Saturday, August 31, 2013
Hacker News stories for 10 PM on Saturday Aug 31, 2013
0.749 Patent trolls put brakes on S.F. transit app comments
0.689 The Rest of the Lenna Story comments
0.640 Man accused of teaching people to beat lie detector tests faces prison comments
0.449 Linus: bool is dangerous in C if you don’t understand it comments
0.444 Linux kernel swear counts comments
0.429 Spamhaus DDOS Suspect Arrested comments
0.363 Doom 3 BFG Technical Documentation comments
0.337 Bitcoin Exchange Tradehill Pauses for Regulatory Reasons comments
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Saturday Aug 31, 2013
0.910 A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (2009) comments
0.873 Plotagon – Make a movie by just writing a story comments
0.867 Don’t just build things, help people comments
0.811 Judge Says Search Warrants for E-mails Must Be ‘Limited’ comments
0.586 Provo-Orem area ranked 11th for high-tech startups comments
0.467 Retraction from Tumblr comments
0.422 Why Snowden Asked Visitors in Hong Kong to Refrigerate Their Phones comments
0.331 Fog-harvesting system could provide potable water for the world’s driest regions comments
0.066 Google’s new “Remind Me” feature for TV shows, authors, and more comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Saturday Aug 31, 2013
0.781 Largest Homeless Camp In US is in Silicon Valley comments
0.750 Grace Hopper comments
0.750 PGPfone (1995) comments
0.718 New Zealand just abolished software patents. Here’s why we should, too. comments
0.680 We Let Our Employee Set Their Own Salaries comments
0.529 CUBRID: Sharded/High available/Open Source/FREE RDBMS comments
0.502 Trickle‐down technology and why it doesn’t work comments
Hacker News stories for 4 AM on Saturday Aug 31, 2013
0.259 Fck in Linux Kernel](http://pastie.org/8285826) comments
Friday, August 30, 2013
Hacker News stories for 7 PM on Friday Aug 30, 2013
0.843 Numenta open-sourced their Cortical Learning Algorithm comments
0.688 Craig Zucker: What Happens When a Man Takes on the Feds comments
0.667 Germany Seizes Children in Homeschool Raid comments
0.624 I’m an Entrepreneur, Now Give Me a Job comments
0.485 Syria’s largest city just dropped off the Internet comments
0.455 Bullshit Interviewers comments
0.376 Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me comments
0.318 Dissent: accountable anonymous group communication comments
0.246 Inline CSS fonts comments
0.186 IsTumblrDown? hit with a Cease & Desist comments
Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Friday Aug 30, 2013
0.848 James Burke predicted the future in 1973. Now he does it again comments
0.806 Tomorrow’s Ember 1.0 Release: 5 Things Every Dev Needs to Know comments
0.765 Discover the Ladder Paradox, relativity’s greatest thought experiment comments
0.651 Inside Microsoft’s Stack Rank System comments
0.020 New Google Play policy requires opt-in dialog to show ads comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Friday Aug 30, 2013
0.906 Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance comments
0.700 Founders’ Accents comments
0.533 The Face Scan Arrives comments
0.500 Visualizations that make no sense comments
0.395 Reversing Sinclair’s amazing 1974 calculator hack - half the ROM of the HP-35 comments
0.337 No time for coffee - spray caffeine on your skin comments
0.333 AngularFire - A real-time backend for AngularJS from Firebase comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Friday Aug 30, 2013
0.958 O’Reilly: 50% All eBooks - Back to School Sale comments
0.889 Why I’m not going to sign an NDA comments
0.887 More on the NSA Commandeering the Internet comments
0.700 Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People comments
0.656 What’s new with eInk comments
0.634 “Nobody expects privacy online”: Wrong. comments
0.598 India will reportedly ban use of US e-mail services comments
0.588 How Poverty Taxes the Brain comments
0.505 Great Technical Talks comments
0.166 Pressy: the one-button Android controller comments
0.095 The SCUMM Diary: Stories behind one of the greatest game engines ever made comments
0.093 CIA is largest US spy agency, according to black budget leaked by Edward Snowden comments
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Thursday Aug 29, 2013
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Thursday Aug 29, 2013
0.868 Introduction to AWS OpsWorks comments
0.504 Why We’re Traveling comments
0.442 U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ comments
0.427 No federal challenge to marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington comments
0.396 Show HN: We built a fast substring search engine in Go comments
0.384 Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why comments
0.324 Announcing Mixen: Multiple Inheritance in JavaScript comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Thursday Aug 29, 2013
0.529 Defensive Javascript - Run code safely on untrusted pages comments
0.411 Why You’ve Never Read “I Have A Dream” comments
0.399 Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome comments
0.286 Stripe: Redesign our status page as part of job applciation comments
0.252 I’m Building a GitHub for Writers comments
0.244 Announcing Teleport Tool: Backwards-compatible resilience to network outages comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Thursday Aug 29, 2013
0.960 The Top 5 Productivity Hacks for Entrepreneurs comments
0.882 Stanford Javascript Crypto Library comments
0.533 Spy Kids - By Charles Stross comments
0.533 Less guns = more violence: Harvard Study comments
0.333 Andy Hertzfeld on the Original ‘Boot Beep’ comments
0.255 Growth Hacking comments
0.218 Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation comments
0.184 How Release Mobile Uses Windows Azure and Cloudant comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Thursday Aug 29, 2013
0.972 Learn JS - Free Interactive JavaScript Tutorial comments
0.874 How “cell tower dumps” caught the High Country Bandits—and why it matters comments
0.309 Creative Link Effects - Subtle and modern effects for links or menu items comments
0.272 The cardinal UX mistake we made, you might be making it too comments
0.229 Does Steve Jobs know how to code? comments
0.218 Show HN: Create interactive HowTo guides with just few clicks - public beta comments
0.206 Nokia Chief Elop Is Top Gambling Pick to Be Next Microsoft CEO comments
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Thursday Aug 29, 2013
0.920 Understanding FFT Algorithm with python. comments
0.645 Reverse Engineering Marketing For Startups comments
0.404 Letter from Da Vinci to the Duke of Milan applying for a position comments
0.317 The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection comments
0.175 Why aren’t there any technologists on the NSA review panel? comments
0.141 Google is hiding data again. The Keyword Tool story. comments
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Wednesday Aug 28, 2013
0.905 The UC Berkeley Big Data AMP Camp, August 29-30 comments
0.599 Why am I being endorsed for skills and expertise I do not claim on my profile? comments
0.150 An attempt to create the highest resolution real-time map of global temperature. comments
0.063 CSS Sprites vs. Data URIs: Which is faster on mobile? comments
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Wednesday Aug 28, 2013
0.918 Thinking bigger: a free engineering school comments
0.631 Tin Can: WebRTC that uses Persona to authenticate the callers to each other comments
0.622 NJ Court: Text Recipients Can Be Held Liable In Texting-And-Driving Accidents comments
0.467 Electrons and Atoms comments
0.409 How one man turns annoying cold calls into cash comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Wednesday Aug 28, 2013
0.915 Bananas as you know them are going extinct (Panama Disease) comments
0.796 For Sale: Soviet Military Ferrite Core Memory Stack Cube and Manual comments
0.685 History and evolution of venture capital comments
0.656 Attack of the Kling-ons comments
0.588 Out-Tridging Tridge by improving rsync comments
0.545 Sixpack: Language-Agnostic A/B Testing comments
0.475 Marissa Mayer Has “Many Enemies” comments
0.467 Cargo Cults comments
0.294 Selfie, the Unromantic Network comments
0.267 $25M Round of Financing and 400% Growth for Couchbase comments
0.263 Linux Trojan “Hand of Thief” comments
0.197 Periodic Table of the HTML Elements comments
0.091 How GMail’s Tabbed Inbox Changes Startup’s Mobile Marketing Strategies comments
0.052 Show HN: UIBox – A Curated HTML, CSS, JS UI Component Library comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Wednesday Aug 28, 2013
0.873 Is Y Combinator Violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act? comments
0.858 Building a Software Company in Rwanda - 3 Years Later comments
0.811 Non-Indians have benefited most from patent regime in India comments
0.246 Apple Reportedly Acquires Swedish Firm AlgoTrim comments
0.143 Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders comments
0.131 ASICMiner Blade Prices Reduced 65% After Shares Crash comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Wednesday Aug 28, 2013
0.902 Why I’m saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive comments
0.488 Do whatever makes you happy is a lie comments
0.467 Shopify POS comments
0.418 ‘Natural Flavor’ Comes From A Beaver’s Butt comments
0.400 Rich Hickey: Design, Composition and Performance comments
0.009 Show HN: Turning a single video into an interactive pinboard. comments
Hacker News stories for 1 AM on Wednesday Aug 28, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Tuesday Aug 27, 2013
0.965 Coursera: Principles of Reactive Programming comments
0.918 What happens when you stand for 2 years. comments
0.756 What technology should your startup use comments
0.607 Harvestman - Quick and dirty web crawling comments
0.472 UW researchers figure out human-human brain signal transfers comments
0.396 Don’t Get Pwned on Public WiFi: Use Your Own VPN comments
0.359 What Makes Employees Work Harder: Punishment or Pampering? comments
0.262 Inside the Bitcoin advocates’ closed-door meeting with federal regulators comments
0.193 Researcher controls colleague’s motions in 1st human brain-to-brain interface comments
0.102 Now all Windows developers have been thrown under the bus comments
0.078 Flutter: $20 Wireless Arduino with half mile (1km) range. comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Tuesday Aug 27, 2013
0.952 How Girls Hold Themselves Back from Pursuing Computer Science (Infographic) comments
0.915 Go After 2 Years in Production comments
0.807 Java Algorithms and Clients comments
0.806 The Growth Hacker’s Dilemma: Process vs. Tactics comments
0.786 Jeff Sagarin, sports analytics pioneer, still codes in Fortran comments
0.685 Rails autoloading – how it works and when it doesn’t comments
0.625 The return of nftables comments
0.463 A different way of looking at responsive design: intention.js comments
0.439 OpenBlas project raising money for Haswell+Piledriver hardware comments
0.357 Railroads beware: Technology is gaining on you comments
0.298 Life without a cell phone comments
0.285 Memories of positive associations get written onto DNA comments
0.055 Show HN: The CampusData.org guide to bringing Open Data to universities comments
0.047 Get Faster, More Affordable Cloud Applications With OS Virtualization Containers comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Tuesday Aug 27, 2013
0.916 How to (Not) Hire Freelancers for Your Startup comments
0.724 US behavioural researchers more likely to exaggerate findings comments
0.696 German election diary: Posters everywhere but no attacks comments
0.608 Lessons learned: working remotely as a cofounder comments
0.571 Detaining David Miranda comments
0.438 10gen is now MongoDB, Inc. comments
0.430 What is algebra? comments
0.333 A Cloud And Azure Glossary For The Confused comments
0.304 Web Browser based control system for the RaspberryPi comments
0.290 DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com comments
0.252 Mozilla Servo: the road to Acid2 comments
0.153 Espruino – a JavaScript Arduino comments
0.078 We’re losing perspective on 3D CSS comments
0.045 Facebook’s “Transparency Report” cannot be viewed without a Facebook account comments
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Tuesday Aug 27, 2013
0.558 The story of a little DNS easter egg comments
0.385 GNOME Developers Hate the Mouse, Remove Middle-Click Paste comments
0.361 Lord Blair: we need laws to stop ‘principled’ leaking of state secrets comments
0.303 Protecting Against Leakers comments
0.227 Hobbit Risks:”The Hobbit” from an Insurance Point of View comments
Monday, August 26, 2013
Hacker News stories for 8 PM on Monday Aug 26, 2013
0.538 Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature comments
0.277 Dishwasher Cooking: Make Your Dinner While Cleaning The Plates comments
0.276 Where weapons come from? Visualizing global arms trade comments
0.202 Hacked Feature Phones Could Topple 2G Cell Networks comments
0.095 Process your first $1,000,000 of Bitcoin payments for free with Coinbase comments
0.028 Kickstarter is now accepting Canadian projects comments
Hacker News stories for 6 PM on Monday Aug 26, 2013
0.812 SQLite 3.8.0 Release with next-generation query planner comments
0.742 Our Design Guidelines for Teaching Programming Talkthroughs comments
0.430 Why do RET instructions have a REPZ prepended on x86? comments
0.311 Qt 4.7 ported to AmigaOS 4 comments
0.022 Show HN: TextBlob API Demo delivered inside docker comments
Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Monday Aug 26, 2013
0.691 Show HN: Easy to use Wikipedia API for Python comments
0.545 Tutor reveals the Ivy-admissions madness of rich penthouse parents comments
0.362 Wikileaks reveals Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian consulted with Stratfor comments
0.286 The Startup Book List: What Every Startup Founder & Early Employee must read comments
0.216 1pxdeep v1.0 released: Now a Bootstrap 3 theme comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Monday Aug 26, 2013
0.851 John Carmack: Thoughts on Haskell comments
0.526 Reddit: Lessons Learned From Scaling To 1 Billion Pageviews A Month comments
0.349 Facebook will shut down its physical gifts service this week comments
0.187 This Game Sold 144 Copies and Was Pirated 50,000 Times comments
0.065 How Hackers from Close.io Built a Sales Platform with Seamless Voice Integration comments
0.031 Mozilla’s Firefox OS Gives The Open Web Top Billing On Mobile comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Monday Aug 26, 2013
0.703 Open Sourcers Pitch Secure Email in Dark Age of PRISM comments
0.473 How many keystrokes do you have left? comments
0.439 How Stripe does engineering interviews comments
0.437 The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy comments