top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-12-06

What the Fluck

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

13 years ago

How the Bitcoin protocol actually works

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

13 years ago

Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes

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

13 years ago

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

http://www.bestmedicareprice.com/

13 years ago

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

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

BayesDB - a Bayesian database table

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

13 years ago

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

FuckIt.py - The Python Error Steamroller

https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy

13 years ago

★ 5.2k Python

Experiments to do with your baby

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

13 years ago

The Internet mystery that has the world baffled

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/internet/Cicada+3301+online+mystery+enthralls+codebreakers/9211024/story.html

13 years ago

Personal Fresh Air Desk

http://julioradesca.com/personal-fresh-air/

13 years ago

An HTML/CSS/JS code editor in 230+ bytes

http://xem.github.io/miniCodeEditor/

13 years ago

Schoolchildren ordered indoors as air pollution cloaks Shanghai

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/06/schoolchildren-air-pollution-shanghai-eastern-china

13 years ago

The Day Mandela Was Arrested, With A Little Help From the CIA

http://www.newsweek.com/day-mandela-was-arrested-little-help-cia-223935

13 years ago

US Supreme Court Will Hear Case Re: Standards for Software Patent Eligibility

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/alice-corporation-pty-ltd-v-cls-bank-international/

13 years ago

Guy tries to sell chinese watch Z3 as his own work

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/253126792/rocktm-first-qi-wifi-lifestyle-smartwatch-wireless/comments

13 years ago

Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.

http://hey.co

13 years ago

Elixir is for programmers

http://blog.pluralsight.com/elixir-is-for-programmers

13 years ago

X server in 5000 lines of Common Lisp

https://github.com/pyb/zen

13 years ago