top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-18

Stripe Checkout

https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-checkout

14 years ago

536 upvotes – 171 comments

A time for silence

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40845525507/a-time-for-silence

14 years ago

500 upvotes – 98 comments

U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz

http://www.cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=InNews&ContentRecord_id=b026c108-ff4c-4ff9-a771-7307c72e14c5&ContentType_id=b94acc28-404a-4fc6-b143-a9e15bf92da4&f6c645c7-9e4a-4947-8464-a94cacb4ca65&Group_id=bf378025-1557-49c1-8f08-c5df1c4313a4

14 years ago

394 upvotes – 141 comments

Twice

http://blog.aubrey.me/

14 years ago

257 upvotes – 58 comments

A cry for help

http://alpblog.heroku.com/a-cry-for-help/

14 years ago

253 upvotes – 86 comments

Your Mac Keeps A Log Of Your Downloads

http://www.macgasm.net/2013/01/18/good-morning-your-mac-keeps-a-log-of-all-your-downloads/

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 86 comments

Nokia releases 3D printing files for Lumia phone cases

http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-releases-3d-case-printing-files-for-lumia-820-18265821/

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 35 comments

ML researcher replies to request to review paper for closed journal

https://plus.google.com/104362980539466846301/posts/WStiQ38Hioy

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 25 comments

The Simple Math Behind Early Retirement

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-simple-math-behind-early-retirement/

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 237 comments

Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing

http://www.nature.com/news/mathematicians-aim-to-take-publishers-out-of-publishing-1.12243

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 43 comments

Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/CES-2013-Oculus-Rift-VR-Goggles-Epic-Citadel,20561.html

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 90 comments

Naked-Image Scanners to Be Removed From U.S. Airports

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-18/naked-image-scanners-to-be-removed-from-u-s-airports.html

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 122 comments

'I Have a Dream' Posted in Defiance of Copyright for Internet Freedom Day

https://mashable.com/2013/01/18/i-have-a-dream-internet-freedom/

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 45 comments

Y Combinator cofounder was convicted under CFAA in 1990

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 71 comments

Go: a nice language with an annoying personality

http://corte.si/posts/code/go/go-rant.html

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 97 comments

Tizen - new Android competitor

https://www.tizen.org/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 120 comments

How Computer-Hacking Laws Make You a Criminal

http://www.livescience.com/26383-are-you-looking-at-this-website-you-might-be-breaking-the-law.html

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 42 comments

The "Clockwise/Spiral Rule" in C

http://www.c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 45 comments

Vipassana: 10 days of solitude and insights gained from it

http://www.curiousjuice.com/blog-0/bid/141396/Vipassana-10-days-of-solitary-confinement-and-insights-gained-from-it

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 90 comments

Elon Musk offers to help get the grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliner back in the air

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/01/18/elon-musk-offers-boeing-tesla-and-spacexs-help-over-boeing-787-dreamliner-battery-issues/

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 96 comments

Google Declares War on the Password

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/google-password/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 107 comments

Website Sells Fake Facebook Girlfriends

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/website-selling-fake-facebook-girlfriends-232429663--abc-news-topstories.html

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 129 comments

HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” – pilot script leaked

http://qz.com/44671/hbo-comedy-silicon-valley-is-a-lot-better-than-bravo-reality-show-silicon-valley/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 72 comments

The Bully

http://cykod.com/blog/post/2013-01-the-bully

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 27 comments

Wireframing Tools Suck

http://colmtuite.com/three-reasons-why-wireframing-tools-suck

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 68 comments

Genetic evidence suggests that, four millennia ago, Indians landed in Australia

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21569688-genetic-evidence-suggests-four-millennia-ago-group-adventurous-indians

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 39 comments

Psy Curve

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=PSY+curve

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 15 comments

A Minecraft-like Block Based Game Engine Using Three.js, WebGL and Node

http://badassjs.com/post/40691367335/voxel-js-a-minecraft-like-block-based-game-engine

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 42 comments

A lawyer's analysis of Bilbo's contract in The Hobbit

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/hobbit-contract-legal-analysis/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

When Haskell is Faster than C

http://paulspontifications.blogspot.com/2013/01/when-haskell-is-faster-than-c.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 115 comments

Colossal Cue Adventure: a Zork-style text-based programming adventure game

http://adventure.cueup.com/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

How much salary is enough? Apparently, $75,000/year

http://www.curiousjuice.com/blog-0/bid/89407/How-much-salary-is-enough-Apparently-75-000-year

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 145 comments

Major flaw in Java-based Spring Framework allows remote-code execution

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/011713-java-spring-framework-265923.html

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 43 comments

Cassandra Performance

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/2012-in-review-performance

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 72 comments

Opera Ice – New Smartphone Browser from Opera Software

http://browserfame.com/1079/opera-ice

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

The Aaron Swartz Prosecution & Plea Bargaining

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130117/02090421710/carmen-ortiz-releases-totally-bogus-statement-concerning-aaron-swartz-prosecution.shtml

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design

http://daringfireball.net/2013/01/the_trend_against_skeuomorphism

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 64 comments

The Headphones Rule

http://theheadphonesrule.com/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 65 comments

Survival of the Wrongest

http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/survival_of_the_wrongest.php?page=all&print=true

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 27 comments

Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/18/kim-dotcoms-mega-opens-site-to-early-users-reveals-roadmap-with-mobile-access-office-style-features-and-more/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 54 comments

Basic quantum computing concepts implemented in Python

https://github.com/jtauber/quantumpy

14 years ago

★ 179 Python MIT
61 upvotes – 5 comments
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