top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-14

Scott Adams: How to Be Successful

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304626104579121813075903866.html#!

13 years ago

690 upvotes – 184 comments

Ghost Launches to The Public

http://blog.ghost.org/public-launch/

13 years ago

475 upvotes – 261 comments

Why Android SSL was downgraded from AES256-SHA to RC4-MD5 in late 2010

http://op-co.de/blog/posts/android_ssl_downgrade/

13 years ago

365 upvotes – 86 comments

Google Fiber now allows servers for non-commercial use

http://googleprotest.com

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 151 comments

Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/145633

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 81 comments

The San Francisco Exodus

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/7205/

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 255 comments

On being the right size (1928)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/haldane/works/1920s/right-size.htm

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 144 comments

Ggplot2 for python

https://github.com/yhat/ggplot/

13 years ago

★ 3.6k Python BSD-2-Clause
187 upvotes – 60 comments

How the .0001% Made Its Money

http://priceonomics.com/how-the-0001-made-its-money/

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 143 comments

NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 19 comments

Security/Server Side TLS

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 26 comments

Banksy Art Sale in Central Park [video]

http://www.banksy.co.uk/2013/10/13/central-park

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 95 comments

The trouble with timestamps

http://aphyr.com/posts/299-the-trouble-with-timestamps

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 12 comments

Realistic Facebook Privacy Simulator

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/realistic-facebook-privacy-simulator/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 37 comments

Arizona solar plant achieves six hours after sun goes down

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-arizona-solar-hours-sun.html

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 64 comments

Insecurities in the Linux /dev/random

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/insecurities_in.html

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 74 comments

How exercise boosts brain health

http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-exercise-boosts-brain-health

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 42 comments

Web-mode.el – an Emacs major mode for editing HTML templates

https://github.com/fxbois/web-mode

13 years ago

★ 1.6k Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0
109 upvotes – 26 comments

China's State Press Calls for 'Building a de-Americanized World'

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-14/chinas-state-press-calls-for-building-a-de-americanized-world

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 144 comments

Pragmatic D Tutorial

http://qznc.github.io/d-tut/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 10 comments

Rails' CookieStore isn't broken

https://www.coffeepowered.net/2013/09/26/rails-session-cookies/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

How to Become as Rich as Bill Gates

http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 88 comments

The Ball-of-Mud Transition, or how software gets complex

http://akvo.org/blog/the-ball-of-mud-transition/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments

The perfect epitaph for establishment journalism

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/independent-epitaph-establishment-journalism

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

AngularJS Directive Design Made Easy

http://seanhess.github.io/2013/10/14/angularjs-directive-design.html

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 24 comments

Google Gravity experiment

http://www.mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 41 comments

Logout is broken by default in Ruby on Rails Web applications

http://maverickblogging.com/logout-is-broken-by-default-ruby-on-rails-web-applications/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 56 comments

Visualizing The Matterhorn as an 860,000 point cloud

https://www.mapbox.com/pointcloud/matterhorn/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

CastAR: the most versatile AR & VR system

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/castar-the-most-versatile-ar-and-vr-system

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

How Mailgun Uses Docker And Contributes Back

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-mailgun-uses-docker-and-contributes-back/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 3 comments

Zenefits (YC W13) Rolls Its HR Automation Services Out To All 50 States

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/14/zenefits-rolls-its-hr-automation-services-out-to-all-50-states/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

Bitcoin Network Doubles to 2 PH/s in Four Weeks; the First 1 PH/s Took 4.7 Years

http://thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-network-doubles-2-phs-four-weeks-first-1-phs-took-4-7-years/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 92 comments

Iceland: Where one in 10 people will publish a book

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24399599

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

Overdosing on Celebrity Gossip, The News, and Low Quality Information

http://jamesclear.com/brain-food

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Matz: Ruby's Lisp features (2006)

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/179642

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 29 comments

How not to validate email addresses

http://mdswanson.com/blog/2013/10/14/how-not-to-validate-email-addresses.html

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 76 comments

Ruby Tips Part 4

http://globaldev.co.uk/2013/10/ruby-tips-part-4/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

SafeCurves: Choosing safe curves for elliptic-curve cryptography

http://safecurves.cr.yp.to

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

The end of bosses

http://fullstart.com/knowledge/the-end-of-bosses/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Have you considered switching from OS X to Linux?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6545556

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 124 comments

Inside 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki's $99 DNA Revolution

http://www.fastcompany.com/3018598/for-99-this-ceo-can-tell-you-what-might-kill-you-inside-23andme-founder-anne-wojcickis-dna-r

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 48 comments

Why a Free Society Needs a Free Money

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7437/cathy-reisenwitz-why-a-free-society-needs-a-free-money/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 56 comments

IBM researcher can guess your personality from 200 of your tweets

http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/08/ibm-researcher-can-decipher-your-personality-in-200-tweets/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 29 comments

World Record: Wireless Data Transmission at 100 Gbit/s

http://www.kit.edu/visit/pi_2013_14082.php

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership

http://blog.vctr.me/bart/index.html

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 72 comments

How Samsung inflated its performance scores

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/13/samsung-benchmarking-apps

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 30 comments

Lavabit to Briefly Reinstate Services for Data Recovery

https://rally.org/lavabit#post_gRdzf0nzD6E

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 18 comments

Microsoft Mission Impossible

http://www.mondaynote.com/2013/10/13/microsoft-mission-impossible/

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 56 comments
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