top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-14

Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5547423

13 years ago

457 upvotes – 294 comments

Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/14/nes-robot/

13 years ago

399 upvotes – 120 comments

What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/#%281%29

13 years ago

306 upvotes – 99 comments

Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

http://awsofa.info

13 years ago

297 upvotes – 104 comments

What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are Slow")

http://jmoiron.net/blog/whats-going-on/

13 years ago

283 upvotes – 192 comments

Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride.php

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 59 comments

Mozilla TowTruck – real-time collaboration on any site

https://towtruck.mozillalabs.com/

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 44 comments

Hal Finney: Bitcoin and me

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.msg1643833#msg1643833

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 15 comments

The Rent Seeking Economy

http://intellectual-detox.com/2013/04/14/rent-seeking-economy/

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: vim-multiple-cursors - True Sublime Text style multiple selection

https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors

13 years ago

★ 7.9k Vim script MIT
191 upvotes – 37 comments

The Queen’s stylesheets

http://spiffingcss.com/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 72 comments

New Debian Project Leader elected: Lucas Nussbaum

http://bits.debian.org/2013/04/results-dpl-election.html

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 30 comments

Hackers can be business guys, and other lessons from Paul Graham

http://sub.garrytan.com/hackers-can-be-business-guys-and-other-lessons-from-an-interview-with-paul-graham-during-the-first-yc-batch-in-2005

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 49 comments

Lost in the Meritocracy (2005)

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/01/lost-in-the-meritocracy/303672/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 61 comments

Seeking Inspiration?

http://sivers.org/io

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 14 comments

Status of the first million Bitcoins

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175996.0

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 115 comments

Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs of Slowing Down

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2013/03/26/denmark-1000-megawatts-of-offshore-wind-and-no-signs-of-slowing-down/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 138 comments

Rework git core for native submodules

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/220047

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 44 comments

A plea for better open source etiquette

http://quickpeople.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/a-plea-for-better-open-source-etiquette/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 51 comments

A File System All Its Own – specialized for SSDs

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2463636

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 43 comments

Google Glass was prototyped in one day - with chopsticks

http://glass-apps.org/google-glass-prototype

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

Starting to Hack on Steel Bank Common Lisp

http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2013/04/13/starting-to-hack-on-sbcl/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: JSON operators

http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-3-feature-highlight-json-operators/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

No Population Bomb

http://theratchet.ca/no-population-bomb

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 91 comments

Founders: You don't own your employees

http://jasonevanish.com/2013/04/14/founders-you-dont-own-your-employees/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Bitcoin Miners Are Racking Up $150,000 A Day In Power Consumption

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/13/the-cost-of-a-bitcoin/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 89 comments

Dive Into HTML5

http://diveintohtml5.info/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

FAA: 'No, you can't hijack a plane with an Android app'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/13/faa_debunks_android_hijack_claim/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 29 comments

Why It's Time to Sunset jQuery

http://professionalaspnet.com/archive/2013/04/14/Why-Its-Time-to-Sunset-jQuery.aspx

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 76 comments

Zero Knowledge Proofs

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

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 19 comments

Distributed Computing at Airbnb

http://nerds.airbnb.com/distributed-computing-at-airbnb

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

Pin - A Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Tool

http://pintool.org/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 32 comments

Own your own Bitcoin Exchange

http://bex.io

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 41 comments

Kendall Square: Still the place to be for start-ups

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/04/13/square-still-place-for-start-ups/JcqbMI98Drrb2NG17jH54M/story.html

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments

The Selection of Go at Apcera

http://www.slideshare.net/derekcollison/go-conference-japan

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 49 comments

On being a single founder for 7 years

http://www.markentingh.com/home/entry+on-being-a-single-founder-for-7-years

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments
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