hackerNews

1

Square thinks I don’t exist (kevinchen.co)

532 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014013103 252 comments

1

US makes Bitcoin exchange arrests (www.bbc.co.uk)

383 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014013003 303 comments

3

The descent to C (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk)

351 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014013100 226 comments

2

Show HN: Random Street View (http://randomstreetview.com)

338 points first seen 2014012800 last seen 2014013003 165 comments

2

Facebook can now read your texts (tony.calileo.com)

323 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014013103 211 comments

5

Hackathon Starter – a boilerplate for Node.js web applications (github.com)

260 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014013012 48 comments

4

There Are Only Four Billion Floats – So Test Them All (randomascii.wordpress.com)

224 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014013103 116 comments

70

What is really happening in Ukraine (www.slideshare.net)

219 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012806 260 comments

2

Tesla Completes L.A.-to-New York Electric Model S Drive Chargers (www.bloomberg.com)

214 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014013000 180 comments

11

If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox (www.wired.com)

201 points first seen 2014012800 last seen 2014012903 133 comments

6

Vinod Khosla Wants Californians To Keep Out of Martins Beach (www.npr.org)

196 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014013003 154 comments

10

The Great Code Club (www.greatcodeclub.com)

177 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014013000 81 comments

3

Two "WontFix" vulnerabilities in Facebook Connect (homakov.blogspot.com)

171 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014013000 37 comments

16

King Candy Crushes Developers, The Saga (www.gemfruit.com)

166 points first seen 2014012800 last seen 2014012903 42 comments

5

Fig: Fast, isolated development environments using Docker (orchardup.github.io)

164 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014013000 43 comments

5

Why not kill -9 a process? (unix.stackexchange.com)

163 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014013021 119 comments

4

US and UK spy agencies scoop up private data from 'leaky' phone apps (www.theguardian.com)

154 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012909 95 comments

4

Microsoft Joins the Open Compute Project, Shares its Server Designs (www.datacenterknowledge.com)

149 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014013000 46 comments

2

Dutch Court of Appeals denies IP blockade The Pirate Bay (bureaubrandeis.com)

149 points first seen 2014012821 last seen 2014013003 52 comments

12

In the world of war games, Volko Ruhnke has become a hero (www.washingtonpost.com)

135 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012903 22 comments

38

Why do dynamic languages make it more difficult to maintain large codebases? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

132 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012815 186 comments

13

12 Amazing Bootstrapped Companies (beatrixapp.com)

122 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012903 63 comments

7

Nginx Patch: SPDY/3.1 protocol implementation (mailman.nginx.org)

113 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014013000 28 comments

12

Take Buffett's Billion (www.takebuffettsbillion.com)

110 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012909 121 comments

4

The Failures of "Intro to TDD" (blog.testdouble.com)

99 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2015061921 54 comments

17

Timothy Hart, Rest in Peace (blog.fogus.me)

90 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012903 8 comments

10

A positioning engine to make overlays, tooltips and dropdowns faster (github.com)

90 points first seen 2014012821 last seen 2014013000 13 comments

17

The craziest bug you never heard about: a linux threading regression (timetobleed.com)

89 points first seen 2014012800 last seen 2014012900 29 comments

10

Improving Dropbox Performance: Retrieving Thumbnails (tech.dropbox.com)

83 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012903 20 comments

15

Why isn't People-Centric UI Design taking off? (www.hanselman.com)

83 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012900 75 comments

22

Manually Creating an ELF Executable (robinhoksbergen.com)

80 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012900 24 comments

10

The one map you need to understand Ukraine’s crisis (www.washingtonpost.com)

78 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012921 51 comments

14

LIVE: UrtheCast’s Ultra HD video camera, Iris, will be installed on the ISS (www.urthecast.com)

74 points first seen 2014012800 last seen 2014012900 32 comments

6

Schneier on Security: HallUXWATER: NSA Exploit of the Day (www.schneier.com)

73 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012903 69 comments

0

Oh my god, it's a girl (2010) (micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com)

67 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012812 87 comments

21

Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data (www.nytimes.com)

66 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012900 6 comments

54

Apple Reports First Quarter Results (www.apple.com)

66 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012815 90 comments

20

Android++: Native development and debugging extension for Visual Studio (android-plus-plus.com)

65 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012900 54 comments

11

Show HN: Taplytics – Mobile A/B testing you'll actually use (blog.taplytics.com)

65 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012903 23 comments

21

Show HN: beautify-with-words unminifies js with unique words for variable names (github.com)

60 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012900 33 comments

13

What type of Machine is the C Preprocessor? (theorangeduck.com)

58 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012906 43 comments

20

Applying Artificial Intelligence to Nintendo Tetris (meatfighter.com)

55 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014053106 6 comments

12

How CodeCombat Was Built (blog.leanstack.io)

55 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012921 6 comments

10

Government to Allow Companies to Disclose More Data on Surveillance Requests (www.nytimes.com)

54 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012903 15 comments

16

DeepMind to Work Directly With Google’s Search Team (recode.net)

54 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014012903 24 comments

36

Web Development 50+ Awesome Free Tools For Web Developers (www.pencilscoop.com)

50 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012821 12 comments

66

Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker (yumhacker.com)

50 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012812 59 comments

14

Google Glass Now Works With Actual Glasses (recode.net)

48 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012909 27 comments

64

How to Make Time for Your Side Project (www.startupclarity.com)

47 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012806 29 comments

19

Oracle doing a survey on sun.misc.Unsafe usage (blogs.oracle.com)

47 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012900 20 comments

26

The Costs of Keeping Your Rails App Up to Date...Or Not (www.samuelmullen.com)

43 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012809 50 comments

21

Be a startup Metric King (klinger.io)

40 points first seen 2014012800 last seen 2014012803 15 comments

57

King: Our approach to IP (about.king.com)

39 points first seen 2014012800 last seen 2014012806 52 comments

13

Google chrome – Global marketshare by version (clicky.com)

39 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012906 29 comments

21

Homophony Groups in Haskell (andrew.gibiansky.com)

38 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012900 27 comments

69

The easiest way to add WebSockets to Django (jpadilla.com)

37 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012806 15 comments

24

Customer service isn't a department (jackealtman.com)

36 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012900 12 comments

27

FundersClub Unveils Venture News (venturebeat.com)

36 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012900 17 comments

39

Facebook HHVM Symfony2 benchmarks (blog.liip.ch)

35 points first seen 2014012800 last seen 2014012809 4 comments

13

Immunity Project – HIV Vaccine Development Program [pdf] (dl.dropboxusercontent.com)

35 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012818 42 comments

14

CloudFlare Transparency Report on National Security Orders (blog.cloudflare.com)

35 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012903 11 comments

86

Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive (preview.onedrive.com)

34 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012806 53 comments

90

Companies Flee U.S. Tax System by Reincorporating Abroad (www.bloomberg.com)

34 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012812 65 comments

16

Angry Bird And Dreamy Smurf Are Watching You (www.newyorker.com)

34 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012906 5 comments

0

Ask HN: Is it legally enforceable for your company to own your IP? (item?id=7130376)

32 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 39 comments

62

Reversing course, Google rejects Adobe Web publishing tech (news.cnet.com)

29 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012806 16 comments

90

Uber sued by family of six-year-old killed in San Francisco crash (www.theguardian.com)

28 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014012818 40 comments

76

Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (medium.com)

27 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012812 10 comments

78

We Tried Baseball and It Didn’t Work (2006) (xprogramming.com)

27 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012818 5 comments

28

Cambly (YC W14) Offers On-Demand Access To Language Tutors (techcrunch.com)

26 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012900 8 comments

68

Should You Trust Amazon with Your Bits and Bytes? (asserttrue.blogspot.com)

23 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012806 20 comments

30

Macintosh 128K: Technical Specifications (support.apple.com)

22 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012815 26 comments

38

UK Gov Security Assessment puts Ubuntu in First Place [pdf] (insights.ubuntu.com)

22 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012815 21 comments

78

If I can do it, you can do it (braythwayt.com)

22 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012809 13 comments

84

Count distinct performance compared on top 4 SQL databases (www.periscope.io)

22 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012812 4 comments

81

When marketers try to have me clean up their mess, I try to bill them (mr.gy)

19 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012809 12 comments

29

Mitre-Harvard's Nanocomputer May Point the Way to Further Miniaturization (www.mitre.org)

19 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012903 5 comments

31

Startups Focusing On Enterprise Applications (www.forbes.com)

18 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012903 8 comments

40

To the Mun and Back: Kerbal Space Program (www.polygon.com)

17 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012821 3 comments

72

Report: CEO of Bitcoin exchange arrested (www.businessinsider.com)

16 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012806 2 comments

79

It's Hard To Sell Free (blog.atomicbrawl.com)

16 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012809 6 comments

36

Rough patch for Uber service's challenge to taxis (www.cnbc.com)

15 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012815 22 comments

53

Stack Exchange for Android (blog.stackoverflow.com)

15 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012815 0 comments

80

How to stop giving a f**k what people think. (www.code-love.com)

15 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014012821 17 comments

0

Riak v. Cassandra (basho.com)

14 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 0 comments

76

Edward Snowden’s First Television Interview [video] (leaksource.wordpress.com)

14 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012809 0 comments

75

Ask HN: What have you recently learned about yourself? (item?id=7133315)

14 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012812 19 comments

0

Why Python is Powerful Enough for Google (www.codefellows.org)

14 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012812 11 comments

77

Show HN: Turn sketches into vector diagrams (http://usefluid.com)

13 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012806 2 comments

43

Lifelink – The Peer-to-Peer Life Counter for Magic: The Gathering (itunes.apple.com)

13 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012821 2 comments

35

In 1000 BC the summer solstice was on July 2nd [pdf] (www.beda.cz)

13 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012900 9 comments

30

Could a Pending Amazon Patent Doom Coin’s All-in-One Payment Card? (recode.net)

13 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012900 5 comments

0

20 lessons about making viral apps I learned the hard way (agevik.se)

12 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 2 comments

87

Coming Soon – Storage Policies in OpenStack Swift (swiftstack.com)

12 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012809 0 comments

42

How Panorama Education (YC S13) got Mark Zuckerberg, picked Boston for its HQ (www.bizjournals.com)

12 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012821 0 comments

74

Ask HN: Mastermind group for 9-5'ers looking to escape (item?id=7130876)

11 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012806 5 comments

0

How to name your startup in 3 easy steps (www.policygenius.com)

11 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012806 3 comments

56

How some thieves broke into my car and why you're vulnerable too (www.articulateventures.com)

11 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012815 12 comments

0

Inequality: Why aren’t the poor storming the barricades? (www.economist.com)

11 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012809 5 comments

49

Why the FCC Can't Actually Save Net Neutrality (www.eff.org)

10 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012809 2 comments

0

Mac Pro Colocation (macprocolo.net)

10 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 5 comments

88

Ask HN: Declining quality of Google search results (item?id=7132473)

10 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012812 4 comments

79

Stack Exchange for Android released (play.google.com)

10 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012815 0 comments

72

Apple: Update on National Security and Law Enforcement Orders (www.apple.com)

10 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012818 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Is setting up a remote team of developers in India worth it? (item?id=7134875)

10 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014012815 13 comments

87

Saying goodbye to Octopart-powered HNSearch (item?id=7130590)

9 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012806 10 comments

0

Open letter to Mike McCue: Dear Flipboard, please give me an API (jcvangent.com)

9 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 0 comments

56

Why you should read 100 books (jasonevanish.com)

8 points first seen 2014012800 last seen 2014012803 0 comments

66

Prince Is Suing Facebook Users And Bloggers For $22M For Copyright Infringement (www.fastcompany.com)

8 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012815 0 comments

0

Wonging: Card counting simulator written in Go (github.com)

8 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012809 0 comments

0

YesGraph For Teams: Get Your Whole Company Engaged in Hiring (blog.yesgraph.com)

8 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012809 3 comments

53

Microsoft Research Built a Smart Elevator with AI (thenextweb.com)

8 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012818 2 comments

0

Ask HN: What will you pay for? (item?id=7132329)

7 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012806 13 comments

77

Grandpa’s iPad (shawnblanc.net)

7 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012812 2 comments

0

Scrum for Non-Engineering Teams (blog.pusher.com)

7 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012809 0 comments

54

Firefox applications are easy (blog.echoplex.us)

7 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014012821 0 comments

0

They didn't only copy our model, they copied our exact texts (medium.com)

6 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 5 comments

0

A new blog engine for developers (github.com)

6 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 0 comments

78

Engineers don't talk (www.eliastorres.com)

6 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012812 2 comments

0

Indirection Is Not Abstraction (zedshaw.com)

6 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014012815 0 comments

54

A selfish request to companies (lucaschi.com)

6 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012900 0 comments

63

Is This The Future of Advertising? (www.arcticstartup.com)

5 points first seen 2014012800 last seen 2014012803 3 comments

0

XSS Vulnerability on The New York Times Website (www.cybernewsalerts.com)

5 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 0 comments

0

Browser Powered Genome Sequencing (blog.crowdprocess.com)

5 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 4 comments

0

How I used Criticue to quickly iterate on my PaidCodeReview design (derwiki.tumblr.com)

5 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012806 0 comments

71

Stack Exchange for Android is here (blog.stackoverflow.com)

5 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012812 0 comments

0

Dotgpg: Easy-to-use storage for your production secrets (cirw.in)

5 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012809 0 comments

76

Bitwig Studio – Professional DAW with Linux support (www.bitwig.com)

5 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012815 0 comments

87

Family sues Uber for wrongful death of their 6-year-old daughter (arstechnica.com)

5 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012815 0 comments

63

iWatch Concept (toddham.com)

5 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012821 3 comments

90

First 3D printer using carbon fiber. (markforged.com)

5 points first seen 2014012821 last seen 2014012900 0 comments

0

Did the Sharing Economy Force This Man Out of His Home? (www.wired.com)

4 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 0 comments

0

San Francisco is the new center of start up activity (correlatedcausation.com)

4 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012806 0 comments

0

VC Firm Disguises Itself as a Charity (plus.google.com)

4 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012809 2 comments

0

Ympd: a lightweight MPD web client written in C using websockets (ympd.org)

4 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012809 0 comments

0

Build a company, not a startup (chrishateswriting.com)

4 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012809 0 comments

0

Hacking Froyo (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012809 0 comments

0

That Turtleneck Is Choking You (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012809 0 comments

78

What data structures and algorithms are not implementable in C? (stackoverflow.com)

4 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014012818 0 comments

85

Apple's Strategy Tax on Services (praxtime.wordpress.com)

4 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014012818 0 comments

0

Spot the Fake – App Store Counterfeits (pixiteapps.com)

4 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014012815 0 comments

0

The Asian American Quarter-Life Crisis (mynameiselizabeth.com)

4 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014012815 0 comments

73

First Android bootkit malware spotted on over 350,000 mobile devices, in China (thenextweb.com)

4 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012821 0 comments

80

Google offering prescription frames for Glass (plus.google.com)

4 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012821 0 comments

0

The dirty secret behind ball lightning is dirt (arstechnica.com)

4 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012818 0 comments

0

What are some tools you can't live without? (item?id=7135506)

4 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012818 0 comments

0

Hidden Attacks on Power Grid: Optimal Attack Strategies and Mitigation (arxiv.org)

4 points first seen 2014012821 last seen 2014012821 0 comments

0

Google's Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant (www.wired.com)

4 points first seen 2014012821 last seen 2014012821 0 comments

0

NSA 'engaged in industrial espionage' – Snowden (www.bbc.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2014012800 last seen 2014012800 0 comments

0

Google announces $2.7M bounty for hacking Chrome OS (www.independent.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 0 comments

0

Execute bad ideas (medium.com)

3 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Do you have an online resume? (item?id=7130360)

3 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012803 0 comments

0

Remember your target audience (mattrogish.com)

3 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012806 0 comments

0

Lessons learned from declined job applications (medium.com)

3 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012806 0 comments

0

Microsoft Studios acquires rights to Gears of War franchise (news.xbox.com)

3 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012806 0 comments

85

Countless Startups, Countless Failures – obsession with technology (www.josephdickinson.com)

3 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012812 0 comments

89

Motion-captured laughs (www.newscientist.com)

3 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012812 0 comments

0

Bitcoin Mall is a central place to spend your Bitcoin (bitcoinmall.herokuapp.com)

3 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012809 0 comments

0

Swiftype is a Static Showdown sponsor (swiftype.com)

3 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012812 0 comments

0

German newspaper to publish Nazi SS Heinrich Himmler's letters, notes, photos (ca.news.yahoo.com)

3 points first seen 2014012812 last seen 2014012812 0 comments

0

Design Patterns in PHP: Singletons (coderoncode.com)

3 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014012815 0 comments

88

New Android Malware Now Disconnects Phone Calls (www.cybernewsalerts.com)

3 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012821 0 comments

0

Did Big Internet Companies Handicap Startups in FISA Rule Changes? (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

3 points first seen 2014012818 last seen 2014012818 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Is jQuery really awful for Single Page Apps? (item?id=7136222)

3 points first seen 2014012821 last seen 2014012821 4 comments

0

HN blocked in China (item?id=7136154)

3 points first seen 2014012821 last seen 2014012821 2 comments

0

Reverse SSH Cracking With Beleth And PAM (www.chokepoint.net)

3 points first seen 2014012821 last seen 2014012821 0 comments

46

ZenPayroll is hiring -- join an early stage team to solve high-impact problems (item?id=7130364)

0 points first seen 2014012803 last seen 2014012809 0 comments

29

Disqus - Dev Ops Engineer (grnh.se)

0 points first seen 2014012809 last seen 2014012821 0 comments

32

PlanGrid (YC W12) is looking for senior JavaScript and Rails engineers (item?id=7132574)

0 points first seen 2014012806 last seen 2014012818 0 comments

49

URX (YC S13) is hiring builders and sellers to rethink mobile app advertising (urx.theresumator.com)

0 points first seen 2014012815 last seen 2014012900 0 comments

8

Hack on RethinkDB in C++ (rethinkdb.com)

0 points first seen 2014012821 last seen 2015040409 0 comments