top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-08

Nest introduces their Smoke Detector

http://nest.com/smoke-co-alarm/life-with-nest-protect/

13 years ago

539 upvotes – 401 comments

Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked

https://lavabit.com/?8-oct-2013

13 years ago

420 upvotes – 304 comments

Introducing Login and Pay with Amazon

https://payments.amazon.com/business

13 years ago

353 upvotes – 125 comments

Frequency-shaped background noise generators

http://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php

13 years ago

344 upvotes – 109 comments

The Sierpinski triangle page to end most Sierpinski triangle pages

http://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm

13 years ago

333 upvotes – 55 comments

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/

13 years ago

329 upvotes – 83 comments

Whatever happened to due process?

http://blog.easydns.org/2013/10/08/whatever-happened-to-due-process/

13 years ago

323 upvotes – 55 comments

Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness (1932)

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

13 years ago

300 upvotes – 120 comments

How Lavabit Melted Down

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/how-lavabit-edward-snowden-email-service-melted-down.html

13 years ago

287 upvotes – 172 comments

Aren't you glad you didn't cite this webpage?

http://ssnat.com/

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 93 comments

Piercing Through WhatsApp’s Encryption

https://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2013/10/08/piercing-through-whatsapp-s-encryption/

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 81 comments

HP Chromebook 11

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/hp-chromebook-11/

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 256 comments

G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (1909)

http://mustapha.svbtle.com/tfs

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 96 comments

The cold emails which got me meetings at Twitter, LinkedIn and GitHub

http://www.startupmoon.com/how-i-got-meetings-at-twitter-linkedin-and-github-using-cold-emails/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 53 comments

Unix: When pipes get names

http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/375359/unix-when-pipes-get-names

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 66 comments

Cash Flow and Destiny

http://bhorowitz.com/2013/10/08/cash-flow-and-destiny/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 28 comments

My embarrassing picture went viral

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/my_embarrassing_picture_went_viral/

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 234 comments

StackEdit: A free, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown

http://benweet.github.io/stackedit/#

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 57 comments

Heroku WebSockets Now in Public Beta

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/10/8/websockets-public-beta

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 51 comments

Firefox Developer Tools and Firebug

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/firefox-developer-tools-and-firebug/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 66 comments

Optimizing Linux Memory Management for Low-latency, High-throughput Databases

http://engineering.linkedin.com/performance/optimizing-linux-memory-management-low-latency-high-throughput-databases

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 27 comments

What is the Higgs?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/08/science/the-higgs-boson.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 18 comments

There's a .00006% Chance of Building a Billion Dollar Company

http://firstround.com/article/Theres-a-00006-Chance-of-Building-a-Billion-Dollar-Company-How-This-Man-Did-It

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 130 comments

Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/10/google-app-engine-php-runtime-now-available-to-everyone.html

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: I made a site that lets you bet against Bitcoin Hash Rate Volatility

http://www.futureblock.com/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 83 comments

Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart suggests otherwise

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/07/think-piracy-is-killing-the-music-industry-this-chart-suggests-otherwise/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 112 comments

Foursquare dataset free to download and analyze

http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~sarwat/foursquaredata/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 35 comments

Making a Living Collecting Cans

http://priceonomics.com/making-a-living-collecting-cans/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 97 comments

Cursive Clojure: A Clojure IntelliJ plugin

http://cursiveclojure.com/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 60 comments

Visualizing 40,000 student code submissions

http://www.stanford.edu/~jhuang11/research/pubs/moocshop13/codeweb.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 19 comments

My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old

http://www.shalinshah.me/my-internship-experience/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 87 comments

Open source is brutal: an interview with Google's Chris DiBona

http://opensource.com/business/13/10/interview-chris-dibona

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

1 Mo. Treasury Jumps from 10 to 27 bps in 7 days

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 103 comments

Two-laser boron fusion lights the way to radiation-free energy

http://www.nature.com/news/two-laser-boron-fusion-lights-the-way-to-radiation-free-energy-1.13914

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

Meltdowns Hobble NSA Data Center

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304441404579119490744478398.html

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 48 comments

Why I Invest in Online-to-Offline Businesses

http://blog.zactownsend.com/why-i-invest-in-onlinetooffline-businesses

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

Yahoo Mail turns 16, gets a makeover

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/63462971435/yahoo-mails-sweet-16-is-sweet-a-brand-new-view

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 61 comments

Ad Vulna: Vulnerable and Aggressive Adware Threatening Millions

http://www.fireeye.com/blog/technical/2013/10/ad-vulna-a-vulnaggressive-vulnerable-aggressive-adware-threatening-millions.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments

Delayed aging is better investment than cancer, heart disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131007162357.htm

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 36 comments

Startup School 2013 - Facebook's Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/705664592796188/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Oakland Neighbors Crowdfunding Private Security

http://techpresident.com/news/24395/oakland-neighbors-crowdfund-private-security

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 51 comments

Obamacare: Personal Data Can Be Used For ‘Law Enforcement and Audit Activities’

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-marketplace-personal-data-can-be-used-law-enforcement-and-audit-activities_762237.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 30 comments

Meet the Nest Protect smoke and CO alarm

http://nest.com/blog/2013/10/08/meet-the-nest-protect-smoke-and-co-alarm/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 75 comments

PHP in a Tweet

http://www.emanueleminotto.it/php-in-a-tweet

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 57 comments

Most Reported Genetic Associations with Intelligence are Probably False

http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9938142/Most_Reported_Genetic.pdf?sequence=1

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 53 comments

Unveiling Stealth Y Combinator Startup URX

http://uncrunched.com/2013/10/08/unveiling-stealth-y-combinator-startup-urx/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

Four UK men arrested over Silk Road links

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24443216

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 55 comments

Feds Arrest Alleged Top Silk Road Drug Seller

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/feds-arrest-alleged-top-silk-road-drug-seller/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 31 comments

How I Made $4000 Selling A Product I Didn't Have

http://adii.me/ultimate-validation/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 71 comments
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