top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-07-14

Do Things that Don't Scale

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

13 years ago

1275 upvotes – 207 comments

Dijkstra: “You will be treated as grown-ups”

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EWD1256.html

13 years ago

294 upvotes – 181 comments

DuckDuckGo: illusion of privacy?

http://etherrag.blogspot.jp/2013/07/duck-duck-go-illusion-of-privacy.html

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 146 comments

Beyond Helium

http://www.judegomila.com/post/55386351452/beyond-helium

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 55 comments

The paranoid #! Security Guide

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24722

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 51 comments

About the Reuters article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/13/reuters-article-dead-man-s-switch

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 77 comments

Conrad Barski's Haskell Tutorial

http://lisperati.com/haskell/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 38 comments

Technical feasibility of decrypting https by replacing the computer's PRNG

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/9210/technical-feasibility-of-decrypting-https-by-replacing-the-computers-prng/9212

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 124 comments

Monads Made Difficult

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/monads.html

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 67 comments

Things about being a founder I wish I had known two years ago

https://speakerdeck.com/giladvdn/ten-things-about-being-a-founder-i-wish-i-knew-two-years-ago?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer1015c&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 26 comments

The shadowy cartel of doctors that controls Medicare

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july_august_2013/features/special_deal045641.php

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 104 comments

The Bomb-Detecting Device That Didn't Work, Except to Make Money

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/in-iraq-the-bomb-detecting-device-that-didnt-work-except-to-make-money?google_editors_picks=true

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 49 comments

What I Learned In College

http://blackhole12.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-i-learned-in-college.html

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 74 comments

Systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg//2013/07/13/systemd-not-portable.html

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 102 comments

VP of Engineering - "best of the best" = no more than 12 years experience?

http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/500friendsinc/vp-of-engineering/cWzS0cMM0r4OrNeJe4egig?detail=HackerNews&remail=&rfirst=&rlast=&sid=161

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 143 comments

Daux.io, a simple documentation generator

http://daux.io

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 31 comments

The Open Bundle - Help uncopyright some game art assets

http://commonly.cc/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 16 comments

Hetzner's new server offer: 1 Gbit, 2 x 240GB SSD, 32GB RAM - 59 euros/month

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Tracking the FISA Court in real time with a bit of code

https://twitter.com/fisacourt

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

New Scheme-Based GPU Programming Language

http://devopsangle.com/2013/07/09/new-scheme-based-gpu-programming-language-set-to-turn-chips-into-supercomputers/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments
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