top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-08

Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/us/taping-of-farm-cruelty-is-becoming-the-crime.html

13 years ago

717 upvotes – 437 comments

Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5511466

13 years ago

523 upvotes – 191 comments

Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/08/technology/security/shodan/

13 years ago

504 upvotes – 144 comments

Disney have stolen my artwork

http://katiewoodger.tumblr.com/post/47454350768/disney-have-stolen-my-artwork-i-dont-know-what

13 years ago

475 upvotes – 188 comments

Hoodie: very fast web app development

http://hood.ie

13 years ago

474 upvotes – 151 comments

How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/how-a-banner-ad-for-hs-ok/

13 years ago

405 upvotes – 169 comments

Firefox 23 will block non-SSL content on SSL pages by default

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Site_Compatibility_for_Firefox_23#Non-SSL_contents_on_SSL_pages_are_blocked_by_default

13 years ago

341 upvotes – 90 comments

Git koans

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/

13 years ago

305 upvotes – 141 comments

From Selling Scoops of Ice Cream to Founding ZeroCater

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/06/how-i-started-zerocater?query=4664

13 years ago

276 upvotes – 42 comments

Top Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server

http://datachomp.com/archives/top-10-reasons-i-like-postgres-over-sql-server/

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 106 comments

Wikileaks release "PlusD": Database of 1.7 million diplomatic cables

http://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 97 comments

Realtime Bitcoin Stats

http://realtimebitcoin.info/

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 145 comments

How to share your data effectively

http://www.caitlinrivers.com/1/post/2013/04/send-me-your-data-pdf-is-fine-said-no-one-ever-how-to-share-your-data-effectively.html

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 125 comments

The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown

http://www.ie6countdown.com/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 143 comments

Git tips to stop you getting fired

http://blog.apiaxle.com/post/handy-git-tips-to-stop-you-getting-fired/

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 108 comments

Some decompiling, reverse engineering, and keygen tutorials

http://tuts4you.com/download.php?list.17

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 39 comments

Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies, aged 87

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22067155

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 193 comments

Excel as a database

http://wyorock.com/excelasadatabase.htm

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Hide Secret Messages In Facebook Photos With My Chrome Extension

http://www.owencampbellmoore.com/blog/2013/04/hide-secret-messages-in-facebook-photos-using-this-new-chrome-extension/

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 54 comments

How To Survive a Ground-Up Rewrite

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/97052/Screw-You-Joel-Spolsky-We-re-Rewriting-It-From-Scratch.aspx

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 48 comments

Meet the nice-guy lawyers who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/meet-the-nice-guy-lawyers-who-want-1000-per-worker-for-using-scanners/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 80 comments

Tesla’s Model S Lease and Financing Program Expensive, Misleading

http://blog.caranddriver.com/teslas-model-s-lease-and-financing-program-expensive-misleading/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 84 comments

Why Startups Should Choose Canada Over Silicon Valley

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/choosing-canada-over-silicon-valley-2013-04-08

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 106 comments

Decaf: Ruby in the Browser

http://trydecaf.org/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 60 comments

USCIS Reaches 2014 H-1B Cap

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=c91dea8c9eadd310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=68439c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 98 comments

Understanding Python decorators

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/739654/understanding-python-decorators#1594484

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 14 comments

Patent troll Lodsys sues 10 mobile game makers, despite Apple’s intervention

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/patent-troll-lodsys-sues-10-mobile-game-makers-despite-apples-intervention/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 34 comments

Redis as the primary data store

http://moot.it/blog/technology/redis-as-primary-datastore-wtf.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

Is Polite Disagreement Becoming Grounds For Removal From A Flight?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmcquaid/2013/04/07/at-united-airlines-is-polite-disagreement-becoming-grounds-for-removal-from-a-flight/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 93 comments

Tony Hoare's CSP Paper Implemented in Go

http://godoc.org/github.com/thomas11/csp

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 8 comments

How My Co-founder's Dog Boosted My Productivity

http://wadefoster.net/post/47425174788/how-my-co-founders-dog-boosted-my-productivity

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 43 comments

Go Hard Early

http://icelab.com.au/articles/go-hard-early/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 50 comments

The Stock Market vs. the Labor Market

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-economic-story-of-the-year-the-stock-market-vs-the-labor-market/274698/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 84 comments

Visualizing Yahoo Mail

http://visualize.yahoo.com/mail/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: CommitQ – Programming language-aware Git repository hosting

http://commitq.com/blog/2013/04/01/hello/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

Bubble or No, This Virtual Currency Is a Lot of Coin in Any Realm

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/business/media/bubble-or-no-virtual-bitcoins-show-real-worth.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 77 comments

Smart TVs are dumb

http://incredimike.com/2013/04/lg-smart-tvs-are-incredibly-dumb/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 92 comments

Ron Johnson ousted as JC Penney CEO

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/08/ron-johnson-ousted-as-jc-penney-ceo/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 103 comments

Saying Goodbye

http://jessenoller.com/blog/2013/4/6/saying-goodbye

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 23 comments

Front-end performance for web designers and front-end developers

http://csswizardry.com/2013/01/front-end-performance-for-web-designers-and-front-end-developers/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

CocoaDocs - Documentation for iOS Libraries

http://cocoadocs.org

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/08/confirmed-elsevier-has-bought-mendeley-for-69m-100m-to-expand-open-social-education-data-efforts/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 84 comments

Intel announces next-gen Thunderbolt with 20 Gbps throughput, 4K support

http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/08/intel-announces-next-gen-thunderbolt-20-gbps-throughput/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 61 comments

JavaScript MVC frameworks: A Comparison of Marionette and Chaplin

http://9elements.com/io/index.php/comparison-of-marionette-and-chaplin/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

Surfacing Interesting Content

http://stdout.heyzap.com/2013/04/08/surfacing-interesting-content/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Bootstrap for Native iOS Apps

http://www.pixate.com/bootstrap/index.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments

Linux Assembly How To v0.7 published

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Assembly-HOWTO/index.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

Go 1.1 Beta 2 Released

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-nuts/bQDzp4IYI1o

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

Bitcoin Is Fundamentally Flawed

http://profitbaron.tumblr.com/post/47466001507/bitcoin-is-fundamentally-flawed

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 206 comments

German Court finds Apple's 'slide to unlock' patent invalid

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/05/german-court-finds-apples-slide-to-unlock-patent-invalid

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments
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