top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-10

An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/an-engineers-guide-to-stock-options

13 years ago

738 upvotes – 154 comments

The Criminalization of Everyday Life

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175781/

13 years ago

482 upvotes – 337 comments

“We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-intel-and-vias-chip-based-crypto-freebsd-developers-say/

13 years ago

348 upvotes – 176 comments

Turn any application that uses stdin/stdout into a WebSocket server

https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd

13 years ago

★ 17.4k Go BSD-2-Clause
311 upvotes – 88 comments

Firefox 26 is released

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/26.0/releasenotes/

13 years ago

305 upvotes – 200 comments

New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/new-us-spy-satellite-features-world-devouring-octopus/

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 124 comments

Show HN: Minecraft clone in 2500 lines of C - even supports multiplayer online

https://github.com/fogleman/Craft

13 years ago

★ 10.9k C MIT
287 upvotes – 149 comments

Reddit’s empire is founded on a flawed algorithm

http://technotes.iangreenleaf.com/posts/2013-12-09-reddits-empire-is-built-on-a-flawed-algorithm.html

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 131 comments

Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data

https://www.aclu.org/meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-all-location-data

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 107 comments

Linear algebra tutorial in four pages

http://minireference.com/blog/linear-algebra-tutorial/

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 111 comments

Doom released 20 years ago today

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(video_game)

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 108 comments

Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram

http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 134 comments

EFF has 2x matching donations until Dec 17th

https://supporters.eff.org/donate/power-up-2013

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 23 comments

Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boycott-science-journals?CMP=twt_fd

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 78 comments

Cars Kill Cities

http://progressivetransit.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/cars-kill-cities/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 217 comments

Leo the Homeless Coder Finished His App, and You Can Download It Right Now

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/12/10/homeless_coder_s_trees_for_cars_app.html

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 93 comments

Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6884552

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 163 comments

Disqus cracked – Security flaw reveals users’ e-mail addresses

http://cornucopia-en.cornubot.se/2013/12/flash-disqus-cracked-security-flaw.html

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 87 comments

The Redis criticism thread

http://antirez.com/news/67

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 44 comments

Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

http://tip4commit.com/projects/102

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 111 comments

Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs

http://thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-0-8-6-released-updates-block-size-limits-free-transactions-osx-bugs/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 22 comments

The Price We Pay for Cheap Meat

http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 210 comments

The AeroFS Private Cloud

http://blog.aerofs.com/the-aerofs-private-cloud/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 66 comments

Why cul-de-sacs are bad for your health

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2013/12/10/why_cul_de_sacs_are_bad_for_your_health_happy_city_by_charles_montgomery.html

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 138 comments

Academia.edu slammed with takedown notices from Elsevier

http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/06/academia-edu-slammed-with-takedown-notices-from-journal-publisher-elsevier/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 47 comments

Server-generated JavaScript responses

https://37signals.com/svn/posts/3697-server-generated-javascript-responses

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 96 comments

Ubuntu Touch OS wins its first smartphone partner

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57615107-94/ubuntu-touch-os-wins-its-first-smartphone-partner/#

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 60 comments

Google Data centers

http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

Doom’s Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/12/john-carmack-doom/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 39 comments

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees

http://firstround.com/article/Evernotes-CTO-on-Your-Biggest-Security-Worries-From-Three-Employees-to-300

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 28 comments

The origin of zero-based array indexing

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 107 comments

Documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/new-documents-show-how-the-nsa-infers-relationships-based-on-mobile-location-data/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 18 comments

Microsoft FAT patent loss endangers its Android revenue

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-fat-patent-loss-endangers-its-android-revenue-7000024103/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 48 comments

Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/29-google-sponsors-grants-for-female-programmers

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 101 comments

Why Johnny Can’t Write Multithreaded Programs

http://blog.smartbear.com/programming/why-johnny-cant-write-multithreaded-programs/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 89 comments

FreeBSD 10.0-RC1 now available

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-December/076231.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 40 comments

New Chromecast apps for the holidays

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/12/new-chromecast-apps-for-holidays.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 47 comments

Linus Torvalds: Long Filenames (1992)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.minix/0rgZpprg_Eo/NBSyZkYKRYsJ

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments

Open Big Data Computing with Julia

http://istc-bigdata.org/index.php/open-big-data-computing-with-julia/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Google Registry

http://charlestonroadregistry.com/index.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 48 comments

iBeacon Pioneers Estimote (YC S13) Raise $3.1M Seed Round

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/10/ibeacon-pioneers-estimote-raise-3-1m-seed-round/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 32 comments

Supercomputing on the cheap with Parallella

http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/12/supercomputing-on-the-cheap-with-parallella.html

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Our pricing model was broken. Here's how we fixed it

http://blog.heapanalytics.com/our-pricing-model-was-broken-heres-how-we-fixed-it-2/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: I am crazy (but can you help?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6880289

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 41 comments

QEMU 1.7.0 is now available

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-12/msg01770.html

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 16 comments

Evidence of freshwater lake that could have supported microbial life on Mars

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-12/10/curiosity-mars-lake

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

JP Morgan files for anonymous online payment system

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25326289

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

What Design at a Startup Actually Looks Like [video]

http://blog.yesgraph.com/remote-design-review/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 28 comments

Codecademy Releases Its First Educational App, a.k.a. My New Subway Time Killer

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/09/codecademy-releases-its-first-educational-app-a-k-a-my-new-subway-time-killer/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 9 comments

PayPal president David Marcus: Bitcoin is good, NFC is bad

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57615080-93/paypal-president-david-marcus-bitcoin-is-good-nfc-is-bad/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 64 comments
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