hackerNews

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Steve Wozniak AMA on Google+ (plus.google.com)

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Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement (haufler.org)

745 points first seen 2014012003 last seen 2014012400 0 comments

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For the Love of Money (www.nytimes.com)

549 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012300 270 comments

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Your most important skill: Empathy (chadfowler.com)

322 points first seen 2014012000 last seen 2015031512 131 comments

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"Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me. " (plus.google.com)

289 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012012 66 comments

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Python and Flask are extremely powerful (jeffknupp.com)

236 points first seen 2014012000 last seen 2014012203 74 comments

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FreeBSD 10.0 is here (ftp.freebsd.org)

222 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012200 114 comments

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Romanian saves OpenBSD (www.thedrinkingrecord.com)

194 points first seen 2014012018 last seen 2014012109 73 comments

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What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend? (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

174 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012206 148 comments

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Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+? (blog.chewxy.com)

163 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012206 234 comments

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Dad gets OfficeMax mail addressed 'Daughter Killed in Car Crash' (www.latimes.com)

153 points first seen 2014012018 last seen 2014012106 58 comments

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Show HN: Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes (http://hike.io)

137 points first seen 2014012018 last seen 2014012200 81 comments

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Feedly Found a New Way to Steal Page Views From Publishers (www.the-digital-reader.com)

135 points first seen 2014012000 last seen 2014012106 58 comments

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A big step towards Firefox generational and compacting GC (blog.mozilla.org)

130 points first seen 2014012018 last seen 2014012200 29 comments

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Bitcoin 2.0 explained (voices.yahoo.com)

129 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012200 64 comments

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Nissan Sells 100,000 LEAFs, Captures 48% Of Worldwide Electric Vehicle Market (insideevs.com)

129 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012200 94 comments

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NHS patient data to be made available for sale to drug and insurance firms (www.theguardian.com)

121 points first seen 2014012021 last seen 2014012200 60 comments

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Forget Setting Goals. Focus on Systems Instead (www.entrepreneur.com)

112 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012121 55 comments

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Three Myths on the World's Poor (online.wsj.com)

103 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012200 37 comments

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To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes (susieye.com)

102 points first seen 2014012018 last seen 2014012100 186 comments

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Lisp: More is less (jameso.be)

99 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012103 104 comments

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Why 3D Doesn't Work and Never Will (2011) (www.rogerebert.com)

99 points first seen 2014012015 last seen 2017112503 83 comments

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Ask HN: I want to learn how to prototype hardware. Where do I start? (item?id=7085950)

92 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012103 29 comments

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Elites embrace “do what you love” mantra. But it devalues work & hurts workers. (www.slate.com)

90 points first seen 2014012003 last seen 2014012100 80 comments

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An old system and a SWAT team (blog.linode.com)

82 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012112 49 comments

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Smoking is Worse Than You Imagined (www.nytimes.com)

80 points first seen 2014012021 last seen 2014012103 116 comments

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The 2 Biggest Mistakes I Made (Before Reaching $500 MRR) (www.wisecashhq.com)

79 points first seen 2014012021 last seen 2014012106 34 comments

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Renting vs. buying a home (www.khanacademy.org)

77 points first seen 2014012003 last seen 2014012009 131 comments

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Linode hacked again? (vpsboard.com)

76 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012006 34 comments

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A Peek at Emacs 24.4: Auto-indentation by Default (emacsredux.com)

75 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012106 33 comments

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Windows Chrome, why do my fonts look so bad? (lee.greens.io)

74 points first seen 2014012003 last seen 2014012103 55 comments

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Anatomy of a Program in Memory (duartes.org)

70 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012106 5 comments

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Ingredients of an All-Natural Banana (jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com)

64 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012021 45 comments

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Orbit.js - a standalone lib for data access and synchronization (github.com)

64 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012106 12 comments

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Nagios-plugins web site taken over by Nagios (bugzilla.redhat.com)

60 points first seen 2014012003 last seen 2014012103 24 comments

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Sneak into tech through the back door: a hopelessly limited how-to (danilocampos.com)

58 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012106 17 comments

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Obama's NSA speech reflects American apathy (www.bbc.co.uk)

52 points first seen 2014012000 last seen 2014012006 37 comments

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Google discards extensions that force feed users ads in Chrome (news.cnet.com)

52 points first seen 2014012015 last seen 2014012109 44 comments

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How To Survive A Death March (www.antipope.org)

51 points first seen 2014012003 last seen 2014012021 55 comments

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China Unveils New Native Operating System (sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com)

51 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012103 68 comments

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Prototypes Are Not Classes (raganwald.com)

50 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012100 40 comments

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The awkward copyright collision of Fair Use and Creative Commons (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

50 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012103 28 comments

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10 Startups you didn’t know were founded by French Entrepreneurs (www.rudebaguette.com)

50 points first seen 2014012021 last seen 2014012109 49 comments

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The world's first holographic gaming system (openvolumetric.org)

49 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012103 19 comments

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US tech firms attempt to halt tax avoidance reforms (www.theguardian.com)

49 points first seen 2014012021 last seen 2014012106 48 comments

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Investing In Startups In Europe (www.avc.com)

45 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012103 9 comments

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The Musical Mind of Marvin Minsky (web.mit.edu)

44 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012103 7 comments

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Restaurants getting Google Places Profiles Hijacked (www.reservationgenie.com)

44 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012103 22 comments

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Rtc.io – Open source WebRTC library (rtc.io)

43 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012100 28 comments

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Auth with JSON Web Tokens (jpadilla.com)

42 points first seen 2014012003 last seen 2014012009 6 comments

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San Jose Is Hell On Earth (www.jwz.org)

40 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012018 54 comments

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What Go Might Be Like With Generics (play.golang.org)

36 points first seen 2014012015 last seen 2014012021 45 comments

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Reddit Co-Founder on Privacy in America [video] (www.nbcnews.com)

34 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012100 17 comments

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Email is Broken: People Sent 67 Trillion Emails in 2013 (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

32 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012012 42 comments

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Bitcoin Mixing: economic analysis and design guidelines [academic paper] (bitcointalk.org)

26 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012103 13 comments

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San Francisco Is Eating Itself (alexcastle.net)

23 points first seen 2014012015 last seen 2014012018 35 comments

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Is our Sun falling silent? (www.bbc.co.uk)

22 points first seen 2014012003 last seen 2014012006 7 comments

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Ask HN: What's the best "Contact Us" email address for a startup? (item?id=7085003)

14 points first seen 2014012006 last seen 2014012006 33 comments

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On and Off the Road with Barack Obama (www.newyorker.com)

14 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012018 2 comments

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The credit card industry is still on dial-up while thieves are using broadband (business.time.com)

12 points first seen 2014012021 last seen 2014012106 22 comments

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Aereo - Planting an Antenna on Network TV’s Turf (www.nytimes.com)

11 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012021 0 comments

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Visualization of living US presidents over time (www.ravi.io)

11 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012100 0 comments

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The Sandglass, A very underrated invention (unenumerated.blogspot.com)

11 points first seen 2014012018 last seen 2014012103 0 comments

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Use TLS for authentication (blog.gosquadron.com)

9 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012018 0 comments

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The Amazing Adventures of NSArray (arigrant.com)

9 points first seen 2014012015 last seen 2014012015 0 comments

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Redecentralization: building a robust cryptocurrency developer network (blog.conformal.com)

8 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012021 2 comments

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Auralizr – Hear yourself transported to another place in real time (notthetup.github.io)

8 points first seen 2014012018 last seen 2014012100 0 comments

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The Neuroscience Guide to Negotiations With Iran (www.theatlantic.com)

7 points first seen 2014012003 last seen 2014012003 3 comments

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OpenBSD Moving Towards Signed Packages — Based On D. J. Bernstein Crypto (bsd.slashdot.org)

7 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012015 0 comments

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Does Elon Musk come from a banking family? (item?id=7085825)

7 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012203 2 comments

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Tesla’s Groundbreaking UX (uxmag.com)

7 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012018 5 comments

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Ask HN: What language should I develop in? (item?id=7088808)

7 points first seen 2014012021 last seen 2014012100 29 comments

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Show HN: I created this site to comment and draw on sites (sitecommenter.com)

6 points first seen 2014012021 last seen 2014012103 19 comments

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Ask HN: learn a language for 2014 (item?id=7084261)

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Fuck That Shitty Coloring Book—On kids and swearing. (medium.com)

5 points first seen 2014012003 last seen 2014012003 0 comments

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Use standard deviation (not mad about MAD) (www.win-vector.com)

5 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012015 0 comments

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Data Mining gone wrong - package addressed 'Daughter Killed in Car Crash' (www.latimes.com)

5 points first seen 2014012018 last seen 2014012100 0 comments

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Ask HN: Do you still wear a suit to an interview? (item?id=7084267)

4 points first seen 2014012003 last seen 2014012003 9 comments

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Algorithms are not enough: lessons bringing computer science to journalism (overview.ap.org)

4 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012012 0 comments

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Vertical farms sprouting in a few places (www.newscientist.com)

4 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012015 0 comments

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Workflow: iOS, automated. (my.workflow.is)

4 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012015 0 comments

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Ask HN: Looking for freelance work, where to begin? (item?id=7087478)

4 points first seen 2014012015 last seen 2014012018 6 comments

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Did Target Notify Its Customers About Security Breach Quickly Enough? (recode.net)

3 points first seen 2014012000 last seen 2014012000 0 comments

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Lost Civilisation of 20,000BC in Indonesia (www.grahamhancock.com)

3 points first seen 2014012000 last seen 2014012000 2 comments

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Ask HN? State of python greenfield development as to versions? (item?id=7084697)

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Latest perk on Google buses: security guards (www.reuters.com)

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Memories of Stasi color Germans’ view of U.S. surveillance programs (www.mcclatchydc.com)

3 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012012 0 comments

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Fight Poverty By Giving Poor People Money (www.slate.com)

3 points first seen 2014012009 last seen 2014012009 0 comments

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BI V2.0 - A Kickstarter 3D Printer (www.kickstarter.com)

3 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012012 2 comments

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Goldman Sachs Tech Internship (item?id=7086568)

3 points first seen 2014012012 last seen 2014012012 2 comments

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One Hundred Songs In A Day (www.onthemedia.org)

3 points first seen 2014012015 last seen 2014012018 0 comments

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China's Ghost Cities and Malls (newslamp.com)

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Green Fade-Out: Europe to Ditch Climate Protection Goals (www.spiegel.de)

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Our customers pay us $millions/yr to help them compete vs. AMZN (www.jobscore.com)

0 points first seen 2014012018 last seen 2014012106 0 comments