top 10 hacker news stories for 2013-12-06

What the Fluck

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/WHAT-THE-FLUCK

13 years ago

685 upvotes – 159 comments

How the Bitcoin protocol actually works

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/

13 years ago

524 upvotes – 55 comments

Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes

http://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-the-safe-a-replacement-for-convertible-notes

13 years ago

517 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles

http://www.bestmedicareprice.com/

13 years ago

488 upvotes – 222 comments

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system

13 years ago

394 upvotes – 194 comments

People Don’t Actually Like Creativity

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/12/creativity_is_rejected_teachers_and_bosses_don_t_value_out_of_the_box_thinking.html

13 years ago

375 upvotes – 214 comments

BayesDB - a Bayesian database table

http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/bayesdb/

13 years ago

269 upvotes – 29 comments

Bank of America's Research Report on Bitcoin [pdf]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/885843/banks-research-report-on-bitcoin.pdf

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 226 comments

FuckIt.py - The Python Error Steamroller

https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy

13 years ago

★ 5.2k Python
252 upvotes – 97 comments

Experiments to do with your baby

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/experiments-to-do-with-your-baby/280592/

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 73 comments
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