hackerNews

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Your 60 hour work week is not a badge of honor. It is a problem. (jeffarchibald.ca)

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Hacking Flappy Bird with Machine Learning (sarvagyavaish.github.io)

229 points first seen 2014021609 last seen 2014021900 50 comments

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Important Kickstarter Security Notice (www.kickstarter.com)

196 points first seen 2014021609 last seen 2014021800 194 comments

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Lack of exercise kills roughly as many as smoking (latimesblogs.latimes.com)

150 points first seen 2014021603 last seen 2014021809 144 comments

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Why Loneliness Matters in the Social Age (wikichen.is)

150 points first seen 2014021606 last seen 2014021803 54 comments

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Disney Accelerator (http://www.disneyaccelerator.com)

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Letter to MIT community regarding support of students behind ‘Tidbit’ (web.mit.edu)

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New Linux userland rootkit with anti-debugging, new backdoors and pcap hiding (blackhatlibrary.net)

130 points first seen 2014021618 last seen 2014021803 65 comments

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Was Y Combinator Worth It? (techcrunch.com)

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The Road to Virtual Reality (www.codinghorror.com)

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The Brief, Wondrous Life of Zina Lahr (www.outsideonline.com)

109 points first seen 2014021606 last seen 2014021800 10 comments

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PostgreSQL 9.4 – What I was hoping for (www.craigkerstiens.com)

98 points first seen 2014021603 last seen 2014021800 39 comments

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Git 1.9.0 (raw.github.com)

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Ding.io (https://ding.io)

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Why not inherit from List? (stackoverflow.com)

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Is the Universe a Simulation? (www.nytimes.com)

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The world's smallest and fastest classical JavaScript inheritance pattern. (github.com)

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Anybody else hating web fonts lately? (item?id=7244465)

80 points first seen 2014021606 last seen 2014021703 69 comments

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Polish immigrants to UK create parallel healthcare system (2013) (www.economist.com)

77 points first seen 2014021603 last seen 2014021709 42 comments

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Notes on Discrete Mathematics (PDF/154 pages) (vidcat.org)

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Comcast vs. the Cord Cutters (www.nytimes.com)

76 points first seen 2014021609 last seen 2014021721 116 comments

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Show HN: Pumpkin – An open-source HN clone (github.com)

75 points first seen 2014021612 last seen 2014021800 38 comments

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Windows 8.1 forces the user to interact in a way that doesn’t work (user.wordpress.com)

74 points first seen 2014021600 last seen 2014021621 74 comments

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Flappy Math Saga (www.lobe.io)

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Facebook made my teenager into an ad. What parent would ever 'like' that? (www.theguardian.com)

72 points first seen 2014021606 last seen 2014021703 77 comments

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AppleDoesntGiveAFuckAboutSecurity iTunes Evil Plugin Proof of Concept (reverse.put.as)

71 points first seen 2014021603 last seen 2014021603 29 comments

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Bitstamp restored fully automated processing for Bitcoin withdrawals (www.bitstamp.net)

68 points first seen 2014021600 last seen 2014021706 29 comments

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The Bitcoin malleability attack graphed hour by hour (www.righto.com)

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Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm (www.nytimes.com)

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The Plus in Google Plus? It’s Mostly for Google (www.nytimes.com)

61 points first seen 2014021603 last seen 2014021612 75 comments

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Git 1.9 released (anzwix.com)

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Data protection: Angela Merkel proposes Europe network (www.bbc.co.uk)

53 points first seen 2014021609 last seen 2014021703 56 comments

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The Art of Peering: The Peering Playbook (drpeering.net)

52 points first seen 2014021603 last seen 2014021706 0 comments

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Google Acquired Israeli startup SlickLogin (www.geektime.com)

52 points first seen 2014021621 last seen 2014021803 25 comments

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Mozilla localForage (github.com)

51 points first seen 2014021609 last seen 2014021706 10 comments

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Julia for Matlab users (sveme.org)

51 points first seen 2014021618 last seen 2014021721 23 comments

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Show HN: Screen recording app (mac) that uploads while you record + it's free (http://recordit.co)

48 points first seen 2014021609 last seen 2014021712 27 comments

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Ministers bid to block extremist videos posted on foreign websites (www.bbc.co.uk)

44 points first seen 2014021609 last seen 2014021709 16 comments

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My quest to fix a broken iPad (www.bbc.co.uk)

44 points first seen 2014021621 last seen 2014021709 50 comments

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Why don’t we have paid versions on the Android market (retrodreamer.com)

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Beware: State tax laws could nail your startup (pando.com)

42 points first seen 2014021609 last seen 2014021700 43 comments

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How to build FreeBSD/EC2 images (www.daemonology.net)

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12-year-old builds low-cost Lego braille printer (news.cnet.com)

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Here’s How Google’s New Search Results Will Look Under EU Antitrust Settlement (recode.net)

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Interviewing for the anxious programmer (aneccodeal.blogspot.com)

35 points first seen 2014021612 last seen 2014021709 31 comments

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A radical new model for restaurant entrepreneuring (www.kickstarter.com)

34 points first seen 2014021618 last seen 2014021712 7 comments

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Show HN: It's Popcorn Time - Stream movies using node-webkit and backbone (getpopcornti.me)

33 points first seen 2014021603 last seen 2014021609 29 comments

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Twitter Bootstrap Expo (http://expo.getbootstrap.com)

29 points first seen 2014021621 last seen 2014021703 41 comments

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Using HOL4 to prove Fermat's Little Theorem (www.nicta.com.au)

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Why use a digital stadiometer? (blog.plover.com)

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Thousands play one game of Pokemon simutaneously (www.twitch.tv)

24 points first seen 2014021609 last seen 2014021612 24 comments

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Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format (github.com)

22 points first seen 2014021609 last seen 2016021221 0 comments

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Knowing-what-to-build-next (blog.brianlovin.com)

22 points first seen 2014021618 last seen 2014021712 0 comments

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Ask HN: How do you sell in a new programming language? (item?id=7243718)

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Quora and Stack Overflow: two very different experiences (jeremiahlee.tumblr.com)

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Hacking isn't always helping (tommorris.org)

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Topper – 3D infils for 3D printing (github.com)

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Passwords leaked on live TV as UK responds to flood emergency (grahamcluley.com)

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Kernel Embedding of Distributions (en.wikipedia.org)

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80s pool jams + 80s VHS footage = http://poolside.fm (poolside.fm)

10 points first seen 2014021606 last seen 2014021606 4 comments

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What happens at Netflix when House of Cards goes live (www.marketplace.org)

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Analysis of 32 startup post-mortems (swombat.com)

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Ask HN: What would you do with $25,000? (item?id=7245081)

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No, Flappy Bird developer didn't give up on $50,000 a day (news.cnet.com)

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Clojure 1.6.0-beta1 is out (groups.google.com)

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The bizarre, lucrative world of 'unboxing' videos (www.cnn.com)

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Tell HN: Search is weird on mobile devices (item?id=7245140)

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Has Edward Snowden done the U.S. a great service? [video] (intelligencesquaredus.org)

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How I save money when traveling for work (christianheilmann.com)

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How Much Time Does Rendering a Partial in Rails Really Take? (www.justinweiss.com)

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Why Ads are becoming more annoying (omarabid.com)

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What is a coder's love like? (werd.io)

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With Hackathons Taking Center Stage, The Coming Transformation (techcrunch.com)

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Inside Russia's Ridiculous Sochi Security Scanner (www.popsci.com)

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200 Must Know facts on SEO (thecoderfactory.com)

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Apple Secure Coding Guide (developer.apple.com)

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Ask HN: How do you search for a new job? (item?id=7244594)

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What the critics wrote about the Beatles in 1964 (www.latimes.com)

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Innocent man beaten and tasered by California police for signaling he is deaf (rt.com)

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Computability and Complexity (plato.stanford.edu)

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What it Feels Like When Your Startup Has Massive Traction (medium.com)

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Making NSA-style spying harder, CloudFlare offers more robust Web crypto (arstechnica.com)

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Physics and the Demiurge – The Creator is not Omnipotent (www.bencollier.info)

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Startup Management 101 (platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com)

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Why major creative breakthroughs happen in your late thirties (qz.com)

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Show HN: nextfeed – a minimalistic rss reader (www.nextfeed.org)

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Families in Geel, Belgium, take in those with mental illness (www.jsonline.com)

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Adobe's update to patch remote access (helpx.adobe.com)

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Hash Challenge: can you find the lowest value SHA-512 hash? (www.h11e.com)

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Why An Apple Developer Quit His Job To Invent The Tesla Of Toking Up (www.businessinsider.com)

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