hackerNews

1

Rosetta: ESA’s ‘sleeping beauty’ wakes up from deep space hibernation (www.esa.int)

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Will Intel be forced to remove the "cripple AMD" function from their compiler? (www.agner.org)

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Your best passive income? (2014) (item?id=7094402)

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3

AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user (the-gadgeteer.com)

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3

Linux 3.13 (kernelnewbies.org)

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1

Lets implement Git to learn it (kushagragour.in)

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You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist (www.cato.org)

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3

Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available to the public (www.washingtonpost.com)

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9

Kids, this is story of How I Met... my VPS hacked (www.corrspt.com)

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8

Candy Crush Saga creators have trademarked the word “candy” (www.gamezebo.com)

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9

Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as half of the world's population (www.theguardian.com)

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OpenBSD receives approximately $100,000 in donations (marc.info)

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14

The decay and fall of guest blogging (www.mattcutts.com)

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5

Douglas Adams's Mac IIfx (www.vintagemacworld.com)

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12

Cython 0.20 (github.com)

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10

Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service (baboom.com)

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11

Google set to face Intellectual Ventures in landmark patent trial (www.reuters.com)

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25

Git add -p: The most powerful git feature you're not using yet (johnkary.net)

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11

Snowden-haters are on the wrong side of history (reprog.wordpress.com)

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8

Apache Spark: The Next Big Data Thing? (blog.mikiobraun.de)

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Jamaican bobsleigh team raises $25k in Dogecoin (www.theguardian.com)

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6

Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays (www.cs.kau.se)

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6

Startup failure post-mortems (www.cbinsights.com)

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23

The effect of today’s technology on tomorrow’s jobs (www.economist.com)

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20

FBI files on Richard Feynman (www.muckrock.com)

89 points first seen 2014012112 last seen 2014012209 53 comments

8

This startup tells you when companies try your competitors’ software (venturebeat.com)

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10

Tesla Motors’ Over-the-Air Repairs (www.technologyreview.com)

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6

Google Quantum A.I. Lab Team: Where do we stand on benchmarking the D-Wave 2? (plus.google.com)

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Show HN: a Clojure game library (github.com)

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14

Updating Torrents Via Feed URL (www.bittorrent.org)

81 points first seen 2014012103 last seen 2014012200 28 comments

9

Pmarca Tweets as Blog Posts (http://pmarcatweetsasblogposts.tumblr.com)

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Microsoft paying YouTubers for Xbox One mentions (arstechnica.com)

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25

How do I keep the passion and energy up after 17 years of writing software? (workplace.stackexchange.com)

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Cyber attack that sent 750k malicious emails traced to hacked refrigerator (www.theage.com.au)

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7

Code is not Literature (www.gigamonkeys.com)

64 points first seen 2014012109 last seen 2019081321 10 comments

11

Tijuana Airport Parking, Just Over the Border (www.nytimes.com)

64 points first seen 2014012115 last seen 2014012206 27 comments

18

Why you will love nftables (home.regit.org)

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8

Dropbox for Business (www.dropbox.com)

63 points first seen 2014012121 last seen 2014012209 55 comments

20

Show HN: Fez, a file-based build tool for JavaScript (isaacbw.com)

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21

Scala turns 10 (article.gmane.org)

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She's a beauty and a geek: Supermodel is a coder (www.cnn.com)

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Show HN: Akiva, a simple NLP, question-answering, artificial intelligence (github.com)

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7

Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure (www.infoq.com)

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Lennart Poettering: What would we expect from a modern init system? (plus.google.com)

56 points first seen 2014012103 last seen 2014012200 87 comments

22

The Life of a Stripe Charge (www.petekeen.net)

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13

Show HN: I quit my job to help communities fund energy efficiency upgrades (www.sparkfund.co)

55 points first seen 2014012106 last seen 2014012203 37 comments

23

Why Wikipedia's A/B testing is wrong (synference.blogspot.com)

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HP brings Windows 7 back 'due to popular demand' as buyers shun Windows 8 (www.theinquirer.net)

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Rosetta: Earth waits for comet-chaser signal (www.bbc.co.uk)

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“Superlens” may solve wireless charging dilemma (techpageone.dell.com)

50 points first seen 2014012121 last seen 2014012206 51 comments

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Too many electric cars, not enough workplace chargers (www.mercurynews.com)

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Grandfather could marry grandson to avoid estate and generation-skipping tax? (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

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20

Out in the Open: These Hackers Want to Give You Coding Superpowers (www.wired.com)

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39

Pizza for bitcoins? [2010] (bitcointalk.org)

41 points first seen 2014012100 last seen 2014012103 23 comments

0

LESS vs Sass? It’s time to switch to Sass (flippinawesome.org)

40 points first seen 2014012103 last seen 2014012103 41 comments

12

FreeBSD/ARM on Raspberry Pi (wiki.freebsd.org)

40 points first seen 2014012121 last seen 2014012212 27 comments

26

Chinese Whispers in Rust (thornydev.blogspot.com)

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12

Korea to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps LTE-Advanced network this year (www.engadget.com)

39 points first seen 2014012112 last seen 2014012203 39 comments

35

Offer HN: Free lunch for your office this week in SF (item?id=7093020)

39 points first seen 2014012115 last seen 2014012200 15 comments

22

On Riemann (network monitoring app and dashboard) (hackworth.be)

37 points first seen 2014012103 last seen 2014012200 11 comments

27

Credit card details on 20 million South Koreans stolen (www.bbc.co.uk)

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25

Battle of the Box (stratechery.com)

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Crowded Out of Ivory Tower, Adjuncts See a Life Less Lofty (www.nytimes.com)

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You should be amazed (oliveremberton.com)

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Stack Exchange tag correlations (clipperhouse.github.io)

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"It's the (Backblaze) restores that fail." (www.seankilleen.com)

28 points first seen 2014012115 last seen 2014012115 48 comments

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Our 1 week side project is a Best New App on the Mac Appstore - what now? (itunes.apple.com)

25 points first seen 2014012109 last seen 2014012115 33 comments

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HP promotes Windows 7 PCs (www.smh.com.au)

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A Proposal to Add 2D Graphics Rendering and Display to C++ [pdf] (isocpp.org)

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Scaling the Operations Organization at Facebook (www.infoq.com)

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New OVH servers: $63 for Xeon, 48GB RAM, 200mbps, 4TB disk (www.soyoustart.com)

21 points first seen 2014012100 last seen 2014012106 4 comments

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Show HN: Handshake - a Haptic Effects Library for HTML5 (o2labs.github.io)

20 points first seen 2014012100 last seen 2014012112 8 comments

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I found a 17-year-old file still available for download on Adobe’s site (www.adobe.com)

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Dawn of Autonomous Corporations Powered by Bitcoin: Part-2 (btcgeek.com)

19 points first seen 2014012106 last seen 2014012109 7 comments

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Word Theft (www.poetryfoundation.org)

18 points first seen 2014012121 last seen 2014012206 18 comments

0

Fifty States of Fear (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Rosetta comet-chaser phones home (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Derp Pirate Roberts (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)

16 points first seen 2014012100 last seen 2014012100 8 comments

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Structuring Modern Objective-C (ashfurrow.com)

16 points first seen 2014012112 last seen 2014012200 5 comments

90

Fast-food worker replacement machine (momentummachines.com)

15 points first seen 2014012103 last seen 2014012106 14 comments

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Why Real Estate Tech is So Unattractive for Founders (blog.suitey.com)

15 points first seen 2014012109 last seen 2014012109 11 comments

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Darcs as a higher inductive type (dlicata.web.wesleyan.edu)

14 points first seen 2014012103 last seen 2014012109 5 comments

62

Ask HN: Help, How to deal with severe ADHD as a programmer? (item?id=7091138)

14 points first seen 2014012106 last seen 2014012112 17 comments

62

An algorithm for winning at rock-paper-scissors (blog.wolfram.com)

12 points first seen 2014012109 last seen 2014012118 0 comments

0

Doorbell sends message to Cell Phone (2012) (hackedgadgets.com)

12 points first seen 2014012109 last seen 2014012109 0 comments

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Ask HN: Someone liked one of my photos on Facebook. Friends only. but she is not (item?id=7089325)

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The death of Windows XP will impact 95 percent of the world’s ATMs (www.theverge.com)

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Harvard Study: Black People Get Screwed on Airbnb (www.hbs.edu)

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The 25 worst passwords of 2013: 'password' gets dethroned (www.pcworld.com)

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Android support in Go (docs.google.com)

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End Secret Laws (endsecretlaws.us)

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Indicate your build status with programmable light bulbs (www.geckoboard.com)

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The Future of Tech: Interoperability, and AllJoyn Doesn’t Realise Its Potential (samlanning.com)

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Experts Say Healthcare.gov a “Breach Waiting to Happen” (www.additiveanalytics.com)

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FreeBSD 10 Officially released (www.freebsd.org)

8 points first seen 2014012106 last seen 2014012112 0 comments

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Not all CLAs are equal (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

8 points first seen 2014012112 last seen 2014012118 0 comments

42

Is Perl really short of newbies? (blogs.perl.org)

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NSHipster - Extended File Attributes (nshipster.com)

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0

Google Bans Chrome Extensions Purchased To Deliver Adware (www.theverge.com)

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Why I Chose Ember Over Angular (enlightenedpixel.com)

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85 people own half of the world's wealth (www.businessweek.com)

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65

Google’s “High Handed” Bus Memo (techcrunch.com)

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74

BugshotKit (www.marco.org)

6 points first seen 2014012118 last seen 2014012121 0 comments

0

A Sudoku Solver in APL (www.youtube.com)

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0

Build an Arduino-Powered Doorbell Alert System That Sends You a Text and a Photo (lifehacker.com)

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Redis Cluster and limiting divergences (antirez.com)

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76

Show HN: Cywolf, a port of the party game Mafia/Werewolf to Node.js (http://cywolf.co.uk)

5 points first seen 2014012106 last seen 2014012109 0 comments

69

A simple todo list built in Go and GTK (github.com)

5 points first seen 2014012109 last seen 2014012115 0 comments

84

So Long Scrum, Hello Kanban: Why we made the switch. (stormpath.com)

5 points first seen 2014012109 last seen 2014012112 0 comments

87

OpenBSD Foundation Fundraising for 2014 - Thank You! (marc.info)

5 points first seen 2014012109 last seen 2014012112 0 comments

71

Coding in the Clink (blog.8thlight.com)

5 points first seen 2014012112 last seen 2014012203 0 comments

80

The Best Punctuation Marks in Literature (www.vulture.com)

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45

The technology of billing at Badoo (techblog.badoo.com)

5 points first seen 2014012121 last seen 2014012200 6 comments

0

Some characteristics of the best developers I worked with (wrongsideofmemphis.com)

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Automation (xkcd.com)

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Show HN: Content Marketing Analytics. (www.levisto.com)

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0

Free IDE that lets you see the results of code as you write it (www.wired.com)

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68% Of UK Education Organisations Are Battling With Anonymous Proxies (www.informationsecuritybuzz.com)

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66

Cosmic 'web' seen for first time (bbc.co.uk)

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75

Los Angeles Startups Raised Over $1B For First Time Ever in 2013 (www.builtinla.com)

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86

How Stardog Made its Database Scalable (highscalability.com)

4 points first seen 2014012106 last seen 2014012109 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What should the full software stack look like in 2029? (item?id=7091550)

4 points first seen 2014012109 last seen 2014012109 0 comments

0

HTML5 Animation, Part I. Frame by Frame Animation (bartekdrozdz.com)

4 points first seen 2014012112 last seen 2014012112 0 comments

0

Double Opt-In is Crazy (www.jasonleister.com)

4 points first seen 2014012115 last seen 2014012115 5 comments

0

Static Showdown Prizes Announced (www.staticshowdown.com)

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0

Show HN: An awesome social sharing widget with NLP & behavioral algorithms (chrome.google.com)

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Ruby Robots in the browser using Opal.rb (4r2r.github.io)

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How to raise money from existing investors.... in your first round of funding (fullstart.com)

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5 States Potentially Headed for Obamacare Disasters (www.fool.com)

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0

Dealing With Workaholism On Web Teams (www.smashingmagazine.com)

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8 Micropreneurs share their best business lesson of 2013 (www.it-engelhardt.de)

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Best Paper Plane Ever: Miniature 777 Made Out of Manila Folders (newsfeed.time.com)

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0

Would You Do This To Boost Sales By 20% Or More? (www.forbes.com)

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0

Don't Forget What's Important (www.mikeperham.com)

3 points first seen 2014012109 last seen 2014012109 0 comments

0

Rosetta has woken up and phoned home after 957 days in hibernation (sci.esa.int)

3 points first seen 2014012109 last seen 2014012109 0 comments

0

Visualizing K-Means Clustering (www.naftaliharris.com)

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0

Paul Buchheit talks at Stanford (2012) (www.youtube.com)