top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-31

A Short Rant About Working Remotely

http://ericfarkas.com/posts/a-short-rant-about-working-remotely/

13 years ago

528 upvotes – 326 comments

Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early

http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4090.html

13 years ago

526 upvotes – 282 comments

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/01/31/what-the-rails-security-issue-means-for-your-startup/

13 years ago

401 upvotes – 176 comments

Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5142851

13 years ago

398 upvotes – 73 comments

That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer

http://nytimes.com/2013/01/29/science/jared-diamonds-guide-to-reducing-lifes-risks.html

13 years ago

371 upvotes – 245 comments

Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/chinese-hackers-infiltrate-new-york-times-computers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

13 years ago

315 upvotes – 178 comments

Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/why-we-took-cocaine-out-of-soda/272694/

13 years ago

241 upvotes – 114 comments

Flight: A lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework from Twitter

http://twitter.github.com/flight/

13 years ago

236 upvotes – 83 comments

Trello uses an icon font and so can you

http://blog.fogcreek.com/trello-uses-an-icon-font-and-so-can-you/

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 41 comments

The stupid cookie law is dead at last

http://blog.silktide.com/2013/01/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 66 comments

We Need to Have Sympathy for Those With Depression. It is an Illness

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/01/30/we-need-to-have-sympathy-for-those-with-depression-it-is-an-illness/

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 176 comments

Amazon's homepage was down

http://www.amazon.com/?down=yes

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 189 comments

Starting a Bike Shop

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/41960243010/starting-a-bike-shop

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 65 comments

Should we talk about the fact that founder Jody Sherman didn't just die?

http://blog.launch.co/blog/should-we-talk-about-the-fact-that-jody-sherman-didnt-just-d.html

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 128 comments

The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF

http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/the_png_image_file_format_is_now_more_popular_than_gif

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 106 comments

School of Haskell Goes Beta

http://fpcomplete.com/school-of-haskell-goes-beta

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 69 comments

The Australian Computer Society should be disbanded

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130131000939-921366-the-australian-computer-society-should-be-disbanded

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 158 comments

JSON Editor Online

http://jsoneditoronline.org/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 47 comments

Git is an editor, and rebase is the backspace key

http://blog.izs.me/post/37650663670/git-rebase

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 46 comments

Draft. Version control for writing

http://ninjasandrobots.com/draft-version-control-for-writing

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 58 comments

Bitcoin hits year-high of $20

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25zv

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 68 comments

UK High Court Finds Programming Languages Uncopyrightable

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2013/69.html

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 27 comments

How the U.S. Military Uses IRC to Wage War

http://publicintelligence.net/tactical-chat/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 76 comments

Mark Cuban Is Endowing A Chair To ‘Eliminate Stupid Patents’

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/31/mark-cubans-awesome-justification-for-endowing-a-chair-for-eliminating-stupid-patents/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 39 comments

Time Warner Boosts My Speed, Cuts My Bill

http://consumerist.com/2013/01/30/time-warner-boosts-my-speed-cuts-my-bill-i-just-happen-to-live-near-google-fiber/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 64 comments

Testing made easier in Internet Explorer

http://www.modern.ie/virtualization-tools

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 47 comments

Cache Rules Everything Around Me

http://iainkfraser.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/cache-money-hoes-attached-code.html

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 26 comments

White House Considers Joining Publishers To Stamp Out Fair Use At Universities

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130131/00310621834/obama-administration-considers-joining-publishers-fight-to-stamp-out-fair-use-universities.shtml

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 39 comments

Our take on RethinkDB vs. MongoDB

http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/mongodb-biased-comparison/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: I built an Android game

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.kiip.skeemo

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 62 comments

Farewell to Regular Web Development Approaches

http://devo.ps/blog/2013/01/31/farewell-to-regular-web-development-approaches.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 91 comments

Amazon Profits Fall 45 Percent, Still the Most Amazing Company in the World

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/29/amazon_q4_profits_fall_45_percent.html

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 85 comments

Most tech startups acquired in 2012 had no VC funding

http://www.zdnet.com/most-tech-start-ups-acquired-in-2012-had-no-vc-funding-7000010561/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

Why not make your URLs responsive?

http://responsiveurl.co.uk/responsive/dont/forget/url/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 28 comments

Reflections on Cannabis, Ayahuasca and the mystery of plant teachers

http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/HancockG3.php

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 40 comments

How to accept bitcoin donations on your website

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/41907755756/allowing-custom-donation-amounts

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

What The Cost Of Renting An Apartment In Boston Looks Like

http://www.wbur.org/2013/01/30/boston-apartments-heat-map

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

Firefox to block content based on Java, Reader, and Silverlight

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/firefox-to-block-content-based-on-java-reader-and-silverlight/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 43 comments

42Floors (YC W12) Raises $12.3M Led By NEA

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/31/yc-alum-42floors-raises-12-3m-led-by-nea-to-take-its-office-rental-search-engine-us-wide-and-beyond/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

How to Build a Raspberry Pi File Server

http://www.jeremymorgan.com/tutorials/raspberry-pi/how-to-raspberry-pi-file-server/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 54 comments

Power and the Internet

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/power_and_the_i.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 5 comments

A crazier prediction: iPhone Plus is real, and huge

http://www.marco.org/2013/01/31/iphone-plus-speculation

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 61 comments

In Which I Savagely Impugn the Honor of IPMI and its Friends

http://fish2.com/ipmi/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

Before there was Aaron Swartz, there was David LaMacchia

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/29/when-judgment-rewarded/2SdShgNQhA6FtgbkYS8aAP/story.html

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 2 comments

Transparency at the Office: Psst...This Is What Your Co-Worker Is Paid

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323644904578272034121941000.html

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 48 comments

Microsoft Launches Modern.IE To Help Developers Test Their Web Apps For IE

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/31/microsoft-launches-modern-ie-to-help-developers-test-their-web-apps-for-legacy-and-modern-versions-of-ie/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 45 comments

PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $10.7M From Andreessen Horowitz For IT Alert Service

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/31/pagerduty-raises-10-2m-round-from-andreessen-horowitz-for-it-alert-service-modeled-on-aws-system/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 28 comments
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