Thursday, October 31, 2013
Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Thursday Oct 31, 2013
0.757 It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it? comments
0.500 Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare comments
0.489 How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day comments
0.464 Google, Oracle Workers Enlisted for Obamacare ‘Tech Surge’ comments
0.443 Web Framework Benchmarks Round 7 comments
0.085 Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Thursday Oct 31, 2013
0.975 Startup School Notes: The Book – Profits go to Watsi comments
0.910 Startups Like Berlin Because Visa Rules Are Nothing Like the U.S. comments
0.880 Trolls, Watch Out: Senator Hatch Introduces New Patent Legislation comments
0.844 Developer Preview of AWS SDK for JavaScript in the Browser comments
0.788 FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better comments
0.476 Fifth Amendment Prohibits Compelled Decryption, New EFF Brief Argues comments
0.465 The best and brightest are turning away from Wall Street comments
0.432 PayPal Redesign comments
0.429 Non-publication of large randomized clinical trials comments
0.389 Devops Horror Stories comments
0.367 Readings in distributed systems comments
0.317 Yahoo Bug Bounty Program is Now Live comments
0.304 Android for all and the new Nexus 5 comments
0.302 What Every Founder Should Know When an Acquirer Comes Calling comments
0.248 Long-Time SEO Jill Whalen Moves On, Praises Google For Rewarding Content More comments
0.154 Important announcement about your My Opera account comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Thursday Oct 31, 2013
0.803 NBA Superstar Chris Bosh: Here’s Why You Should Learn to Code comments
0.637 How We Built a Lean Startup Inside a 200 Person Company comments
0.363 TogetherJS as a Postmodern Tool comments
0.262 Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps comments
0.160 How to Make the Perfect Hipster Logo in 6 Easy Steps comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Thursday Oct 31, 2013
0.872 Duetto: a C++ compiler for the Web going beyond emscripten and node.js comments
0.607 Powered exoskeleton suit HAL 5 (driven by nerve impulses)) comments
0.139 HashFast Open Sources Bitcoin ASIC Interface Protocol comments
0.012 Show HN: GoInstant widgets - building blocks for multi-users apps comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Thursday Oct 31, 2013
0.676 Soylent: An Offbeat Food Idea Investors Are Taking Seriously comments
0.568 The 100 oldest .com domains on the internet. comments
0.547 Google and Yahoo Threaten To End Online Cookie Tracking comments
0.455 The fundraiser for Neo900 open smartphone comments
0.009 Show HN: Typecast - Design in the browser with Google Fonts comments
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Wednesday Oct 30, 2013
0.991 How to Build a Subscription Service on Rails: A Noob’s Guide comments
0.922 Intuitive Guide to Principal Component Analysis comments
0.744 Healthcare.gov technology stack (infographic) comments
0.369 From a useless Git Diff to a useful one comments
0.365 A Dark Room - A Minimalist Text Adventure Game comments
0.131 New Effort To Replace Email Protocol With Secure Alternative comments
0.131 Show HN: Online Reputation Management for Restaurants comments
0.044 Show HN: League Warrior comments
0.042 Lawdingo Raises $690K More To Help You Talk To Lawyers Instantly comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Wednesday Oct 30, 2013
0.986 Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js comments
0.885 Unlocked phones are the way to go comments
0.777 The Battle for Power on the Internet comments
0.775 Is Your Product Too Engaging? comments
0.767 Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t comments
0.693 TaskFlow - A library to complete workflows/tasks in HA manner comments
0.666 Evidence that dendrites actively process information in the brain comments
0.625 Contrasting Backbone and Angular comments
0.580 Why Goldman Sachs wants junior bankers to take weekends off comments
0.509 The Impossible Music of Black MIDI comments
0.489 Cisco to release BSD-licensed H.264 stack comments
0.447 PayPal Startup Blueprint comments
0.314 Does life end after 35? comments
0.314 Stalin’s Rope Roads comments
0.303 Future Internet aims to sever links with servers comments
0.288 Adobe hack: At least 38 million accounts breached comments
0.275 Let’s Build a Compiler comments
0.259 No one’s really interested in the Twitter IPO? comments
0.111 Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future comments
0.107 California Woman Gets the First Ticket for Driving with Google Glass comments
0.089 Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264 comments
0.017 Disabling old IP addresses comments
0.009 Hacker News was down comments
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Hacker News stories for 11 PM on Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
0.617 Proposal for script-hash directive in CSP 1.1 comments
0.475 Top Reviewers On Amazon Get Tons Of Free Stuff comments
0.321 Apple claim that iCloud can store passwords “only locally” seems to be false comments
0.249 Chromium: “MathML is not something that we want at this time” comments
0.241 CircleCI has been hacked comments
0.096 Using the world’s first Bitcoin ATM comments
0.023 iPad Air Review comments
0.014 iOS apps can be hijacked to show fraudulent content and intercept data comments
Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
0.750 Employment in America: WTF is going on? comments
0.747 The Economist explains itself: Is The Economist left- or right-wing? comments
0.667 Datomic Console comments
0.571 Cryptography in the Browser comments
0.375 MongoHQ Security breach comments
0.329 /dev/null as a Service comments
0.300 Humans.txt comments
0.289 How I hacked my room hunt in SF comments
0.237 Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed comments
0.199 Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop comments
0.184 Skype does a clever trick when bandwidth is scarce comments
0.151 Apple mail “bug” turns out to be user script after all comments
0.081 Introducing SafeSource, A New Way To Send Forbes Anonymous Tips And Documents comments
Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
0.711 What are the hottest startups in The Valley right now? comments
0.558 Which modern databases support ACID transactions? comments
0.437 Toyota’s firmware: Bad design and its consequences comments
0.244 Uber CEO responds to concern that Uber’s SF service is decreasing in quality comments
0.179 The End of Hypocrisy comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
0.926 Doing Things Alone comments
0.791 Static Site development just got better with data in Jekyll](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/blob/master/site/docs/datafiles.md) comments
0.767 Google Reportedly Building More Floating Structures Outside Bay Area comments
0.753 The Aha Moments That Made Y Combinator Possible comments
0.740 You’re Wrong: an F.A.Q. comments
0.620 Thoughts On TechCrunch Disrupt comments
0.603 Five Million Backers comments
0.527 Nasdaq Index Data Froze Up For An Hour Today comments
0.325 Dropbox’s new Python SDK for Datastore API comments
0.283 Introducing Riak 2.0: Data Types, Strong Consistency, Full-Text Search comments
0.202 Second Solar System Detected comments
0.116 Show HN : WebRTC helped me to launch my startup after 2 years of waiting. comments
0.033 PagerDuty launches new mobile app comments
0.026 Show HN: CinemaBuff - Actor graphs using IMDb ratings comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
0.625 Profit massively affects doctor surgery choice (NEJM) comments
0.336 Uber and Cheezburger will deliver you 15 minutes of kitten playtime for $20 comments
0.280 Yelp reviewers claim to be employees in lawsuit comments
0.235 All your Facebook Access Tokens are belong to us comments
0.230 Facebook marketing? Don’t bother, says new report comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
0.856 Why US Healthcare sucks and how I’m trying to change it comments
0.507 Firefox 25 is released comments
0.117 Songs of Diridum: Pushing the Web Audio API to Its Limits comments
0.065 Show HN: just released our beta, please give us feedback comments
0.048 Man buys $27 of bitcoin, finds they’re now worth $886k comments
0.028 Ask HN: How US manage to have no bribery at lower levels? comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
0.797 For modern development, Javascript is just something you need to learn comments
0.653 Stupid Programmer Tricks and Star Wars GIFs comments
0.474 Motorola’s Project Ara comments
0.421 Torture is Classified : 9/11-Suspects are not allowed to mention being tortured comments
0.390 TalkTalk want £10 for a 13-month-old bill comments
0.112 Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America’s ‘intentional poor’ comments
0.058 I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling comments
0.014 Show HN: Chemical.io - The Cloud Based Lab Management Solution comments
Hacker News stories for 6 AM on Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
0.670 Finally Redis collections are iterable - Antirez weblog comments
0.597 Hylas-Lisp - JIT-compiled Lisp dialect targetting the LLVM. comments
0.471 Google Nears Smartwatch Launch comments
0.457 On Hiring: Trial Week - Yay or Nay? comments
0.331 Bitcoin, The Economic Singularity: From Holland with Love comments
0.283 Time to Say: good bye WordPress? comments
Monday, October 28, 2013
Hacker News stories for 9 PM on Monday Oct 28, 2013
0.667 So You Want To Be A Writer? That’s Mistake #1 comments
0.571 Self: the movie comments
0.467 Cantor’s Diagonal Proof comments
0.382 Google Has Ended a Bunch of Free Data comments
0.295 Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit Was Made by a Bra Manufacturer comments
0.183 Poll: How do you create the website for your startup or side project? comments
0.137 High-Tech Window Cling is Like a Volume Knob for Real Life comments
0.055 Marketing Your Personal Projects video comments
0.035 Show HN: Mortality Rates in the US Visualized comments
Hacker News stories for 7 PM on Monday Oct 28, 2013
0.462 Dell XPS 15.6” QHD+ (3200x1800) comments
0.384 Trial week: Our hiring secret comments
0.357 Your Ethnicity Determines the Species of Bacteria That Live in Your Mouth comments
0.342 Nate Silver: What I need from statisticians comments
0.215 Feinstein wants mass domestic spying. Let’s get her off intel committee. comments
0.137 The slaughter continues — Apple’s latest deleted comment comments
Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Monday Oct 28, 2013
0.673 Things that suck in AngularJS comments
0.604 Drinking Dom Pérignon On A F#ing Boat comments
0.410 Sea Otters Are Jerks. So Are Dolphins, Penguins, and Other Adorable Animals comments
0.254 Engine Yard’s sponsorship of RVM is coming to an end comments
0.167 Simple 8-bit Assembler Simulator in Javascript comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Monday Oct 28, 2013
0.803 This Robot Can Teach Programming to Your 5-Year-Old comments
0.706 The Median-of-Medians Algorithm comments
0.566 Russia: Hidden chips ‘launch spam attacks from irons’ comments
0.337 FizzBuzz solved without modulo or division operators comments
0.303 Optimization by accepting side effects comments
0.265 Mozilla Location Service: Geolocation lookups from public cell tower, WiFi data comments
0.064 The Zuckerberg Files - All public utterances of Mark Zuckerberg comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Monday Oct 28, 2013
0.733 Heroku WebSocket performance comments
0.556 The 11% for IE11 challenge comments
0.463 Are We Too Close to Making Gattaca a Reality? comments
0.436 Don’t write code first comments
0.354 A Printer That Can Print a 2,500 Square Foot House in 20 Hours comments
0.020 Panorama’s (YC S13) advice for first time founders and YC applicants comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Monday Oct 28, 2013
0.976 A visualization of 40,000 student code submissions to Stanford comments
0.555 Wow, or from the When-Apple-Became-the-Borg Department comments
0.314 Incredible Discoveries Ten Years Later in Zelda Speedrun comments
0.243 The definitive guide to setting up a new mac for development comments
0.078 Progress report on cross-platform Open Web Apps comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Monday Oct 28, 2013
0.926 Silicon Valley: Feel the Froth comments
0.600 About Nimrod’s features comments
0.516 How Kentucky Built The Country’s Best Obamacare Website comments
0.467 MVP is about not wasting your life comments
0.467 Argentina’s Currency Black Market comments
0.286 Winter is coming comments
0.232 Starbucks, Twitter Launch Gifting Platform Via Tweets comments
0.193 A Look Into Facebook’s Potential To Recognize Anybody’s Face comments
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Monday Oct 28, 2013
0.857 The Argument Machine comments
0.718 Lisp for C++ programmers comments
0.667 Setting up Emacs as modern Ruby development environment on OSX comments
0.480 Nexus 10 appears on Play Store for 2 minutes then taken down? comments
0.176 Air France leaves passenger with dead parent stranded in Paris comments
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Hacker News stories for 11 PM on Sunday Oct 27, 2013
0.941 Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News? comments
0.828 AI Startup Says It Has Defeated Captchas comments
0.418 Judge OKs class-action suit against Apple, Intel, Google, Adobe comments
0.071 Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser comments
0.016 Turn your iPhone into a high-power digital microscope for around $10 comments
Hacker News stories for 8 PM on Sunday Oct 27, 2013
0.640 Things that aren’t maintained: The FFI Gem. comments
0.625 The emergence of Crowdsourcing specialists comments
0.606 Run Windows 1.01 in your browser comments
0.545 An enormous theorem: The classification of finite simple groups comments
0.245 In Fed and Out, Many Now Think Inflation Helps comments
0.003 Show HN: Rate My App - The Best Way for Developers to Stay in Shape comments
Hacker News stories for 6 PM on Sunday Oct 27, 2013
0.596 Facebook Doesn’t Want You To Know Who Unfriends You. Do You? comments
0.544 The Umbilical Link of Man to Robot comments
0.475 Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API comments
0.339 Saturated Fat is not the major issue comments
0.109 In start-up bubble, $4 billion is the new $1 billion comments
Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Sunday Oct 27, 2013
0.910 How one small American VPN company is trying to stand up for privacy comments
0.772 Time Machine style backup with rsync comments
0.471 Maire Curie’s papers are still radioactive comments
0.264 Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity comments
0.243 Is Ad Avoidance a Problem? comments
0.151 First Bitcoin ATM comments
0.059 Show HN: Advanced Web Applications Using Symfony comments
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Sunday Oct 27, 2013
0.696 Upcoming Nexus 5 leaks in white, Nov. 1 launch date reported comments
0.648 Guido Van Rossum: Letter to a young programmer comments
0.526 DMCA takedown on GPL-copyrighted code comments
0.322 Obama ‘not told of Merkel phone bugging’ comments
0.282 The Keys to the Keydom (64,000 vulnerable TLS keys on the Internet) comments
0.125 China’s bystander problem: Another death after crowd ignores woman in peril comments
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Sunday Oct 27, 2013
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Sunday Oct 27, 2013
0.507 Nissan Tests 48 kWh Battery In Leaf comments
0.296 Kaspersky AV signature mistakenly detects TCP/IP driver as virus, kills network comments
0.264 A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue comments
0.257 Repobuild – Declarative-style build system, like Google Build comments
0.094 Android isn’t freedom, because Google is closed comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Sunday Oct 27, 2013
0.478 Keyset driven paging - the fastest way to perform paging in SQL comments
0.477 The E-Cigarette Industry, Waiting to Exhale comments
0.423 What caused the green line in the frame before the puck hit the camera? comments
0.092 Natascha McElhone: it’s time to find an app for gender equality comments
0.065 ‘Born-to-die’: this device will self-destruct in 60 seconds comments
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Hacker News stories for 6 PM on Saturday Oct 26, 2013
0.831 And then the machines came for the doctors comments
0.643 US Government Monitoring Public Internet in Real Time comments
0.521 Write yourself a Scheme in 48 hours (in Haskell) comments
0.494 This Guy’s Wife Got Cancer, So He Did Something Unforgettable. comments
0.417 Suboxone, the miracle pill comments
0.408 Why I Stopped Selling My Time for a Living comments
0.081 My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done comments