hackerNews

6

TurboTax Maker Intuit Funnels Millions To Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns (techcrunch.com)

442 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041800 180 comments

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Introduction to A* (theory.stanford.edu)

327 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2018081903 31 comments

1

The Worst Part of YC (blog.samaltman.com)

325 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041803 105 comments

2

Paper microscope magnifies objects 2100 times and costs less than $1 (www.economist.com)

315 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014042000 56 comments

3

Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help (www.eff.org)

304 points first seen 2014041615 last seen 2014041803 54 comments

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How 'DevOps' Is Killing The Developer (jeffknupp.com)

287 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041703 197 comments

4

Raising a moral child (www.nytimes.com)

262 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041800 151 comments

2

Tptacek's Review of "Practical Cryptography With Go" (gist.githubusercontent.com)

258 points first seen 2014041618 last seen 2014041809 248 comments

4

A Haskell Programmer Tries to Learn Racket (artyom.me)

232 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041806 151 comments

6

Elm's Time-Traveling Debugger (debug.elm-lang.org)

205 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041800 54 comments

2

First Atomic Clock Wristwatch (leapsecond.com)

201 points first seen 2014041621 last seen 2021012703 84 comments

8

Vis.js: A Visual Interaction System (visjs.org)

179 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041800 52 comments

3

Cracking Cloudflare's heartbleed challenge (blog.indutny.com)

176 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041809 30 comments

5

BitUndo – Double Spending as a service (www.bitundo.com)

174 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041800 56 comments

7

Google VP named Dean of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science (www.cs.cmu.edu)

171 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041800 20 comments

9

Dart: The World's Smallest Laptop Adapter (www.kickstarter.com)

168 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041800 129 comments

14

The Truth About Google X: A Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors (www.fastcompany.com)

144 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041706 109 comments

26

Ask HN: How do you get and stay in the "zone"? (item?id=7591771)

117 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041700 97 comments

4

Creating a Bare Bones Bootloader (www.reinterpretcast.com)

116 points first seen 2014041621 last seen 2014041803 11 comments

13

Twitter Acquires Gnip (blog.gnip.com)

108 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041703 41 comments

20

How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession (www.thedailybeast.com)

105 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041700 121 comments

13

Windows Phone 8.1 review (www.anandtech.com)

105 points first seen 2014041621 last seen 2014041721 103 comments

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: the cloud platform of choice (insights.ubuntu.com)

99 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041612 96 comments

18

Porting GHC: A Tale of Two Architectures (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk)

89 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041703 13 comments

16

Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? (projects.csail.mit.edu)

82 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041603 46 comments

8

AngelList’s Newest Experiment: a $25 Million Fund to Invest in Angel Investors (blogs.wsj.com)

80 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041703 30 comments

12

CLaSH: A functional hardware description language (hackage.haskell.org)

76 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041712 44 comments

18

Network of 75 Million Neurons of the Mouse Brain Mapped for the First Time (singularityhub.com)

76 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041706 34 comments

18

Collection of not so obvious Python stuff you should know (nbviewer.ipython.org)

74 points first seen 2014041615 last seen 2014041721 15 comments

25

Why we ditched our free plan (blog.trak.io)

73 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041606 53 comments

30

Krueger Statement on Use of Airbnb for Floating Brothels (us5.campaign-archive1.com)

73 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041703 81 comments

7

Why We Don't Invite Groups to Interviews (ycombinator.com)

70 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041706 44 comments

17

Early Stage Startups: The Biggest Killers (www.forbes.com)

63 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041706 42 comments

60

Mint won't give a clear answer about Heartbleed (satisfaction.mint.com)

59 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041618 30 comments

8

How to be an open source gardener (words.steveklabnik.com)

56 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2015030106 3 comments

24

The Raspberry Pi as a poor mans Transputer (jacquesmattheij.com)

55 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041700 51 comments

72

The rise of functional programming in Banks (blog.oxfordknight.com)

55 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041606 28 comments

27

Project Atomic: Deploy and Manage Your Docker Containers (www.projectatomic.io)

55 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041703 14 comments

11

Android OpenSSL has heartbeats disabled (code.google.com)

54 points first seen 2014041618 last seen 2014041706 12 comments

21

YC emails are sent (item?id=7596018)

51 points first seen 2014041615 last seen 2014041703 73 comments

10

Why I Went From Python To Go (and not Node.js) (2012) (jordanorelli.com)

51 points first seen 2014041618 last seen 2014041703 58 comments

23

Google Glass Explorer Open to US (glass.google.com)

50 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041615 54 comments

4

Better bash in 15 minutes (robertmuth.blogspot.com)

50 points first seen 2014041615 last seen 2021121000 4 comments

25

Show HN: Rollcall – An easy way to build a status board for your team (https://www.gorollcall.com)

47 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041703 24 comments

35

Cognitive motor performance in Starcraft 2 begins declining at age 24 (www.cbc.ca)

45 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041621 50 comments

9

Supporting customers gives CEOs a reality check (www.ceoonsupport.com)

43 points first seen 2014041618 last seen 2014041712 33 comments

0

A Non-Techie Tries to Build a Tech Company (boss.blogs.nytimes.com)

38 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041609 48 comments

17

Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed (dragd.is)

38 points first seen 2014041621 last seen 2014041706 45 comments

16

Faster Transfers Beta (US only) (support.stripe.com)

36 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041703 39 comments

66

Prismic.io goes live (prismic.io)

34 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041606 50 comments

26

Show HN: Pintask, the hackable task tracker (pintask.me)

34 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041609 40 comments

0

I took ads off my site and replaced with Bitcoin donations, it didn't work. (www.ionthesky.com)

32 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041612 54 comments

57

When the IRS 'likes' your Facebook update (www.marketplace.org)

31 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041609 46 comments

86

Freelancer.com Pays $3.2M To Buy Digital Marketing Marketplace, Warrior Forum (techcrunch.com)

29 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041603 44 comments

58

OhmData unveils C5: a simple, reliable, scalable, open-source database (http://ohmdata.com)

28 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041618 40 comments

60

A Simple Explanation for git rebase (infinitemonkeys.influitive.com)

28 points first seen 2014041615 last seen 2014041621 11 comments

33

In Defense of Clones: The benefits of learning through imitation (blog.grantoo.com)

27 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041700 15 comments

28

Writing interfaces with Fay using fay-builder (engineering.silk.co)

26 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041606 0 comments

47

Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father, Carl Sagan (nymag.com)

24 points first seen 2014041615 last seen 2014041621 5 comments

59

Estimate your Bitcoin taxes on bitTax (bittax.com)

22 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041606 15 comments

71

Powerful tools for developing Web Apps (hacks.mozilla.org)

21 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041606 0 comments

72

Heartbleed is about to get worse, and it will slow the Internet to a crawl (www.washingtonpost.com)

21 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041615 31 comments

40

Digispark Pro – tiny, Arduino ready, mobile and usb dev board (www.kickstarter.com)

20 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041615 7 comments

32

Busting the small startups can't A/B test myth (kylerush.net)

19 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041615 14 comments

32

HD Manufacturer LaCie Admits Yearlong Data Breach (threatpost.com)

19 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041621 15 comments

37

Show HN: An HN-Style Site for Integrated Circuits Folks (clktok.efabless.com)

19 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041700 9 comments

83

Mint is misleading users about Heartbleed (and may still be vulnerable) (www.ianww.com)

18 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041612 6 comments

0

Dozens of teenagers are now tweeting bomb jokes to American Airlines (www.washingtonpost.com)

18 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041612 11 comments

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MakeGamesWithUs Summer Academy Deadline Today (mgw.us)

17 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041700 0 comments

0

Does pono's 24-bit audio matter? Hear for yourself. (blog.beatunes.com)

16 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041600 34 comments

0

Gumroad – Transactions, art, and keyboard mashing (codeinsider.us)

15 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041606 0 comments

0

Show HN: Respondly – Team Inbox for Email and Twitter. Our new MeteorJS App (https://respond.ly)

15 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041612 7 comments

45

RabbitMQ: From the Front Line (globaldev.co.uk)

15 points first seen 2014041621 last seen 2014041706 0 comments

63

Let's Hear It. The truth about how hard you've worked to get your startup going (http://buildingof.com)

14 points first seen 2014041615 last seen 2014041618 13 comments

57

When programmers write sale pages (khamidou.com)

14 points first seen 2014041618 last seen 2014041700 5 comments

35

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Clojure (hitchhikersclojure.com)

13 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041615 4 comments

84

Analyzing rap lyrics with Python, talk from Pycon 2014 (pyvideo.org)

13 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041609 0 comments

0

Chrome (Canary) Now Only Shows Domain Info (Instead of Full URL) (twitter.com)

13 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041609 5 comments

88

To the IRS: Provide computerized formulas for all tax forms (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

13 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041615 2 comments

86

Order with obligation to pay (revk.www.me.uk)

13 points first seen 2014041621 last seen 2014041700 5 comments

0

Google confirms it tried to design a space elevator (www.fastcompany.com)

12 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041603 0 comments

0

Show HN: Pagesnap takes automatic screenshots of your sites (www.pagesnap.io)

12 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041603 5 comments

0

Twitter Acquires Gnip (techcrunch.com)

12 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041603 3 comments

85

Lumoid says rent your gadgets (www.wired.com)

11 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041606 4 comments

50

An Issue Of Trust: Secure integrated circuit design (books.google.com)

11 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041621 0 comments

80

Lavaboom: Secure email for everyone (www.lavaboom.com)

11 points first seen 2014041621 last seen 2014041700 11 comments

70

Twitter acquires Gnip (blog.twitter.com)

10 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041603 3 comments

82

Chef Kitchen for setting up servers with a standard Rails stack (github.com)

10 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041606 6 comments

82

Ask HN: When and How do applicants hear if they are invited for a YC interview? (item?id=7593830)

10 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041806 18 comments

79

Even Recreational Marijuana May Be Linked To Brain Changes (www.forbes.com)

10 points first seen 2014041615 last seen 2014041618 9 comments

90

Ask HN: Rejected from YC? What's your startup? (item?id=7596563)

10 points first seen 2014041621 last seen 2014041703 14 comments

0

Show HN: A little todo app with local storage (cdn.rawgit.com)

10 points first seen 2014041621 last seen 2014041621 6 comments

90

Learn Version Control with Git (www.git-tower.com)

9 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041603 5 comments

0

The Story Of WatchMeCode’s Subscription Service (derickbailey.com)

9 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041600 0 comments

73

Weev Talks About Life In Prison And His Plans To Open A Hedge Fund, TRO LLC (techcrunch.com)

9 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041606 0 comments

90

Ads are disgusting. (item?id=7591493)

9 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041606 30 comments

76

Ask HN: What are some successful startups built on top of other services? (item?id=7593427)

9 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041609 15 comments

0

Your startup needs to understand: Aesthetic vs Design (patrickalgrim.me)

9 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041606 4 comments

90

Obama: NSA Must Reveal Bugs Like Heartbleed, Unless They Help the NSA (www.wired.com)

9 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041609 2 comments

43

SeatGeek Dev Challenge: Open Sourcing Our Admin Panel (chairnerd.seatgeek.com)

8 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041609 0 comments

59

Full Stack Developers (radar.oreilly.com)

8 points first seen 2014041618 last seen 2014041703 0 comments

66

Open Iconic, a free and open icon set (useiconic.com)

7 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041615 2 comments

64

Ask HN: Got a YC S14 batch interview? (item?id=7596086)

7 points first seen 2014041615 last seen 2014041618 16 comments

60

SpaceX's mega-rocket to debut next year at pad 39A (spaceflightnow.com)

7 points first seen 2014041621 last seen 2014041703 0 comments

65

What does Docker add to just plain LXC? (stackoverflow.com)

7 points first seen 2014041621 last seen 2014041703 0 comments

70

Delaunay triangle pattern maker (msurguy.github.io)

6 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041612 0 comments

82

What is the "_sm_byp" query parameter seen on countless URLs? (item?id=7594477)

6 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041612 5 comments

0

Open Rights Group – Stop UK Internet Censorship – Crowd Funding Project (www.indiegogo.com)

6 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041609 0 comments

0

The Big Growth Opportunity That Netflix is Missing (medium.com)

6 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041609 0 comments

0

Show HN: API Glossary (apiglossary.com)

6 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041609 0 comments

62

How to Unlock a Treasure Trove of Useful Data from Your Car (lifehacker.com)

6 points first seen 2014041618 last seen 2014041621 0 comments

0

Yahoo to early Reddit: You are a rounding error (vergestartups.com)

5 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041600 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Why haven't online auction/general-marketplace sites been disrupted yet? (item?id=7591171)

5 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041600 3 comments

0

Mozilla appoints new CEO after gay marriage controversy (www.telegraph.co.uk)

5 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041600 0 comments

0

Game of Thrones Sets New Torrent Swarm Record (torrentfreak.com)

5 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041600 0 comments

0

Belgium bans Uber, threatens €10,000 fine for each attempted pickup (www.engadget.com)

5 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041600 0 comments

0

Chad 'Ochocinco' Johnson Exploring Bitcoin (www.coindesk.com)

5 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041603 2 comments

0

C/C++ to LLVM IR to asm.js to C benchmarks (article.gmane.org)

5 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041603 0 comments

0

'Game of Thrones' Sets Piracy World Record, But Does HBO Care? (www.forbes.com)

5 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041609 0 comments

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Apple cannot escape U.S. states' e-book antitrust cases: judge (www.reuters.com)

5 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041618 0 comments

0

I reported a documentation bug to MailChimp, they're sending me a free t-shirt (item?id=7591239)

4 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041600 2 comments

0

MySQL vs MongoDB vs NuoDB vs Amisa Server features comparison (amisalabs.com)

4 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041603 7 comments

67

Why we chose prismic.io over wordpress/joomla/typo3 (www.elastic.io)

4 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041606 4 comments

0

Ruby gem that parses comments and turns them into a beautiful style guides (trulia.github.io)

4 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041603 0 comments

85

Darpa Turns Aging Surveillance Drones Into Wi-Fi Hotspots (www.wired.com)

4 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041609 0 comments

0

Discrimination in Tech Runs Deep (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041606 0 comments

0

UK Prime Minister asked for permanent police anti-piracy unit funding (torrentfreak.com)

4 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041606 0 comments

0

Backbone.js Plugin for Atom Editor (atom.io)

4 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041606 0 comments

0

The (Unintentional) Amazon Guide to Dealing Drugs (www.theatlantic.com)

4 points first seen 2014041606 last seen 2014041606 0 comments

85

Haskell gets static typing right (skillsmatterblog.wordpress.com)

4 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041612 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What Do You Automate? (item?id=7594350)

4 points first seen 2014041609 last seen 2014041609 0 comments

79

Google I/O 2014 Registration Lottery is Open (www.google.com)

4 points first seen 2014041612 last seen 2014041615 3 comments

0

Do Not Hire Me as a Ruby on Rails Developer (www.tomordonez.com)

4 points first seen 2014041615 last seen 2014041615 0 comments

54

ARRL Helps Manufacturer to Resolve Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter RFI Problems (www.arrl.org)

4 points first seen 2014041615 last seen 2014041621 0 comments

88

Risks Of Popular Anxiety Drugs Often Overshadowed (www.npr.org)

4 points first seen 2014041615 last seen 2014041618 0 comments

84

The Murders at the Lake (www.texasmonthly.com)

4 points first seen 2014041621 last seen 2014041700 0 comments

0

Transitioning from Developer to Manager (stephenhaunts.com)

3 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041600 0 comments

0

Gramofon: Modern Cloud Jukebox (www.kickstarter.com)

3 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041600 0 comments

0

Google to Buy Titan Aerospace as Web Giants Battle for Air Superiority (online.wsj.com)

3 points first seen 2014041600 last seen 2014041600 0 comments

84

IPv6 Performance Bonus [video] (www.nanog.org)

3 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041606 0 comments

86

Bioengineer creates paper-based microscope with 2100x magnification for under $1 (www.economist.com)

3 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041606 0 comments

0

Hackers in the Shires (mapsengine.google.com)

3 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041603 0 comments

0

Calling Python from Haskell (www.lunaryorn.com)

3 points first seen 2014041603 last seen 2014041603 0 comments

0

Brackets 0.38 Release (Multiple cursors) (blog.brackets.io)