hackerNews

3

Quick tip for developers who use OS X (item?id=7051091)

1072 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014012203 395 comments

2

Google to Acquire Nest (investor.google.com)

635 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011606 566 comments

1

Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential (lists.w3.org)

568 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011903 400 comments

2

A command-line murder mystery (github.com)

358 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2016020115 0 comments

2

Why 'Her' will dominate UI design even more than 'Minority Report' (www.wired.com)

308 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011706 205 comments

3

A 30 minute introduction to Rust (words.steveklabnik.com)

300 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011603 154 comments

23

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

263 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011500 19 comments

2

Adrian and Jacob retiring as Django BDFLs (www.holovaty.com)

248 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011603 79 comments

3

PSA: Back Up Your Shit (www.jwz.org)

229 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011603 125 comments

8

Super Mario World "Executes Arbitrary Code" (www.youtube.com)

223 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011609 26 comments

8

The World’s Best Bounty Hunter Is 4-Foot-11. Here’s How She Hunts (www.wired.com)

192 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011603 80 comments

6

Taking PHP Seriously (www.infoq.com)

188 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011603 109 comments

3

How I Built a Raspberry Pi Tablet (makezine.com)

172 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011700 36 comments

10

Shell programming with bash: by example, by counter-example (matt.might.net)

155 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011600 28 comments

9

How To: Hosting with Amazon S3, CloudFront and Route 53 (paulstamatiou.com)

140 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011600 67 comments

8

Byte Magazine Smalltalk-80 Issue (archive.org)

130 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2022081221 93 comments

7

China cloning on an 'industrial scale' (www.bbc.co.uk)

126 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011603 85 comments

5

On Google's Acquisition of Nest (daringfireball.net)

124 points first seen 2014011418 last seen 2014011521 124 comments

5

pngquant - lossy PNG compressor (pngquant.org)

117 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011609 55 comments

33

New brand site for Sony uses rendered JPG frames for 3D parallax scrolling (discover.store.sony.com)

105 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011406 95 comments

20

Report: NSA bulk metadata collection has “no discernible impact” (arstechnica.com)

101 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011503 30 comments

35

Ghost 0.4 Released (blog.ghost.org)

99 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011409 65 comments

12

Everpix VC Feedback (github.com)

98 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011503 35 comments

14

Facebook acquires Branch for $15M (techcrunch.com)

97 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011503 39 comments

60

Uber car attacked by Paris cab drivers on strike (www.bizjournals.com)

96 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011406 169 comments

7

The Friends Of My Friends Are Not My Friends (minimaxir.com)

96 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011503 59 comments

8

Haskell, Ada, C++, Awk: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf] (haskell.cs.yale.edu)

90 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2016123015 64 comments

13

1% rule (Internet culture) (en.wikipedia.org)

90 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011506 59 comments

17

The architecture of Stack Overflow [video] (www.dev-metal.com)

88 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011503 46 comments

19

A Lisp interpeter in a thousand lines of Bash (github.com)

87 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011503 26 comments

8

The NASA Studies on Napping (priceonomics.com)

75 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011506 27 comments

17

The Hacker Who Cracked the Code in Iron Man and The Social Network (www.wired.com)

73 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011503 39 comments

20

Show HN: Self-hosted, open-source infrastructure monitoring and alerting (http://cabotapp.com)

72 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011406 33 comments

18

Nest, Google and you (nest.com)

72 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011500 84 comments

14

The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse (publicdomainreview.org)

70 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011503 43 comments

12

Patrick McKenzie AMA on BetaList (ama.betalist.com)

67 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011509 27 comments

26

An NSA-Proof Twitter, Built With Code From Bitcoin and BitTorrent (www.wired.com)

66 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011406 28 comments

8

Yandex granted access to Facebook database, can search through posts (en.itar-tass.com)

66 points first seen 2014011421 last seen 2014011600 40 comments

6

Nanocubes (nanocubes.net)

66 points first seen 2014011421 last seen 2014011609 14 comments

42

SimCity Offline Is Coming (www.simcity.com)

63 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011412 89 comments

16

The PC’s Death Might Also Mean the Web’s Demise (www.wired.com)

62 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011503 88 comments

5

Hindley-Milner in Clojure (www.lispcast.com)

59 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2015032521 5 comments

32

Mac Apps We Use Every Day (brickftp.com)

58 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011500 57 comments

57

Chinese troops to seize Zhongye Island back from the Philippines in 2014 (chinadailymail.com)

56 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011406 67 comments

34

Readers' tales of extreme commuting (www.bbc.co.uk)

55 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011500 89 comments

23

Matt Mullenweg is now Automattic's CEO (www.poststat.us)

51 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011500 8 comments

32

Args.js - Optional and Default parameters for JavaScript (autographer.github.io)

47 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011500 39 comments

0

Google's Ray Kurzweil predicts how world will change (slumz.boxden.com)

43 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 62 comments

27

10 Largest Canadian Startup Financings in 2013 Aggregate over $500M (nibletz.com)

43 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011500 6 comments

25

Show HN: LLVM Weekly - summarising developments in the world of LLVM and Clang (llvmweekly.org)

42 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011500 9 comments

14

Jumpers and the Software-Defined Localhost (coreos.com)

41 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011500 21 comments

28

Why the Climate Corporation sold itself to Monsanto (www.newyorker.com)

40 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011500 31 comments

52

Ask HN: I dropped out of school at 17. Freelance is my only hope. Advice? (item?id=7050319)

38 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011409 54 comments

24

Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System (queue.acm.org)

38 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011506 19 comments

17

36 new Java vulnerabilities (www.theinquirer.net)

36 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011509 33 comments

21

Shooting for the Moon, Google Hopes to Own the Future (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

34 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011503 14 comments

0

Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8 (www.gamespot.com)

33 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 61 comments

15

Svbtle now open to the public (svbtle.com)

33 points first seen 2014011418 last seen 2014011500 44 comments

64

GitHub's Public Speaking Culture (zachholman.com)

31 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011415 3 comments

24

Great Companies Don’t Have an Exit Strategy (recode.net)

31 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011503 17 comments

0

$90 million in maintenance per year for healthcare.gov (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

29 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011409 61 comments

35

Lightweight Indexing for Small Strings (spin.atomicobject.com)

28 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011421 4 comments

27

Indian Startup ChargeBee Raises 800k from Accel Partners (techcrunch.com)

26 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011403 7 comments

0

Facebook has acquired Branch (www.facebook.com)

25 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 8 comments

25

FOBO, An App for Auctioning Used Electronics in 97 Minutes (laughingsquid.com)

25 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011500 14 comments

86

JS stacktraces. The good, the bad, and the ugly. (blog.bugsnag.com)

24 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011412 8 comments

0

Economics of the Everpix Shutdown Decision (research.ivanplenty.com)

21 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011409 4 comments

71

Cloud IDEs: The importance of being open (blog.codebox.io)

20 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011406 5 comments

41

Fedora 21 Linux Will Be Nameless (www.eweek.com)

18 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011500 15 comments

65

Write You a StarCraft AI in Clojure (blog.travisthieman.com)

17 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011403 6 comments

90

Kickstarting a Django Open Source Project (www.realpython.com)

17 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011406 8 comments

0

Html5 Image Glitcher (github.com)

16 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 8 comments

62

Jim Beam Being Acquired by Japan's Suntory for $13B (abcnews.go.com)

15 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011421 0 comments

42

A Markov Chain trained with H.P. Lovecraft and the Bible (www.antipope.org)

15 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011500 0 comments

0

Google buying Nest Labs for $3.2 billion (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

14 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011409 4 comments

41

OsTestBackdoorATI symbol found in AMD-catalyst 13.12 (pastebin.com)

13 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011406 7 comments

46

The Modern Marketer’s Guide to App Analytics and Measurement (blog.urx.com)

13 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011421 0 comments

46

Tony Fadell Q&A: Why I sold Nest to Google (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

12 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011500 2 comments

51

Got any tips or tricks for Terminal in Mac OS X? (2013) (apple.stackexchange.com)

12 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011500 2 comments

76

I Spent Two Hours Talking With NSA’s Big Wigs. Here’s What’s Got Them Mad (www.wired.com)

11 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011406 2 comments

46

BitPay Announces Bitcoin Payroll API (finance.yahoo.com)

11 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011421 0 comments

87

Is "Lean Startup" Right For Your Idea? (pando.com)

10 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011406 4 comments

0

Detailed data on AP CS pass rates, race, and gender for 2013 (home.cc.gatech.edu)

10 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 7 comments

85

Twitter's Missing Messenger (lehrblogger.com)

10 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011409 0 comments

48

How QuarkXPress became a mere afterthought in publishing (arstechnica.com)

10 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011500 0 comments

29

Fedora Release Name process ended (lists.fedoraproject.org)

10 points first seen 2014011421 last seen 2014011503 14 comments

50

Two Hours Talking With NSA’s Big Wigs. Here’s What’s Got Them Mad (www.wired.com)

9 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014020521 0 comments

0

Startups Behaving Badly, Does Anyone Care? (jesseddy.com)

9 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 3 comments

0

Show HN: Open Source Node.js Interpreter for iOS (itunes.apple.com)

9 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 0 comments

60

Learn Not to Speak Esperanto (www.xibalba.demon.co.uk)

9 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011421 0 comments

56

How the language you speak affects your future (theweek.com)

9 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011421 0 comments

73

Show HN: Viddme - Imgur for video (http://vidd.me)

9 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011418 0 comments

83

Myth Busting: CSS Animations vs. JavaScript (css-tricks.com)

9 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011415 0 comments

65

Few asteroids are worth mining, suggests Harvard study (www.bbc.co.uk)

9 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011421 2 comments

61

New Form of Spacecraft Propulsion (www.technologyreview.com)

8 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011406 3 comments

0

EU Offers Public a Chance to Fix Copyright Law (torrentfreak.com)

8 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011400 0 comments

0

Parameter Hell (codeplanet.io)

8 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 9 comments

50

Productivity, by Ron Conway (daslee.me)

8 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011421 0 comments

0

You’re no snowflake (medium.com)

7 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 0 comments

52

How I Defeated LinkedIn’s 3rd-degree Profile Security (osandamalith.wordpress.com)

7 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011412 4 comments

0

Why Dale Carnegie wouldn't use Craigslist today (medium.com)

7 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 0 comments

0

Stop Asking How and Just Do It (2012) (www.donnfelker.com)

7 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 5 comments

73

Visual Studio Online (msdn.microsoft.com)

7 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011418 0 comments

46

R vs Python (www.theswarmlab.com)

7 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011500 2 comments

80

Ask HN: I'm a burned-out developer. Who should I talk to? (item?id=7055245)

7 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011418 11 comments

0

PayPal gets simpler: lets you pay without leaving merchant sites (venturebeat.com)

7 points first seen 2014011421 last seen 2014011421 8 comments

0

Nothing Happening But The End Of The World (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)

6 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 0 comments

80

Ask HN: Is there a development team that only takes the most difficult projects? (item?id=7051396)

6 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011406 6 comments

0

Run Play apps on Apache Mesos (mesosphere.io)

6 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 0 comments

79

Do NSA's Bulk Surveillance Programs Stop Terrorism? (natsec.newamerica.net)

6 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011409 0 comments

0

Run Ruby on Rails on Apache Mesos (mesosphere.io)

6 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 2 comments

0

Exploding Job Offers Are Bullshit (blog.yesgraph.com)

6 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 8 comments

59

The World's Most Innovative Companies according to The Forbes (www.forbes.com)

6 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011418 2 comments

69

YC Startups Now Have A Combined Valuation Of $14.4B (techcrunch.com)

6 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011412 0 comments

0

Google acquires Nest for $3.2 Billion (www.theverge.com)

6 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011409 0 comments

84

PayPal President Says Company ‘Believes’ in Bitcoin (www.wired.com)

6 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011421 0 comments

0

The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel (www.businessinsider.com)

6 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011415 0 comments

49

A machine to replace fast food burger flippers (momentummachines.com)

6 points first seen 2014011418 last seen 2014011500 5 comments

0

How I made sure all 12 of my kids could pay for college themselves (qz.com)

5 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 3 comments

0

Model, View, Culture (modelviewculture.com)

5 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 0 comments

73

Placebo effects are not the “power of positive thinking” (www.sciencebasedmedicine.org)

5 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011409 0 comments

0

On the relative readability of Perl and Python (blogs.perl.org)

5 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 0 comments

74

Prolog Experiments in Discrete Mathematics, Logic, and Computability (web.cecs.pdx.edu)

5 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011415 0 comments

84

How to Work Remotely and Travel the World (jake-jorgovan.com)

5 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011412 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What do you wear to job interviews? (item?id=7053124)

5 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011409 7 comments

60

STEM Needs a New Letter (www.theatlantic.com)

5 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011421 0 comments

87

Ask HN: What are some good certifications for a junior developer? (item?id=7055182)

5 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011418 5 comments

84

The Road To Geekdom (hypercritical.co)

5 points first seen 2014011421 last seen 2014011500 0 comments

0

Great OAuth tutorials for HTML5 applications (www.htmlcenter.com)

4 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 0 comments

79

Just-in-time staging environments using LXC (techblog.stickyworld.com)

4 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011406 0 comments

0

Facebook acquires link-sharing app Branch for $15 million (www.theverge.com)

4 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 0 comments

0

How we do Agile Development with Trello (ownlocal.com)

4 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 0 comments

66

U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions up 2% (due to coal) (www.eia.gov)

4 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011409 0 comments

90

Toni Schneider and Automattic CEO (ma.tt)

4 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011409 0 comments

0

This picture changes when you click it... (twitter.com)

4 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 0 comments

0

Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report (www.wired.com)

4 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 0 comments

0

Silicon Valley’s Highest Paying Employers (qz.com)

4 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011406 4 comments

0

Reddit, Mozilla, EFF to hold day of protest, activism in memory of Aaron Swartz (news.techworld.com)

4 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011409 0 comments

0

CSS Glitched Text (codepen.io)

4 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011412 0 comments

80

The Cubli: A Gravity-Defying Cube that Can Jump, Balance, and Walk (www.thisiscolossal.com)

4 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011415 0 comments

0

NSA Data Have No Impact on Terrorism: Report (www.bloomberg.com)

4 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011412 0 comments

0

Be The Dumbest Person In The Room (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2014011418 last seen 2014011418 0 comments

0

C++ Delegates On Steroids (blog.coldflake.com)

3 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011400 0 comments

0

Digitizing 80 kilometers of archive to simulate Venice across 1000 years. (www.ted.com)

3 points first seen 2014011400 last seen 2014011400 0 comments

0

Kalashnikov 'feared he was to blame' for AK-47 rifle deaths (www.bbc.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 0 comments

0

An Uber Carrying Eventbrite's Co-Founder Was Attacked In Paris (www.businessinsider.com)

3 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011403 0 comments

88

D3.js data vis: How SF’s Population Ebbs and Flows via parking data (blogs.kqed.org)

3 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011412 0 comments

89

Mailgun & Plivo Integration: build your own SMS-to-Email gateway (plivo.com)

3 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011412 0 comments

90

The Serval Project - wireless mesh networking for your phone (www.servalproject.org)

3 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011412 0 comments

0

Simple idea for a non-profit or maybe a startup (reinventingsquares.com)

3 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011409 0 comments

0

Ryanair-Google plan to 'change how we buy tickets forever' (news.cnet.com)

3 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011409 0 comments

0

The rise of statement cryptocurrencies. (www.wired.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011409 0 comments

0

Measure, Monitor, Observe and Supervise (avi.io)

3 points first seen 2014011409 last seen 2014011409 0 comments

0

How a 600-year-old university became a tech leader (techpageone.dell.com)

3 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011412 0 comments

0

Future Of Electric Cars vs. Frigid NY Temps (wamc.org)

3 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011412 0 comments

0

The Cost of Living in 11 of the Most Expensive Cities in the World (images.smh.com.au)

3 points first seen 2014011412 last seen 2014011412 2 comments

70

Varosha: The abandoned tourist resort (www.bbc.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011418 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Recommended domain name registrar (item?id=7055089)

3 points first seen 2014011415 last seen 2014011415 4 comments

0

Fixing the Most Dangerous Code in the World (tersesystems.com)

3 points first seen 2014011418 last seen 2014011418 0 comments

0

Ask HN: VM Automation for Unit Testing? (item?id=7056110)

3 points first seen 2014011421 last seen 2014011421 3 comments

0

Why EinContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1stein Will Never Be Proven Wrong (www.universetoday.com)

3 points first seen 2014011421 last seen 2014011421 0 comments

0

Writing A Better JavaScript Library For The DOM (coding.smashingmagazine.com)

3 points first seen 2014011421 last seen 2014011421 0 comments

40

Platform Engineer? Join us & take on Big Telecom (item?id=7050986)

0 points first seen 2014011403 last seen 2014011412 0 comments

37

Own an app that’s changing construction. PlanGrid needs a senior iOS engineer (item?id=7052438)

0 points first seen 2014011406 last seen 2014011418 0 comments