top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-04

Minimal wireframing tool - for free

http://wireframe.cc

14 years ago

374 upvotes – 56 comments

An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

http://www.24100.net/2013/01/an-iphone-lovers-confession-i-switched-to-the-nexus-4-completely/

14 years ago

364 upvotes – 349 comments

America's Real Criminal Element: Lead

http://www.motherjones.com/print/208586

14 years ago

339 upvotes – 195 comments

Keeping Safari a secret

http://donmelton.com/2013/01/03/keeping-safari-a-secret/

14 years ago

283 upvotes – 102 comments

Entropy generator to provide significant lag reduction in Android

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987032&nocache=0

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 105 comments

Django 1.5 release candidate available

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/jan/04/15-rc-1/

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 68 comments

Mega Man 2 (NES) password algorithm and code

https://github.com/kpshek/mm2pwd

14 years ago

★ 235 Ruby Apache-2.0
197 upvotes – 50 comments

Scala 2.10 now available

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/27499

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 96 comments

IRC is dead, long live IRC

http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/04/24/irc-is-dead-long-live-irc/

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 167 comments

Free SVG and PNG Icons Easily Customizable For Games

http://game-icons.net/

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 26 comments

Rant: Backbone, Angular, Meteor, Derby

https://gist.github.com/4454814

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 158 comments

Android SDK is now proprietary

http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2013/01/03/android-sdk-is-now-proprietary-replicant-to-the-rescue/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 70 comments

μLithp - a Lisp in 27 lines of Ruby

http://fogus.github.com/ulithp/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 98 comments

How blind people use Instagram [video]

http://kottke.org/13/01/how-blind-people-use-instagram

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

The USPTO Would Like to Partner with the Software Community

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130104012214868

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 128 comments

Now Google is blocking Windows Phones from accessing maps.Google.com

http://wmpoweruser.com/now-google-is-blocking-windows-phones-from-accessing-maps-google-com/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 106 comments

Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006037

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 86 comments

Felix - a fast scripting language

http://felix-lang.org

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 83 comments

Caffeinated Seas Found off U.S. Pacific Northwest

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120730-caffeinated-seas-pacific-northwest-caffeine-coffee-science/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 56 comments

Turkish government agency spoofed Google certificate “accidentally”

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/turkish-government-agency-spoofed-google-certificate-accidentally/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 63 comments

Life and Career Lessons – 2012

http://www.codercowboy.com/2013/01/04/life-career-lessons-2012/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

It's Gibberish, But Italian Pop Song Still Means Something

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/04/164206468/its-gibberish-but-italian-pop-song-still-means-something

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 84 comments

Disney announces Wreck-It Ralph will arrive for download before DVD, Blu-ray

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/04/disney-wreck-it-ralph-early-digital-release/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 45 comments

The ARM vs x86 Wars Have Begun: Power Analysis of Atom, Krait, and Cortex A15

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6536/arm-vs-x86-the-real-showdown

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 51 comments

Welcome to “Learning by Shipping”

http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2013/01/03/hello-world/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 11 comments

A year without caffeine

http://bryanalexander.org/2013/01/04/a-year-without-caffeine/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 82 comments

Erlang OTP Tutorial For Beginners

http://blog.bot.co.za/en/article/349/an-erlang-otp-tutorial-for-beginners

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

Three Little Birds – Deriving the Y Combinator

http://samesake.com/log/2013/01/03/Three-little-birds/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

IMF Chief Economist apologizes for being wrong on austerity

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/03/an-amazing-mea-culpa-from-the-imfs-chief-economist-on-austerity/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 90 comments

French ISP Removes Google Adsense From Websites

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcinpact.com%2Fnews%2F76474-free-ad-gate-reactions-s-enchainent-certains-se-dechainent.htm&act=url

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 64 comments

Nuclear weapon statistics using monoids, groups, and vector spaces in Haskell

http://izbicki.me/blog/nuclear-weapon-statistics-using-monoids-groups-and-modules-in-haskell

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

Why Silicon Valley innovation has stalled

http://pandodaily.com/2013/01/03/why-silicon-valley-innovation-has-stalled/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 49 comments

Inside the Anonymous Hacking File on the Steubenville 'Rape Crew'

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/01/inside-anonymous-hacking-file-steubenville-rape-crew/60502/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 52 comments

Apple topped 53% U.S. smartphone market share in Q4 2012

http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/04/old-phones-and-new-users-are-key-reasons-apple-topped-50-u-s-smartphone-market-share/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 37 comments

Apple did offer to buy Waze, but Waze politely declined

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/01/04/apple-definitely-did-intend-to-buy-waze-but-waze-politely-declined/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 45 comments

The Conscience of a Hacker

http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=7&id=3

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 27 comments

3D printed rocket – operational tests

http://rocketmoonlighting.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

Pay attention to power law distributions

http://jackealtman.com/2013/01/03/pay-attention-to-power-law-distributions/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 33 comments

Will Scientists Ever Move to Python 3?

http://jakevdp.github.com/blog/2013/01/03/will-scientists-ever-move-to-python-3/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 73 comments

Newcomers to web design, don't be put off

http://benhowdle.im/2012/01/05/newcomers-to-web-design-dont-be-put-off/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

Read your Hacker News in Tile Style

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/hackernews-reader/ae66a0ea-c66d-42cc-a58b-44799e2eb2fa

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 53 comments

Why You Should Join Diaspora Now, Like Your Freedom Depends On It

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columms/why_you_should_join_diaspora_now_your_freedom_depends_it

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 49 comments
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