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

Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer

http://www.suntimes.com/17320958-761/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html

13 years ago

841 upvotes – 167 comments

Why Rackspace Is Suing The Most Notorious Patent Troll In America

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/why-rackspace-sued-the-most-notorious-patent-troll-in-america/

13 years ago

622 upvotes – 101 comments

Facebook Home

http://www.facebook.com/home

13 years ago

331 upvotes – 220 comments

Stop externalising your life

http://jshakespeare.com/stop-externalising-your-life/

13 years ago

322 upvotes – 152 comments

PostgreSQL 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13 and 8.4.17 released

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1456/

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 99 comments

Media Queries are a Hack

http://ianstormtaylor.com/media-queries-are-a-hack/

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 78 comments

Valve's GDC Talk: Porting Source to Linux [pdf]

https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/gamedev/docs/Porting%20Source%20to%20Linux.pdf

13 years ago

221 upvotes – 68 comments

Association between muscular strength and mortality in men (2008) [pdf]

http://www.bmj.com/highwire/filestream/397551/field_highwire_article_pdf/0/bmj.a439

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 199 comments

Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57577887-38/apples-imessage-encryption-trips-up-feds-surveillance/

13 years ago

215 upvotes – 147 comments

Are Bitcoins The Future?

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/47135650437/are-bitcoins-the-future

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 226 comments

The new sandbox: open-source and self-hosted

http://blog.dotcloud.com/new-sandbox

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 47 comments

Facebook Home destroys any notion of privacy

http://gigaom.com/2013/04/04/why-facebook-home-bothers-me-it-destroys-any-notion-of-privacy/

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 155 comments

Learn Vimscript the Hard Way

http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/?published

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 33 comments

Raven Software releases source code for Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast

http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/4/4181560/raven-software-releases-source-code-for-jedi-knight-2-jedi-outcast

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 57 comments

Cleaning House

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-April/024388.html

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 69 comments

PythonMonk – Learn Python in the browser

http://pythonmonk.com

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 47 comments

Go 1.1 beta 1 Released

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/sbjJDgxLqiE/xqWJ1ybaiKoJ

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 181 comments

Great Computer Science Lectures for all levels

http://codeschool.org/

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 16 comments

How to implement HTTPS in an insufficient manner

http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/04/5-ways-to-implement-https-in.html

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: TheBigDB - A simpler open database of facts

http://thebigdb.com/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 76 comments

Reasons Not to Stretch

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/reasons-not-to-stretch/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 91 comments

Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact

http://www.icij.org/offshore/secret-files-expose-offshores-global-impact

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 39 comments

Scribd hacked – emails and hashed passwords leaked

http://support.scribd.com/entries/23519663-Important-Security-Announcement

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 65 comments

Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/04/facebook-home-launch/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 120 comments

Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research

https://brendaneich.com/2013/04/mozilla-at-15-memories-and-thoughts-on-mozilla-research/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 40 comments

Free Must-Have “Security Engineering” Book

https://www.novainfosec.com/2013/04/03/free-must-have-security-engineering-book/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

Meteor 0.6.0: brand new distribution system, app packages, NPM integration

http://meteor.com/blog/2013/04/04/meteor-060-brand-new-distribution-system-app-packages-npm-integration

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 44 comments

My "Ember" Job Posting on Hacker News

https://gist.github.com/Blackshawk/5308087

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

Instacode

http://instacod.es/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 21 comments

Mt. Gox under DDoS attack as bitcoin price surges

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238118/Mt._Gox_under_largest_DDoS_attack_as_bitcoin_price_surges

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 75 comments

How Google Analytics Got Started

http://www.attendly.com/the-real-story-on-how-google-analytics-got-started/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: Codassium - WebRTC-based video chat and code editor for interviews

http://codassium.com

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 59 comments

Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong (2010)

http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convince-me-to-use-vim-was-wrong/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 75 comments

Google Compute Engine: Expanded availability, new features, and lower prices

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/04/google-compute-engine-expanded.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

Love what you do, not what you earn

http://www.kevinholler.com/love-what-you-do-not-what-you-earn/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 41 comments

XmppFlask

http://xmppflask.org/index.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

Taxi industry lawsuit against Uber transferred from state to US court

http://www.universalhub.com/2013/taxi-lawsuit-uber-crime-syndicate-hates-poor-peopl

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 77 comments

Sane Async Patterns in JavaScript

http://www.slideshare.net/TrevorBurnham/sane-async-patterns/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 28 comments

Chrome Blink FAQ

http://prng.net/blink-faq.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 0 comments

Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/04/04/anonymous-takes-control-of-north-koreas-twitter-and-flickr-accounts-defaces-websites/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 66 comments

CB Insights Sells List of Dying Tech Startups for $4,895

http://www.cbinsights.com/datastore/product/dying-tech-startups/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments
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