top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-12-04

Valve joins the Linux Foundation

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/04/valve-joins-linux-foundation-prepares-linux-powered-steam-os-steam-machines/

13 years ago

593 upvotes – 290 comments

NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_print.html

13 years ago

588 upvotes – 290 comments

Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach

http://www.haveibeenpwned.com/

13 years ago

491 upvotes – 283 comments

Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

http://www.boredbanker.com

13 years ago

422 upvotes – 156 comments

DHS stalls no-fly list trial by putting witness on no-fly list

http://boingboing.net/2013/12/04/dhs-stalls-no-fly-list-trial-b.html

13 years ago

404 upvotes – 117 comments

Kima15: $150K for 15% in 15 days

http://www.kima15.com

13 years ago

313 upvotes – 154 comments

Sheerwind

http://sheerwind.com/technology/how-does-it-work

13 years ago

312 upvotes – 135 comments

Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity?

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18539/has-stackoverflow-saved-billions-of-dollars-in-programmer-productivity

13 years ago

285 upvotes – 173 comments

Kicktrolling

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kneon/crimson-rhen-of-the-truth-north/posts/681517

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 81 comments

SpaceX Successfully Completes First Mission to Geostationary Transfer Orbit

http://www.spacex.com/press/2013/12/03/spacex-successfully-completes-first-mission-geostationary-transfer-orbit

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 63 comments

A Testament to X11 Backwards Compatibility

http://www.theresistornetwork.com/2013/12/a-testament-to-x11-backwards.html

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 89 comments

Google Acquires Seven Robot Companies, Wants Big Role in Robotics

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/google-acquisition-seven-robotics-companies

13 years ago

244 upvotes – 138 comments

Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

http://gifpop.io/

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 111 comments

Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (2010)

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_cassidy?currentPage=all

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 171 comments

Ben Noordhuis's Departure

http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/12/03/bnoordhuis-departure/

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 229 comments

Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/technology/google-puts-money-on-robots-using-the-man-behind-android.html

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 81 comments

Evading Airport Security

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

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 162 comments

On programming without malloc

http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/03/day-36-programming-without-malloc/

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 104 comments

Yotaphone

http://www.yotaphone.com/#/en/

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 102 comments

List of cognitive biases

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

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 62 comments
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