top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-24

The Girl Who Turned to Bone

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/the-mystery-of-the-second-skeleton/309305/

13 years ago

499 upvotes – 97 comments

Improving the security of your SSH private key files

http://martin.kleppmann.com/2013/05/24/improving-security-of-ssh-private-keys.html

13 years ago

330 upvotes – 101 comments

The Shortest Crashing C Program

http://llbit.se/?p=1744

13 years ago

270 upvotes – 89 comments

Too scared to write a line of code

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/eef96ea6f4cb?imm_mid=0a9102&cmp=em-velocity-newsletters-vl-save20-20130523-direct

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 128 comments

VNC over gif

https://github.com/sidorares/vnc-over-gif

13 years ago

★ 514 JavaScript
206 upvotes – 49 comments

Yahoo submits bid for Hulu

http://allthingsd.com/20130524/yet-another-hulu-bidder-yahoo-is-in-too/

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 168 comments

B go beyond – Quadcopter/RC car combo

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2017062404/b-go-beyond

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 51 comments

Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code

http://computationallyendowed.com/blog/2012/12/03/ifs-and-ands-and-plan-9s-source-code.html

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 138 comments

Deleted my portfolio, made $30k in my first six months

http://robertwilliams.wpengine.com/deleted-my-portfolio-made-30k-in-my-first-six-months/

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 72 comments

The Day our investors came to see the office (2011)

http://thedayseries.tumblr.com/post/963728807/the-day-our-investors-came-to-see-the-office

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 64 comments

BitMessage - Bitcoin Inspired Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging

https://bitmessage.org/wiki/FAQ

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: and now what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5763100

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 85 comments

The Fallacy of Money As A Means

http://life-longlearner.com/want-a-lot-of-money/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 124 comments

Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex

http://davidcel.is/blog/2012/09/06/stop-validating-email-addresses-with-regex

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 201 comments

Visualize How CSS Rules Interact with a Page

http://css.benjaminbenben.com/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 23 comments

“Printcrime” by Cory Doctorow

http://craphound.com/?p=573

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 77 comments

Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/05/22/teenagers_hate_facebook_a_pew_study_says_that_94_percent_of_teens_use_facebook.html

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 120 comments

Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns [video]

http://blog.golang.org/2013/05/advanced-go-concurrency-patterns.html

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 15 comments

The oldest "0" in India for which one can assign a definite date

http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-india-zero

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 28 comments

The real origins of Tumblr

http://www.dailydot.com/business/origin-tumblr-anarchaia-projectionist-david-karp/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 27 comments

8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to generate a tsunami

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/PAAQ/2013/05/24/mnafyn/1/WEAK53/WEAK53.txt

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 56 comments

Layer Trees vs. Flat Drawing: Graphics Performance Across iOS Device Generations

http://floriankugler.com/blog/2013/5/24/layer-trees-vs-flat-drawing-graphics-performance-across-ios-device-generations

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 29 comments

Dangerous pieces of startup advice

http://venturevillage.eu/worst-startup-advice

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 29 comments

Google 'kerning' easter egg

https://www.google.com/search?q=kerning

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 29 comments

Can Someone Turn Me On?

http://www.tokbox.com/blog/can-some-one-turn-me-on/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

Belief in black magic persists in Papua New Guinea

http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/its-2013-and-theyre-burning-witches/558/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 87 comments

Machine Learning with F#

http://fsharp.org/machine-learning/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

Google Play cut payments to developers in Argentina

http://www.celularis.com/google/pagos-de-google-play-en-argentina/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments

Angular service or factory?

http://iffycan.blogspot.com/2013/05/angular-service-or-factory.html

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: How to contribute to open source projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5762061

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 33 comments

Inside Pixar's Leadership

http://scottberkun.com/2010/inside-pixars-leadership/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 7 comments

Holder OK'd search warrant for Fox News reporter's private emails, official says

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18451142-holder-okd-search-warrant-for-fox-news-reporters-private-emails-official-says

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 80 comments

All about lambda functions in RethinkDB queries

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/lambda-functions/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Apple’s WWDC invite suddenly makes sense

http://josh.io/apples-wwdc-invite-suddenly-makes-sense

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

JavaScript is Web Assembly Language and that's OK.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsWebAssemblyLanguageAndThatsOK.aspx

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: log-shuttle – log delivery over HTTPs written in Go

http://log-shuttle.io/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 5 comments

University of Reddit

http://universityofreddit.com/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

Can I help you? Why retail customers always say No

http://startupblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/can-i-help-you-why-retail-customers-always-say-no/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 88 comments

First world demons

http://peternixey.com/post/51189494392/first-world-demons/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 64 comments

The Future of Human Data Interaction

http://tomtunguz.com/visualization

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

JQuery 1.10.0 and 2.0.1 Released

http://blog.jquery.com/2013/05/24/jquery-1-10-0-and-2-0-1-released/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

Amazon's short URL: http://a.co

http://a.co

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 61 comments

Backbone.js for large scale applications - applying UI Architecture

http://orizens.com/wp/topics/backbone-js-for-large-scale-applications-ui-architecture/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 1 comments

Weston on Raspberry Pi Accelerated

http://ppaalanen.blogspot.ro/2013/05/weston-on-raspberry-pi-accelerated.html

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Google Search Terms predict market movements

https://www.quantopian.com/posts/google-search-terms-predict-market-movements

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Our Server’s Hard Drive is Dead. We didn’t have a backup.

http://blog.method.ac/announcements/our-servers-hard-drive-is-dead-we-didnt-have-a-backup/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 84 comments

Google Maps has removed the collapsed I-5 bridge in WA

https://maps.google.com/?ll=48.446034,-122.339952&spn=0.005558,0.015342&t=m&z=17

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 51 comments

Jaron Lanier: Free information, as great as it sounds, will enslave us all

http://qz.com/87795/free-information-as-great-as-it-sounds-will-enslave-us-all/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 67 comments

Snowfallgate and Startups

http://madhatted.com/2013/5/24/snowfallgate-and-startups

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

Rebuild YouTube's mobile-like progress bar in jQuery

http://blog.ynh.io/2013/05/24/rebuild-youtubes-progress-bar.html

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments
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