top 50% 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

I will not hack on your codebase for free in an interview

http://hownottohireadeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/no-i-will-not-hack-on-your-codebase-for-free.html

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 244 comments

The lie of the API

http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2013/11/29/the-lie-of-the-api/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 118 comments

Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen

http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/technology/security/passwords-stolen/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 102 comments

Oldest Human DNA Yet Found Raises New Mysteries

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/science/at-400000-years-oldest-human-dna-yet-found-raises-new-mysteries.html?_r=0

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 56 comments

What's New In Git 1.8.5

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/12/whats-new-git-1-8-5/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 71 comments

Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?

https://isios7jailbrokenyet.com/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 106 comments

Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js and Socket.io

http://brikis98.blogspot.be/2013/11/play-scala-and-iteratees-vs-nodejs.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 24 comments

Perl One-Liners

http://nostarch.com/perloneliners

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 45 comments

So I decided to program a Solar System simulator in WebGL and Javascript

http://lab.la-grange.ca/en/so-i-decided-to-program-a-solar-system-simulator

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 26 comments

Websmart, Inc. and 100,000 Vulnerable Websites

http://samsclass.info/125/ethics/smart-websites.htm

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 68 comments

Leaked Uber Numbers Point to Over $1B Gross, $213M Revenue

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/04/leaked-uber-numbers-which-weve-confirmed-point-to-over-1b-gross-revenue-213m-revenue/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: Which daily habit has affected your productivity the most?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6851384

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 77 comments

The Unix system family tree: Research and BSD

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree?rev=HEAD

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 40 comments

How Old Is The Shepherd?

http://robertkaplinsky.com/how-old-is-the-shepherd/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 97 comments

This Is the MIT Surveillance Video That Undid Aaron Swartz

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/swartz-video/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 82 comments

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III

http://feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_toc.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Build an iPhone Game in your Browser

https://www.makegameswith.us/build-an-ios-game-in-your-browser/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing

http://lifehacker.com/5989980/ive-been-using-evernote-all-wrong-heres-why-its-actually-amazing

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 84 comments

Life Advice for Young Men That Went Viral in the 1850's

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/12/04/advice_for_men_list_of_maxims_that_went_viral_in_the_nineteenth_century.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 52 comments

Chain of fools: Upgrading through every version of Windows

http://rasteri.blogspot.ca/2011/03/chain-of-fools-upgrading-through-every.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

2013, the year of Usenet

http://www.therandymon.com/index.php?/244-2013,-the-Year-of-Usenet.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 73 comments

Why Scala is the best language available today

http://m50d.github.io/2013/12/04/language-design-is-hard.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 106 comments

Linux Command Examples

http://linux-commands-examples.com/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

An HTML5 app turned native in 10 minutes with PhoneGap Build?

http://www.position-absolute.com/articles/an-html5-app-turned-native-in-10-minutes-with-phonegap-build-its-possible-kind-of/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 53 comments
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