top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-16

Square Cash

https://square.com/cash

13 years ago

710 upvotes – 281 comments

f.lux has been updated to a new version

http://justgetflux.com/news/pages/bigupdate/

13 years ago

597 upvotes – 261 comments

See Your Folks

http://seeyourfolks.com/

13 years ago

419 upvotes – 191 comments

No More Callbacks: 10,000 Actors, 10,000 Threads, 10,000 Spaceships

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/64210769930/spaceships2

13 years ago

339 upvotes – 143 comments

FlyKly Smart Wheel

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flykly/flykly-smart-wheel

13 years ago

324 upvotes – 189 comments

Introducing TogetherJS

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/introducing-togetherjs

13 years ago

302 upvotes – 82 comments

Coding Interview Tips

http://www.interviewcake.com/tips-and-tricks

13 years ago

294 upvotes – 151 comments

Debugging a Live Saturn V

http://www.zamiang.com/posts/2013/10/13/red-team/

13 years ago

276 upvotes – 33 comments

Reproducibility Initiative gets $1.3M grant to validate 50 cancer studies

http://blog.scienceexchange.com/2013/10/reproducibility-initiative-receives-1-3m-grant-to-validate-50-landmark-cancer-studies/

13 years ago

236 upvotes – 34 comments

Hacking the Olympics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6560740

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 71 comments

New effort to fully audit TrueCrypt raises $16,000+ in a few short weeks

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/new-effort-to-fully-audit-truecrypt-raises-over-16000-in-a-few-short-weeks/

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 97 comments

Bitcoin as a law enforcement/natsec honeypot: what is the evidence?

http://ianso.blogspot.be/2013/10/bitcoin-as-law-enforcementnatsec.html

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 90 comments

Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Greenwald

http://pressthink.org/2013/10/why-pierre-omidyar-decided-to-join-forces-with-glenn-greenwald-for-a-new-venture-in-news/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 47 comments

Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/10/10/gotta-compute-em-all-wolframalphas-new-data-about-pokemon/

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 56 comments

Shumway - Mozilla

http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 30 comments

The Two Cultures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 80 comments

Cockroach farms multiplying in China

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-c1-china-cockroach-20131015-dto,2669,4433405.htmlstory

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 123 comments

What is the best way to programatically detect porn images? (2009)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/713247/what-is-the-best-way-to-programatically-detect-porn-images/713414

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 104 comments

C++ has become a scripting language

http://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2013/10/15/c-has-become-a-scripting-language/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 193 comments

How to Make a $19 Police Scanner

https://sites.google.com/site/policescannerhowto/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 53 comments

Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/15/us-usa-security-greenwald-idUSBRE99E18D20131015

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

Lua support in the NetBSD kernel

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2013/10/16/msg048283.html

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 57 comments

No rare earth metals in the Model S

http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/no-rare-earth-metals-model-s

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 50 comments

At.js – A GitHub-like textarea autocomplete library

http://ichord.github.io/At.js/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 17 comments

Ireland is to close a tax loophole used by Apple

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24542794

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 70 comments

Google Maps Open-Source Challenger MapBox Raises $10M From Foundry Group

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/10/16/google-maps-open-source-challenger-mapbox-raises-10m-from-foundry-group/?mod=WSJBlog

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 44 comments

Beer

http://annelibby.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/beer/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 138 comments

Snapchat admits to handing unopened 'snaps' to US law enforcement

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/15/snapchat-hands-snaps-pictures-to-federal-law-enforcement

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

Y Combinator applicant advice

https://medium.com/on-startups/289c58a2ca89

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 28 comments

Jury says Cuban did not commit insider trading

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/16/3692385/jury-deliberations-to-begin-in.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 76 comments

How to Avoid Problem Clients

http://www.nicholasreese.com/problem-clients/?utm_source=getresponse&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=downloads&utm_content=How+to+Avoid+Problem+Clients

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 16 comments

Union Square Ventures' new website

http://www.usv.com/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 61 comments

Calorie burner: How much better is standing up than sitting?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24532996

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 39 comments

Potion 0.1 released

https://github.com/perl11/potion/releases/tag/v0.1/

13 years ago

★ 675 C
75 upvotes – 2 comments

Typesafe acquires Spray.io

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/Typesafe-Reactive-Platform-Acquires-New-High-Performance-HTTP-Foundation-1841738.htm

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Unit Testing Best Practices in AngularJS

http://andyshora.com/unit-testing-best-practices-angularjs.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

What is Continuous Deployment?

http://sdarchitect.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/understanding-devops-part-6-continuous-deployment/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/16/blockchain-smashers/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 50 comments

The Government Shutdown Has Revealed Silicon Valley’s Dysfunction Fetish

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/silicon-valleys-dysfunction-fetish.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 62 comments

US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)

https://bits.enigma.io/s/t/e15d88f664c0d70d578452b8054b145a

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 127 comments

Surprising Facts About Otzi the Iceman

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131016-otzi-ice-man-mummy-five-facts/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

New Delicious

http://www.delicious.com

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 53 comments

Stop Watching Us Indiegogo Campaign Reaches Goal

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stop-watching-us-a-rally-against-nsa-surveillance-on-october-26th--2?

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

Wabi-sabi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 33 comments

U.S. eavesdropping agency chief, top deputy expected to depart soon

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/us-usa-nsa-transition-idUSBRE99F12W20131016?irpc=932

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

CloudFront Uploads via POST and PUT

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/10/amazon-cloudfront-content-uploads-post-put-other-methods.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

The Ioke programming language

https://ioke.org/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments

Why the Twentieth Century Was Not a Chinese Century

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/08/where-was-china-why-the-twentieth-century-was-not-a-chinese-century-a-deleted-scene-from-my-slouching-towards-utopia-th.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 47 comments

URX (YC S13) Is A Brilliant Mobile Ad Service That Deeplinks Into Ecommerce Apps

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/16/urx-ads?utm_campaign=hn&utm_medium=ns&utm_source=me

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

LightTable 0.5.9 now with some Paredit

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/light-table-discussion/BIyWHnRcoWc

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

The War for Software Talent in Silicon Valley Drives Salaries to Record Highs

http://m.jobspringpartners.com/blog/posts/2013/03/04/the-war-for-software-talent-in-silicon-valley-drives-salaries-to-record-highs

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 48 comments
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