top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-25

How Money Moves Around The Banking System

http://gendal.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-of-how-money-moves-around-the-banking-system/

13 years ago

518 upvotes – 61 comments

My deadly disease was just a 23andme bug

http://mntmn.com/pages/23andme.html

13 years ago

516 upvotes – 318 comments

FDA Warning Letter to 23andMe

http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2013/ucm376296.htm

13 years ago

338 upvotes – 415 comments

Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/half-an-operating-system-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-os2/

13 years ago

329 upvotes – 189 comments

Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/newegg-trial-crypto-legend-diffie-takes-the-stand-to-knock-out-patent/

13 years ago

290 upvotes – 87 comments

That's a fun trick Google

http://impressmyself.co/post/68075785820/thats-a-fun-trick-google

13 years ago

273 upvotes – 149 comments

Tab Closed; Didn't Read

http://tabcloseddidntread.com

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 85 comments

India's Nuclear Scientists Keep Dying Mysteriously

http://www.vice.com/read/why-are-indian-authorities-ignoring-the-deaths-of-nuclear-scientists

13 years ago

221 upvotes – 54 comments

What if successful startups are just lucky?

http://blog.ploki.info/what-if-successful-startups-are-just-lucky/

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 177 comments

Lessons from 2 months of remote working

http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Remote-teams.html

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 72 comments

AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=346134.msg3709913#msg3709913

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 190 comments

Our Responsibility As Developers

http://kylerichter.com/our-responsibility-as-developers/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 57 comments

A history of the Amiga, part 1: Genesis

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/07/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-1/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 66 comments

How To Make An Infinitely Scalable RDBMS

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/11/25/how-to-make-an-infinitely-scalable-relational-database-manag.html

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 89 comments

Why Japan Is Crazy About Housing

http://www.archdaily.com/450212/why-japan-is-crazy-about-housing/

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 120 comments

OS X LevelDB Corruption Bounty: 10.00 BTC + 200.2 LTC

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=337294.0;all

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Meet Sid, our Raspberry-Pi-powered office robot

http://sidg.tl/sid

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 23 comments

We wrote a CEO page and it works

http://rsync.net/products/ceopage.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 57 comments

Using neural nets to recognize handwritten digits

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

Silicon Valley Isn’t a Meritocracy

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/silicon-valley-isnt-a-meritocracy-and-the-cult-of-the-entrepreneur-holds-people-back/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 180 comments

Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission [video]

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?ses-8

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 54 comments

Watsi x Goldbely Holiday Gift Package

http://watsibely.com/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 28 comments

Empty Mansions: Don’t be old and rich in New York City

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/11/24/empty-mansions-dont-be-old-and-rich-in-new-york-city/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 72 comments

LG says it will push out firmware update for spy TVs, but no apologies

http://grahamcluley.com/2013/11/lg-firmware-update-spy-tv/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 51 comments

Facebook is for grandparents: What we need in a next-gen social network

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2013/11/24/facebook-grandparents-need-next-gen-social-network/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 83 comments

How Did Dread Pirate Roberts Acquire and Protect His Bitcoin Wealth? [pdf]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/839348/silk-road-paper.pdf

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

Kicking Ass And Saving Lives – iHELP From Slovenia

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2013/11/25/kicking-ass-and-saving-lives-ihelp-from-slovenia

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 29 comments

Join the Compiler Creation Club

http://tech.pro/blog/1733/join-the-compiler-creation-club

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 56 comments

The copyright industry should brace itself: the Kim Dotcom saga isn't over

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/25/mega-kim-dotcom-copyright-baboom

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 118 comments

Python 3.4 Beta 1 Released

http://python.org/download/releases/3.4.0/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

Amazon workers face 'increased risk of mental illness'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25034598

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 90 comments

Okay, Google, you officially beat Siri

http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/24/google-siri/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 65 comments

Ask HN: Have you had trouble getting a job after a failed startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6794007

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 73 comments

Lookback.io - See how people really use your app

http://lookback.io/e/demo359?back=startpage

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 44 comments

Hgraph – Your health in one picture

http://hgraph.org/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

An Introduction to Decision Trees with Julia

http://bensadeghi.com/decision-trees-julia/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 5 comments

A day in the life of a stackoverflow moderator...

http://stackoverflow.com/posts/16630713/revisions

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

Intro to images in Go: Fractals

http://www.pheelicks.com/2013/11/intro-to-images-in-go-fractals/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 7 comments

Bitcoin payment processor BIPS compromised, 1295 BTC stolen

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=252308.msg3645043#msg3645043

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 66 comments

The Period Is Pissed

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115726/period-our-simplest-punctuation-mark-has-become-sign-anger

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 64 comments

How to share data with a statistician

https://github.com/jtleek/datasharing

13 years ago

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70 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: What habit have you dropped or picked up that improved your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6793264

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 129 comments

Cheet.js: Easter eggs (Konami Code, etc.) for your site

http://namuol.github.io/cheet.js/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

Instance Model Programming in C

http://slkpg.byethost7.com/instance.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34196/why-was-chosen-to-represent-the-home-directory

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

Bitcoin Payment Processor BIPS Attacked, Over $1M Stolen

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-payment-processor-bips-attacked-1m-stolen/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 61 comments

OS X Hardening: Securing a Large Global Mac Fleet [video]

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/os-x-hardening-securing-large-global-mac-fleet?

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 1 comments

Surveillance as a Business Model

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/surveillance_as_1.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

The Internet mystery that has the world baffled

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/10468112/The-internet-mystery-that-has-the-world-baffled.html

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

Kern Type, The Kerning Game

http://type.method.ac/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

Someone Is Trying to Trademark Use of "Bitcoin" on Clothing

http://trademarks.justia.com/860/97/bitcoin-86097068.html

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

A China Triangle: Bitcoin, Baidu, And Beijing

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2013/11/24/a-china-triangle-bitcoin-baidu-and-beijing/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

It costs 5x more to attract a new customer than to retain an existing customer.

http://tomfishburne.com/2013/11/acquisition.html

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 22 comments

Four Months After a Concussion, Your Brain Still Looks Different Than Before

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/11/four-months-after-a-concussion-your-brain-still-looks-different-than-before/

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 31 comments
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