Thursday, February 28, 2013
Hacker News stories for 10 PM on Thursday Feb 28, 2013
Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Thursday Feb 28, 2013
0.800 Products I Wish Existed comments
0.621 What are you passionate about in a company? comments
0.538 Compress data more densely with Zopfli comments
0.488 Karl Marx’s letter to Abraham Lincoln (1864) comments
0.446 Bradley Manning Takes “Full Responsibility” for Giving WikiLeaks Government Data comments
0.325 Andrew Mason asking for advice on “selling a website idea” (2006) comments
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Thursday Feb 28, 2013
0.599 It’s the Sugar, Folks comments
0.599 Ubuntu Rolling Release Proposal comments
0.578 We Found Our Son in the Subway comments
0.454 ZURB Launches Foundation 4 comments
0.439 Thousands of Public Data Sources comments
0.307 The Story of Bageshwori, Watsi’s First Patient comments
0.181 Microryza (YC W13) - crowdfund science that changes history comments
0.084 Why was my email leaked? comments
0.053 Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redirects to their servers comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Thursday Feb 28, 2013
0.615 One rat brain ‘talks’ to another using electronic link comments
0.333 How to calculate your hourly rate comments
0.320 WebKit for Developers comments
0.129 A new Light Table experience comments
0.122 Why Geneticists Need Designers: Making DNA Into Art comments
0.043 Debit bank accounts with Balanced Payments (YC W11) comments
0.010 Balanced (YC W11) Adds Bank Payments to its P2P Payments Platform comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Thursday Feb 28, 2013
0.798 Free Trello-alike, way better visuals. comments
0.645 What’s in a Side Project? comments
0.615 More founders reject VC money comments
0.500 The Fallacy Of The B&N Fallacy comments
0.467 The B&N fallacy comments
0.395 Lack of sleep alters human gene activity comments
0.236 Resurgence in Neural Networks comments
0.027 Stop finding out that your ruby app is vulnerable through Hacker News comments
Hacker News stories for 6 AM on Thursday Feb 28, 2013
0.945 Scientists May Know How Dinosaurs Got So Big comments
0.884 Django Redis Pipeline trick comments
0.814 Beware of the Tricks Used By Clients To Manipulate Freelancers comments
0.390 50 kilometers comet just might hit Mars in 2014 comments
0.353 Tor Exit Nodes Mapped and Located comments
0.189 Torvalds clarifies Linux’s Windows 8 Secure Boot position comments
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Thursday Feb 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Hacker News stories for 9 PM on Wednesday Feb 27, 2013
0.824 In bid for credibility, largest Bitcoin exchange moves to Silicon Valley comments
0.486 Gas Boom Projected to Last for Decades comments
0.455 Ang Lee and the uncertainty of success comments
0.335 Bitcoin reaches an all-time trading high of over $33 comments
0.244 Why we love Twitter Bootstrap and why you should too comments
0.107 Outbox Makes Your Snail Mail Digital, Launches in SF comments
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Wednesday Feb 27, 2013
0.973 Politicians want “loser pays” rule for patent trolls comments
0.908 Python for Ruby Programmers (LA RubyConf 2013) comments
0.757 FreedomBox Version 0.1 Released comments
0.557 A simple solution to credit card fraud, part 3: the startup that never was comments
0.493 How PHP’s foreach works comments
0.467 The Glass Bicycle comments
0.382 Why BitcoinStore is going to bring an end to a Decade of PayPal comments
0.369 Reproducing the Macintosh Boot Beep from JavaScript Cloud Code comments
0.270 MIT’s Saturday hoax incident comments
0.205 How safe is your password with Verizon? comments
0.120 SimplyInsured (YC W13) Wants To Help Take The Pain Out Of Health Insurance comments
0.112 Crouton: Chromium OS Ubuntu Chroot Environment comments
0.102 Inventing a Dating App That Women Will Actually Use comments
0.061 Weeks after adding Trader Joe’s, Instacart now supports Whole Foods comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Wednesday Feb 27, 2013
0.964 Help EFF Fight Patent Trolls – Support the SHIELD Act comments
0.816 ForgeJS launches first full stack JavaScript development school in Seattle comments
0.625 Introducing Mutations: Putting SOA on Rails for security & maintainability comments
0.623 What it’s like to work with Mark Pincus comments
0.494 How we use Trello & Google Docs to make UserVoice better every day comments
0.467 The Deep Insights of Alan Kay comments
0.461 Cripple the Prototype: Sabotaging your best ideas comments
0.296 Do DevOps tools really exist? comments
0.234 After a year of reading HN, this is how I view the successful entrepreneur comments
0.159 A New Approach to Databases — Simulating 10Ks of Spaceships on my laptop comments
0.131 Microsoft BizSpark includes free Azure access comments
0.059 Fancy Input - CSS3 text typing effects for input fields comments
0.046 Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery comments
0.044 Show HN: Nice Nice JPG comments
0.034 NASA live streaming announcement on black hole observations video comments
0.014 Show HN: Registration is now open for a live Q&A with Alexis Ohanian comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Wednesday Feb 27, 2013
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Wednesday Feb 27, 2013
0.913 3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production comments
0.811 Erlang 16B Released comments
0.528 MongoHQ releases SSD powered databases, autoscaling beta comments
0.104 Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5 comments
0.068 Dropbox CEO Drew Houston To Samsung’s Competitors: ‘We’d Love To Work With You’ comments
Hacker News stories for 4 AM on Wednesday Feb 27, 2013
0.887 Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says comments
0.864 Suffering From Depression? Don’t Do That Start-up comments
0.566 Intro to Group Theory comments
0.468 Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python? comments
0.460 How we increased our conversion rate by 11% in 10 minutes comments
0.180 Music Industry Records First Revenue Increase Since 1999 comments
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Hacker News stories for 9 PM on Tuesday Feb 26, 2013
0.906 Has the ideas machine broken down? comments
0.637 Does academic research cause economic growth? comments
0.551 Why are pages slow? comments
0.514 Microsoft open sources C++ REST SDK “Casablanca” comments
0.381 Adding Concurrency to Rails Apps with Unicorn comments
0.357 Fighting game Skullgirls reaches crowdfunding goal in less than 24 hours comments
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Tuesday Feb 26, 2013
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Tuesday Feb 26, 2013
0.395 Jeff Atwood’s curious position on Swartz and suicide and prison comments
0.245 OpenJournal - Discuss academic papers (open source) comments
0.237 Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase ‘Barely Legal Teens’ comments
0.184 Listening to music with hearing aids comments
0.038 Chrome 26 Beta: Template Element and Unprefixed CSS Transitions comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Tuesday Feb 26, 2013
0.830 Aerial photography ban proposed for all but government comments
0.769 Want to succeed as a female founder? Quit talking about being a female founder comments
0.533 Crossing The Street comments
0.255 Stuxnet Missing Link Found, Resolves Some Mysteries Around the Cyberweapon comments
0.218 Privacy Violations: Pollution of the Digital Revolution comments
0.196 File Upload with Cordova that Doesn’t Suck comments
0.042 85% of Smartphone Users Would Rather Give up Water Than Mobile Apps comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Tuesday Feb 26, 2013
0.740 Nginx vs. Apache in AWS comments
0.611 Python Generators in Depth comments
0.538 Putting healthcare in hackers’ hands comments
0.511 An alternative to alert() comments
0.309 Google Has ‘No Plans’ To Launch Retail Stores comments
0.251 A Philosophical View Of What Boards Should And Should Not Do comments
0.232 Server-side view or client-side MVC? comments
0.084 Show HN: We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Tuesday Feb 26, 2013
0.938 Why do programming languages use curly braces? comments
0.844 How I learned to love rebase comments
0.708 Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code comments
0.604 Failure and Redemption comments
0.521 The Science Behind Coffee and Why it’s Actually Good for Your Health comments
0.367 I’m not too happy about Sublime Text 3 comments
0.346 Introducing Google+ Sign-In: simple and secure, minus the social spam comments
0.330 Bandwidth needs halved by new compression written in Go comments
Hacker News stories for 4 AM on Tuesday Feb 26, 2013
0.670 10 Object Oriented Design principles Java programmer should know comments
0.500 DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels comments
0.407 Bad sleep ‘dramatically’ alters body comments
0.372 Bullying has to stop, now. comments
0.101 3D Printing + 3D Scanning + Biomechanical Models = Project Andiamo comments
0.088 Loom: Native mobile game engine with live reload of code and assets comments
0.020 Notorious hacker Sabu has to help the FBI for another six months comments
Monday, February 25, 2013
Hacker News stories for 11 PM on Monday Feb 25, 2013
0.699 DOJ Admits Aaron’s Prosecution Was Political comments
0.630 Spider Silk Can Halt a Train comments
0.476 Anil Potti posts restored to Retraction Watch following false DMCA claim comments
0.258 Fauja Singh, world’s oldest marathon runner, completes final race at 101 comments
0.117 Aaron Swartz Was Targeted by Feds Over His Activism comments
Hacker News stories for 6 PM on Monday Feb 25, 2013
0.633 Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco router comments
0.620 Venture Capitalists Prepare For The Impact Of Crowdfunding comments
0.551 Three CSS features you need to know about comments
0.125 Spideroak debuts Crypton, framework for end-to-end encrypted cloud applications comments
Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Monday Feb 25, 2013
0.992 Ruby on Rails 4.0.0.beta1 released comments
0.939 Shutting down my side project of two years comments
0.925 Prosecutors’ deal for Swartz: Felony plea and three months in jail comments
0.855 Semantics3 (YC W13) Is A Massive Consumer Products Database To Rule Them All comments
0.592 ISPs Now Monitoring for Copyright Infringement comments
0.439 Small rise in global temperatures could thaw permafrost comments
0.431 Let’s build a JPEG decoder: Huffman tables comments
0.385 The Next Generation of Gesture Control comments
0.328 We Aren’t the World comments
0.250 Pull to refresh. For the web comments
0.210 The Idea That Launched a Thousand Civilisations (2012) pdf comments
0.067 A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome comments
0.060 HTML5 Games: Learning from Mobile and Flash Games comments
0.004 Meldium (YC W13) Controls Your Team’s Shared App Passwords For You comments
0.000 Luma updates its video camera app for iOS, adding cinematic image stabilization comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Monday Feb 25, 2013
0.983 Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark? (2006) comments
0.931 Things I Did Wrong with My Last Startup comments
0.407 Redshift Performance and Cost comments
0.343 The AR-15 Is More Than a Gun. It’s a Gadget comments
0.107 Sony jumps on the Mozilla bandwagon, will launch Firefox OS device in 2014 comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Monday Feb 25, 2013
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Monday Feb 25, 2013
0.958 How-to: Resample from a Large Data Set in Parallel (with R on Hadoop) comments
0.948 Stanford Female CS Student: I Fight Impostor Syndrome comments
0.842 If You’re Thinking of Launching a Social Media Startup, Please Don’t comments
0.813 Court of Appeal bans Bayesian probability comments
0.800 The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food comments
0.777 The best programmers are the quickest to Google comments
0.748 Wikipedia over SMS: Getting Wikipedia to the people who need it most comments
0.707 Healthcare tech ideas we’d like to fund comments
0.667 ‘Bloodless’ Lung Transplants Offer Hint at Surgery’s Future comments
0.630 How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing comments
0.625 Sexism In Tech: We’re Not Making It Up comments
0.586 Email-First Startups comments
0.529 The Virtual March on Washington for Immigration comments
0.368 No more remote work at Yahoo comments
0.347 Ubuntu Touch Ported To Galaxy S3 comments
0.250 Review: Textadept comments
0.214 Bypassing Google’s Two-Factor Authentication comments
0.200 The True Cost of Healthcare in the US comments
0.092 Microryza (YC W13) Is A “Kickstarter” For Scientific Research comments
0.074 Thalmic (YC W13) introduces gesture control without the cameras comments
0.054 Warby Parker Grabs New Investment, Closing $41.5M Round comments
Hacker News stories for 3 AM on Monday Feb 25, 2013
0.794 FPGA Programming for the Masses comments
0.759 A Toml parser library for Go comments
0.733 Why Visual Basic is (supposedly) better than C# comments
0.653 What if everything you know is wrong? comments
0.090 Automated Locality Optimization Based on the Reuse Distance of String Operations comments
0.047 LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform comments
Hacker News stories for 2 AM on Monday Feb 25, 2013
0.691 From Imperative to Functional: how to make the leap comments
0.586 Startups – Do Not Jump Over The Hills comments
0.378 CoffeeScript 1.5.0 is out, with “Literate CoffeeScript” comments
0.218 Is speed reading really possible? comments
0.187 Need Bitcoins? This ATM takes dollars and funds your account comments
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Hacker News stories for 11 PM on Sunday Feb 24, 2013
0.561 Corporate tie binds US to a slow internet comments
0.504 Spoiler Alert – JQuery plugin for sensitive content comments
0.504 Google Gives $5 Million to Drone Program That Will Track Poachers comments
0.400 Is Foxconn Fleeing China? Sure Looks Like It comments
0.375 TLDR: Submerged continent found in the Indian ocean comments
0.253 ‘Inocente’ makes history as first Kickstarter-funded film to win Oscar comments
0.072 GitHub now supports TOML syntax highlighting comments
0.010 Action.IO: Web Development Server with Full Console, Online IDE and SSH Access comments
Hacker News stories for 7 PM on Sunday Feb 24, 2013
0.707 Why Hating Your Shitty Job Only Makes It Worse comments
0.616 Books from the Soviet era – A Call for Covers comments
0.343 The Meaning of ‘su’ (Super User) comments
0.333 TCP Traceroute comments
0.304 How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube comments
0.096 Dwarf Fortress: Ten hours with the most inscrutable video game of all time comments
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Sunday Feb 24, 2013
0.872 Home office produces hardest workers comments
0.747 Brief comparison of Java 7 HotSpot Garbage Collectors comments
0.713 German student builds electromagnetic harvester to recharge a battery comments
0.510 99 ways to say ‘(I love you) comments
0.456 A Brief History of the Chinese Growth Model comments
0.421 Review: Python for Kids comments
0.337 Log In or Create Account comments
0.157 Concurrency is not Parallelism. Rob Pike at Waza 2012 video comments
0.048 Show HN: Live London bus departures from multiple stops comments
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Sunday Feb 24, 2013
0.936 Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures comments
0.935 How to hire a product manager comments
0.933 Tips For Tech Recruiters, From an Engineer comments
0.477 Deals Missed comments
0.461 iMessage Should Have a Dead Battery Auto-Responder comments
0.326 Why Use Make comments
0.286 How to start working on side projects comments
0.267 New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Sunday Feb 24, 2013
0.883 Parallelism and Concurrency with Haskell and Cloud Haskell comments
0.855 Introduction to Graph Theory: Finding The Shortest Path (Part 2) comments
0.409 Possibly the worst angel group ever: $3000 to pitch, plus 8% of your company comments
0.363 Hulk: A Haskell IRC server comments
0.362 Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach? pdf comments
0.170 How many draws of a random number 0,1 are needed to sum to 1 comments
0.100 18 mobile operators announce commitment to Firefox OS comments
0.082 The arcane art of cold emailing bloggers comments
0.012 Ask HN: If you could start a start-up anywhere in the world comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Sunday Feb 24, 2013
0.848 The Next Frontier Is in Your Brain comments
0.800 Ruby 1.9 doesn’t implement ISO 8601 properly comments
0.790 Monsanto seed suit and software patents comments
0.742 Stop Writing REST API Clients. comments
0.588 Django Suit: modern theme for Django admin comments
0.467 How Doers Do comments
0.276 The comeback of static typing comments
0.276 Dave McLure: “Wake up Japan” comments
0.264 Show HN: Easy interactive product tours with bootstrap theme support comments
0.128 HTC America Settles FTC Charges It Failed to Secure Millions of Mobile Devices comments
0.040 The Rise and Fall of a Hacker Who Found the Secrets of the Xbox and PS4 comments
0.003 Show HN: Introducing Comb - personal finance app comments
Hacker News stories for 6 AM on Sunday Feb 24, 2013
0.771 Programs should be Small comments
0.665 Tom’s Obvious, Minimal Language (like INI, only better) comments
0.375 “Almost Too Beautiful” - Morton Feldman’s 2nd String Quartet (2003) comments
0.286 Will Google Penalize Itself Again for Using Advertorials? comments
0.020 Show HN: Tavern, Next Generation Bulletin Boards/Forums comments
0.013 Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be? comments
0.001 Show HN: Doses of inspiration, starting with a tribute to Steve Jobs comments
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Hacker News stories for 8 PM on Saturday Feb 23, 2013
0.870 Parallel.js: A javascript library for parallel computing comments
0.834 Two years of Guile 2.0 comments
0.706 Fullproof - A javascript fulltext search engine library comments
0.677 Python On Wheels comments
0.467 TeamViewer authentication protocol comments
0.448 What’s The Secret Behind Y Combinator’s Success? comments
0.426 TOML, Tom’s Own Markup Language comments
0.392 HipsterNews - DesignerNews theme for HackerNews comments
0.339 The Chromebook Pixel’s best feature comments
0.301 Airbnb May Hire Former Square Exec Rabois as COO comments
0.077 Blocking China IP Address Blocks comments
0.062 Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app comments