top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-12-12

Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy?

http://mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/are-your-programmers-working-hard-or.html

13 years ago

663 upvotes – 322 comments

Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/gmail-blows-up-e-mail-marketing-by-caching-all-images-on-google-servers/

13 years ago

601 upvotes – 311 comments

The microhydro plant

http://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html

13 years ago

557 upvotes – 116 comments

Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11171475

13 years ago

526 upvotes – 254 comments

News is bad for you

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

13 years ago

486 upvotes – 232 comments

How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web

http://www.keacher.com/1216/how-i-introduced-a-27-year-old-computer-to-the-web/

13 years ago

407 upvotes – 90 comments

Pirate Bay founder is being held in solitary confinement without a warrant

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2318828/pirate-bay-founder-is-being-held-in-solitary-confinement-without-a-warrant

13 years ago

343 upvotes – 55 comments

Scientists discover second code hiding in DNA

http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/12/12/scientists-discover-double-meaning-in-genetic-code/

13 years ago

279 upvotes – 99 comments

Caltech Announces Open Access Policy

http://www.caltech.edu/content/caltech-announces-open-access-policy

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 31 comments

Prototype ergonomic mechanical keyboards

http://blog.fsck.com/2013/12/better-and-better-keyboards.html

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 142 comments

Hacker news for data scientists

http://www.datatau.com/

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 66 comments

Yogaglo Patent Issued

https://yogainternational.com/article/view/yogaglo-patent-issued

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 108 comments

Shopify Raises $100 Million

http://www.shopify.com/blog/10780917-shopify-raises-100-million

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 49 comments

Coinbase Raises $25 Million From Andreessen Horowitz

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/69775463031/coinbase-raises-25-million-from-andreessen-horowitz

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 140 comments

Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec

https://github.com/cisco/openh264/

13 years ago

★ 6k C++ BSD-2-Clause
182 upvotes – 82 comments

Free Games: Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics

http://www.gog.com/news/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 66 comments

PostgreSQL Exercises

http://pgexercises.com/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 44 comments

CertiVox confirms it withdrew PrivateSky after GCHQ issued warrant

http://www.itsecurityguru.org/node/4780

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 75 comments

First 3D Commercial Web Game Powered By asm.js

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/12/12/first-3d-commercial-web-game-powered-by-asm-js-unveiled/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 88 comments

Paul Graham Shares Number of Y Combinator Companies Sold or Valued at Over $40M

http://mattermark.com/number-of-y-combinator-companies-sold-for-over-40m-by-year-funded/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 87 comments
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