top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-02

Amazon Prime Air

http://www.amazon.com/b?ref_=tsm_1_tw_s_amzn_mx3eqp&node=8037720011

13 years ago

1412 upvotes – 588 comments

Explain Shell

http://explainshell.com/

13 years ago

1372 upvotes – 171 comments

Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless domain

http://chrishateswriting.com/post/68794699432/small-things-add-up

13 years ago

444 upvotes – 131 comments

Why I don't trade stocks and (probably) neither should you

http://edmarkovich.blogspot.com/2013/12/why-i-dont-trade-stocks-and-probably.html

13 years ago

387 upvotes – 310 comments

First Victim of Amazon Drones: The Credibility of CBS and 60 Minutes

http://blog.hubspot.com/uattr/real-purpose-of-amazon-delivery-drones

13 years ago

327 upvotes – 191 comments

Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/12/will-google-kill-my-blog-on-december-6th.html

13 years ago

301 upvotes – 117 comments

Meet the BRCK

http://www.brck.com

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 175 comments

Show HN: Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life

https://github.com/cheeaun/life

13 years ago

★ 2.8k HTML
268 upvotes – 94 comments

Dell introduces 28" 4K Ultra HD Monitor for under $1K, shipping early 2014

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/secure/2013-12-2-dell-ultrasharp-ultra-hd-monitors?dgc=BA&cid=271006&lid=4970696&acd=12309188680294295

13 years ago

241 upvotes – 206 comments

Why You Can't Build a Smartphone

http://joshondesign.com/2013/12/02/nosmartphone

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 173 comments

How reddit tried to solve the "new link" problem. Why HN doesn't need a new algo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6834705

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 67 comments

Amazon Unveils Delivery By Drone

http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-unveils-delivery-by-drone-prime-air-no-seriously-7000023795/

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 107 comments

Amazon to deliver by drone? Don't believe the hype

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/02/amazon-drone-delivery-jeff-bezos-hype

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 151 comments

What I learned from writing 750 words a day for 365 days

http://bennesvig.com/lessons-writing-750-words-day-365-days/

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 64 comments

Graph.tk

http://graph.tk/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 38 comments

Amazon Drones - 60 Minutes [video]

http://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/jsew__gnI4_Lh_p4_Md6m1tw5mumYDuV/60-minutes-overtime-12-01-13/?nm

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 42 comments

How to Burst the "Filter Bubble" that Protects Us from Opposing Views

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/522111/how-to-burst-the-filter-bubble-that-protects-us-from-opposing-views/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 107 comments

Why Hacker News should use a different Deterministic Algorithm, Not a Random One

http://www.bayesianwitch.com/blog/2013/why_hn_shouldnt_use_randomized_algorithms.html

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 46 comments

Sprite Cow – Generate CSS for sprite sheets

http://www.spritecow.com/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 27 comments

Why I am no longer submitting direct URLs to HN (and neither should you)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6834019

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 61 comments

Newegg on trial: Mystery company TQP rewrites the history of encryption

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/newegg-on-trial-mystery-company-tqp-re-writes-the-history-of-encryption/2/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 13 comments

Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7556/dell-leaks-details-of-a-24-uhd-4k-3840x2160-monitor-the-up2414q

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 92 comments

Expanding Context in Diffs

https://github.com/blog/1705-expanding-context-in-diffs

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners

http://blogs.developerforce.com/developer-relations/2013/12/update-on-salesforce1-hackathon-feedback-review.html

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 76 comments

Drowning in JavaScript

http://dangoldin.com/2013/12/01/drowning-in-javascript/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 50 comments

Profiling Python Like a Boss

https://zapier.com/engineering/profiling-python-boss/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 17 comments

Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995)

http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirvana-185306

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 67 comments

Scientist who faked data in his thesis will keep his Ph.D.

http://retractionwatch.com/2013/11/13/scientist-who-faked-data-in-his-thesis-will-keep-his-phd/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 47 comments

Can a local variable's memory be accessed outside its scope?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6441218/can-a-local-variables-memory-be-accessed-outside-its-scope/6445794#6445794

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 39 comments

‘Record IQ is just another talent’ (2010)

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20101006000616&cpv=0

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 73 comments

YC is joining Alexis Ohanian's Without Their Permission Tour

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-is-joining-alexis-ohanians-without-their-permission-tour

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 53 comments

How Antivirus Companies Handle State-Sponsored Malware

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/how_antivirus_c.html

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

FedEx DVDs held at U.S. Customs until video declaration form completed (2012)

https://plus.google.com/104925781657226108947/posts/hDJy8L9Z9Lj

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Why HN Should Use Randomized Algorithms

http://danluu.com/randomize-hn/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

Why spies never discover anything useful

http://johnquiggin.com/2013/11/23/why-spies-never-discover-anything-useful/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 79 comments

Europe's Ryanair vs. America's Southwest

https://flightfox.com/tradecraft/polyester-airlines-europe-vs-america

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 77 comments

Scientist-developed malware covertly jumps air gaps using inaudible sound

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/scientist-developed-malware-covertly-jumps-air-gaps-using-inaudible-sound/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 57 comments

Simulating a Market in Ruby

http://www.petekeen.net/simulating-a-market-in-ruby

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Infinite Grid of Resistors

http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath668/kmath668.htm

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: WebRTC Poker

https://bitflop.me

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 48 comments

Apple Buys Twitter Analytics Startup Topsy Labs

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304854804579234450633315742-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwMjEwNDIyWj

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

Cppquiz – Figure what a given C++ program does

http://cppquiz.org/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 23 comments

An Open Letter To Customers

http://app.biz.blackberry.com/e/es.aspx?s=1122712022&e=13419&elq=6bc066b0bd2b4b8e925d5b347bf5adb3

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 78 comments

Active-Active for Multi-Regional Resiliency

http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/12/active-active-for-multi-regional.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 3 comments

The Peacock Problem

http://www.jamiebgall.co.uk/the-peacock-problem/4581216632

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 83 comments

The Results Of My Year-Long Physical Product Experiment

http://needwant.com/p/results-physical-product-experiment/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

List of Free Programming Books

http://resrc.io/list/10/list-of-free-programming-books/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 3 comments
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