top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-13

Tell HN: How we bootstrapped to the #1 rated mattress on Amazon.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6900625

13 years ago

462 upvotes – 271 comments

Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/google-removes-vital-privacy-features-android-shortly-after-adding-them

13 years ago

406 upvotes – 203 comments

Email Introduction Etiquette

http://blog.42floors.com/email-introduction-protocol/

13 years ago

402 upvotes – 116 comments

SteamOS: It's here

http://steamdb.info/blog/35/

13 years ago

343 upvotes – 248 comments

300ms tap delay removed on Chrome for Android

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/12/300ms-tap-delay-gone-away

13 years ago

309 upvotes – 159 comments

Oculus VR raises $75M

http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/12/oculus-vr-raises-75m-from-andreessen-horowitz-to-create-consumer-version-of-its-virtual-reality-goggles/

13 years ago

288 upvotes – 97 comments

The Best Books I Read in 2013

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Best-Books-2013

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 156 comments

Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/uruguay-president-jose-mujica

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 134 comments

About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight”

http://developer-blog.cloudbees.com/2013/12/about-paypal-node-vs-java-fight.html

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 208 comments

Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim

http://coolwanglu.github.io/vim.js/web/vim.html

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 100 comments

British Library has released over a million images onto Flickr Commons

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 57 comments

Strategic Game of Life

https://thomashunter.name/games/strategic-game-of-life/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 66 comments

How Gmail’s Image Caching Affects Open Tracking

http://blog.mailchimp.com/how-gmails-image-caching-affects-open-tracking/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 57 comments

The American Way of Hiring Is Making Long-Term Unemployment Worse

http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/12/the-american-way-of-hiring-is-making-long-term-unemployment-worse/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 106 comments

How Class-based Programming Sucks (2011)

http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/classes-suck

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 139 comments

Call of Duty's underlying message is becoming more troubling

http://www.edge-online.com/features/call-of-duty-piece/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 102 comments

Best Firefox Add-ons of 2013

https://blog.mozilla.org/theden/2013/12/04/13-best-firefox-add-ons-of-2013/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 53 comments

Silicon Valley 40 under 40: Garry Tan

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/12/12/silicon-valley-40-under-40-garry-tan.html?page=all

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 38 comments

David Deutsch On Artificial Intelligence

http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/david-deutsch-artificial-intelligence/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 59 comments

Ludum Dare #28 starts today

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/12/11/welcome-to-ludum-dare-28/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 58 comments

Facebook self-censorship: What happens to the posts you don’t publish?

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/12/facebook_self_censorship_what_happens_to_the_posts_you_don_t_publish.html

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 44 comments

NASA Chooses Musk’s SpaceX to Negotiate Launch Pad Lease

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-13/nasa-chooses-musk-s-spacex-to-negotiate-launch-pad-lease.html

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

How Much Optimization Is The Right Amount?

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/premature_optimization_postmature_optimization

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 17 comments

SteamOS: What we know so far and what to expect

http://steamdb.info/blog/34/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 68 comments

Former Google corporate attorney becomes Deputy Director of US Patent Office

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/michelle-lee/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments

AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/12/aws-management-console-auto-scaling-support.html?hn

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

Where are Docker images stored?

http://blog.thoward37.me/articles/where-are-docker-images-stored/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Prolog for Programmers

https://sites.google.com/site/prologforprogrammers/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

10k+ API directory

http://publicapis.com/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Read Discover Meteor for free today

http://free.discovermeteor.com/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

Google Tips

https://www.google.com/get/googletips/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments

How Law Enforcement Tracks Cellular Phones

http://www.crypto.com/blog/celltapping/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments

YC's Safe annotated by lawyers, founders, and investors on Casetext

https://casetext.com/contract/simple-agreement-for-future-equity

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 44 comments

XCOM JavaScript port

http://epicport.com/en/xcom

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

Revisiting why incompetents think they’re awesome (2012)

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/revisiting-why-incompetents-think-theyre-awesome/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 62 comments

Django 1.6.1 Released

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/releases/1.6.1/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

24 Days of Hackage: pandoc

http://ocharles.org.uk/blog/guest-posts/2013-12-12-24-days-of-hackage-pandoc.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

Amazon said to launch Pantry to take on Costco, Sam's

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/12/amazon-pantry/4001707/?source=email_rt_mc_body&app=n

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 42 comments

Bitcoin market price app, 'Bitcoin Alarm,' is carefully cloaked malware

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2080041/bitcoin-market-price-app-bitcoin-alarm-is-carefully-cloaked-malware.html

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Facebook's 'Deep Learning' Guru Reveals the Future of AI

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/facebook-yann-lecun-qa/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 3 comments

Soylent Micronutrient Breakdown

http://blog.soylent.me/post/69835344439/soylent-micronutrient-breakdown

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 65 comments

Facebook Video Ad Pitch Deck Reveals Plans To Steal TV And YouTube Dollars

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/13/facebook-vs-tv-and-youtube/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 32 comments
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