hackerNews

7

The rise and rise of television torture: X-Files vs Fringe (www.interpretthis.org)

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1

CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat (lists.centos.org)

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3

Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699 (www.forbes.com)

320 points first seen 2014010818 last seen 2014011106 230 comments

1

Will Work for Food and Lodging (www.jacquesmattheij.com)

297 points first seen 2014010800 last seen 2014011006 124 comments

9

Get Facebook WiFi for your business (www.facebook.com)

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3

Raft Distributed Consensus Visualization (thesecretlivesofdata.com)

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1

The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen. (www.pbs.org)

229 points first seen 2014010812 last seen 2014011000 228 comments

4

Amusing ourselves to death (onthepathofknowledge.wordpress.com)

209 points first seen 2014010821 last seen 2014010906 115 comments

6

New algorithm can dramatically streamline solutions to the ‘max flow’ problem (web.mit.edu)

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3

160 year-old Documents Intentionally Destroyed in Franklin County, N.C. (stumblingintheshadowsofgiants.wordpress.com)

183 points first seen 2014010800 last seen 2014010821 56 comments

4

Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages (github.com)

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35

Digital Ocean said it would shut down my blog if I didn’t edit a blog post. (vpsexperience.wordpress.com)

161 points first seen 2014010800 last seen 2014010803 113 comments

25

Introducing Jelly (blog.jelly.co)

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3

Scaling Mercurial at Facebook (code.facebook.com)

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11

Digital Ocean vs. Linode (blog.schneidmaster.com)

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7

The First Look at the New Oculus VR Prototype (www.wired.com)

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2

France-UAE satellite deal shaky after US spy tech discovered onboard (www.spacewar.com)

141 points first seen 2014010821 last seen 2014010903 62 comments

28

Linux Laptop Review - Dell XPS13 Developer Edition (www.jx0.org)

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11

We switched from an icon font to SVG (ianfeather.co.uk)

129 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2014010906 87 comments

23

Demons: A short film about depression and suicide (demonsfilm.net)

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9

Cambridge, MA City Council adopts resolution to commemorate thirty years of GNU (www.fsf.org)

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16

Why I am switching to promises (spion.github.io)

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3

Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes (blogs.hbr.org)

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13

Show HN: Sneakers - fast background processing for Ruby (http://sneakers.io)

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7

Greatest: C unit testing library in one file (github.com)

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46

Introducing GitHub Traffic Analytics (github.com)

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6

Out of this world first light images emerge from Gemini Planet Imager (www.llnl.gov)

90 points first seen 2014010812 last seen 2014010906 9 comments

5

A Short Talk about Richard Feynman (2005) (www.stephenwolfram.com)

89 points first seen 2014010815 last seen 2014010921 30 comments

7

Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results (online.wsj.com)

83 points first seen 2014010821 last seen 2014011000 69 comments

47

FBI Drops Law Enforcement as 'Primary' Mission (thecable.foreignpolicy.com)

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59

What I Learned In My First Year Of iOS Consulting (brandontreb.com)

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20

How We Got Our First 2,000 Users Doing Things That Don't Scale (www.fastcolabs.com)

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4

Hover.css – A collection of CSS3-powered hover effects (ianlunn.github.io)

66 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2015011500 10 comments

35

Response to the request to remove CFRG co-chair (article.gmane.org)

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10

Project Christine (www.razerzone.com)

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17

Show HN: email - Send emails easily in Go (github.com)

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22

The Seven Deadly Sins of Startup Storytelling (firstround.com)

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56

What happened to US life expectancy? (theincidentaleconomist.com)

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10

Licensed to Bill (www.snopes.com)

59 points first seen 2014010821 last seen 2014010921 32 comments

12

KDE Frameworks 5 Tech Preview (dot.kde.org)

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11

Facebook Buys Bangalore Based App Monitoring Co Little Eye Labs (www.medianama.com)

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40

How Airbnb Improved Response Time by 17% By Moving Objects From Memory To Disk (nerds.airbnb.com)

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27

Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To Developers To Date (techcrunch.com)

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16

Bruce Schneier Joins Startup CO3 Systems as CTO. (threatpost.com)

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64

Ask HN: Where did you hang out while HN was down? (item?id=7016853)

45 points first seen 2014010800 last seen 2014010815 64 comments

37

Stop sending emails for real time requests (www.cyrusstoller.com)

41 points first seen 2014010821 last seen 2014010918 56 comments

14

Netflix loses its cloud guru to VC firm (www.businessweek.com)

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61

Ask HN: Where are the interesting jobs? (item?id=7021585)

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0

[Cfrg] Response to the request to remove CFRG co-chair (www.ietf.org)

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56

Kanye West’s lawyer orders “Coinye” to cease-and-desist just before launch (arstechnica.com)

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0

Why are there so many science PhDs? (lemire.me)

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21

Perspective Mockups using CSS3 3D Transforms (thecodeplayer.com)

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20

Aviate joins yahoo (blog.getaviate.com)

27 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010900 26 comments

16

Mock file system in Node.js (github.com)

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28

Indian Startup Little Eye Labs Confirms Acquisition By Facebook, Deal $10-$15M (techcrunch.com)

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26

China blocks the Guardian, censorship-tracking website says (www.theguardian.com)

23 points first seen 2014010818 last seen 2014010903 35 comments

69

Fixing Windows 8 (jay-machalani.squarespace.com)

22 points first seen 2014010815 last seen 2014010821 12 comments

33

How I Launched an Email Course to 500+ People (brandonhilkert.com)

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61

How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet (www.wired.com)

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70

The Married Women of AshleyMadison.com (www.gq.com)

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82

Valve Unveils 13 Steam Machines, With Specs And Prices (www.kotaku.com.au)

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0

I do not have a lot of strong opinions (jaspervdj.be)

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39

Bizarre Star Could Host a Neutron Star in Its Core (www.scientificamerican.com)

15 points first seen 2014010812 last seen 2014010900 10 comments

49

Niice.co - a search engine with taste (niice.co)

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0

Google's Humans.txt (google.com)

14 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010809 12 comments

0

Nest Says Shut-Off Heat Not Its Fault, But Pushes Thermostat Update (techcrunch.com)

14 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010809 12 comments

0

The Tuesday boy problem, in under 300 words (mikeschiraldi.blogspot.ca)

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49

Why top startups are getting radically personal (www.fastcompany.com)

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83

Show HN: KillSwitch - Uptime Monitoring With Google AdWords Integration (item?id=7018366)

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72

Show HN: QuickChat - An Open-Source Snapchat clone built in 5 days (item?id=7020179)

13 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010815 6 comments

50

Ask HN: Best blog hosting site for lazy hackers (item?id=7021176)

13 points first seen 2014010812 last seen 2014010821 17 comments

82

HN needs categories (item?id=7020996)

12 points first seen 2014010812 last seen 2014010815 8 comments

0

AngularDart for AngularJS Developers. Introduction to the best Angular yet. (victorsavkin.com)

11 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2014010806 0 comments

0

Cookies vs Tokens. Getting auth right with Angular.JS (blog.auth0.com)

11 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2014010806 0 comments

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Yahoo Tech (www.yahoo.com)

11 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010821 3 comments

72

Ask HN: What's the best way to learn Git for a version control (mostly) newbie? (item?id=7022214)

11 points first seen 2014010821 last seen 2014011803 8 comments

85

Why We Don't Write Tests (whatdoitest.com)

10 points first seen 2014010803 last seen 2014010806 16 comments

0

Show HN: Sell anything through instagram (paytagz.com)

10 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2014010806 9 comments

68

AngularStrap gets rewritten - AngularJS 1.2+ native directives for Bootstrap 3 (mgcrea.github.io)

10 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010821 4 comments

74

Ask HN: In 10 years, what will be the role of the coder/developer? (item?id=7020830)

10 points first seen 2014010812 last seen 2014010815 6 comments

70

California Legislators Introduce Bill To Banish NSA (www.usnews.com)

10 points first seen 2014010818 last seen 2014010821 0 comments

0

Reference - HTML 5 Elements list (developer.mozilla.org)

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81

10 Most (and Least) Stressful Jobs for 2014 (blogs.wsj.com)

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90

Applying to an accelerator? We predicted 2014 deadlines YC, AngelPad, etc. (www.bloc.io)

9 points first seen 2014010803 last seen 2014010806 0 comments

0

Have a SaaSy New Year and achieve your 2014 New Year's resolutions (http://saasynewyear.com)

9 points first seen 2014010803 last seen 2014010803 0 comments

89

Top 5 MongoDB gotchas (devblog.me)

9 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010812 6 comments

85

Schedule Future Tweets (scheduletweetfor.me)

9 points first seen 2014010818 last seen 2014010821 8 comments

49

Yahoo Acquires Aviate (techcrunch.com)

8 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010821 0 comments

0

OOP in Python (live streaming class for beginners) (www.enginehere.com)

8 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010809 0 comments

0

End of life for myOpenID.com (support.janrain.com)

8 points first seen 2014010812 last seen 2014010812 4 comments

57

Show HN: JVine - Vine downloader and converter in MP4 and GIF (andrew.codeusa.net)

7 points first seen 2014010803 last seen 2014010806 3 comments

67

Prevent Google Glass from Auto-Uploading Photos (stackoverflow.com)

7 points first seen 2014010803 last seen 2014010806 4 comments

63

Ember.js - Ember 1.3.0 and 1.4 Beta Released (emberjs.com)

7 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010818 0 comments

85

Ask HN: What Payment Platform do you use? (item?id=7019908)

7 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010812 7 comments

61

GoPin – Tool-less version pinning for Go (gopin.org)

7 points first seen 2014010812 last seen 2014010818 2 comments

0

Buffer December Update: $2,819,000 run rate, 1,249,000 users (open.bufferapp.com)

7 points first seen 2014010821 last seen 2014010821 0 comments

65

Why Procrastinators Procrastinate (waitbutwhy.com)

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0

NSA revelations: the 'middle ground' everyone should be talking about (www.theguardian.com)

6 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2014010806 0 comments

84

Challenge HN: Build a Search Engine (item?id=7020130)

6 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010812 4 comments

0

How to maximize the number of email responses you get (bitar.io)

6 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010809 0 comments

78

Ask HN: Web crawler/data product ideas? (item?id=7021523)

6 points first seen 2014010815 last seen 2014010818 8 comments

83

How the NSA Threatens National Security (www.theatlantic.com)

6 points first seen 2014010821 last seen 2014010900 2 comments

81

MPAA joins the W3C (twitter.com)

5 points first seen 2014010800 last seen 2014010803 2 comments

65

The new Information Worker Resume or CV Template (www.hanselman.com)

5 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2014010809 0 comments

88

How to fail at entrepreneurship (medium.com)

5 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010812 0 comments

90

NSA employee will continue to co-chair influential crypto standards group (arstechnica.com)

5 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010812 0 comments

0

In 2001, Timo Noko accidentally wrote a Lisp-based OS for his phone (www.reddit.com)

5 points first seen 2014010815 last seen 2014010815 0 comments

0

MPAA is joining W3C (twitter.com)

5 points first seen 2014010818 last seen 2014010818 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Finding a non-technical cofounder? (item?id=7021647)

5 points first seen 2014010818 last seen 2014010818 3 comments

64

Oh no, my flash card is gone (2012) (github.com)

4 points first seen 2014010800 last seen 2014010803 3 comments

0

Internet Censors Came For TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

4 points first seen 2014010800 last seen 2014010800 0 comments

0

Steam machines specs and prices (www.polygon.com)

4 points first seen 2014010800 last seen 2014010800 0 comments

0

My epic list of reporting, data crunching and OS X power user tools (forestofthings.com)

4 points first seen 2014010800 last seen 2014010800 0 comments

0

"Solve your own problems." (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2014010803 last seen 2014010803 0 comments

0

Should tech recruiters learn to code? (rosario.io)

4 points first seen 2014010803 last seen 2014010803 2 comments

84

App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013 (www.apple.com)

4 points first seen 2014010803 last seen 2014010806 0 comments

0

KDE announce a Tech Preview of KDE Frameworks 5 (dot.kde.org)

4 points first seen 2014010803 last seen 2014010803 0 comments

0

The Physics of Space Battles (gizmodo.com)

4 points first seen 2014010803 last seen 2014010803 0 comments

0

How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet (www.wired.com)

4 points first seen 2014010803 last seen 2014010803 0 comments

69

Cracking the Code to GitHub’s Growth (growthhackers.com)

4 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2014010806 0 comments

79

Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicts how the world will change (jimidisu.com)

4 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2014010809 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Co-founding with very close friend (item?id=7018985)

4 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2014010806 4 comments

0

Can you explain what an 80K note is and how it works? (item?id=7018731)

4 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2014010806 7 comments

0

YC and B2B (blog.sourcing.io)

4 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010809 0 comments

0

The PornHub developers are doing an AMA on Reddit, 60th largest site on the net (www.reddit.com)

4 points first seen 2014010809 last seen 2014010809 0 comments

0

Pay No Attention to that Man in Your Bathtub (townhall.com)

4 points first seen 2014010812 last seen 2014010812 0 comments

0

Razer Nabu - Wearable Tech (www.razerzone.com)

4 points first seen 2014010812 last seen 2014010812 0 comments

0

Yahoo Tech (www.yahoo.com)

4 points first seen 2014010815 last seen 2014010815 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Should I continue spending time on this side project? Is it useful? (item?id=7021247)

4 points first seen 2014010815 last seen 2014010815 6 comments

0

First Indian Startup to be acquired by Facebook (www.nextbigwhat.com)

4 points first seen 2014010818 last seen 2014010818 4 comments

81

"Because Clickbait Journalism sucks." (www.headlinesagainsthumanity.com)

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78

Alibaba and Sina Weibo Partner Up To Launch Weibo Payment (techcrunch.com)

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0

An anarchist critique of the reporting on the Snowden leaks (www.socialmemorycomplex.net)

3 points first seen 2014010800 last seen 2014010800 0 comments

0

How can I trigger an event in shell script when an USB device is removed? (unix.stackexchange.com)

3 points first seen 2014010800 last seen 2014010800 0 comments

87

My configurable markdown file watcher, previewer and converter (github.com)

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37

Timeline of the far future (www.bbc.com)

3 points first seen 2014010803 last seen 2015010618 0 comments

0

A/B testing is for engineers too (kylerush.net)

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0

Ask HN: Fastest setup for Restful Web Service (item?id=7019147)

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0

Improving our SSL setup (github.com)

3 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2014010806 0 comments

0

Apple dials back ‘flat’ obsession in iOS 7.1 (usblog.isobar.com)

3 points first seen 2014010806 last seen 2014010806 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Do you knowingly avoid affiliate links? (item?id=7018592)

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0

Observers in game programming (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)

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0

Hello Real World — You don't know what a computer scientist is (medium.com)

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0

Vine Co-Founder Is Leaving To Kickstart A New Project (go.podd.io)

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0

Will Digital Networks Ruin Us? (www.nytimes.com)

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89

CSS 3D Solar System (codepen.io)

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90

What To Do When Ol' Man Winter Freezes Fiber Transmission (www.polywater.com)

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0

Yahoo Launches News Digest, Its First App Based On Summly (techcrunch.com)

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0

Animals can inherit traumatic experiences, study shows (www.washingtonpost.com)

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0

Google Launches Private SF Bay Ferry Service To Shuttle Workers (sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)

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10

AeroFS is hiring Software & Technical Support Engineers (www.aerofs.com)

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44

Full stack engineer? Join us and build a new kind of phone company (item?id=7019607)

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43

Love front-end technologies? Balanced is looking for you (item?id=7020795)

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BuildZoom is lContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1ooking for a talented front-end dev to join our founding team (www.buildzoom.com)

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Make Tony Stark's computer: Production Manager, EE (item?id=7021465)

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Product Manager/Lead Dev(RoR)? Come improve the way teams collaborate (item?id=7022768)

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