hackerNews

1

Light Table is now open source (www.chris-granger.com)

1199 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014011400 424 comments

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Software in 2014 (www.tbray.org)

450 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011321 255 comments

2

In memory of Aaron, bulk XML of every federal and state law and court ruling (webpolicy.org)

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T-Mobile CEO: “This industry blows,” biggest carriers offer “horseshit” (arstechnica.com)

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3

To Stop Procrastinating, Look to Science of Mood Repair (online.wsj.com)

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7

Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Instead (jlongster.com)

225 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014011100 129 comments

5

Poll: What level of math is programming roughly analogous to? (item?id=7028714)

219 points first seen 2014010915 last seen 2014011103 157 comments

7

How's my SSL? (https://www.howsmyssl.com)

217 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014011103 85 comments

4

Intel Edison: A Desktop From 1998 In An SD Card (www.intel.com)

213 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014091203 52 comments

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Another go at Go ... failed (oneofmanyworlds.blogspot.com)

209 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010921 254 comments

4

London's first pay-per-minute cafe (www.theguardian.com)

187 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014011100 162 comments

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French-UAE Intel Satellite Deal in Doubt – US Parts Raise Security Concerns (www.defensenews.com)

169 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014011003 81 comments

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Childhood amnesia kicks in around age 7 (bps-research-digest.blogspot.com)

154 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014011100 123 comments

2

Google+ invite lands man in jail (www.fastcompany.com)

148 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011015 188 comments

2

Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (chrisdone.com)

140 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2015012006 104 comments

10

Teen Reported to Police After Finding Security Hole in Website (www.wired.com)

133 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011103 114 comments

14

Quietnet: Chat client that works over near-ultrasonic sound (github.com)

132 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014011103 63 comments

7

The best Postgres feature you're not using – CTEs aka WITH clauses (www.craigkerstiens.com)

128 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014011003 77 comments

4

Easel acquired by github (blog.easel.io)

125 points first seen 2014010918 last seen 2014011100 36 comments

5

PirateBrowser - No more censorship (piratebrowser.com)

122 points first seen 2014010918 last seen 2014011100 71 comments

12

Stripe adds multiple account support (stripe.com)

120 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014011006 85 comments

5

A Dolphin's Tale: The Story of GameCube (www.dromble.com)

120 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014011100 60 comments

8

Introducing R to a non-programmer in one hour (alyssafrazee.com)

118 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014011803 36 comments

5

Ben Horowitz Explained (fitsnstarts.tumblr.com)

118 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014011100 63 comments

37

The Open-Office Trap (www.newyorker.com)

117 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014012203 121 comments

3

Show HN: Codebox - Open source cloud & desktop IDE (github.com)

115 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010918 64 comments

17

Two Huge Companies Betting On Firefox OS (fastcolabs.com)

110 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014011003 45 comments

9

JPMorgan Pays for Shorting Madoff Without Telling Anyone (www.bloomberg.com)

106 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014011003 76 comments

4

Happy Guys Finish Last: The Impact of Emotion Expressions on Sexual Attraction (www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca)

98 points first seen 2014010915 last seen 2014011003 38 comments

18

Security experts boycott prominent security conference over NSA ties (www.washingtonpost.com)

92 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014011003 17 comments

59

Consciousness as a State of Matter (arxiv.org)

89 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014010918 131 comments

15

Zappos gets rid of all managers (www.washingtonpost.com)

88 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014011000 82 comments

14

The New York Times Redesign is Live (www.nytimes.com)

86 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014011000 104 comments

13

SPDY does not clearly outperform HTTP over cellular networks (conferences.sigcomm.org)

84 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014011000 62 comments

13

Turn your iPhone 5 into a FLIR camera (www.flir.com)

80 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014011000 61 comments

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So someone "stole" your idea... (kent.io)

77 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010906 83 comments

10

The year in Kickstarter 2013 (www.kickstarter.com)

77 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014011003 50 comments

11

To aspiring indie devs (www.sagacityapp.com)

75 points first seen 2014010915 last seen 2014011100 35 comments

14

Optimising Haskell for a tight inner loop (neilmitchell.blogspot.co.uk)

74 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014011006 23 comments

90

Github is down (status.github.com)

68 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014010912 49 comments

14

Datomic 2013 Recap (blog.datomic.com)

66 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014011003 6 comments

15

Seven Habits Study Guide (en.wikibooks.org)

66 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011803 13 comments

19

BMW shows off 'drifting' self-drive cars (www.bbc.co.uk)

62 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014011000 133 comments

9

Atlassian Seeks Domicile Move to Pave Way for U.S. Initial Offer (www.bloomberg.com)

56 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011100 41 comments

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Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank? (item?id=7025889)

55 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014012203 89 comments

16

Docker at Spotify (continuousdelivery.uglyduckling.nl)

55 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011100 20 comments

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Report: 47% of U.S. Jobs At Risk of Being Automated Out of Existence (technoccult.net)

54 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014010912 82 comments

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The Limits of Neuroplasticity (www.sciencebasedmedicine.org)

54 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014011003 5 comments

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Y Combinator’s safes spread – L.A. accelerator is now issuing them (venturebeat.com)

50 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014011000 15 comments

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The Most Influential Microprocessors of All Time (www.pcworld.com)

47 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014010921 50 comments

19

What You Get When 30 People Draw a World Map From Memory (www.theatlantic.com)

47 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014011003 44 comments

21

Pecan a lean Python web framework (pecanpy.org)

46 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011100 17 comments

17

Some of the Best HTML5 Games from 2013 (gamasutra.com)

45 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014011003 23 comments

14

Face Tracker in JavaScript (www.visagetechnologies.com)

44 points first seen 2014010918 last seen 2014011012 16 comments

87

Ask HN: What's the best way to get 5% on a million dollars? (item?id=7028411)

40 points first seen 2014010915 last seen 2014011009 76 comments

77

Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar for New Hires (online.wsj.com)

39 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014011803 71 comments

14

Why did the AK-47 become so popular? (www.economist.com)

39 points first seen 2014010915 last seen 2014011003 41 comments

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DoS attacks that took down big game sites abused Web’s time-synch protocol (arstechnica.com)

38 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014011003 27 comments

20

My acquired Bitcoin startup Bridgewalker is now open source (www.bridgewalkerapp.com)

38 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011021 10 comments

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Why Charles Stross Doesn’t Know a Thing about Bitcoin (bitcoinmagazine.com)

37 points first seen 2014010915 last seen 2014010918 59 comments

20

A Postmortem of Failed Products (losingfight.com)

36 points first seen 2014010918 last seen 2014011006 7 comments

32

DEFCONBOTS - An Autonomous Robotics Competition at DEFCON (defconbots.org)

34 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014011000 21 comments

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Google Data Chief Says ‘Flawed’ EU Privacy Law Is Dead (www.bloomberg.com)

34 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011006 39 comments

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Why ALIAS-type DNS Records Break The Internet (iwantmyname.com)

33 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010906 40 comments

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Quadcopter Project (www.objc.io)

31 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014011000 4 comments

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France's Data Protection agency issues their maximum monetary penalty to Google (www.cnil.fr)

31 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014011000 37 comments

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Show HN: Pinegrow Web Designer, multipage editor with Bootstrap & Less (pinegrow.com)

27 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010903 10 comments

21

How We Write Github Issues (wiredcraft.com)

27 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010906 13 comments

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HEVC image in a 140 character tweet (www.parabolaresearch.com)

26 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010921 12 comments

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Mining Bitcoins on a college campus (whyalex.com)

26 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014010909 51 comments

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Building an Open Source Laptop (makezine.com)

25 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010918 0 comments

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A better hash table (bannalia.blogspot.ru)

25 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011006 0 comments

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On finding a technical co-founder [in college] (chintanparikh.github.io)

24 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010918 8 comments

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The 'booth babes' of CES (venturebeat.com)

24 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014010906 23 comments

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Google’s New Private Ferry Won’t Defuse Tension Over Buses (www.wired.com)

22 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014010912 38 comments

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Not Cool: MPAA Joins The W3C (www.techdirt.com)

21 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014010906 4 comments

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Conquering the Command Line - Free eBook (conqueringthecommandline.com)

19 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010903 14 comments

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Bill Watterson: Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled (web.mit.edu)

18 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010903 4 comments

66

2013 Personal Annual Report (jehiah.cz)

18 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014011009 6 comments

83

Show HN: I just open-sourced the Rails toolkit I use to quickly launch sites (github.com)

18 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014011009 8 comments

0

Xkcd: Photos (xkcd.com)

16 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010903 3 comments

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Live streaming Haskell class with Bob Ippolito (3:30pm PST) (www.enginehere.com)

15 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014011000 0 comments

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Myo's gesture-control bracelet makes using Kinect look like drunk charades (www.digitaltrends.com)

15 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014011000 2 comments

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Want to quit your job by text? This app can help (news.cnet.com)

14 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010906 14 comments

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Universe measured to 1% accuracy (www.bbc.co.uk)

14 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011003 0 comments

67

Ask HN: How is knowledge stored within your company? (item?id=7029511)

14 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011003 13 comments

49

Theirself or Themself? (cliffhays.weebly.com)

13 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010903 34 comments

63

When Doctors ‘Google’ Their Patients (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

12 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010906 30 comments

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Bitcoin's Intentions (edwardaten.co)

12 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014010912 2 comments

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Everything you need to know about Yahoo's security breach (www.washingtonpost.com)

11 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010909 0 comments

90

Growth Hacker Blogs You Should Be Following (zack.onisko.com)

11 points first seen 2014010915 last seen 2014010918 0 comments

51

Tell Your Customers What To Do. (blog.getretained.com)

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89

Uber Is Crushing It in Nigeria? (www.cbinsights.com)

10 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014010912 13 comments

0

xkcd: Photos (xkcd.com)

9 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010900 4 comments

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Kanye West Files Lawsuit Against “Coinye” Digital Currency (podd.io)

9 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014010912 3 comments

0

Ask HN: If Politicians were selected by Random Lotto? (item?id=7026137)

9 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014010909 16 comments

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NYTimes now using dozens of RabbitMQ instances across 6 AWS zones (lists.rabbitmq.com)

9 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014010918 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What is the must have feature of your IDE (item?id=7023276)

8 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010900 10 comments

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The Technology Behind the NYTimes.com Redesign (open.blogs.nytimes.com)

8 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014010915 0 comments

35

How to live like a king for very little (monofonuspress.com)

8 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2016052203 0 comments

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Yahoo malware enslaves PCs to Bitcoin mining (www.bbc.co.uk)

8 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014010915 0 comments

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Ice trade (en.wikipedia.org)

7 points first seen 2014010918 last seen 2014010921 0 comments

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The Mutual Company (www.avc.com)

6 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014010915 2 comments

83

Convert Mobile App Installs Into Customers (blog.urx.com)

6 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014010915 0 comments

0

Why content goes Viral? (www.adpushup.com)

6 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014010921 5 comments

0

True Grit and 21 Black Hawks: A Tale of Entrepreneurial Leadership Training (founderdating.com)

5 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010903 0 comments

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A feeless payment, bank-bank, without having to know your account number (item?id=6987841)

5 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014010909 9 comments

77

Clickable Consent at Risk in Internet Privacy Lawsuits (www.bloomberg.com)

5 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014010915 0 comments

84

JSON Schema for the Heroku Platform API (blog.heroku.com)

5 points first seen 2014010909 last seen 2014010915 0 comments

0

Learning to code will not make you rich (or particularly powerful) (tmp.fargo.io)

5 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014010912 3 comments

78

Show HN: Use Twitter as CLI for any *other* app (item?id=7023217)

4 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010903 6 comments

70

Graphs by MIT Students Show the Enormously Intrusive Nature of Metadata (www.aclu.org)

4 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010903 0 comments

0

Provision a Graph Database (neo4j) Server using Ansible in 5 mins (github.com)

4 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010900 0 comments

0

This Is The Internal Grading System Google Uses For Its Employees (www.businessinsider.com)

4 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010900 0 comments

0

How I improved Twitter Handles Search's ranking (blog.algolia.com)

4 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010903 4 comments

0

Hidden Easter-Egg In NSA.Gov (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010903 0 comments

0

Operator: Open Source RSS News Reader Circumventing Censorship (www.kickstarter.com)

4 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014010906 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Big Data Software, What's in it? (item?id=6994487)

4 points first seen 2014010906 last seen 2014010906 0 comments

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How HN convinced me to stop selling my product on CodeCanyon (www.duetapp.com)

4 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014010918 2 comments

78

Breakpoint-induced interactive debugging of Python with IPython (stackoverflow.com)

4 points first seen 2014010912 last seen 2014010915 0 comments

85

Marathon v0.3.0 for Apache Mesos Released (mesosphere.io)

4 points first seen 2014010915 last seen 2014010918 0 comments

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Former NSA whistleblowers plead for chance to brief Obama on agency abuses (rt.com)

4 points first seen 2014010915 last seen 2014010915 0 comments

87

Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar for New Hires (online.wsj.com)

4 points first seen 2014010918 last seen 2014010921 0 comments

0

Ask HN: what chair are you using for coding and how comfortable is it? (item?id=7028848)

4 points first seen 2014010918 last seen 2014010918 7 comments

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Show HN: The polleverywhere.com job post annoyed me so I made a poll. (www.polleverywhere.com)

4 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011000 4 comments

83

A Live Map of DDoS Attacks Around the World (http://www.digitalattackmap.com)

4 points first seen 2014010921 last seen 2014011000 0 comments

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China tops Europe in R&D intensity (www.nature.com)

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Mexican Cartels Are Using Firetruck-Sized Drillers to Make Drug Pipelines (motherboard.vice.com)

3 points first seen 2014010900 last seen 2014010903 0 comments

0

The New York Times Redesign (www.nytimes.com)

3 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010903 0 comments

0

UI For Drunks (shkspr.mobi)

3 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010903 0 comments

0

Webcams See All (Tortoise, Watch Your Back) (www.nytimes.com)

3 points first seen 2014010903 last seen 2014010903 0 comments

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THE FUTURE (of) CRM (item?id=7023333)

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Intel renames its McAfee security brand (money.cnn.com)