top 50% 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

Your own mini-Heroku for $5/month

http://blog.rajivm.com/your-own-mini-heroku-for-5-dollars-per-month.html

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 31 comments

How Americans Were Deceived About Cell Phone Location Data

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/how-americans-were-deceived-about-cell-phone-location-data/282239/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 40 comments

What it feels like being an iPad on a stick on wheels

http://labs.spotify.com/2013/12/12/what-it-feels-like-being-an-ipad-on-a-stick-on-wheels/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 25 comments

Google employee ports Amiga emulator to Chrome

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57615373-93/google-emulates-1980s-era-amiga-computer-in-chrome/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 53 comments

Introducing Instagram Direct

http://blog.instagram.com/post/69789416311/instagram-direct

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 96 comments

Images Now Showing in Gmail

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 130 comments

Metaprogramming Python For Big Data

http://tuulos.github.io/sf-python-meetup-sep-2013/#/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 27 comments

US drone strike kills 15 civilians in Yemen by mistake

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/12/us-yemen-strike-idUSBRE9BB10O20131212?irpc=932

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 62 comments

Inside the Go Playground

http://blog.golang.org/playground

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 14 comments

First water plume seen firing from Jupiter moon Europa

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24743-first-water-plume-seen-firing-from-jupiter-moon-europa.html#.Uqnkrd-dmal

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 50 comments

Techies Are the New Puritans

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115896/tech-and-homelessness-essential-conservatism-silicon-valley

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 147 comments

How to bet against the bitcoin megabubble

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/05/betting-against-bitcoin-bubble/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 69 comments

YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/11/youtube-blocks-game-videos-industry-offers-help/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 61 comments

Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/amplituhedron-jewel-quantum-physics/all/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

Node v0.10.23 (Stable)

http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/12/11/node-v0-10-23-stable/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin Pulse - Tracking Bitcoin Adoption

http://www.bitcoinpulse.com

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

Google Shopping: Upload Your Content Without Watermarks or Be Banned

http://pastebin.com/TN2tzRnE

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 118 comments

Major US carriers announce principles for unlocking devices

http://www.techhive.com/article/2079405/all-five-major-us-carriers-agree-to-let-you-unlock-your-phone-anytime-you-want.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 49 comments

From 0 to Startup: How We Made $70,000 in Revenue in Our First 6 Months – Part 1

http://blog.kevinyun.co/post/69735174286/from-0-to-startup-how-we-made-70-000-in-revenue-in

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

How Ted Koppel and ABC TV tried to steal my life work

http://natethayer.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/how-ted-koppel-and-abc-tv-tried-to-steal-my-life-work/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 3 comments

Cárdenas: “416d65726963612043616e20436f646520”

http://cardenas.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/c-rdenas-416d65726963612043616e20436f646520

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 80 comments

WebGL Equation Plot

http://vicapow.github.io/equation-plot-webgl/#cos(x%20*%2010)%20*%20sin(y%20*%2010)%20%2F%2010%20%2B%200.5

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

LiteCoin is Causing Shortages of AMD Radeon GPUs

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2013/12/9/cryptocurrencies-are-causing-shortages-of-amd-radeon-gpus.aspx

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 90 comments

The Age of the Product Manager

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2013/12/marissa_mayer_product_manager_a_new_better_kind_of_ceo.single.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 42 comments

Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt talking about Bitcoin

http://www.wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.html#688

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 35 comments

Open Source Personal Finance Manager

http://seeker89.github.io/cozy-pfm/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 40 comments

Cap'n Proto 0.4: Time-traveling RPC

http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/news/2013-12-12-capnproto-0.4-time-travel.html

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 24 comments
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