hackerNews

4

F.C.C., in ‘Net Neutrality’ Turnaround, Plans to Allow Fast Lane (www.nytimes.com)

392 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042603 269 comments

2

Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack (github.com)

343 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042609 145 comments

2

Click – Python library for command line interfaces (click.pocoo.org)

335 points first seen 2014042421 last seen 2014042803 101 comments

62

TDD is dead. Long live testing. (david.heinemeierhansson.com)

297 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042503 159 comments

2

Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun? (inventropy.us)

266 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042603 118 comments

3

LibreSSL: FIPS mode is not coming back (marc.info)

249 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042600 91 comments

2

What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell 2.0 (dev.stephendiehl.com)

230 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042700 94 comments

5

Boycott systemd (boycottsystemd.org)

230 points first seen 2014042421 last seen 2014042512 215 comments

4

The Bubble Question (avc.com)

210 points first seen 2014042418 last seen 2014042703 91 comments

7

Your Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealer (www.theatlantic.com)

194 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042509 159 comments

14

CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired (www.linkedin.com)

168 points first seen 2014042421 last seen 2014042500 201 comments

8

A New Codecademy (www.codecademy.com)

164 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042506 103 comments

9

How ACH works: A developer perspective (engineering.zenpayroll.com)

155 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042521 90 comments

13

Apple Announces 7 For 1 Stock Split (techcrunch.com)

154 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042500 175 comments

5

Feds Beg Supreme Court to Let Them Search Phones Without a Warrant (www.wired.com)

148 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042600 42 comments

18

Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming (recode.net)

145 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042500 142 comments

3

Previously unknown Warhol works recovered from Amiga floppy disks from 1985 (studioforcreativeinquiry.org)

145 points first seen 2014042421 last seen 2018012800 71 comments

6

Sherpas, Death, and Anger on Everest (www.newyorker.com)

138 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042600 64 comments

14

IBM Opens Power Microprocessor Architecture (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

137 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042506 97 comments

36

Flappy 2048 (flappy2048.com)

137 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042421 32 comments

30

Ask HN: Examples of tech worker cooperatives? (item?id=7634152)

133 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014050703 97 comments

8

Danish government builds minecraft world of Denmark from geodata (gst.dk)

121 points first seen 2014042421 last seen 2014042600 76 comments

16

Google’s Revamped Gmail Could Take Encryption Mainstream (www.wired.com)

118 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042506 86 comments

8

AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Docker (aws.typepad.com)

114 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042509 49 comments

13

Venera: The Soviet Exploration of Venus (mentallandscape.com)

109 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042503 37 comments

10

4chan source code leaked (pastebin.com)

105 points first seen 2014042421 last seen 2014042503 100 comments

22

Y Combinator Bets on Biotech (www.nature.com)

104 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042506 83 comments

7

The Machine Stops (1909) (archive.ncsa.illinois.edu)

104 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2015110318 17 comments

17

The Hackers Who Recovered NASA’s Lost Lunar Photos (www.wired.com)

103 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042506 15 comments

39

Mark Pincus Steps Down From All Operational Roles at Zynga (recode.net)

102 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042500 38 comments

8

Show HN: NCurses Terminal Webcam (github.com)

95 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042509 32 comments

10

Excel formulas in JavaScript (github.com)

95 points first seen 2014042418 last seen 2014042600 54 comments

13

Burnout Comes in Three Varieties (www.psychologicalscience.org)

94 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042503 65 comments

12

A Face Recognition Algorithm That Outperforms Humans (medium.com)

92 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042515 40 comments

23

Go back in time with Street View (googleblog.blogspot.com)

91 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042503 40 comments

83

The Business Guy vs. the Programmer (www.irrlicht3d.org)

89 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042403 67 comments

15

The return of the 'bedroom' programmer [video] (www.bbc.com)

89 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042509 36 comments

4

Why is asbestos still killing people? (mosaicscience.com)

88 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042521 48 comments

0

Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub (adainitiative.org)

81 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042406 93 comments

23

ODROID-U3: a quad core 1.7GHz ARM single board computer for $59 (hardkernel.com)

79 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042412 87 comments

31

Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to work from (www.facebook.com)

78 points first seen 2014042421 last seen 2014042509 84 comments

15

Etsy acquires Grand St. (blog.grandst.com)

70 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042503 22 comments

35

Show HN: My first project – Football voting app built in RubyMotion (http://footpoll.com)

67 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042421 65 comments

24

Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices (https://freeboard.io)

64 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042500 38 comments

20

Facebook earnings gain as ad sales surge 82%; CFO is stepping down (www.marketwatch.com)

64 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042500 62 comments

42

My First Job Interview was with a Billionaire (blonk.co)

58 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042421 25 comments

9

Painless Windows Workstation Setup with Boxstarter (trycatchfail.com)

58 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042509 28 comments

18

Everything Your Startup Needs To Know About Corporate Venture Capital (news.partnered.com)

57 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042500 8 comments

20

F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad (www.nytimes.com)

55 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042506 0 comments

35

With Farm Robotics, the Cows Decide When It’s Milking Time (www.nytimes.com)

47 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042500 52 comments

22

Garbage Collection Optimization for High-Throughput and Low-Latency Java Apps (engineering.linkedin.com)

44 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042500 9 comments

34

Sirius: A distributed system library from Comcast (comcast.github.io)

43 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042500 23 comments

20

Modern-day cleanroom invented by Sandia physicist still used 50 years later (share.sandia.gov)

42 points first seen 2014042418 last seen 2014042506 7 comments

14

Why I threw away three Jawbone UPs, sold my Fitbit Flex and deinstalled Human (youscare.me)

40 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042418 44 comments

30

The problems and some security implications of websockets (gist.github.com)

38 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042500 7 comments

39

77,000 Images of Tapestries and Italian Monuments Join the Open Content Program (blogs.getty.edu)

38 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042500 8 comments

0

Why are there so many rich white and Asian people buying our $300,000 product? (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

38 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042409 0 comments

18

Segfaulting atop and another trip down the rabbit hole (rachelbythebay.com)

37 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042503 8 comments

29

A Batesian Mimicry Explanation of Business Cycles (2010) (falkenblog.blogspot.com)

36 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042500 33 comments

8

The Government Surplus Machines That Power the SF Exploratorium (www.collectorsweekly.com)

35 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042506 3 comments

28

Today’s Antarctic region once as hot as California, Florida (news.yale.edu)

34 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042500 14 comments

46

An Eavesdropping Lamp That Livetweets Private Conversations (www.wired.com)

32 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042406 14 comments

31

Designer News Statistics (dashinsky.com)

32 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042421 7 comments

48

Hard Books Are Overrated (rs.io)

32 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042409 15 comments

28

The Platinum Rule (robertgreiner.com)

29 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042403 33 comments

28

The Shakespeare Programming Language (shakespearelang.sourceforge.net)

27 points first seen 2014042421 last seen 2014042506 22 comments

74

The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions (mfishbein.com)

25 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042403 6 comments

1

“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)

25 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2018122818 0 comments

27

No, Netflix and Hulu are Not Killing Cable (cabletv.com)

25 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042406 33 comments

36

Quip releases an API (quip.com)

24 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042421 0 comments

0

The justice in coders (lessig.tumblr.com)

22 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042409 5 comments

34

The Victorian Inventor of the Wheelie (theappendix.net)

21 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042418 0 comments

47

My Journey With a Life Altering Drug: Ayahuasca (www.elle.com)

19 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042421 0 comments

0

Google Street View Now Lets You Go Back In Time (techcrunch.com)

15 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042403 0 comments

87

‘Sell me this pen:’ The real answer to The Wolf of Wall Street’s challenge (m.theglobeandmail.com)

14 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042403 4 comments

87

Mob Rule (al3x.net)

14 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

89

TDD is fun (solnic.eu)

14 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

87

Testing for Developers: why you should be doing Unit, Integration and QA Testing (blog.rainforestqa.com)

13 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042415 4 comments

88

Ask HN: How many side-startups do you own? (item?id=7637409)

13 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042503 8 comments

0

Richard Branson: "I had tears down my face and a $1 billion check in my pocket." (www.linkedin.com)

12 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042400 6 comments

83

The Bitcoin Fluid Dispenser II [video] (andyschroder.com)

12 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042406 28 comments

54

The Dumb Way We Board Airplanes Remains Impervious to Good Data (www.businessweek.com)

12 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042421 8 comments

48

You have ruined JavaScript (codeofrob.com)

11 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2015123000 0 comments

88

Indian Politician Arvind Kejriwal Wins TIME 100 Readers’ Poll (time.com)

11 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042503 5 comments

45

Understanding CSS Timing Functions (www.smashingmagazine.com)

10 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

87

Ask HN: What have you built with your raspberry pi? (item?id=7634314)

10 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042406 12 comments

48

Witness Video Game History: Attend Atari Landfill Excavation on April 26 (news.xbox.com)

10 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042415 0 comments

61

Apple users left exposed to serious threats for weeks, former employee says (arstechnica.com)

10 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042415 0 comments

0

Building of Weft and the Incremental Iteration of Products (buildingof.com)

10 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

0

Getty Museum Adds Another 77,000 Images to its Open Content Archive (www.openculture.com)

9 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042403 0 comments

52

The battle to build Shakespeare’s Globe (www.ft.com)

9 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042409 0 comments

80

Ask HN: I won't steal an idea, but I don't need 4 non-technical cofounders (item?id=7635072)

9 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042406 11 comments

86

Ask HN: Why use MongoDB? (item?id=7636188)

9 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042409 11 comments

90

Ask sama: Can you update "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund"? (item?id=7636193)

9 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042409 2 comments

54

A UK housing bubble? (soberlook.com)

8 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042409 3 comments

56

The Growing Perils of the Cashless Future (www.cnbc.com)

8 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042409 0 comments

0

Dev-Metal Shows Ads to Adblockers (www.dev-metal.com)

8 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042403 17 comments

0

Ask HN: Who's Hiring Clojure Developers? (item?id=7635982)

8 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042406 3 comments

74

Terrain – A collection of structural stylesheets (www.terrain.io)

8 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042418 0 comments

66

Show HN: First Draft (beta) – distraction-free writing for first drafts (http://beta.firstdraft.io)

7 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042406 13 comments

48

A successful crowdfunding campaign helps catalyze a large financing (www.bitsofcents.com)

7 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042418 0 comments

59

Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late? (meta.stackoverflow.com)

7 points first seen 2014042421 last seen 2014042500 3 comments

0

Why Apple has stopped growing (qz.com)

6 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042400 0 comments

0

No European Common Lisp Meeting 2014 (eclm.eu)

6 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042403 0 comments

0

Breaking Down European Stereotypes (trendland.com)

6 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042406 0 comments

0

Show HN: EasyFridge – Subscription Grocery Delivery. No Thinking Required. (myeasyfridge.com)

6 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042406 3 comments

0

How Learning to Code Made Me Rich (medium.com)

6 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042409 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Interview Question (item?id=7637888)

6 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042412 6 comments

0

How I created a Passive Income Stream and my advice to those starting off (www.jackkinsella.ie)

6 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

0

Building a B2B Focused Growth Team (medium.com)

6 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

31

F.D.A. Will Propose New Regulations for E-Cigarettes (www.nytimes.com)

6 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042421 0 comments

83

Ask HN: What can we do about the new FCC proposal? (item?id=7638477)

6 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042418 3 comments

82

An alternative look at the Zendesk IPO (www.thenordicweb.com)

5 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042403 4 comments

0

Now is the time to switch back to Firefox (www.zdnet.com)

5 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042400 5 comments

0

Bugzilla has 1,000,000 bugs now (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

5 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042400 2 comments

79

ZenQuery: Enterprise Backend as a Service (www.zenqry.com)

5 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042406 7 comments

79

Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces [video] (www.ted.com)

5 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042409 0 comments

67

How to charge money for things that don't exist yet (www.linkedin.com)

5 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

82

Heartbleed as Metaphor (www.lawfareblog.com)

5 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Modern SEO? (item?id=7636687)

5 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042409 3 comments

0

Obama pledges Net neutrality laws if elected president (2007) (www.cnet.com)

5 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

85

The Poe Toaster (en.wikipedia.org)

5 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042418 0 comments

87

Declarative thinking with Ruby (www.gotealeaf.com)

5 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042418 0 comments

90

Page Loading Effects (tympanus.net)

5 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042418 0 comments

0

Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing (2008) [pdf] (www.nickbostrom.com)

5 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042415 0 comments

0

Advice for what to do (item?id=7638119)

5 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042415 3 comments

54

Aaron Swartz documentary poster: The Internet's Own Boy by Brian Knappenberger (www.imdb.com)

5 points first seen 2014042418 last seen 2014042500 0 comments

0

Chrome Extension Stealing Bitcoins (browsernative.com)

5 points first seen 2014042418 last seen 2014042418 0 comments

0

HBO To Stream Shows to Amazon Prime Members (www.theverge.com)

4 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042400 0 comments

0

Distributed systems library for managing reference data (comcast.github.io)

4 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042400 0 comments

0

All The Fucks I Give (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042400 4 comments

0

Cascaded Displays: Spatiotemporal Superresolution using Offset Pixel Layers (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042400 0 comments

0

These HBO Go Ads Are Hilarious (techcrunch.com)

4 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042403 0 comments

0

Ask HN: what's the highest version number ever seen? (item?id=7634108)

4 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042403 8 comments

78

Just one thing: Restraint vs Device in design (www.drbunsen.org)

4 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042409 0 comments

89

Building Flickr’s new Hybrid Signed-Out Homepage (code.flickr.net)

4 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042409 0 comments

79

What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell 2.0 (www.stephendiehl.com)

4 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

0

FCC To Propose New 'Net Neutrality' Rules (online.wsj.com)

4 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042409 0 comments

0

Privately-funded plan to reboot mothballed ISEE-3 spacecraft (www.rockethub.com)

4 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042409 0 comments

0

The Four Freedoms (ma.tt)

4 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

79

Rumps – Uncomplicated OS X Python status bar apps (github.com)

4 points first seen 2014042418 last seen 2014042421 0 comments

0

$112 Xiaomi router (miwifi): 1TB hardrive, 802.11ac, openwrt mod (bbs.xiaomi.cn)

3 points first seen 2014042400 last seen 2014042400 0 comments

82

Show HN: Tab – A Better Dining Experience (http://tabpayments.co)

3 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042406 3 comments

84

Fat metabolism in animals altered to prevent most common type of heart disease (www.sciencedaily.com)

3 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042406 0 comments

85

Neuromorphic Chips (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042406 0 comments

90

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2014 (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042406 0 comments

0

More High School Grads Decide College Isn’t Worth It (fivethirtyeight.com)

3 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2014042403 0 comments

0

How journalism promotes the Internet's shadiest scams (priceonomics.com)

3 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042406 0 comments

0

IPyApp – IPython notebook desktop app (github.com)

3 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042406 0 comments

0

Element Queries, From the Feet Up (www.backalleycoder.com)

3 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042406 0 comments

0

Roomates Suck (www.moore.su)

3 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042406 0 comments

0

How to do a Jobs To Be Done interview (jasonevanish.com)

3 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042406 2 comments

85

Nodster (Napster + Node-webkit) (cryptologie.net)

3 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

90

Occipital Forks OpenNI (structure.io)

3 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

0

The PhoneGap Developer App (phonegap.com)

3 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042412 0 comments

0

When the People Cheer: How Hip-Hop Failed Black America (www.vulture.com)

3 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042415 0 comments

0

Barrett Brown's gag order vacated, crucial court documents unsealed (motherboard.vice.com)

3 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042415 0 comments

0

Dramatically enhance colors for JavaScript and CSS (GitHub) (github.com)

3 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042415 0 comments

0

Dear FCC, why do you hate consumers? (www.theverge.com)

3 points first seen 2014042415 last seen 2014042415 0 comments

89

We need better mobile multitasking (backchannel.org)

3 points first seen 2014042418 last seen 2014042421 0 comments

0

High school students get little instructContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1ion in computer science (www.washingtonpost.com)

3 points first seen 2014042418 last seen 2014042418 0 comments

0

Startup founder ducks jail after beating girlfriend 117 times (www.huffingtonpost.com)

3 points first seen 2014042421 last seen 2014042421 0 comments

9

Taplytics (YC W14) is hiring mobile and full-stack engineers (taplytics.com)

0 points first seen 2014042403 last seen 2016110215 0 comments

31

Amicus (S12) is hiring for Development, Sales, Marketing in NYC (item?id=7636374)

0 points first seen 2014042406 last seen 2014042415 0 comments

30

ZeroCater (YC W11) is looking for a full-stack engineer to help feed the world. (item?id=7638113)

0 points first seen 2014042412 last seen 2014042500 0 comments

30

Mattermark (YC S12) is hiring a Data Quality Lead (mattermark.com)

0 points first seen 2014042409 last seen 2014042421 0 comments

37

Design hardware for flying drones – Airware (YC W13) is hiring an EE (item?id=7638785)

0 points first seen 2014042418 last seen 2014042503 0 comments