 Describes Dual EC As Key Escrow (twitter.com)

103 points first seen 2013122909 last seen 2013123100 39 comments

8

XSS in Gmail through Rapportive (blog.kotowicz.net)

97 points first seen 2013122903 last seen 2013123021 13 comments

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Xplain: Explaining X11 for the rest of us (magcius.github.io)

97 points first seen 2013122918 last seen 2013123103 19 comments

9

Advanced Computer Architecture Reading List (www.cs.ucf.edu)

94 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013123100 5 comments

8

Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer (item?id=6974835)

89 points first seen 2013122900 last seen 2013123000 72 comments

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Help me bring Black Girls Code to Brooklyn - I'm matching the first $5K (www.crowdtilt.com)

88 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013122909 187 comments

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Google’s Chromebooks Have Hit Their Stride (techcrunch.com)

86 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013123000 117 comments

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From near-death to Silicon Valley CEO (www.mercurynews.com)

81 points first seen 2013122909 last seen 2013123021 12 comments

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Why Clipperz is moving out of the US (www.clipperz.com)

78 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013123018 20 comments

7

ObjClean (objclean.com)

74 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013123100 41 comments

10

CPSC 527 or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Write a Virus (danieru.com)

70 points first seen 2013122918 last seen 2013123103 22 comments

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Beat This Level, Get A Programming Job (blog.codecombat.com)

65 points first seen 2013122909 last seen 2013123003 66 comments

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Saving the Lost Art of Conversation (www.theatlantic.com)

63 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013123015 22 comments

10

The shok command shell (http://shok.io)

61 points first seen 2013122918 last seen 2013123100 49 comments

8

Bogo-bogosort (www.dangermouse.net)

59 points first seen 2013122909 last seen 2013123015 32 comments

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Accuracy takes power: a 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator (2010) (arstechnica.com)

58 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013123003 20 comments

8

Concurrency Models, Rust, and Servo (www.lars.com)

56 points first seen 2013122921 last seen 2013123103 4 comments

0

Paul Graham Isn't Keeping Women out of Tech (thedatingring.tumblr.com)

54 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122912 76 comments

12

The Canon Cat (www.jagshouse.com)

53 points first seen 2013122918 last seen 2013123100 28 comments

12

Lock-Free Data Structures (2004) (www.drdobbs.com)

52 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013123021 11 comments

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Uber now has to wait 15 minutes before picking you up in France (techcrunch.com)

50 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122921 72 comments

10

Macaw - A Simple PHP Router (github.com)

49 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013123006 47 comments

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Re: [mongrel2] C versus C++ (2010) (librelist.com)

48 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013122918 30 comments

12

Zen room for Vim: Focsuing only on the essential (amix.dk)

48 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013123018 26 comments

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iPad Haskell Editor (slidetocode.com)

44 points first seen 2013122918 last seen 2013123018 14 comments

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Poll: Was one of your parents a programmer? (item?id=6978849)

44 points first seen 2013122921 last seen 2013123003 62 comments

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Typesafe database interaction with Java 8 (benjiweber.co.uk)

43 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013123003 35 comments

15

Microsoft applies for trademark on 'Mod' (www.zdnet.com)

40 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013123003 24 comments

4

Crypto-anarchy does not require anonymity (blog.oleganza.com)

37 points first seen 2013122900 last seen 2013122909 33 comments

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Rackspace Unlikely to Withstand Amazon, Google Onslaught (blogs.barrons.com)

33 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122918 43 comments

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Reddit reaches for profits through a geek-culture bazaar (reuters.com)

30 points first seen 2013122909 last seen 2013122912 43 comments

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In Textbook Fight, Japan Leaders Seek to Recast History (www.nytimes.com)

30 points first seen 2013122918 last seen 2013123015 14 comments

15

The ones who walk towards Acre (www.gwern.net)

28 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013123006 6 comments

23

Show HN: Plant Subscription Service (http://crateandbloom.com)

26 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013123000 7 comments

30

Show HN: Bi-weekly newsletter for engineers looking for other engineers. (atriangle.github.io)

24 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013123003 9 comments

56

What still sucks about front-end web development (www.pling.org.uk)

23 points first seen 2013122909 last seen 2013122915 17 comments

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Samples sizes for A/B tests (camdp.com)

23 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013123003 3 comments

19

Don’t Use Try/Catch [2010] (codebetter.com)

22 points first seen 2013122903 last seen 2013122906 26 comments

88

Ask HN: How to make a profitable business out from newsletter app? (item?id=6975237)

20 points first seen 2013122903 last seen 2013122906 17 comments

59

Show HN: Ephemeral Photo Sharing for the web (snapmenow.com)

20 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013122921 7 comments

17

MapBBCode Share: a simple service to share custom maps and convert geodata (share.mapbbcode.org)

18 points first seen 2013122900 last seen 2013122918 8 comments

31

A few more notes on NSA random number generators (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

17 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013122915 2 comments

34

Common Mistakes Developers Make (thenextweb.com)

16 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013123003 11 comments

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Ask HN: What Linux distribution do you use? (item?id=6978225)

16 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013122921 31 comments

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Poll: OAuth 1.0a or OAuth 2.0 in a Docker container? (item?id=6975752)

14 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013122909 3 comments

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VPN.sh - £1/year VPN in 21 worldwide locations (www.vpn.sh)

13 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013123000 8 comments

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Benefits Ending for One Million Unemployed (www.nytimes.com)

12 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013122918 0 comments

55

Ask HN: I want to take a vacation and code; where should I go? (item?id=6975469)

11 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013122909 9 comments

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Show HN: Raskell, a Haskell interpreter and editor for iPad (slidetocode.com)

11 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122912 2 comments

53

Ask HN: How can I close my crowdfunding gap? (item?id=6975185)

10 points first seen 2013122903 last seen 2013122909 5 comments

77

Internet Explorer 6 (JavaScript) (www.mrdoob.com)

10 points first seen 2013122903 last seen 2013122906 4 comments

73

Ask HN: What Video Games Did You Play In 2013? (item?id=6976137)

10 points first seen 2013122909 last seen 2013122912 17 comments

53

He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died (mentalfloss.com)

10 points first seen 2013122918 last seen 2013123003 0 comments

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Girls Haven't Been Hacking for the Last 10 Years (medium.com)

9 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122915 0 comments

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China Formally Eases One-Child Policy (online.wsj.com)

9 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013122915 2 comments

0

Fake bloggers and SEO scammers (nenadseo.com)

9 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013122915 2 comments

0

Dual EC DRBG, The Saga Continues (gist.github.com)

8 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122912 0 comments

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FreedomPop’s Free Wireless Would Be Cool If It Wasn’t So Shady (techland.time.com)

8 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013123000 3 comments

0

Trolling homework questions (codegolf.stackexchange.com)

8 points first seen 2013122918 last seen 2013122918 3 comments

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The Downfall of Imperative Programming (2012) (www.fpcomplete.com)

6 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122918 3 comments

0

Noam Chomsky: We’re no longer a functioning democracy, we’re really a plutocracy (www.rawstory.com)

6 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122912 0 comments

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NY Times Articles on HN (item?id=6978956)

6 points first seen 2013122921 last seen 2013123000 8 comments

0

Ask reddit to upvote user freedom by serving no nonfree JavaScript (www.fsf.org)

5 points first seen 2013122903 last seen 2013122903 2 comments

0

Ask HN: What are the specs of your programming computer? (item?id=6974730)

5 points first seen 2013122903 last seen 2013122903 7 comments

73

Frustrations with namespaces in Clojure (programming-puzzler.blogspot.com)

5 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013122909 0 comments

87

JavaScript gains support for SIMD (www.2ality.com)

5 points first seen 2013122909 last seen 2013122912 0 comments

54

Holy Haskell Project Starter (yannesposito.com)

5 points first seen 2013122918 last seen 2013123000 0 comments

0

How the Internet works (www.vladstudio.com)

4 points first seen 2013122906 last seen 2013122906 0 comments

83

GitHub Pages served from Fastly's CDN (www.foolproofcode.com)

4 points first seen 2013122909 last seen 2013122912 0 comments

82

Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (boingboing.net)

4 points first seen 2013122909 last seen 2013122912 0 comments

0

How I let my startups kill my relationship (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2013122909 last seen 2013122909 0 comments

0

The Valley Is Fucked (gitlab.com)

4 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122912 0 comments

72

OAuth Bearer Tokens are a Terrible Idea (hueniverse.com)

4 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122915 0 comments

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The Overlooked Value of Static Typing (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122912 0 comments

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Building A Browser Extension? Careful Not To Accidentally XSS the Whole Internet (www.tinfoilsecurity.com)

4 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013122918 0 comments

0

EmberConf (emberconf.com)

4 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013122915 0 comments

0

Which India Matters? (www.nybooks.com)

3 points first seen 2013122903 last seen 2013122903 0 comments

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Medium, The Magazine (thetypist.com)

3 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122915 0 comments

0

Docker – it’s going to change the world (scalableapps.com)

3 points first seen 2013122912 last seen 2013122912 0 comments

0

The Worst Product Flops of 2013 (247wallst.com)

3 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013122915 2 comments

0

Ask HN: Does college GPA matter? (item?id=6977967)

3 points first seen 2013122915 last seen 2013122915 4 comments

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Ionic HTML5 Mobile Framework Alpha Preview (www.infoq.com)

3 points first seen 2013122921 last seen 2013123000 0 comments

85

New Invention Makes Ocean Water Drinkable. (www.occupycorporatism.com)

3 points first seen 2013122921 last seen 2013123000 0 comments

0

First College Hackathon in the little Georgia (medium.com)

3 points first seen 2013122921 last seen 2013122921 0 comments

0

Pricing Your Product (www.sequoiacap.com)

3 points first seen 2013122921 last seen 2013122921 0 comments