top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-03

A New Look for Facebook

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Facebook-New-Look-Concept/6504647

14 years ago

424 upvotes – 215 comments

Every NFL play for the past 10 years in CSV format

http://www.advancednflstats.com/2010/04/play-by-play-data.html

14 years ago

421 upvotes – 101 comments

Vigil: A programming language with eternal moral vigilance

https://github.com/munificent/vigil

14 years ago

★ 3k Python
362 upvotes – 118 comments

Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "he now praises the ipad"

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38538

14 years ago

311 upvotes – 64 comments

Rails SQL injection vulnerability: here are the facts

http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/03/rails-sql-injection-vulnerability-hold-your-horses-here-are-the-facts/#.UOV2h_j3Giw

14 years ago

289 upvotes – 112 comments

Black and Whitey: How the feds disable criminal defense

http://www.forbes.com/sites/harveysilverglate/2013/01/03/black-whitey-how-the-feds-disable-criminal-defense/

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 149 comments

Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images

http://phrase.it/

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 95 comments

Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/coder-charged-for-gambling-software/

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 148 comments

Fitbit, why can’t I have my data?

http://simplystatistics.org/2013/01/02/fitbit-why-cant-i-have-my-data/

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 101 comments

Warren Buffett Buys World's Largest Solar Project from SunPower for $2.5 Billion

http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/warren-buffett-buys-worlds-largest-solar-project-sunpower-25-billion.html

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 85 comments

Behind enemy lines: 3 months as an iOS developer at Google

http://www.splinter.com.au/2012/12/26/behind-enemy-lines-google/

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 154 comments

Are Designers Crazy?

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/01/are-designers-crazy/

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 152 comments

The TSA wants to be everywhere in 2013 - here's why we shouldn't let it

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130102105144-332179-the-tsa-wants-to-be-everywhere-in-2013-here-s-why-we-shouldn-t-let-it

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 97 comments

Enhancing digital certificate security (Fake *.Google.com cert issued)

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/01/enhancing-digital-certificate-security.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoogleOnlineSecurityBlog+%28Google+Online+Security+Blog%29

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 108 comments

Quantum gas goes below absolute zero

http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-gas-goes-below-absolute-zero-1.12146

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 64 comments

The future according to Google's Larry Page

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/03/google-larry-page/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 49 comments

Make Me

https://github.com/blog/1368-make-me

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 32 comments

A Tor proxy that runs in your browser

https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 30 comments

LLVM.js: LLVM Itself Compiled to JavaScript via Emscripten

http://badassjs.com/post/39573969361/llvm-js-llvm-itself-compiled-to-javascript-via

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 12 comments

All you need to know about CSS Transitions

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/css-transitions

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 11 comments

One Way to Write A Powerful Cold Email

http://life-longlearner.com/most-powerful-cold-email/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 46 comments

Open source Linux driver supports 3D acceleration with all GeForce GPUs

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Open-source-Linux-driver-supports-3D-acceleration-with-all-GeForce-GPUs-1776089.html

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 27 comments

Web Scraping with Node.js and Chimera

http://www.deanmao.com/2012/08/13/enter-chimera/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 32 comments

Heroku now supporting Python version switching, and Python 3

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python-support#runtimes

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Ray Kurzweil Says He’ll Get ‘Unlimited Resources’ to Work on AI at Google

http://betabeat.com/2013/01/ray-kurzweil-says-hell-get-unlimited-funds-to-work-on-ai-at-google/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 113 comments

Pen and Paper

http://plc.vc/pen-paper

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 76 comments

Effective JavaScript Reviewed

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2013/01/effective-javascript.md

14 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby
87 upvotes – 20 comments

How to Gain or Lose 30 Minutes of Life Every Day

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-gain-or-lose-30-minutes-of-life-everyday

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 64 comments

Gerrymandering and a cure - shortest splitline algorithm

http://rangevoting.org/GerryExamples.html

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 82 comments

Algorithm improvement for Coca-Cola can shape recognition

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10168686/algorithm-improvement-for-coca-cola-can-shape-recognition#

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

Winning is the worst thing that can happen in Vegas

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3384-winning-is-the-thing-that-can-happen-in-vegas

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 58 comments

Punchfork acquired by Pinterest

http://punchfork.com/pinterest

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments

Judge Says No One Is Confusing Apple's App Store and Amazon's Appstore

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/01/apple-amazon-appstore-for-android/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 44 comments

Tactful Trademark Defense: An Example

http://tech.wordnik.com/tactful-trademark-defense-an-example/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

What You Need to Know About MOOCs

http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/133475/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 54 comments

Inception Explained – HTML + CSS Experiment

http://www.inception-explained.com/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 26 comments

Elite video game reboot hits funding target

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20897768

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 43 comments

Google Agrees to Change Business Practices to Resolve FTC Competition Concerns

http://ftc.gov/opa/2013/01/google.shtm

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 40 comments

Eric Schmidt heading on mystery mission to North Korea

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/03/schmidt_visit_north_korea/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 40 comments

The Raspberry Pi Education Manual

http://lifehacker.com/5972500/the-raspberry-pi-education-manual-teaches-you-basic-computer-science-principles

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

France’s second-largest ISP deploys ad blocking via firmware update

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/frances-second-largest-isp-deploys-ad-blocking-via-firmware-update/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Papyrus,a simple way to create ebooks

http://papyruseditor.com

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

HTML5 is now stable and "feature complete"

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/open-source-insider/2013/01/html5-is-now-stable-and-feature-complete.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments
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