top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-11

Uruguay legalises production and sale of cannabis

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/uruguay-cannabis-marijuana-production-sale-law

13 years ago

480 upvotes – 312 comments

Why was this secret?

http://sivers.org/ws

13 years ago

411 upvotes – 209 comments

H5N1

http://blog.samaltman.com/h5n1

13 years ago

394 upvotes – 184 comments

NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/nsa-uses-google-cookies-to-pinpoint-targets-for-hacking/

13 years ago

337 upvotes – 173 comments

New Google Sheets: faster, more powerful, and works offline

http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2013/12/newsheets.html?m=1

13 years ago

295 upvotes – 221 comments

Vim3D – A new 3D vi clone [video]

http://www.vim3d.com/

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 66 comments

How AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are working together to screw you

http://www.timmins.net/2013/12/11/how-att-verizon-and-comcast-are-working-together-to-screw-you-by-discontinuing-landline-service/

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 75 comments

US Fails To Close TPP Deal As Wikileaks Exposes Discord

http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2013/12/10/us-fails-to-close-tpp-deal-as-wikileaks-exposes-discord/

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 86 comments

U.S. FDA to phase out some antibiotic use in animal production

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/11/fda-antibiotic-idUSL3N0JQ36T20131211

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: tyto

http://jh3y.github.io/tyto/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 122 comments

Canada Post to phase out urban home mail delivery

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-post-to-phase-out-urban-home-mail-delivery-1.2459618

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 130 comments

Call me maybe: Redis redux

http://aphyr.com/posts/307-call-me-maybe-redis-redux

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 23 comments

What are Linux containers and how did they come about?

http://bitmason.blogspot.ca/2013/09/what-are-containers-anyway.html

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 63 comments

A Guide to Python's Magic Methods

http://www.rafekettler.com/magicmethods.html

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 18 comments

IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers

http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2013/12/intellij-idea-13-brings-a-full-bag-of-goodies-to-android-developers/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 101 comments

Fidelity now allows clients to put bitcoins in IRAs

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/12/11/fidelity-now-allows-clients-to-put-bitcoins-in-iras/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 94 comments

Sharking: High-Rollers in the Crosshairs

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002647.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 41 comments

Ancient Indian Texts

https://sites.google.com/site/ancientbharat/home

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 94 comments

California Arrests the Owner of a Revenge Porn Site

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/12/11/kevin_bollaert_arrested_for_revenge_porn_california_s_move_is_a_promising.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 154 comments

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta

https://access.redhat.com/site/products/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/Get-Beta?intcmp=70160000000cINoAAM

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 103 comments

Reform corporate surveillance

https://www.fsf.org/news/reform-corporate-surveillance

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 18 comments

Why we removed bosses at Treehouse

http://ryancarson.com/post/61562761297/no-managers-why-we-removed-bosses-at-treehouse

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 112 comments

Total relay bandwidth in the Tor network

https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html?graph=bandwidth&start=2012-06-12&end=2013-12-11#bandwidth

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 38 comments

Obscure C++ Features

http://madebyevan.com/obscure-cpp-features/?viksra

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 129 comments

Digia releases Qt 5.2 with Android and iOS support

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/12/11/digia-releases-qt-5-2-android-ios-support-previews-windows-rt-launches-qt-mobile-edition/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 51 comments

How to intern in Silicon Valley with a J1 visa

http://blog.sendtoinc.com/2013/12/11/silicon-valley-internship-j1-visa/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 46 comments

Steam Machines and Steam Controller shipping to beta participants December 13th

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/1930088300965516570

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 57 comments

Project Marilyn Part I: Non-Patented Cancer Pharmaceutical

https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/project-marilyn-part-i?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=HNPost&utm_campaign=ProjectMarilyn

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 29 comments

America is separating into peasants and scholar-gentry

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ch/2013/12/america-is-separating-into-peasants-and.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 101 comments

Briefly profitable alt-coin mining on Amazon through better code

http://da-data.blogspot.com/2013/12/briefly-profitable-alt-coin-mining-on.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 53 comments

GNU Guix 0.5 released

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-12/msg00061.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 30 comments

AmazonFresh Has Launched in Bay Area

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2013/12/amazonfresh_has_launched_in_ba.php

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 71 comments

Docker will change everything

http://sathishmanohar.com/articles/docker-will-change-everything/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 111 comments

The Most Misleading Measure of Response Time: Average

http://blog.optimizely.com/2013/12/11/why-cdn-balancing/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her

http://www.cringely.com/2013/12/10/sisters-quilter-google-mugged/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sisters-quilter-google-mugged

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 111 comments

SAP open sources UI development toolkit "SAPUI5"

http://sap.github.io/openui5/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 79 comments

TSA Confiscates Toy Monkey's Toy Gun

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/12/she-said-this-is-a-gun-i-said-no-its-a-prop-for-my-monkey.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

Snapchat Raises $50 Million In Series C From A Single, Undisclosed Investor

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/11/snapchat-series-c-50-million/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 64 comments

Natural Language Processing in the kitchen

http://datadesk.latimes.com/posts/2013/12/natural-language-processing-in-the-kitchen/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

Telegraphy: Real-time events for WSGI Python applications

http://telegraphy.machinalis.com/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Reactive Manifesto

http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 45 comments

Dinosaur asteroid 'sent life to Mars'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25201572

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 46 comments

Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters

http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/1/4/never-create-ruby-strings-longer-than-23-characters

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

http://trycilantro.com

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 46 comments

A programmer's oath

https://dionyziz.com/oath

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 48 comments

Time Person of the Year 2013

http://poy.time.com/2013/12/11/person-of-the-year-pope-francis-the-peoples-pope/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: AmberExpress - order any product on your mobile device with just 2 taps

http://blog.amber.io/post/amberexpress-order-any-product-on-your-mobile-device

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

Sitting straight 'bad for backs' (2008)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6187080.stm

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 32 comments

The Long-Term Unemployed Are Doomed

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/12/11/long_term_unemployment_doom.html

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 137 comments

Nokia moves ahead with plans for a low-end Android handset

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/12/nokia-moves-ahead-with-plans-for-a-low-end-android-handset/

13 years ago

46 upvotes – 47 comments

Writing a modern web app with Go, TDD, REST, and AngularJS

http://blog.campoy.cat/2013/12/writing-moder-web-app-with-go-tdd-rest.html

13 years ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments

AT&T offers gigabit Internet discount in exchange for your Web history

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/att-offers-gigabit-internet-discount-in-exchange-for-your-web-history/

13 years ago

46 upvotes – 45 comments
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