hackerNews

1

A member of our community is missing, help find him (blog.izs.me)

570 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011506 65 comments

2

India Knocks out Polio - WSJ (online.wsj.com)

362 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011509 108 comments

3

The "Window Resizer" extension for Chrome now contains malware (2013) (productforums.google.com)

217 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011500 107 comments

3

Best development book I've read, has no code in it (arasatasaygin.com)

202 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011500 85 comments

30

Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927 (www.deathandtaxesmag.com)

201 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011400 98 comments

2

ARM immediate value encoding (alisdair.mcdiarmid.org)

169 points first seen 2014011300 last seen 2014011406 68 comments

2

Free screencasts to learn Go (https://gocasts.io)

166 points first seen 2014011321 last seen 2014011503 24 comments

3

Money can buy happiness (www.economist.com)

158 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011500 159 comments

2

Outage post-mortem (tech.dropbox.com)

137 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011500 41 comments

6

Real-time applications and will Django adapt? (arunrocks.com)

116 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011500 67 comments

14

Stephen Colbert urged to cancel speech for RSA (www.theguardian.com)

112 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011400 40 comments

7

Why Infinite-Scrolling in Mobile Apps is Destroying Content Consumption (www.thisiselevator.com)

110 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011500 76 comments

5

Docker: The good parts (blog.shrikrishnaholla.in)

110 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011500 63 comments

8

1000x Faster Spelling Correction: Source Code released (blog.faroo.com)

104 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011500 34 comments

23

More functional C# (item?id=7047252)

103 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014012203 91 comments

59

NSA: 'at most one terrorist attack might have been foiled' (www.theguardian.com)

100 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011309 53 comments

10

New release of Self programming language (blog.selflanguage.org)

97 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011500 40 comments

0

How London looked in 1927: Rare Colour Footage (neonnettle.com)

95 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011303 33 comments

4

Pux - High Performance Router for PHP. (github.com)

93 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011403 54 comments

12

Court Rules That Yelp Must Unmask the Identities of Seven Anonymous Reviewers (www.theatlantic.com)

87 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011409 51 comments

17

iOS Static Libraries Are, Like, Really Bad, And Stuff (landonf.bikemonkey.org)

84 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014011406 66 comments

12

The Jobless Ph.D. Generation (demythify.com)

81 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011403 95 comments

36

Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned? (item?id=7048774)

78 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011400 98 comments

19

Token Fixation in Paypal (homakov.blogspot.com)

74 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011403 15 comments

3

Poor Man's Firebase: LevelDB, REST, and WebSockets (procbits.com)

74 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011500 24 comments

7

Google Shuts Down Schemer (www.schemer.com)

67 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011403 40 comments

41

Engineer: Egyptians built pyramids by piling rubble and attaching bricks later (www.mirror.co.uk)

67 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011318 62 comments

10

Quick start projects (blog.sayan.ee)

63 points first seen 2014011300 last seen 2014011400 20 comments

16

How To Find Unadvertised Jobs (www.glassdoor.com)

63 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011403 41 comments

70

Taxi protest in Paris turns to guerrilla warfare as Uber car attacked on freeway (www.rudebaguette.com)

60 points first seen 2014011321 last seen 2014011400 112 comments

63

How Baby Boomers screwed their kids (www.salon.com)

53 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011309 37 comments

32

Punisher - An alarm clock that ruins your life (play.google.com)

52 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011312 34 comments

6

Hacker News London meetup, Wednesday 29th January (www.meetup.com)

52 points first seen 2014011321 last seen 2014011403 12 comments

9

Bypassing a DNS man-in-the-middle attack against Google Drive (varnull.adityamukerjee.net)

50 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014011403 44 comments

30

Scientist: Cats think you are just a big, stupid cat (news.cnet.com)

46 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011321 50 comments

23

Bitcoin 2014 – Top predictions (lightspeedindia.wordpress.com)

45 points first seen 2014011321 last seen 2014011403 57 comments

14

Bootstrap or Die - Lessons Learned From a Web Startup's Murder/Suicide (2010) (bootstrappy.blogspot.se)

44 points first seen 2014011300 last seen 2014011400 22 comments

0

Http://discover.store.sony.com/be-moved/ (item?id=7049435)

43 points first seen 2014011321 last seen 2014011321 31 comments

21

CountUp.js (inorganik.github.io)

42 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011406 17 comments

19

Mapping Poverty in America (www.nytimes.com)

41 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014011321 46 comments

15

Distributed Consensus: Beating Impossibility with Probability One (brooker.co.za)

39 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014011403 2 comments

59

If I Had a Hammer (www.nytimes.com)

38 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014011315 50 comments

36

Bootstrapping Your Startup: Do You Really Need Early Investment? (blog.woorank.com)

38 points first seen 2014011321 last seen 2014011403 45 comments

20

2013. Hard Lessons Learned (www.benmilne.com)

37 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011400 10 comments

14

Internet Activists, Aaron Swartz's Life, and 'The Day We Fight Back' (motherboard.vice.com)

34 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011403 9 comments

0

Token Fixation in Paypal (homakov.blogspot.pt)

33 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011303 0 comments

20

Objective-C Generics (github.com)

33 points first seen 2014011321 last seen 2014011412 27 comments

19

Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used in Attack (www.securityweek.com)

31 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011406 11 comments

66

Despite excellent credit, it's still possible to be turned down for a mortgage (www.latimes.com)

30 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011309 41 comments

13

How SSD power faults scramble your data (2013) (www.zdnet.com)

29 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011400 21 comments

30

LiteCoin payment API (liteapi.org)

28 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011315 14 comments

62

A closer look at the iOS 7 App Switcher (vpdn.github.io)

27 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011312 3 comments

24

Ask HN: How do you manage your sales leads? (item?id=7047074)

26 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011309 35 comments

62

The State of Rust 0.9 (cmr.github.io)

26 points first seen 2014011318 last seen 2014011400 9 comments

21

Scheme benchmarking with a meta-circular interpreter (yinwang0.wordpress.com)

24 points first seen 2014011300 last seen 2014011321 9 comments

51

Write & Sell Your Damn Book (Paul Jarvis) (mydamnbook.com)

23 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011309 14 comments

26

The free pastebin for Markdown NoteHub.org got API (www.notehub.org)

22 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011321 10 comments

57

Do Not Upgrade Your Rails Project to Ruby 2 Before You Read This (avi.io)

22 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014011315 16 comments

26

Global Accelerator Network (gan.co)

19 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011400 5 comments

52

Ask HN: What's the best development book you've read? (item?id=7048683)

19 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014012203 12 comments

21

Syrian Electronic Army hijacks Microsoft blog and Twitter account (www.theverge.com)

18 points first seen 2014011318 last seen 2014011403 15 comments

20

Facebook to Shut Down Ad Program (blogs.wsj.com)

17 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014011400 11 comments

0

CoffeeScript's Time is Waning For Me (mattgreer.org)

16 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011312 29 comments

24

Ostinato – Packet/Traffic Generator and Analyzer (code.google.com)

16 points first seen 2014011318 last seen 2014011403 2 comments

65

Show HN: Conductance - next gen webapp server built on StratifiedJS (conductance.io)

16 points first seen 2014011321 last seen 2014011400 2 comments

89

Random Terrain Generation – A Clojure Walkthrough (blog.mediocregopher.com)

14 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011309 2 comments

82

You should give talks. They will be awesome. Here's why (jvns.ca)

14 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014011312 0 comments

88

Ask HN: Any one making a living selling WP themes? (item?id=7047165)

13 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014030109 12 comments

31

A new video marketplace makes video ads available for all kinds of businesses (http://www.veed.me)

11 points first seen 2014011300 last seen 2014011303 6 comments

67

HTTP Status Code 418 (www.howtogeek.com)

11 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011306 4 comments

49

A man, deaf for his whole life, talks about hearing music for the first time (noisey.vice.com)

10 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011312 0 comments

52

The secret ingredient for a safer bike helmet: paper (www.bbc.co.uk)

9 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014011318 0 comments

5

Swatch Internet Time (en.wikipedia.org)

8 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2021121600 2 comments

0

Show HN: Proposal for Internet-wide Unsubscribe and Privacy Settings (www.techendo.co)

8 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011312 3 comments

0

Lets build our own internet, with blackjack and hookers. (project-grey.com)

7 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011303 0 comments

58

Fork The Blockchain And Block The Seized FBI Coins. (bitcointalk.org)

7 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011309 3 comments

89

Overstock.com CEO: Amazon Will Be Forced To Start Accepting Bitcoin (www.businessinsider.com)

7 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011315 0 comments

69

Ask HN: Did the Google Play Store fail at keeping itself clean? (item?id=7046240)

6 points first seen 2014011303 last seen 2014011306 0 comments

0

NC Electric Car Drivers Begin Paying $100 Annual Fee (www.newsobserver.com)

6 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011312 0 comments

80

I'm Gen Y, and I'm Not a Special Snowflake. I'm Broke. (www.motherjones.com)

6 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011318 3 comments

65

How Google sets goals: OKRs (www.gv.com)

5 points first seen 2014011300 last seen 2014011303 0 comments

58

One Woman's Incredible Startup Journey in Peru (www.jasonshen.com)

5 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014011318 0 comments

66

Digital and Analog Filter Design (iowahills.com)

5 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011318 0 comments

68

Show HN: NullPass, a stateless password manager written in JavaScript (www.nullpass.org)

5 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011318 14 comments

64

Ember + Sass + Express Starter Kit (github.com)

5 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011321 0 comments

73

Ask HN: Would you reach out to the competition? (item?id=7048403)

5 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011803 5 comments

75

Global warming is about Science, not opinions (www.itsokaytobesmart.com)

4 points first seen 2014011300 last seen 2014011303 0 comments

88

Helping people find water in Charleston, West Virginia (wvfindwater.com)

4 points first seen 2014011312 last seen 2014011315 0 comments

0

No Tech Co-founder, No Cry - video by You Chews to find co-founder (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2014011315 last seen 2014011315 2 comments

72

Rubik's cube solver (github.com)

4 points first seen 2014011318 last seen 2014011321 5 comments

0

The 'Anti-Cafe'; everything is free but you pay $0.05/minute just to be there (www.businessinsider.com)

3 points first seen 2014011306 last seen 2014011306 0 comments

86

Milky Way Galaxy Has Four Spiral Arms, New Study Confirms (www.sci-news.com)

3 points first seen 2014011309 last seen 2014011312 0 comments

0

Shakuntala Devi once computed the 23rd root of 201digit # faster than a computer (shockingfactsarchive.com)