top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-17

I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/i-got-myself-arrested-so-i-could-look-inside-the-justice-system/282360/

13 years ago

834 upvotes – 472 comments

Geneva drive

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

13 years ago

481 upvotes – 71 comments

We Need to Talk About TED

http://www.bratton.info/projects/talks/we-need-to-talk-about-ted/

13 years ago

415 upvotes – 184 comments

Show HN: Myth – CSS the way it was imagined

http://www.myth.io/

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 152 comments

CSS animated loading indicators

http://tobiasahlin.com/spinkit/

13 years ago

327 upvotes – 70 comments

We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)

http://ryancarson.com/post/21708810513/4-day-week

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 126 comments

Tech firms push back against White House efforts to divert NSA meeting

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/tech-firms-obama-meeting-nsa-surveillance

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 87 comments

High Speed Trains are Killing the European Railway Network

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/12/high-speed-trains-are-killing-the-european-railway-network.html

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 212 comments

From carpool to deadpool: Ridejoy’s startup journey

http://blog.ridejoy.com/from-carpool-to-deadpool-ridejoys-startup-journey/

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 77 comments

JavaScript Promises: There and back again

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/es6/promises/#!

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 74 comments

Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your accounts

http://justdelete.me/

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 39 comments

The Cinematography of "The Incredibles"

http://floobynooby.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/the-cinematography-of-incredibles-part-1.html

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 38 comments

Web Framework Benchmarks - Round 8

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7&test=json

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 165 comments

Elsevier steps up its War On Access

http://svpow.com/2013/12/17/elsevier-steps-up-its-war-on-access/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 82 comments

A visualization of global weather conditions, forecast by supercomputers

http://earth.nullschool.net

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 41 comments

Why Google isn't our Bell Labs

http://begun.co/why-google-isnt-our-bell-labs

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 122 comments

PHP functions originally bucketed by strlen, were renamed to balance length

http://news.php.net/php.internals/70691

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 157 comments

How Sleep Clears the Brain

http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/october2013/10282013clear.htm

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 47 comments

Fedora 20 released

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_Notes/index.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 101 comments

FasterCGI with HHVM

http://www.hhvm.com/blog/1817/fastercgi-with-hhvm

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 31 comments

What's Coming in Ember.js in 2014

http://emberjs.com/blog/2013/12/17/whats-coming-in-ember-in-2014.html

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 33 comments

NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/nsa-surveillance-60-minutes-cbs-facts

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 10 comments

Dissecting the GZIP format (2011)

http://www.infinitepartitions.com/art001.html

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 19 comments

Meteor 0.7.0: Scaling realtime queries using oplog instead of poll-and-diff

https://www.meteor.com/blog/2013/12/17/meteor-070-scalable-database-queries-using-mongodb-oplog-instead-of-poll-and-diff

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Crit-bit trees

http://cr.yp.to/critbit.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 41 comments

How to get a job after you've been rejected

http://www.karenx.com/blog/how-to-get-a-job-after-youve-been-rejected/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 68 comments

Request for Funding OpenBSD Project's Electricity

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg125651.html

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

Tor best practices

http://digital-era.net/tor-use-best-practices/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

Telegram, a.k.a. “Stand back, we have Math PhDs”

http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-back-we-know-maths/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 53 comments

The future of PHP, at a distance

http://pooteeweet.org/blog/0/2259

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 49 comments

Bitcoin Falls 20% on PBOC Rumors, Chinese Exchanges Reinstate Fees

http://thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-falls-20-pboc-rumors-chinese-exchanges-reinstate-fees/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 68 comments

Something is erasing my program while it's running (oh wait oops)

http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/16/day-43-hopefully-the-last-day-spent-fixing-linker-problems/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

The Mission to Decentralize the Internet

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/the-mission-to-decentralize-the-internet.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 40 comments

Paul Dini explains why execs don't want girls watching their superhero shows

http://boingboing.net/2013/12/16/paul-dini-explains-why-execs-d.html

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 72 comments

Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers

http://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

A Full-Featured, $38 Tablet Is Coming to the U.S.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/12/16/a-full-featured-38-tablet-is-coming-to-the-u-s/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 52 comments

Wordpress Bootstrap 3 Starter Theme – MIT License

https://github.com/bencarlson/wp-bootstrap

13 years ago

★ 308 PHP GPL-3.0
69 upvotes – 43 comments

Google Zeitgeist 2013

http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?zg=full

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 61 comments

Fuck ‘Networking’. Just Be a Human

http://onboardly.com/startup-pr/fk-networking-just-be-a-human/#.UrBbZ8_SYUZ

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 59 comments
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