Sunday, March 31, 2013
Hacker News stories for 8 PM on Sunday Mar 31, 2013
0.862 Python Library Released For The Coinbase API comments
0.762 By building “fairy circles,” termites engineer their own ecosystem comments
0.643 Introduction to Bayesian Methods comments
0.502 Using Kippt as a RSS Reader comments
0.493 Steve Jobs’ first boss: ‘Very few companies would hire Steve, even today’ comments
0.053 Google Maps One-Hand Zoom on iPhone comments
0.042 Tell HN: Flag PR “April fools pranks” comments
0.037 Show HN: See the number of DOM elements on a web page comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Sunday Mar 31, 2013
0.942 Want to learn to code? Start here. comments
0.843 Repl.it: online environment for interactively exploring programming languages comments
0.796 Online Education’s Dirty Secret - Awful Retention comments
0.796 Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws comments
0.675 Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas - The Redux comments
0.655 AngelList Receives SEC No-Action Letter Two Days After FundersClub comments
0.264 Kerbal Space Program - space flight simulator game comments
0.252 JavaScript is Not Web Assembly comments
0.251 Why China Is Reading Your Email comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Sunday Mar 31, 2013
0.717 Rebuild code automatically with “watch” and a makefile comments
0.620 The Ivy League Was Another Planet comments
0.613 Google Glass #ifihadglass Winners comments
0.561 Graphing time series in one line comments
0.467 A Cold, Harsh Reality for Radio comments
0.395 YouTube Announces That It Has Been An 8-Year Contest, Will Shut Down On April 1 comments
0.331 Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US comments
0.266 Google Reader alternative for Emacs Ninjas comments
0.199 Liberation fonts causing Windows 7 SP1 to BSOD comments
0.157 First Public Use of What Became Proxima Nova comments
0.077 Show HN: I’m writing a leanpub book - Upgrade to Rails 4 comments
0.054 Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework comments
0.054 PaperCoin - paper offline Bitcoin wallets comments
0.034 Show HN: Generate test data for your database tables comments
0.017 Skycons: ten animated weather icons, generated by JS using the HTML5 canvas comments
0.002 Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure comments
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Sunday Mar 31, 2013
0.639 Lisp: A Language for Stratified Design Abelson and Sussman, 1987 comments
0.552 Computer Programming as an Art Knuth, 1974 comments
0.409 The Lean Startup: A contrarian view comments
0.354 Slides from my Game Developers Conference talk comments
0.333 Justin Timberlake Made a Fortune Giving His Album Away comments
0.301 North Dakota, socialist haven? comments
0.293 PostgreSQL as Schemaless Database pdf comments
0.281 Secure Boot and Restricted Boot comments
0.250 The Bitcoin and the Taxi driver comments
0.249 Sidr - A jQuery plugin for creating side menus comments
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Hacker News stories for 10 PM on Saturday Mar 30, 2013
0.749 What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths? comments
0.665 Building Photoshop 1.0 comments
0.282 Show HN: Simple HTML pitch decks for your startup comments
0.228 Why iOS Devs Should Consider Using Core Data iCloud sync comments
Hacker News stories for 7 PM on Saturday Mar 30, 2013
Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Saturday Mar 30, 2013
0.934 Saying Goodbye to a Sister comments
0.893 Callbacks are imperative, promises are functional comments
0.829 Why innovators get better with age comments
0.467 HackerTalks comments
0.375 A multi-purpose EDITOR variable comments
0.333 BioBlender: Blender for Biologists comments
0.273 One Dimensional Cellular Automata (Working Simulation) comments
0.245 Google Code Jam 2013 comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Saturday Mar 30, 2013
0.826 Zsh-lovers – tips, tricks and examples for the Z shell comments
0.429 Worst CAPTCHA Ever comments
0.355 To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me comments
0.312 NetBSD turns 20 years old comments
0.208 Why Prioritize SENS Research for Human Longevity? comments
0.148 About security updates and repository “lockdown” comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Saturday Mar 30, 2013
0.927 Big Data and the Topologist (April 11, 2012) comments
0.821 Pyongyang Blusters, and U.S. Worries About Quieter Risks comments
0.750 Big Data Could Cripple Facebook comments
0.578 The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals comments
0.467 Fisics and Phynance comments
0.098 Scientists Inject Human Brain Cells Into Mice, Make Them Smarter comments
0.050 Graphical password vulnerability comments
0.046 DragonflyBSD 3.4 will replace pkgsrc with his own ports collection comments
0.030 Trying something new with Github. Help make my US holiday awesome? comments
0.028 Four alternatives to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone comments
Friday, March 29, 2013
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Friday Mar 29, 2013
0.900 Things Every Aspiring Entrepreneur Should Know comments
0.846 All The Things That Pull And Push comments
0.729 Is it project fraud or saving the client? comments
0.560 Back when not every question had an answer comments
0.303 LivingSocial co-founder Aaron Battalion quits comments
0.285 The final Ouya retail console is ready, we go hands-on comments
0.206 Apple’s Long-Rumored Game Controller May Soon See The Light Of Day comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Friday Mar 29, 2013
0.883 Introducing The Twilio Module For Node.js comments
0.877 tmux 1.8 Released comments
0.826 Titan 0.3.0 Released: Geo, full-text, edge indexing on billion edge graphs comments
0.699 “Attrition is a group statistic. It don’t apply to me.” comments
0.666 Why I Chose to Learn C comments
0.554 Core Concepts of Django Forms comments
0.509 Why dart2js produces faster JavaScript code from Dart comments
0.467 Semantic Markup Is Virtuous comments
0.199 Discourse now available in BitNami comments
0.184 Boston Police use fake social media accounts to phish indie rock show info comments
0.010 Ask HN: Would you pay for design lessons? comments
0.004 Show HN: IsThisLost helps you recover lost items like keys and phones comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Friday Mar 29, 2013
0.607 Bees still dying. No one knows why. Getting worse. Food supply affected comments
0.534 Why is my TI-99/4A in Black and White? comments
0.352 How driverless cars will affect our cities comments
0.333 The robotic dragonfly with a wingspan of 63 cm comments
0.289 Create your next conference poster with LaTeX comments
0.186 An App That Moves Sports Fans to Better Seats comments
0.151 3-D printer with nano-precision sets world record comments
0.001 Show HN: Andedit 2, a text editor for Android comments
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Friday Mar 29, 2013
0.991 .NET and Node.JS – Performance Comparison comments
0.908 Want to Help People? Just Give Them Money comments
0.737 Contemporary dance performance about gender at European Rails Conference comments
0.623 India as a great power comments
0.559 Spring Break of Code, Sure comments
0.534 Cyprus Bailout: Stupidity, Short-Sightedness, Something Else? comments
0.500 The Setup: Joe Armstrong comments
0.247 ZFS on Linux 0.6.1 released: Ready for wide scale deployment comments
0.202 Introducing Adobe Blank comments
0.188 Unified API of WebSocket and HTTP long polling/streaming for Clojure comments
0.174 A new blog dedicated to Emacs comments
0.161 Musk: SpaceX to Attempt Falcon 9 First Stage Water Landing comments
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Thursday Mar 28, 2013
0.680 The Case for Getting Married Young comments
0.680 Why Asm.js Bothers Me comments
0.630 Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse comments
0.610 Extra security measures for next week’s releases comments
0.094 Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads comments
0.002 Show HN: Load this image from a peer rather than from a web server (open source) comments
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Thursday Mar 28, 2013
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Thursday Mar 28, 2013
0.907 Mathematics Cannot be Patented. Case Dismissed comments
0.891 Building a browser extension? Be careful not to XSS the whole internet comments
0.502 Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle (what do you think?) comments
0.470 Dear Congress: It’s time for a real fix on unlocking and the DMCA comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Thursday Mar 28, 2013
0.995 Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented comments
0.972 OAuth for Python made easy comments
0.500 Formspring - A Postmortem comments
0.467 Series A Crunch Worsens comments
0.461 IT Pro confession: I contributed to the DDOS attack against Spamhaus comments
0.410 One Drug to Shrink All Tumors comments
0.386 Open access: The true cost of science publishing comments
0.277 Twilio Teams Up With Nonprofits To Help Fight Human Trafficking comments
0.118 How we wrote our app for MS Office 2013 comments
0.008 Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Thursday Mar 28, 2013
0.740 Fuduntu: Back to Fundamentals, Gets it Right comments
0.511 Web Framework Benchmarks comments
0.317 Google Shopping Express looking for Bay Area testers comments
0.171 Angry Birds of JavaScript: Blue Bird - Events and Messages comments
0.167 Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure (2009) video comments
0.072 V8 developers start working on ES6 generators for JavaScript comments
0.001 Show HN: Help job seekers by letting them ask employees anonymous questions comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Thursday Mar 28, 2013
0.947 Uniloc v. Rackspace: court bounces patent on method for rounding numbers comments
0.920 So, you want to try PyPy comments
0.884 Climate science: A sensitive matter comments
0.857 Frustrated with iCloud, Apple’s developer community speaks up comments
0.499 What’s The Point Of Promises? (JavaScript) comments
0.439 Shoplocket partners with WordPress to enable blog-based ecommerce comments
Hacker News stories for 6 AM on Thursday Mar 28, 2013
0.782 Go Concurrency comments
0.647 Will Emscripten/Asm.js kill Web-Development as we know it? comments
0.579 Run Zotonic sites on Heroku comments
0.570 Wal-Mart may get customers to deliver packages to online buyers comments
0.314 Darpa Maintains Control of Unmaned Aircraft at Mach 20 comments
0.174 Godit - A very religious text editor (Written in Go) comments
0.062 Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share comments
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Wednesday Mar 27, 2013
0.955 Concurrency Models: Go vs Erlang comments
0.898 Venture Capital’s Sluggish Performance comments
0.800 The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy and Wikipedia comments
0.688 GNOME 3.8 Released comments
0.509 Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem comments
0.467 Crowd-funding Preventive Treatment for Breast Cancer comments
0.459 The Positive Programmer comments
0.410 Email: the easiest way to improve retention comments
0.315 YC Demo Day, the Morning After comments
0.218 Ƀ — Universal Bitcoin Logo Alternative comments
0.145 The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Wednesday Mar 27, 2013
0.713 R, the master troll of statistical languages (2012) comments
0.685 Overloading Django Form Fields comments
0.516 Engineering Teams on Twitter comments
0.512 Stuxnet Likely Constituted Illegal Act of Force, Study Says comments
0.455 Anti-Yahoo Wunderkind comments
0.353 Amazon Kindle smartphone details leak: 4.7in screen and Q2 launch comments
0.318 Let’s Make DNS Outage Suck Less comments
0.249 MongoDB remote command execution vulnerability: nightmare or eye opener? comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Wednesday Mar 27, 2013
0.733 JSON is not as safe as people think it is comments
0.640 There’s a Hole in 1,951 Amazon S3 Buckets comments
0.620 Everything about Java 8 comments
0.318 Killing hackers is justified in cyber warfare, says NATO-commissioned report comments
0.296 Hands-on with Mozilla’s Web-based “Firefox OS” comments
0.125 Bringing First Timers to PyCon Through Financial Aid comments
0.083 Maps Hidden in Monopoly Helped World War II POWs Escape comments
0.044 Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft comments
0.040 The 17-Year-Old That Yahoo Paid $30M Was Licensing His Startup’s Core Technology comments
0.039 Paypal To Drop VMware From 80,000 Servers and Replace It With OpenStack comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Wednesday Mar 27, 2013
0.885 Scaling Teams and Fighting Human Nature in Startups - Rand’s Blog comments
0.882 Avoiding Common Backbone.js Pitfalls comments
0.540 Fake holidays are the new infographics comments
0.521 U.S. plans to let spy agencies scour Americans’ finances comments
0.500 The Trials, Tribulations and Triumph of PyCon 2013 comments
0.467 Rails’ Insecure Defaults comments
0.398 Global Internet slows after ‘biggest attack in history’ comments
Hacker News stories for 4 AM on Wednesday Mar 27, 2013
0.761 A Closure Is Not Always A Closure In Ruby comments
0.696 Bacteria evolve; Conservapedia demands recount 2008 comments
0.481 Dashing - The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework. comments
0.400 Achron, time shifting RTS comments
0.211 Working on TypeScript 0.9: Generics, Overload on Constants and Performance comments
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Tuesday Mar 26, 2013
0.969 Tech Talk: Paco Nathan – Enterprise Data Workflows & Functional Programming comments
0.945 Meet the 9 Female Founders of Y Combinator’s Winter 2013 Class comments
0.622 Getting Started with Django Lesson 3, Testing comments
0.444 Sync to Paper comments
0.024 Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool comments
Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Tuesday Mar 26, 2013
0.863 Y Combinator Winter 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1: Meet Wevorce, FlightCar, Thalmic comments
0.853 Paul Graham Says Y Combinator Is Pickier Than Ever, ‘Hardly Any’ Bad Startups comments
0.822 Show HN: How I Used Machine Learning to Optimize My Trading Algorithm comments
0.679 What’s Actually Wrong with Yahoo’s Purchase of Summly comments
0.447 Show HN: I’m writing a leanpub book about Common Lisp web programming comments
0.149 Mailchimp offers 10% discount for using 2-factor security comments
0.079 Elephant - Persistent Key-Value store with Full Text Search comments
0.078 Docker, the Linux container runtime: now open-source comments
0.044 Red state, blue state 2012: iOS vs Android in the USA comments
0.044 Show HN: Curated Newsletter of Show HNs comments
0.006 Show HN: Evernote powered website/blogging platform (now in open beta) comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Tuesday Mar 26, 2013
0.783 Watsi (YC W13) and the Future of Patronage comments
0.777 Your Startup’s Most Important Metrics comments
0.179 The power of the RSS reader comments
0.103 T-Mobile iPhone goes from myth to reality: $580, but no contract comments
0.066 Show HN: I made a site for hosting/selling indie games comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Tuesday Mar 26, 2013
0.839 Turing’s Universal Machine voted most important past British innovation comments
0.705 Xavier Niel will open a “revolutionary” computer school comments
0.692 Don’t Get Bored at Demo Day comments
0.521 Fantasy VC Picks comments
0.500 The Truth About Brining Turkey comments
0.344 Yahoo’s Mayer gets internal flak for more rigorous hiring comments
0.207 Why Does Git and Debian Use Mailing Lists Instead of Issue Trackers? comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Tuesday Mar 26, 2013
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Tuesday Mar 26, 2013
0.823 BitTorrent’s Bram Cohen Patents Live Streaming Protocol comments
0.749 Writing Open Source Software? Make Sure You Know Your Copyright Rights comments
0.638 How I develop Django projects comments
0.531 Django 1.5 works on Clever-Cloud comments
0.520 How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing comments
0.387 Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day comments
0.333 Friendly Drones with Carin Meier and Jim Weirich audio comments
0.321 The 100-Year Software Application comments
0.276 My Interview Questions for Potential Employers comments
0.047 Show HN: jQuery.pin – a plugin for making stuff stick comments