top 50% 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

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

239 upvotes – 114 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

Personal Fresh Air Desk

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

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 67 comments

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

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

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 55 comments

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

210 upvotes – 205 comments

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

204 upvotes – 157 comments

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

156 upvotes – 57 comments

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

154 upvotes – 113 comments

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

http://hey.co

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 116 comments

Elixir is for programmers

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

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 51 comments

X server in 5000 lines of Common Lisp

https://github.com/pyb/zen

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 66 comments

After working +1200 hours in oDesk

http://malditointer.net/after-working-1200-hours-in-odesk/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 91 comments

Is Unicode Safe?

http://www.jefftk.com/p/is-unicode-safe

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 42 comments

Why we ditched Amazon AWS

http://blog.testingbot.com/2013/12/06/testingbot-has-moved-to-its-own-cloud

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 95 comments

Why I hate virtualenv and pip

http://pythonrants.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/why-i-hate-virtualenv-and-pip/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 113 comments

Sad News for the Opscode Community

http://www.opscode.com/blog/2013/12/05/sad-news-for-the-opscode-community/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 17 comments

Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/bgp-hijacking-belarus-iceland/?cid=co15315354

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 43 comments

Popular Flashlight App has been secretly sharing your location

http://www.fastcompany.com/3023042/fast-feed/this-popular-flashlight-app-has-been-secretly-your-sharing-location-and-device-id

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 79 comments

ArangoDB

http://arangodb.org/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 67 comments

Failed HN Launch vs. Reddit Paid Advertising: Which Converts Better

http://startops.namecast.net/rants/2013/12/05/failed-HN-launch-vs-reddit-paid-advertising:-which-converts-better/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 58 comments

Safe Financing Documents

http://ycombinator.com/safe/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 7 comments

The Next Ten Billion Years

http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-next-ten-billion-years.html

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 87 comments

Telepathwords: A New Password Strength Estimator

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

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: RiffBank – A reverse guitar tab search engine

http://riffbank.com/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 34 comments

Bitcoin Value Loses Its Mind as Trading Lags on the Mt.Gox Exchange

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/06/bitcoin-value-loses-its-mind-as-trading-lags-on-the-mt-gox-exchange/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: I made a SaaS that helps keep freelancer's pipeline full - with no code

http://letsworkshop.com

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

Raft - The Understandable Distributed Protocol

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/raft

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 10 comments

What we learned open sourcing a major part of Mailgun

http://blog.mailgun.com/post/what-we-learned-open-sourcing-a-major-part-of-mailgun/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 3 comments

Why PHP continues to thrive in the age of the PaaS

https://plus.google.com/u/0/106413090159067280619/posts/eL5f8xNkkVs

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: My girlfriend needed a Secret Santa web app, so I built her one

http://www.memofromsanta.com

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 65 comments

John Cleese on creative thinking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU5x1Ea7NjQ

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: NetLua – Completely managed .NET Lua

https://github.com/frabert/NetLua

13 years ago

★ 152 C# MIT
61 upvotes – 18 comments

Docker Installation on Google Cloud Platform

http://docs.docker.io/en/master/installation/google/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 12 comments

Measles Cases Triple in U.S., Vaccine Refusal Here and Elsewhere to Blame

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/measles-spike-us/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 81 comments

The ups and downs of the HTTP header

http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/the-ups-and-downs-of-the-http-header/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

Mongodb – not evil, just misunderstood

http://siddharth-ravichandran.com/2013/12/04/mongodb-not-evil-just-misunderstood/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 51 comments
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