top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-14

Etsy accused me of not assembling my synths by hand and shut down my shop

http://wtfbyrne.tumblr.com/post/50437742387/etsy-accused-me-of-not-assembling-my-synths-by-hand

13 years ago

482 upvotes – 151 comments

Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTMC-uxJoo

13 years ago

443 upvotes – 196 comments

The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/?

13 years ago

401 upvotes – 367 comments

Every odd number greater than five is the sum of three primes

https://plus.google.com/114134834346472219368/posts/8qpSYNZFbzC

13 years ago

381 upvotes – 174 comments

Mt. Gox Dwolla account frozen by DHS

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=205396.0

13 years ago

380 upvotes – 240 comments

"Programmer. Come Work For Us"

http://x.myles.io/13hGtJR

13 years ago

345 upvotes – 144 comments

Come here and work on hard problems – except the ones on our doorstep

http://programmingisterrible.com/post/50421878989/come-here-and-work-on-hard-problems-except-the-ones

13 years ago

344 upvotes – 370 comments

Https URLs posted in private Skype chats visited by Microsoft

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fsecurity%2Fmeldung%2FVorsicht-beim-Skypen-Microsoft-liest-mit-1857620.html

13 years ago

334 upvotes – 176 comments

Larry Page posts about his voice

https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/aqy6DvvLJY1

13 years ago

320 upvotes – 105 comments

Amazon Staff Meetings: “No Powerpoint”

http://conorneill.com/2012/11/30/amazon-staff-meetings-no-powerpoint/

13 years ago

306 upvotes – 120 comments

Terra – a low-level counterpart to Lua

http://terralang.org/

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 46 comments

Modern Physics From Scratch

http://theoreticalminimum.com/

13 years ago

282 upvotes – 49 comments

My Medical Choice

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 102 comments

When a Startup Sends a Passive-Aggressive Email Every Day

http://minimaxir.com/2013/05/overly-attached-startup/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 151 comments

Indie game Haunts unable to compile its Go code

http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/27755.aspx

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 193 comments

The $12 Gongkai Phone

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3040

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 70 comments

An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/an-army-is-forming-to-battle-patent-trolls/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 38 comments

Why Go?

http://nathany.com/why-go

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 139 comments

FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping

http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/13/most-transparent-administration-in-histo

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 106 comments

Kickstarter project raised $196K and stopped responding

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crypteks/crypteks-usbtm-encrypted-and-lockable-usb-solution/comments

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 118 comments

Turing Drawings

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 119 comments

Firefox, Heal Thyself

http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/05/14/firefox-heal-thyself/

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 102 comments

The Reliability of Go

http://andrewwdeane.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-reliability-of-go.html

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 139 comments

Those who teach

http://ninjasandrobots.com/those-who-teach

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 29 comments

Linux local privilege escalation 0day, 2.6.37 - 3.8.10

http://fucksheep.org/~sd/warez/semtex.c

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: Feedback app

http://redpen.io

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: CoderPad, an etherpad + REPL for coding interviews

http://coderpad.io?hackernews

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 41 comments

Why I abandoned my startup

http://westonmcbride.com/blog/2013/05/06/why-i-abandoned-my-startup/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 74 comments

Florida shortened yellow lights to increase red light camera revenue [video]

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/article/316418/8/10-News-Investigators-discover-short-yellow-lights

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 127 comments

Microsoft announces Windows 8.1

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2013/05/14/windows-keeps-getting-better.aspx?

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 111 comments

Do a Google Image search for "atari breakout"

http://images.google.com/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

Apple using moving letters as captcha

http://www.apple.com/itunes/50-billion-app-countdown/entry-form/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 78 comments

Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/our-intellectual-property-laws-are-out-of-control-15467970

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 69 comments

Writing a Vi-like Graphics Editor in Racket

http://jeapostrophe.github.io/2013-05-13-vi-post.html

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

Atari Breakout - Google image search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&q=atari+breakout

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Why MongoDB is a bad choice for storing our scraped data

http://blog.scrapinghub.com/2013/05/13/mongo-bad-for-scraped-data/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 115 comments

Introducing the Square Stand

https://squareup.com/stand

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 61 comments

Stripe launches beta in Ireland

https://twitter.com/paulsavage/status/334258571472678912

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 51 comments

Saurik releases Substrate for Android

http://www.cydiasubstrate.com/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 33 comments

Only 200 Startups Per Year End Up Mattering and Most of them Aren't in Tech

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2013/05/14/only-200-startups-per-year-end-up-mattering-most-of-them-arent-in-tech/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

BBM for iOS and Android to Launch This Summer

http://blogs.blackberry.com/2013/05/bbm-ios-android/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 56 comments

WalmartLabs acquires Tasty Labs

http://walmartlabs.blogspot.com/2013/05/walmartlabs-has-good-taste.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

My experience with Firefox OS

https://thelab.o2.com/2013/05/my-experience-with-firefox-os/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

The elusive universal Web bytecode

http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-elusive-universal-web-bytecode.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 60 comments

Infinite number of prime pairs within 70 million of each other

https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905/posts/KR1kyHhYQCA

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

Department of Homeland Security Bans Dwolla Transfers To or From Mt. Gox

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6968139/share/screenshots/Screen%20Shot%202013-05-14%20at%203.40.00%20PM.png

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Choosing the Right EC2 Instance Type for Your Application

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/05/choosing-the-right-ec2-instance-type-for-your-application.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 14 comments
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