hackerNews

1

Mystery signal from helicopter filming police chase (www.windytan.com)

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Confessions of an ex-TSA agent (www.politico.com)

779 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020403 190 comments

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The email line that's client repellent. (letsworkshop.com)

495 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020303 93 comments

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Show HN: We just open-sourced a Skype replacement with HTML5 (voicechatapi.com)

281 points first seen 2014020112 last seen 2014020400 100 comments

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Breaking Madden: The Super Bowl, in which the machine bleeds to death (www.sbnation.com)

228 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020400 61 comments

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Only abstinence is 100% effective (natashenka.ca)

224 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020203 146 comments

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Nightwatch.js (nightwatchjs.org)

221 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020321 47 comments

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New YC Partner Investment Policy (blog.ycombinator.com)

203 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020321 99 comments

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Footage released of Guardian editors destroying Snowden hard drives (www.theguardian.com)

150 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020206 85 comments

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PayPal Mafia (en.wikipedia.org)

148 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020309 63 comments

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Ask HN: Bitcoin business unexpectedly taking off, help! (item?id=7157180)

143 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020200 139 comments

9

Who wants competition? Big cable tries outlawing municipal broadband in Kansas (arstechnica.com)

143 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020321 73 comments

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Ask HN: Best IRC channels? (item?id=7161236)

118 points first seen 2014020121 last seen 2014052309 91 comments

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The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer (devblog.avdi.org)

113 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020200 89 comments

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Patent troll CEO explains why company wants names of EFF donors (arstechnica.com)

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Why do credit card forms ask for Visa, Mastercard, etc.? (ux.stackexchange.com)

105 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020300 95 comments

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Why Dart should learn JSON while it’s still young (maxhorstmann.net)

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42 Logical Fallacies (www.nizkor.org)

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9 questions about Ukraine you were too embarrassed to ask (www.washingtonpost.com)

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China’s Deceptively Weak (and Dangerous) Military (thediplomat.com)

76 points first seen 2014020115 last seen 2014020206 92 comments

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The upside to being let go by Nokia (www.bbc.co.uk)

71 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020221 52 comments

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Amazon to Raise Fees as Revenue Disappoints (www.nytimes.com)

68 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020118 97 comments

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Ask HN: What journals and blogs should I be reading to become a Data Scientist? (item?id=7156563)

66 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020200 43 comments

10

Dataset: Ten Years of NFL Plays Analyzed, Visualized, Quizzified (blog.statwing.com)

65 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020303 35 comments

14

Strangest Programming Language Feature? (stackoverflow.com)

64 points first seen 2014020112 last seen 2014020209 61 comments

12

OpenHatch -- find open source projects to contribute to; find mentors (http://openhatch.org)

61 points first seen 2014020121 last seen 2014020309 21 comments

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Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview (www.businessweek.com)

60 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020218 27 comments

8

Reinventing Explanation (michaelnielsen.org)

59 points first seen 2014020118 last seen 2014020309 10 comments

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Scotland's Eigg island to become completely self-sufficient in renewable energy (www.aljazeera.com)

58 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020203 32 comments

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Hit ’Em Where It Hurts:The solution to the higher-ed adjunct crisis (www.slate.com)

57 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020221 27 comments

8

Am I dreaming? (chrishateswriting.com)

56 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020209 28 comments

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How Meetup Onboards New Users (www.useronboard.com)

56 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020221 30 comments

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T-Mobile please fix your gateways (en.blog.viclone.com)

55 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020203 34 comments

12

Amon.cx: new Server monitoring beta to compare with New Relic (amon.cx)

54 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020203 41 comments

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Wealth does not make you smarter (scripting.com)

53 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020106 51 comments

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This API doesn't exist outside this article? (msdn.microsoft.com)

52 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020203 10 comments

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Show HN: Why sign a NDA when you can just pinky swear instead? (pinky-swear.herokuapp.com)

52 points first seen 2014020112 last seen 2014020300 35 comments

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LaTeX was not built for the web (authorea.com)

50 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020112 72 comments

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California Orders Coding Bootcamps To Stop Enrollment And Issue Refunds (m.fastcompany.com)

48 points first seen 2014020112 last seen 2014020112 123 comments

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Realtime Bitcoin webGL globe – visualizing all transactions and blocks (blocks.wizb.it)

47 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020209 37 comments

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Pycoder's Weekly Redesigned (www.pycoders.com)

47 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020221 7 comments

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Why I Dropped Dropbox, and got OwnCloud (dorktech.com)

42 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020109 64 comments

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Hardware Hackathons Are Hard (octopart.com)

42 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020203 14 comments

14

Making PHP Safer (tech.blog.box.com)

41 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020121 49 comments

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Poll: What is your level of education? (item?id=7159294)

41 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020118 60 comments

15

The Horrifying Apple Super Bowl Ad That Time Forgot, 1985 (www.wired.com)

41 points first seen 2014020118 last seen 2014020215 39 comments

19

How to design for the Internet of Things (www.creativebloq.com)

40 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020206 20 comments

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Do you really know JavaScript? (javascript-puzzlers.herokuapp.com)

39 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020115 64 comments

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Mayer Is Aiming to Bring Back Search Tech to Yahoo (recode.net)

38 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020121 47 comments

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Man uses first-class ticket for year’s worth of free meals (www.ktvu.com)

38 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020112 9 comments

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America is no less socially mobile than it was a generation ago (www.economist.com)

37 points first seen 2014020115 last seen 2014020203 25 comments

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Why won't Stripe put up a fight like Paypal does on illegitimate chargebacks? (www.webhostingtalk.com)

35 points first seen 2014020118 last seen 2014020215 17 comments

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What makes Node.js faster than Java? In a nutshell, it's all about concurrency (strongloop.com)

33 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020109 53 comments

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Facebook Allows Advertisers to Target Users Based on Offline Spending Habits (online.wsj.com)

27 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020203 12 comments

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Need to develop on insecure wifi? Use protection (github.com)

25 points first seen 2014020112 last seen 2014020206 12 comments

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Damn Vulnerable IOS Application (damnvulnerableiosapp.com)

23 points first seen 2014020118 last seen 2014020212 2 comments

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Reinventing explanation (michaelnielsen.org)

22 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2018060203 0 comments

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Here’s Why Bill Gates Would Step Down as Chairman of Microsoft (recode.net)

21 points first seen 2014020121 last seen 2014020212 10 comments

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Dear America, I Saw You Naked (www.politico.com)

19 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020106 0 comments

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Deep Mind's neural networks play 7 Atari 2600 games with more skill than a human (arxiv.org)

19 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2015010412 0 comments

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Your emails may reveal text hidden in Microsoft Word (www.zdnet.com)

19 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020200 15 comments

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Rackspace's official policy on contributing to open source (www.rackspace.com)

19 points first seen 2014020112 last seen 2014020115 32 comments

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Optimize your JS with IRHydra 2 for V8 (alpha.irhydra.googlecode.com)

19 points first seen 2014020121 last seen 2014020218 7 comments

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How to start, publish and fail in 3 weeks (www.gamasutra.com)

18 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020200 2 comments

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Vodka blamed for high death rates in Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)

15 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020100 0 comments

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TSA Agent Confession (www.politico.com)

14 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020106 0 comments

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Adblock Plus Payday – $ 30 million from Amazon, Ebay, Google and Yahoo (translate.google.com)

14 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020106 9 comments

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Elon Musk's First Wife (www.marieclaire.com)

13 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020121 6 comments

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Is This What Twitter Commerce Will Look Like? (recode.net)

13 points first seen 2014020112 last seen 2014020200 2 comments

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Tech Rides Are Focus of Hostility in Bay Area (www.nytimes.com)

12 points first seen 2014020118 last seen 2014020121 3 comments

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Series of bizarre deaths in the financial world this week (business.financialpost.com)

11 points first seen 2014020115 last seen 2014020115 0 comments

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What will health nuts eat on Super Bowl Sunday? Nuts (survata.com)

10 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020200 27 comments

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MobileWorks, finding workers via the cloud [video] (blog.mobileworks.com)

10 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020200 3 comments

82

Show HN: I built this website in 10 hours (localfoodtrivia.appgrounds.com)

10 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020112 6 comments

83

Has Django become a pay-for-features framework? (item?id=7156577)

9 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020106 21 comments

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Typeset In The Future -- 2001: A Space Odyssey (typesetinthefuture.com)

9 points first seen 2014020112 last seen 2014120609 0 comments

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Capsicum: practical capabilities for Unix (static.googleusercontent.com)

8 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020115 0 comments

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Ill Conceived Even If Competently Administered: Software Patents (econjwatch.org)

7 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020112 0 comments

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Nerds Are Taking Your Lunch Money (dilbert.com)

7 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020106 2 comments

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All Students Can Succeed: The Man Behind Harvard’s CS50 (bostinno.streetwise.co)

7 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020118 0 comments

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How to Make Sure Users Don’t Accidentally Delete (uxmovement.com)

7 points first seen 2014020112 last seen 2014020200 4 comments

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Massive increase in SMTP attacks (item?id=7160587)

7 points first seen 2014020115 last seen 2014020118 2 comments

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Footage released of Guardian editors destroying Snowden hard drives (www.theguardian.com)

6 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020103 0 comments

0

Why does softonic.com rank so well with automated search content on Google? (item?id=7159143)

6 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020109 0 comments

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Skinny Puppy invoices US for using their music as torture device in Guantanamo (www.independent.co.uk)

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IWatch + iOS 8: Apple sets out to redefine mobile health, fitness tracking (9to5mac.com)

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31 Employees Have Left Clinkle – The Stealth Startup That Raised $25 Million (www.businessinsider.com)

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Phusion Passenger now supports the new Ruby 2.1 Out-Of-Band GC (blog.phusion.nl)

5 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020103 2 comments

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The day Guardian destroyed Snowden hard drives [video] (www.theguardian.com)

5 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020103 0 comments

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Show HN: Open Source Website Builder and eCommerce in Python/Bootstrap (www.openerp.com)

5 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020106 0 comments

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GoPro, Known for Daredevil Videos, Works on Its Brand (www.nytimes.com)

5 points first seen 2014020103 last seen 2014020106 0 comments

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The principle that changed my life (justinjackson.ca)

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Twitter employee is mad someone jumped in front of caltrain today. (twitter.com)

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MkDocs – Project documentation with Markdown. (http://www.mkdocs.org)

5 points first seen 2014020112 last seen 2014020118 0 comments

65

Popular Indian cars fail crash tests (www.bbc.co.uk)

5 points first seen 2014020121 last seen 2014020203 2 comments

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Wikipedia:There is a deadline (en.wikipedia.org)

5 points first seen 2014020121 last seen 2014020200 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Would you prefer a non-profit domain name registrar? (item?id=7156997)

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Windows 8.1 update hides tile interface by default (www.theverge.com)

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My Gmail Account Hacked. How do I secure it? (item?id=7142267)

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84

SchemeSpheres v0.6 release – The Blog of Fourthbit (blog.fourthbit.com)

4 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020109 0 comments

0

Case Study: How URX increased Threadflip's revenue/user by 40% (blog.urx.com)

4 points first seen 2014020106 last seen 2014020106 0 comments

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Practicing Ruby journal moves to open-access, 68 free articles already available (practicingruby.com)

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Unimpressive Hacker News Post Mortem from Yesteryear (micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com)

4 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020115 0 comments

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Difference between Software Engineers and Programmer/Coders. (item?id=7158781)

4 points first seen 2014020109 last seen 2014020109 10 comments

66

As Overseas Costs Rise, More U.S. Companies Are 'Reshoring' (www.npr.org)

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80

Things I Wish I'd Known Before Starting Up (www.gamasutra.com)

4 points first seen 2014020112 last seen 2014020118 0 comments

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Ask HN: Help! My First Impressions Suck. Any advice? (item?id=7159638)

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Silk Road Vendor Fighting To Reclaim Bitcoins, Argues He Sold Legal Products (www.forbes.com)

4 points first seen 2014020115 last seen 2014020118 0 comments

73

Google paying $25M to Adblock Plus (German) (www.mobilegeeks.de)

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TSA Agent Confession – POLITICO Magazine (www.politico.com)

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AMD unveils its first ARM CPU, the 64-bit 8-core Opteron A1100 (www.extremetech.com)

3 points first seen 2014020100 last seen 2014020100 0 comments

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Show HN: Find friends of friends that trade bitcoins (www.cointouch.com)

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Ask HN: Does it make sense to use another marketing language than english? (item?id=7120762)

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Cameron says: "The public don't care if we spy on them" (www.theregister.co.uk)