top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-14

Coin

http://onlycoin.com

13 years ago

1387 upvotes – 690 comments

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/

13 years ago

593 upvotes – 239 comments

Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds “fair use,” cites many benefits

http://gigaom.com/2013/11/14/google-wins-book-scanning-case-judge-finds-fair-use-cites-many-benefits/

13 years ago

500 upvotes – 147 comments

TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/tpp-leak-confirms-worst-us-negotiators-still-trying-trade-away-internet-freedoms

13 years ago

463 upvotes – 71 comments

What happened when my co-founder quit the night before our YC interview

http://brandonb.cc/what-happened-when-my-co-founder-quit-the-night-before-our-yc-interview

13 years ago

381 upvotes – 92 comments

Coin: A step in the wrong direction

http://www.techendo.co/posts/coin-a-step-in-the-wrong-direction

13 years ago

342 upvotes – 187 comments

Vi Hart: cramming G+ into YouTube has made comments even worse, I'm leaving

http://boingboing.net/2013/11/13/vi-hart-cramming-g-into-yout.html

13 years ago

315 upvotes – 235 comments

Never Heard of It

http://alistapart.com/column/never-heard-of-it

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 81 comments

Stop Secret Copyright Treaties

https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9357

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 13 comments

Should Quadrotors All Look Like This?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/aerial-robots/iros-2013-should-quadrotors-all-look-like-this#.UoRAb7LvVFs.hackernews

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 113 comments

How GitHub No Longer Works

http://zachholman.com/talk/how-github-no-longer-works/

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 132 comments

Dart 1.0 Is Out

http://news.dartlang.org/2013/11/dart-10-stable-sdk-for-structured-web.html

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 159 comments

How I Got a 2x Speedup With One Line of Code

http://www.naftaliharris.com/blog/2x-speedup-with-one-line-of-code/

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 56 comments

Deep Learning 101

http://markus.com/deep-learning-101/

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 44 comments

Do-it-yourself EEG, EKG, and EMG

http://erkutlu.blogspot.com/2012/12/eeg-and-arduino-do-it-yourself-eeg-ekg.html

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 41 comments

A collaborative spreadsheet in less than 45 lines of JS, one library used

http://jsfiddle.net/sy85U/

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 67 comments

Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit card

http://gigaom.com/2013/11/14/meet-coin-a-startup-creating-a-universal-credit-card/

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 175 comments

Europe approves use of in-flight electronics during take-off and landing

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/14/europe-approves-electronic-devices-take-off-landing-easa-caa

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 91 comments

Elon Musk on First Principles

http://blog.microlancer.com/elon-musks-greatest-weapon-laymans-guide-first-principles/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 99 comments

New antibiotic kills off persistent infections

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/13/killing-sleeper-cells-and-superbugs-with-assassin-janitors/

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 84 comments

Ph.D. 2.0: Rethinking the Ph.D. Application

http://jeffhuang.com/rethinking_the_phd_application.html#

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 142 comments

Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births

http://nytimes.com/2013/11/14/health/new-tool-to-ease-difficult-births-a-plastic-bag.html?ref=health&_r=0

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 108 comments

The Open Book Sale of My $600K eCommerce Store, With Financials

http://www.ecommercefuel.com/selling-an-ecommerce-store/

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 72 comments

Protean Echo – Fuse All Your Cards into One

http://getprotean.com/

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 81 comments

We just open sourced Flanker, our Python email address and Mime parsing library

http://blog.mailgun.com/post/we-just-open-sourced-flanker-our-python-email-address-and-mime-parsing-library/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 26 comments

Searchable catalog of Udacity, edX, Coursera, etc.

http://www.coursebuffet.com/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 46 comments

Renault ships a brickable car with battery DRM that you're not allowed to own

http://boingboing.net/2013/11/13/renault-ships-a-brickable-car.html

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 129 comments

Launching our Data Science and Big Data Track

http://blog.udacity.com/2013/11/sebastian-thrun-launching-our-data.html?m=1

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 37 comments

Why I switched from Ruby to Go

http://codegangsta.io/blog/2013/07/21/creating-cli-applications-in-go/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 129 comments

GoConvey: Go testing in the browser

http://smartystreets.github.io/goconvey/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 24 comments

Americans’ Personal Data Shared with CIA, IRS, Others in Security Probe

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/11/14/208438/americans-personal-data-shared.html

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 53 comments

Lebanon's forgotten space programme

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24735423

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 29 comments

Is the universe fundamentally deterministic?

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/63811/is-the-universe-fundamentally-deterministic

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 83 comments

Zero-day vulnerability in Chrome on Nexus 4 and Samsung Galaxy S4

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Chrome-on-a-Nexus-4-and-Samsung-Galaxy-S4-falls/ba-p/6268679#.UoRsdJWIrIU

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 32 comments

What is wrong with this message?

http://dbushell.com/2013/11/14/what-is-wrong-with-this-message/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 77 comments

Frosted glass effect with CSS and SVG

http://codepen.io/Matori/pen/JFzok

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 39 comments

Amazon Kinesis

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/11/amazon-kinesis-real-time-processing-of-streamed-data.html

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 40 comments

Martini: Classy web development in Go

http://martini.codegangsta.io

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

Government requests for user information double over three years

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/government-requests-for-user.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 5 comments

How I became a con artist (2010)

http://www.salon.com/2010/11/30/life_as_an_amateur_con/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 64 comments

Dart Website Relaunch with 1.0 Release

https://www.dartlang.org/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 120 comments

Node.js is Cancer (2011)

http://pages.citebite.com/b2x0j8q1megb

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

How I was unbanned from Hacker News

http://blog.aha.io/index.php/how-i-was-unbanned-from-hacker-news/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 50 comments

Google wins the Book Search suit: declared fair use

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/14/us-google-books-idUSBRE9AD0TT20131114

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Are We Building Jailbait Sexbots?

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3021651/why-are-we-building-jailbait-sexbots

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 85 comments

Einstein Reads ‘The Common Language of Science’ (1941)

http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/listen_as_albert_einstein_reads_the_common_language_of_science_1941

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

IBM Watson’s Next Venture

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/42451.wss#!

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 28 comments

Renault will remotely lock down electric cars

https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2013/10/31/renault-will-remotely-lock-down-electric-cars/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 28 comments

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/11/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-now-available.html

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments
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