top 10 hacker news stories for 2013-12-14

Google Acquires Boston Dynamics

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/technology/google-adds-to-its-menagerie-of-robots.html

13 years ago

799 upvotes – 291 comments

Robinhood: $0 commission stock brokerage

https://www.robinhood.io

13 years ago

426 upvotes – 152 comments

China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25356603

13 years ago

295 upvotes – 105 comments

Inverted totalitarianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 158 comments

The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf]

https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thesaddestmoment.pdf

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 41 comments

550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible in High-Res Detail

http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/icv/page.php?book=arch._b_b.10

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 50 comments

Adaptive Backgrounds – A jQuery plugin for extracting dominant colors

http://briangonzalez.github.io/jquery.adaptive-backgrounds.js/

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 36 comments

How to send DMs on Twitter without permission

https://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-to-send-dm-on-twitter-wo-permission.html

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 56 comments

Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's space program (2009)

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-qian-xuesen1-2009nov01,0,2865408.story

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 84 comments

Sequence of Events in the Cockpit on Asiana Flight 214

http://fearoflanding.com/accidents/sequence-of-events-in-the-cockpit-on-asiana-flight-214/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 129 comments
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