Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Wednesday Jul 31, 2013
0.777 Why Travis Kalanick is going to be a Transportation Rockefeller comments
0.588 How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition comments
0.442 I got access to all of BitTorrent Inc’s source code and sensitive documents comments
0.127 Give Snowden his due: He made a surveillance debate possible comments
0.044 Show HN: HN Digest comments
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Wednesday Jul 31, 2013
0.916 The Door To The FISA Court Doesn’t Even Have A Sign On It comments
0.677 Airports are less fearing change than trying to maintain their funding system comments
0.531 NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security conference comments
0.522 RethinkDB: new documentation site, cookbook with examples, practical guides comments
0.519 Why current social technologies might be keeping us from truly connecting comments
0.458 Wraith – A screenshot comparison tool from the BBC comments
0.444 Why I Left Medium comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Wednesday Jul 31, 2013
0.855 Why are most browsers developed in C++? comments
0.367 Tindie Launches Open Designs and Kickbacks for Open Source Hardware comments
0.016 Show HN: Bitcast.io - A marketplace for web development tutorials comments
0.001 Show HN: for the boaters among us, my small company made an iOS app comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Wednesday Jul 31, 2013
0.761 Twelve Go Best Practices comments
0.714 Government report: TSA employee misconduct up 26% in 3 years comments
0.566 HackRF just launched on Kickstarter comments
0.353 Why does Amazon have more books from the 1880s than the 1980s? Blame copyright. comments
0.278 Activision Blizzard goes indie after CEO Kotick buys back the company comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Wednesday Jul 31, 2013
0.830 Two years later, Senator’s criticism of NSA spying sinks in comments
0.566 Perl - the Detroit of scripting languages comments
0.400 Authy: Faster Two-Factor Authentication comments
0.378 Banks forgot to renew domain registrations, knocking services offline comments
0.368 Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better than face-to-face comments
0.359 Leaked transcript of censored Bret Victor talk comments
0.318 Black Holes + Wormholes = Quantum Answers comments
0.145 How a security expert/hacker foiled heroin frame case comments
0.015 Show HN: simply sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Wednesday Jul 31, 2013
0.533 1984 Day - Rally Against Surveillance comments
0.505 Revealed: NSA program collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’ comments
0.403 Intel’s first ‘open-source PC’ on sale for $199 comments
0.245 Starbucks’ WiFi goes Google comments
0.188 Zynga sues sex app maker over Bang With Friends name comments
0.032 From iPhone to iPad comments
0.004 Show HN: Mobile friendly property listing to Rightmove (UK) comments
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Hacker News stories for 6 PM on Tuesday Jul 30, 2013
0.769 Microsoft’s Surface sales figures are in, and they’re ABSOLUTELY HIDEOUS comments
0.645 Facebook will disappear in three years comments
0.583 Terms And Conditions May Apply (2013 documentary film about privacy) comments
0.343 A year without food (2012) comments
0.052 Huxley, an app that helps fight CSS and UI regression comments
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Tuesday Jul 30, 2013
0.469 Why startups should use the phone comments
0.429 Coinbase hires Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin comments
0.354 Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search comments
0.231 The four lamest excuses in MIT’s report on Aaron Swartz comments
0.222 Mobile e-commerce fraud detection comments
0.216 Everything you wanted to know about SQL injection (but were afraid to ask) comments
0.035 Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality comments
0.009 Ruby 2.0 is now supported in the OS X window manager for hackers, Zephyros comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Tuesday Jul 30, 2013
0.920 Chaise Blog: Building a diary with Angular.js, Grunt.js, and Cloudant comments
0.862 The Definitive Guide to Project Billing comments
0.522 On the emptiness in the concept of neutrality comments
0.122 Ng-conf 2014 - The World’s First Angular Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah comments
0.051 Should We Abolish User Access to rm? (2011) comments
0.011 Show HN: CoreOS, a Linux distro for containers comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Tuesday Jul 30, 2013
0.872 Student says he was unwitting drug mule, sues Ford comments
0.745 Angular or Backbone: what are startups using? comments
0.723 Bradley Manning not guilty of “aiding the enemy,” convicted on 19 other counts comments
0.400 Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, but convicted of multiple other counts comments
0.390 The MIT report on aaronsw comments
0.317 How to get started (AngularJS - from beginner to expert in 7 steps series) comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Tuesday Jul 30, 2013
0.879 AngularJS and Password Managers: Can’t we all just get along? comments
0.656 Ethernet Turns 40 comments
0.560 Padrino 0.11.3 Released comments
0.455 MIT Report is a whitewash. My Statement in Response comments
0.441 So Google is changing the rules of email! Here’s what you can do. comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Tuesday Jul 30, 2013
0.888 What to do when someone steals your startup idea - case study comments
0.849 Why You Will Never Learn to Code comments
0.631 A Common Lisp Bookshelf comments
0.542 The Guardian Moves to .com Domain comments
0.526 From STUPID to SOLID Code! comments
0.522 MIT releases report on its actions in the Aaron Swartz case comments
0.467 Observations from a Tipless Restaurant. comments
0.467 Facelift: MyClean comments
0.461 Enforced privacy is rude: advise instead comments
0.357 Android Fragmentation Visualized comments
0.230 Attaching a Thunderbolt GPU to a Macbook Air (w/ benchmarks) comments
0.209 Brand new Scala-lang.org comments
0.197 A Passive Income Hacker’s View on Wealth comments
0.144 A musician needs 133,253 plays per day to earn minimum wage on Spotify comments
0.062 Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share comments
Hacker News stories for 4 AM on Tuesday Jul 30, 2013
0.981 Why 99.997% Of Entrepreneurs May Want To Postpone Or Avoid VC comments
0.715 HTTP/2.0 Initial Draft Released comments
0.613 35h work week fading as the average full-time work week in France nears 40h comments
0.516 What git branching models actually work? comments
0.437 SpaceX processing units, radiation-tolerant by design (2012) comments
0.417 Linus’s advices on git rebase and merges comments
0.374 What does it mean for light to be stopped or stored? comments
0.297 Open Pixel-art Platformer comments
0.120 First Open Source Airplane Could Cost Just $15,000 comments
0.105 Disney’s new image algorithm turns 2D photos into a 3D model comments
0.010 Android vs. iOS: Comparing the Development Process of the GQueues Mobile Apps comments
Monday, July 29, 2013
Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Monday Jul 29, 2013
Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Monday Jul 29, 2013
0.861 Someone blocks all GPS signals at the London Stock Exchange for 10 minutes a day comments
0.813 Microsoft Accuses Microsoft of Copyright Infringement comments
0.806 How a Single Front-End Engineer Can Replace a Team of Two comments
0.780 Phil Fish and the Internet’s war against creatives comments
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Monday Jul 29, 2013
0.831 Data Structures using C++ comments
0.379 A back-projection algorithm to extract 3D volume from shadows comments
0.286 Stripe Shop comments
0.121 Tor use is now forbidden on Kimsufi’s OVH comments
0.098 Meetup Golf - a game I play to keep myself from networking wrong comments
0.096 Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences comments
0.004 Show HN: Create, publish and make money on your own iOS publication comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Monday Jul 29, 2013
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Monday Jul 29, 2013
0.933 US patent office rejects claims of Apple ‘pinch to zoom’ patent comments
0.834 Closures for class/module privacy considered harmful comments
0.816 OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t comments
0.717 The (Not-So) Secret Society …Of those who refuse to be average. comments
0.474 Developer Excuses comments
0.467 Crushing the Impostor Syndrome comments
0.453 UCLA scientists double efficiency of novel solar cell comments
0.444 Straws And Cups That Detect Date Rape Drugs comments
0.277 SIP Trunking to Replace My Landline Phone Using Plivo. comments
0.262 Hacker School/App Academy/ect. worth it? (MBA builds app in less than 2 months) comments
0.100 Announcing Trigger.io v2.0 comments
0.098 Show HN: Nobody wants to listen to my problems so I made this comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Monday Jul 29, 2013
0.860 Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong comments
0.789 Patent War Adds Front in U.S. comments
0.652 Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht comments
0.565 Be The Obnoxious Needy Jr Programmer comments
0.518 Down with lifehacking? comments
0.514 Groupcache: an alternative to memcached, written in Go comments
0.465 Bitcoin ruled illegal in Thailand comments
0.402 Tuples in JavaScript comments
0.176 Octopart API integration via DataNitro comments
0.158 Tox: secure messaging for everyone comments
0.139 GitHub currently experiencing a large DDoS attack comments
Hacker News stories for 6 AM on Monday Jul 29, 2013
0.618 Startup Exchange at Georgia Tech comments
0.462 On why removing features makes people unhappy (GNOME) comments
0.315 Living Surveillance Free for a Day comments
0.256 How we’re changing Georgia Tech, forever comments
0.235 What is the concept underlying image processing? comments
0.033 Show HN: Empress - Blogging with Ember.js and Github comments
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Monday Jul 29, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Hacker News stories for 11 PM on Sunday Jul 28, 2013
0.911 Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History comments
0.813 Mathematics self-proves its own Consistency (contra Gödel et. al.) comments
0.749 Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance comments
0.467 Honest In-App Purchases comments
0.373 Opponents of NSA surveillance emboldened by close House vote comments
0.333 A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges comments
0.270 Google offering same-day delivery from retailers in the Bay Area comments
0.229 Fuck the Super Game Boy: Introduction (2010) comments
0.222 Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make and break online video comments
0.104 Senior VP Bob Mansfield removed from Apple’s leadership page comments
Hacker News stories for 6 PM on Sunday Jul 28, 2013
0.745 How do I deal with a difficult programmer joining an open source project? comments
0.673 Dark Snow Project comments
0.474 A Simple, Comprehensive Overview of Javascript comments
0.375 The American-Western European Values Gap comments
0.255 Russ’ 10 Ingredient Recipe for Making 1 Million TPS on $5K Hardware comments
Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Sunday Jul 28, 2013
0.888 Why Go Is An Excellent Modern Programming Language comments
0.588 Quora’s “India Problem” comments
0.288 How Apple Gets At-Home Workers To Work comments
0.271 How We Increased Our Conversion Rate By 311% comments
0.255 Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee speaking at FOSDEM 2013 video comments
0.151 First steps with HHVM and Vagrant comments
0.114 Prism: Create and explore personalized infographics of your SMS history comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Sunday Jul 28, 2013
0.813 A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA comments
0.696 Tagging in Rails 4 using PostgreSQL arrays comments
0.468 Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy comments
0.133 Hyperloop lets you travel on a resonant acoustic wave? comments
0.128 Angels Get Carry for Helping a Startup Raise Money With AngelList Syndicates comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Sunday Jul 28, 2013
0.783 Here’s what could start happening to US tech companies in non-western markets comments
0.500 My hell as a 911 operator comments
0.388 What is new in IPython 1.0 comments
0.284 Building an internal combustion engine from store bought parts comments
0.236 Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have ‘Powerful and Invasive’ Search Tool comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Sunday Jul 28, 2013
0.899 Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes comments
0.853 “We can never make enough money…” comments
0.588 The Structure of a Real Apology comments
0.539 Clay - A Generic Programming Language as fast as C comments
0.533 In India, Prism-like Surveillance Slips Under the Radar comments
0.347 Whack: compile and run relocatable Linux programs comments
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Hacker News stories for 12 AM on Sunday Jul 28, 2013
0.796 Be a nurse or P.A. instead of a doctor: the underrated perils of medical school comments
0.615 UK Pornwall shall filter more than just porn comments
0.500 Ruins of forgotten empires: APL languages comments
0.382 Move.js is a small JavaScript library making CSS3 backed animation comments
0.375 Highly customizable checkboxes and radio buttons comments
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Saturday Jul 27, 2013
0.888 Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be “Abolished” comments
0.788 The Myth of Willpower and “Eat Less, Move More” comments
0.467 Byte magazine archives comments
0.046 Ubuntu: One OS, one interface, all devices comments
0.002 Show HN: This page will disappear in 10,000 views comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Saturday Jul 27, 2013
0.923 Can Software That Predicts Crime Pass Constitutional Muster? comments
0.745 Could the Government Get a Search Warrant for Your Thoughts? comments
0.720 The Science of Winning Poker comments
0.667 The Charitable-Industrial Complex comments
0.562 Applied Cryptography Engineering comments
0.301 GPGMail 2 is finally here comments
0.231 FBI admits to flying drones over US without warrants comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Saturday Jul 27, 2013
0.533 50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution comments
0.465 The Musician, JJ Cale has Passed Away comments
0.314 Down the VR rabbit hole: Fixing judder comments
0.130 Googleusercontent.com fun or Snowden is a Russian Citizen comments
0.079 Show HN: My product lets you catalog your book collection online comments
0.019 Ask HN: I’m a 14 year old developer. What should I do next? comments
Friday, July 26, 2013
Hacker News stories for 9 PM on Friday Jul 26, 2013
0.974 High school programming taught in Haskell in Argentina comments
0.844 How to slaughter a patent troll in 5 steps comments
0.698 Zero Tolerance Policies Put Students In The Hands Of Bad Cops comments
0.227 Why ‘Passive Income’ Is A Dangerous Fantasy (2011) comments
0.030 Show HN: Find out how many emails you send/receive comments
0.025 Zenefits (YC W13) Lands $2.1M To Automate Startup HR comments
Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Friday Jul 26, 2013
0.848 Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars comments
0.635 Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs’ 1982 Academy of Achievement speech comments
0.466 Apple’s Developer Center Is Back After Over a Week Offline comments
0.365 US Attorney General Holder: We Won’t Torture or Kill Snowden comments
0.235 DoorDash (YC S13) Delivers Food Quickly In South Bay, Hopes To Expand Beyond Food comments
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Friday Jul 26, 2013
0.690 Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer comments
0.553 Kindergarten coders can program before they can read comments
0.453 Porting dl.google.com from C++ to Go comments
0.375 Edward Tufte comments
0.103 Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash comments