top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-20

A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

http://www.bentobox.io/

13 years ago

450 upvotes – 191 comments

Show HN: UI Concept – Focus Transition

http://n12v.com/focus-transition/

13 years ago

388 upvotes – 72 comments

Mozilla Labs: TogetherJS

https://togetherjs.com

13 years ago

383 upvotes – 65 comments

Cmd.fm

http://cmd.fm/

13 years ago

287 upvotes – 89 comments

My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/my-daughters-homework-is-killing-me/309514/

13 years ago

269 upvotes – 334 comments

Einstein and the Great Fed Robbery

http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4436.html

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 103 comments

FreeBSD 10′s New Technologies and Features

http://www.freebsdnews.net/2013/09/20/freebsd-10s-new-technologies-and-features/

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 124 comments

Less is exponentially more (2012)

http://commandcenter.blogspot.de/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 273 comments

How airline reservations are used to target illegal searches

http://papersplease.org/wp/2013/09/17/how-airline-reservations-are-used-to-target-illegal-searches/

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 153 comments

Beginner's Guide to Wi-fi Interception

http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/04/the-beginners-guide-to-breaking-website.html?report

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 41 comments

Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung

http://createsend.ifixit.com/t/ViewEmail/r/70708E377A9A6CF92540EF23F30FEDED/EBF1F70991A04FD10F8C96E86323F7F9

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 172 comments

US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bomb-north-carolina-1961

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 113 comments

BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/blackberry-to-cut-4-500-jobs-1.1862420

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 152 comments

Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving on Bitcoins

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/bitcoin-homeless/

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 130 comments

The Secret of iOS 7

http://www.cringely.com/2013/09/19/the-secret-of-ios-7/

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 133 comments

Medium Editor

https://github.com/daviferreira/medium-editor

13 years ago

★ 16.1k JavaScript
143 upvotes – 37 comments

Lifting the lid on the iOS 7 UIPicker

http://blog.ittybittyapps.com/blog/2013/09/20/lifting-the-lid-on-ios-7s-uipicker/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 54 comments

RSA warns developers not to use RSA products

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/rsa-warns-developers-against-its-own.html

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 69 comments

Fun Things to do with a Raspberry Pi (2012)

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/desktops/25-fun-things-to-do-with-a-raspberry-pi-50009851/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 58 comments

Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website

http://github.hubspot.com/pace/docs/welcome/?hn

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 50 comments

Things Every Programmer Should Know

http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Contributions_Appearing_in_the_Book

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 34 comments

Why didn't we patent the spreadsheet? Were we stupid? (1999)

http://www.bricklin.com/patenting.htm

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 135 comments

Canadians need to get angry about government spying revelations

http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/09/19/canadians-need-to-get-angry-about-government-spying-revelations/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 56 comments

'Grand Theft Auto V' Crosses $1B In Sales

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/09/20/grand-theft-auto-v-crosses-1b-in-sales-biggest-entertainment-launch-in-history/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 117 comments

Nginx image processing server with OpenResty and Lua

http://leafo.net/posts/creating_an_image_server.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 31 comments

Interviews are Broken

http://erniemiller.org/2013/09/19/interviews-are-broken/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 86 comments

Lollipuff's Y Combinator Experience

https://www.lollipuff.com/blog/102/lollipuffs-ycombinator-experience

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 29 comments

Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool

https://coderbits.com/posts/WJroMQ

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

Britain's GCHQ hacked Belgium's telco Belgacom

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6416753

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 30 comments

What’s new in Play 2.2

http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.2.0/Highlights22

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

How To Validate Product Ideas Before (And After) Building Them

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/validating_product_ideas

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 26 comments

Senator asks if FBI can get iPhone 5S fingerprint data via Patriot Act

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/senator-asks-if-fbi-can-get-iphone-5s-fingerprint-data-via-patriot-act/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 47 comments

Apple iBeacons

http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/09/20/apple-ibeacons/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 58 comments

The Case Against High-School Sports

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/the-case-against-high-school-sports/309447/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 88 comments

The Turkish Coffee Syndrome

http://www.deadprogrammer.com/turkish-coffee-syndrome

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 72 comments

The Unitarihedron: The Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Computing

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1537

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 45 comments

Go 1.2 Release Candidate 1 released

http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.2

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 39 comments

Cloud to Butt Plus

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus/apmlngnhgbnjpajelfkmabhkfapgnoai?hl=en

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

How to Present to Investors

http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/posts/bzxr-how-to-present-to-investors

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

British spy agency GCHQ hacked EU ally Belgium's telecoms firm using NSA tech

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/british-spy-agency-gchq-hacked-belgian-telecoms-firm-a-923406.html

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

Tesla Motors says car dealers are trying to hinder its sales

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24134024/tesla-motors-says-car-dealers-are-coordinating-efforts

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

“Close to 10% of the papers we receive show some sign of academic misconduct”

http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/editor-close-to-10-of-the-papers-we-receive-show-some-sign-of-academic-misconduct/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 48 comments

Ghost 0.3 (Kerouac) Launches

http://blog.ghost.org/launch

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 52 comments

iPhone 5s Teardown

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+5s+Teardown/17383/1?revisionid=HEAD

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 48 comments

Tny: A simple data serializer in C

https://github.com/BobMarlon/Tny/

13 years ago

★ 200 TeX MIT
60 upvotes – 32 comments

Edgertronic - The first affordable high speed video camera

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1521768569/edgertronictm-the-first-affordable-high-speed-vide

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

VisualPing - Get notified on visual changes to a website or website area

http://visualping.io

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

A spectacular failure of a state medical board

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/09/20/patients-endangered-by-failure-of-medical-boards/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 68 comments

Excel Turing Machine

http://www.felienne.com/?p=2974

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments
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