top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-11

You know, Google, the web already had this feature

http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/4/11/Googleplus-pages-notifications/

13 years ago

667 upvotes – 429 comments

Google Street View Hyperlapses [video]

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/04/google-street-view-hyperlapse/

13 years ago

461 upvotes – 67 comments

Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone

http://net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14733

13 years ago

390 upvotes – 114 comments

Github turns five

https://github.com/blog/1470-five-years

13 years ago

360 upvotes – 126 comments

A non-mathematical explanation of one way functions

http://blog.jgc.org/2013/04/a-non-mathematical-explanation-of-one.html

13 years ago

297 upvotes – 82 comments

My Startup Failed. Fuck.

http://nemrow.tumblr.com/post/47728450959/my-startup-failed-fuck

13 years ago

287 upvotes – 178 comments

How Dave Goldberg Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM

http://firstround.com/article/How-Dave-Goldberg-of-SurveyMonkey-Built-a-Billion-Dollar-Business-and-Still-Gets-Home-By-5-30

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 124 comments

How I got robbed of 34 btc on Mt.Gox today

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=173227.0

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 243 comments

Stolen From Apple

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Stolen_From_Apple.txt

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 71 comments

Amazon Coins Launching

https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/coins/landing.html?ref_=pe_132830_29076940

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 162 comments

Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/04/zerocoin-making-bitcoin-anonymous.html

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 82 comments

I skateboarded 85km from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours

http://www.rotub.me/blog/my-skate-of-mind.html?hn

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 109 comments

I've got 10 btc for the best CoffeeScript/JavaScript Nodewar bot

http://nodewar.com

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 94 comments

Bizarre Soft Robots Evolve to Run

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/bizarre-soft-robots-evolve-to-run#.UWcC2Fw0i00.hackernews

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 29 comments

Why Chemotherapy That Costs $70,000 in the U.S. Costs $2,500 in India

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/why-chemotherapy-that-costs-70000-in-the-us-costs-2500-in-india/274847/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 173 comments

Introducing Lanyrd Pro, for companies that speak at and sponsor events

http://lanyrd.com/blog/2013/lanyrd-pro/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 36 comments

Developer Tools Update – Firefox 22

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/04/developer-tools-update-firefox-22/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 47 comments

A KPI dashboard for early-stage SaaS startups

http://christophjanz.blogspot.de/2013/04/a-kpi-dashboard-for-early-stage-saas.html

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 17 comments

It was not a DDoS: MtGox got 20k new accounts per day

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=172944.0;topicseen

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 102 comments

Schrödinger's 😻 and outside-the-box naming

http://lwn.net/Articles/545741/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 84 comments

The Economics Of Girl Talk

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/47719281228/the-economics-of-girl-talk

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 75 comments

US rice imports 'contain harmful levels of lead'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22099990

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 76 comments

A simple dark theme and accompanying color scheme for Sublime Text 2

https://github.com/thinkpixellab/flatland

13 years ago

★ 2.6k Vim script
106 upvotes – 47 comments

How to add Two-Factor Authentication to your website with Google Authenticator

http://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/04/add-two-factor-authentication-to-your-website-with-google-authenticator-and-twilio-sms.html

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 16 comments

Mtgox stops trading for 12 hours

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=173383.0

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 101 comments

Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Be The Sucker That Buys The Spammy Domain

http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-dont-be-the-sucker-that-buys-the-spammy-domain-155200

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

Pulse Joins the LinkedIn Family

http://blog.pulse.me/post/47721164686/pulse-joins-the-linkedin-family

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 40 comments

Adam Orth leaving Microsoft proves personal Twitter accounts are dead

http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/your-tweets-are-always-on-adam-orth-leaving-microsoft-proves-personal-twitt

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 84 comments

Ambrosia Software employees report layoffs, but company says it's in business

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/10/ambrosia-software-lays-off-its-developing-team-has-reportedly-f

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 60 comments

As Big Investors Emerge, Bitcoin Gets Ready for its Close-Up

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/as-big-investors-emerge-bitcoin-gets-ready-for-its-close-up/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 93 comments

Foursquare raises $41 million Series D round

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/foursquares-new-series-d-round-of-41m-helps-it-delay-tricky-questions-about-its-valuation/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

#FF4A00

http://mikeknoop.com/blog/ff4a00/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 42 comments

Building a toy template engine in Python

http://alexmic.net/building-a-template-engine/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: How can I make an extra 30-50k a year?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5529119

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 91 comments

No Company For Old Programmers

http://blogaborty.blogspot.in/2013/04/no-country-for-old-programmers.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 105 comments

How we implemented find-on-page with infinite scroll

http://blog.streak.com/2013/04/search-find-in-pipeline-now-possible.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Why I have issues with Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us

http://gigaom.com/2013/04/11/why-i-have-issues-with-mark-zuckerbergs-fwd-us/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 42 comments

A quick message queue benchmark: ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, HornetQ, QPID, Apollo

http://x-aeon.com/wp/2013/04/10/a-quick-message-queue-benchmark-activemq-rabbitmq-hornetq-qpid-apollo/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 44 comments

Plan To Create Another Copyright-Like Right For Hollywood

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130410/07011422657/broadcast-treaty-is-baaaaaack-plan-to-create-yet-another-copyright-like-right-hollywood.shtml

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Problems in Education

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/h5z/problems_in_education/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

Sqwiggle Makes Working Remotely Less Lonely, More Awesome

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/sqwiggle-makes-working-remotely-less-lonely-more-awesome/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 37 comments

Hydrogel process developed at Stanford creates transparent brain

http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/april/clarity.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

Foursquare: An Ads Business With a Dying Product Hook

http://blog.jasonshah.org/post/47705004589/foursquare-an-ads-business-with-a-dying-product-hook

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments

Designing a modern email

http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/47718375205/designing-a-modern-email

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 66 comments

Tunnel vision 3D CSS experiment

http://codepen.io/peterwestendorp/pen/JEomi

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Defaulting to hire on credentials will put you out of business

http://carlosmiceli.com/defaulting-to-hire-on-credentials-will-put-you-out-of-business/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 48 comments

Join the tech community in passing immigration reform

http://www.fwd.us/#

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 65 comments

Crowdfunding Pinto

http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2013/04/crowd-funding-pinto.html

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

A beginner's guide to setting up Python on Windows

https://www.datanitro.com/blog/2013/4/11/Python_on_windows/

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 53 comments
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