hackerNews

2

Fired? Speak No Evil (www.nytimes.com)

694 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010806 351 comments

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Don't buy Toshiba products (bandyt.site44.com)

672 points first seen 2014010409 last seen 2014010800 191 comments

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Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant (jasonkincaid.net)

430 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010800 245 comments

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David Cameron's Internet porn filter is the start of censorship creep (www.theguardian.com)

307 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010500 197 comments

2

How I reverse engineered my bank's security token (valverde.me)

298 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010800 63 comments

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Show HN: Given an API, Generate client libraries in node, python, php, ruby (github.com)

246 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010718 73 comments

3

The Builder's High (randsinrepose.com)

185 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010718 22 comments

2

Docker on Linode (blog.linode.com)

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10

Growing From $5,000 to $25,000 in MRR (blog.statuspage.io)

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9

I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a "hacker" (blog.lizdenys.com)

150 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010715 108 comments

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Ask HN: How do you drive web traffic to your successful side projects? (item?id=7007203)

148 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014012203 99 comments

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Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress (www.theguardian.com)

147 points first seen 2014010409 last seen 2014010506 73 comments

10

Python 2.x vs. 3.x survey results (wiki.python.org)

143 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010715 79 comments

6

Haskell vs. Erlang for bittorent clients (jlouisramblings.blogspot.ca)

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4

The difficulty of private contact discovery. An unsolved problem (whispersystems.org)

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10

I Got Fired Last Week. That’s a Good Thing. Here’s Why. (alexgivesup.com)

131 points first seen 2014010415 last seen 2014010715 79 comments

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Durr: A shivering unisex bracelet that investigates our perception of 5 minutes (skreksto.re)

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You can now create a Bitcoin clone by filling out a simple webform (http://coingen.io)

121 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010403 68 comments

4

Using Rust for an Undergraduate OS Course (rust-class.org)

115 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010715 71 comments

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Academics Against Mass Surveillance (www.academicsagainstsurveillance.net)

113 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010600 36 comments

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iOS 7 only is the only sane thing to do (berzniz.com)

108 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010506 77 comments

9

Federating Do-It-Yourself ISPs from around the world (www.ffdn.org)

106 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010715 32 comments

11

Read your Damn Standard Libraries (blog.codingforinterviews.com)

101 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010600 55 comments

9

IBM 704 Scientific Computer (www.zl2al.com)

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6

Researchers have identified how the ‘wall’ around cancer tumours functions. (www.cam.ac.uk)

87 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010506 17 comments

10

Compile Clojure to Objective-C (github.com)

84 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010715 38 comments

9

ICANN's new rules require you to verify your contact details (iwantmyname.com)

80 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010500 80 comments

7

Show HN: LINQ for Go (github.com)

80 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010715 48 comments

13

Increasing the size of ruby objects to minimize CPU cache misses (github.com)

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78

"Silence is for the weak" (blog.circleci.com)

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6

Show HN: Relearning to code after 20 years (weather-explorer.com)

76 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010509 31 comments

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How to use Photoshop to design interfaces (nathanbarry.com)

74 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010500 70 comments

41

Hire this guy for love (http://mibake.co)

71 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010503 31 comments

42

Blip.tv deletes Python content (holdenweb.blogspot.co.uk)

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Does Snapchat's CEO Need to Go? (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

64 points first seen 2014010409 last seen 2014010418 84 comments

3

This World of Ours - James Mickens [pdf] (www.usenix.org)

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Andreessen: Bubble Believers 'Don't Know What They're Talking About' (online.wsj.com)

58 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010500 63 comments

16

Making Python's __init__ method magical (blog.lerner.co.il)

57 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010503 36 comments

13

Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind MEGA (www.vice.com)

55 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010500 18 comments

13

Jubilee, a new rack server for JRuby based on the high-performance Vert.x (github.com)

51 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010503 19 comments

13

I Fought Comcast and Almost Won (www.nattaylor.com)

48 points first seen 2014010415 last seen 2014010515 20 comments

29

What happens if authorities seize your laptop? (www.bbc.co.uk)

47 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010503 77 comments

23

When Growth Hacking Goes Bad (techcrunch.com)

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Elite Hacker Barnaby Jack 'overdosed on drugs' (m.bbc.co.uk)

45 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010500 55 comments

47

My experience with Kaggle's data-science competitions (dhruvbhatia.com)

44 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010409 9 comments

75

The Graver Threat of the Growing Tech Backlash (recode.net)

40 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010412 61 comments

15

Why I’m ditching Evernote for Simplenote (and Notational Velocity) (dougbelshaw.com)

40 points first seen 2014010421 last seen 2014010600 38 comments

24

Startups Outside Silicon Valley to Watch in 2014 (nibletz.com)

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56

Yahoo Sports Gets Awesome Gif Creation Tool (techcrunch.com)

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20

SnappyCam disappears from App Store without a trace (www.smh.com.au)

35 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010509 26 comments

21

New App Lets You ‘Assassinate’ People in Real Life (business.time.com)

34 points first seen 2014010415 last seen 2014010500 43 comments

22

Even if the Feds Let Them Fly, Amazon's Delivery Drones Are Still Nonsense (www.wired.com)

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Isaac Asimov's 50-Year-Old Prediction for 2014 Is Viral and All Wrong (motherboard.vice.com)

31 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010503 26 comments

0

Stop telling women they just need to know how to code (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

29 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010403 49 comments

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The Secrets of White Collar Prisons (dujour.com)

29 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010500 15 comments

27

SSD stress testing finds Intel might be the only reliable drive manufacturer (www.extremetech.com)

28 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010503 11 comments

0

Blue Eyes Logic Puzzle (www.math.ucla.edu)

26 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010406 43 comments

29

Startup aims to bring Call of Duty-like tech to live paintball games (venturebeat.com)

26 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010503 17 comments

78

CCTV footae claimed to be of Indian diplomat strip searched by US (diyatv.com)

26 points first seen 2014010421 last seen 2014010500 13 comments

21

New study confirms that eating healthy does indeed cost more (blog.editeon.com)

25 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010503 38 comments

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Screen shots of source code seen in TV and film (moviecode.tumblr.com)

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First Docker build for OS X now available for testing [.tgz file] (test.docker.io)

24 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010500 20 comments

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Krugman's Three Money Pits (bitcoinmagazine.com)

24 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010415 37 comments

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How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache misses (danluu.com)

21 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2022070421 2 comments

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Young techies, know your place (pando.com)

21 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010409 28 comments

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Opinion: U.S. Military Aircraft Fly Toward A Waterfall (www.aviationweek.com)

20 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010403 10 comments

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Docker 0.7.3 is out (github.com)

20 points first seen 2014010415 last seen 2014010500 8 comments

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MacStadium: Dedicated Mac Pro Hosting and Colocation (www.macstadium.com)

19 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010412 30 comments

0

Snapchat: another example of the hubris of privilege and systematic bias in tech (blog.samiurr.com)

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An astonishing, dangerous cold snap is about to descend on the U.S. (www.washingtonpost.com)

18 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010500 7 comments

79

Ember.js presentations from EmberFest Munich (emberfest.eu)

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0

Why does Microsoft claim I am using Windows when I'm on OS X? (windows.microsoft.com)

15 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010403 24 comments

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Why Snowden Won’t (and Shouldn’t) Get Clemency (www.slate.com)

12 points first seen 2014010409 last seen 2014010412 7 comments

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Real-time collaboration on any web-page (http://www.sugarbox.io)

12 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010412 4 comments

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Forget Mega-Corporations, Here’s The Mega-Network (techcrunch.com)

12 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010421 2 comments

0

Beware techies talking gobbledegook (www.ft.com)

12 points first seen 2014010421 last seen 2014010421 17 comments

77

Zynga team announces testing Bitcoin payment using Bitpay (www.reddit.com)

11 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010421 0 comments

82

On the “Learn to Code” Movement and Its Lies (medium.com)

10 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010403 6 comments

0

Dear Economist: The Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (blog.quantopian.com)

10 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010403 2 comments

49

Ggplot - a plotting library for python that looks like 2014 (blog.yhathq.com)

10 points first seen 2014010409 last seen 2014010421 0 comments

45

Understanding Meteor Publications & Subscriptions (www.discovermeteor.com)

10 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010500 0 comments

57

Hardware In 2014 And Beyond (octopart.com)

9 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010412 3 comments

81

Ask HN: Got a prototype, what's next? (item?id=7006990)

9 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010409 7 comments

88

Why did Koding Switch From Node.js to Go? (www.quora.com)

9 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010409 3 comments

0

SnapChat CEO Angry Over Hack (mashable.com)

9 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010406 2 comments

83

Ask HN: Why are nasty comments more common on HN? (item?id=7007793)

9 points first seen 2014010409 last seen 2014010412 15 comments

73

Download Your Amazon Order History (www.amazon.com)

8 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010409 0 comments

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Betrayal (haacked.com)

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0

Can Silicon Valley Survive? [video] (techonomy.com)

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0

The Future of Neural Networks & MLaaS: Dave Sullivan Interview (Ersatz Founder) (www.datascienceweekly.org)

8 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010406 0 comments

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Ask HN: Suggestions for writing a new compiler? (item?id=7008567)

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Hal Finney received the first Bitcoin transaction. Here’s how he describes it. (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Expensive cities are killing creativity (m.aljazeera.com)

8 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010418 0 comments

43

WebSocket on Python 3 asyncio (mail.python.org)

7 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010406 4 comments

0

Ask HN: Why did this post cost me 10% of subscribers? (item?id=7006139)

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Goodbye, Cameras (www.newyorker.com)

7 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010415 0 comments

0

How to Sell Secondary Stock (blog.eladgil.com)

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0

Victoria's Secret model who codes in her spare time (www.businessinsider.com)

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No, Kim Jong Un probably didn’t feed his uncle to 120 hungry dogs (www.washingtonpost.com)

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30

The Innovator's Dilemma: How Money Ruins Creativity (www.forbes.com)

7 points first seen 2014010421 last seen 2014010503 4 comments

39

Measuring hourly snowfall with a webcam and PHP (www.boutell.com)

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17 yr old's startup featured in Venturebeat (innovation.arkansasbusiness.com)

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Unemployed in Europe Hobbled by Lack of Technology Skills (www.nytimes.com)

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65

Snapchat, the nonhack, and how to fix it (bramcohen.com)

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85

Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress (www.theguardian.com)

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0

Google Employees Don't Want to Wear Google Glass (www.businessinsider.com)

6 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010412 0 comments

0

Architects propose 136-mile cycling network above London (www.theverge.com)

5 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010400 2 comments

0

Ask HN: Any Hackers Love Sports? (item?id=7005623)

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Ask HN: I'm a 16 y/o developer who just got a Glass invite - what should I do? (item?id=7007236)

5 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010909 14 comments

0

I'm Running for W3C TAG & I'd Like Your Support (David Herman) (calculist.org)

5 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010406 0 comments

0

Can Teslas handle cold weather? This man drove hundreds of miles around Norway (www.treehugger.com)

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0

Marc Andreessen Just Suggested That Snapchat Could Become A $100 Billion Company (www.businessinsider.com)

5 points first seen 2014010409 last seen 2014010409 4 comments

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Integrated Tests Are A Scam (blog.thecodewhisperer.com)

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80

The Internet Archive hosts a large collection of abandonware games (archive.org)

5 points first seen 2014010415 last seen 2014010418 0 comments

0

Future: clean single-source support for Python 2/3 (python-future.org)

4 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010400 0 comments

85

The IT Salary ‘Wave’: Skills, Salaries, and the Coming Reckoning (switchon.eaton.com)

4 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010406 2 comments

0

Kanye West-inspired currency 'to launch soon' (www.bbc.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2014010403 last seen 2014010403 0 comments

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Product (warpspire.com)

4 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010412 0 comments

84

Ask HN: It might be time to shutter my startup (item?id=7007507)

4 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010409 9 comments

82

Busy isn’t respectable anymore (www.tylerwardis.com)

4 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010409 2 comments

0

Basketball, Football, and Hockey Are All the Same Game (www.slate.com)

4 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010406 0 comments

84

Ask HN: why should I care about my Klout score? (item?id=7006866)

4 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010415 5 comments

0

US Government Appeals Ruling Invalidating NSA Surveillance (www.securityweek.com)

4 points first seen 2014010409 last seen 2014010409 0 comments

0

Andreessen: Bubble Believers 'Don't Know What They're Talking About' (online.wsj.com)

4 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010412 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How do I inspire my fellow employees and change company culture? (item?id=7009934)

4 points first seen 2014010415 last seen 2014010415 3 comments

84

Show HN: I built this standing desk for my cubicle (www.lifeisaprayer.com)

4 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010421 2 comments

86

Elite Hacker Barnaby Jack 'overdosed on drugs' (www.bbc.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010421 2 comments

0

30c3: To Protect And Infect [video] (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2014010400 last seen 2014010400 0 comments

0

Shor's algorithm (www.princeton.edu)

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Promiscuous Promises (ruben.verborgh.org)

3 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010409 0 comments

0

The Victoria Secret model that codes (pando.com)

3 points first seen 2014010406 last seen 2014010406 3 comments

0

Snapchat Data Breach (snapchatdb.info)

3 points first seen 2014010409 last seen 2014010409 2 comments

87

[Show:HN] Get your Android and iOS apps translated from Microsoft (github.com)

3 points first seen 2014010409 last seen 2014010412 0 comments

0

Startup/tech meetups in Seattle & Portland? (item?id=7008523)

3 points first seen 2014010409 last seen 2014010409 3 comments

0

Ask HN: what are some essential theoretical computer science books? (item?id=7009316)

3 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010412 0 comments

0

Google's VP9 Video Codec Gets Backing from ARM, Nvidia, Sony And Others (www.techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010412 0 comments

0

How to design websites in Photoshop like a pro (greig.cc)

3 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010412 0 comments

0

The Red Pill philosophy [Reddit rebuttal] (np.reddit.com)

3 points first seen 2014010412 last seen 2014010412 0 comments

0

Today's Luxury Goods (josephmcohen.com)

3 points first seen 2014010415 last seen 2014010415 0 comments

0

A Cult Bike From India Takes On the World (www.nytimes.com)

3 points first seen 2014010415 last seen 2014010415 0 comments

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Show HN: GeoTreat.com: Delight Website Visitors by Their Geolocation (item?id=7009627)

3 points first seen 2014010415 last seen 2014010909 3 comments

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Digital Music Sales Decrease For First Time in 2013 (www.billboard.com)

3 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010418 0 comments

0

The Magic of C++ Unity Builds (buffered.io)

3 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010418 0 comments

0

Winning entries from the 2013 International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) (ioccc.org)

3 points first seen 2014010418 last seen 2014010418 0 comments

0

Government’s surveillance Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1powers can’t keep going unchecked (m.washingtonpost.com)

3 points first seen 2014010421 last seen 2014010421 0 comments

6

Join FarmLogs and change the world thousands of farms at a time (farmlogs.com)

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Protect grannies from fraud as a front-end developer at True Link (item?id=7008549)

0 points first seen 2014010409 last seen 2014010418 0 comments

34

Help make email better for businesses - Join Streak (YC S11) (item?id=7010329)

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