top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-18

Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929705

13 years ago

658 upvotes – 475 comments

Data Structure Visualizations

http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.html

13 years ago

514 upvotes – 35 comments

Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-want-bitcoin-to-die-in-a.html

13 years ago

436 upvotes – 402 comments

Saab wins Brazil jets deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/18/brazil-jets-idUSL2N0JX17W20131218

13 years ago

380 upvotes – 131 comments

RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis

http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/

13 years ago

344 upvotes – 95 comments

$200,000 to the first person to break Telegram

https://telegram.org/crypto_contest

13 years ago

342 upvotes – 162 comments

A Material Point Method For Snow Simulation

http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/publications

13 years ago

310 upvotes – 60 comments

oDesk to merge with Elance

https://www.odesk.com/blog/2013/12/odeskelancemerge/

13 years ago

309 upvotes – 139 comments

Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18/research-shows-how-macbook-webcams-can-spy-on-their-users-without-warning/

13 years ago

301 upvotes – 234 comments

Bitcoin Private Key Necromancy

http://www.pxdojo.net/2013/12/bitcoin-private-key-necromancy.html

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 96 comments

Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/18/Rails-4-1-beta1/

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 57 comments

Unfolding The Box - CSS 3D Transforms in the Box Model

http://rupl.github.io/unfold/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 30 comments

Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology

https://al3x.net/2013/12/18/bitcoin.html

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 181 comments

Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab

http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=1029

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 126 comments

Start-up NY: 100% Tax-Free for 10 Years?

http://startup-ny.com/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 107 comments

Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map

http://nmap.org/favicon/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 27 comments

List of minimalist frameworks

https://github.com/neiesc/ListOfMinimalistFrameworks

13 years ago

★ 3.6k Astro CC0-1.0
126 upvotes – 91 comments

China bans new Bitcoin deposits

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6707013a-67af-11e3-8ada-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2noKo4XIN

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 121 comments

Coinbase Crosses 650,000 Users

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/70403865643/coinbase-crosses-650-000-users

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 118 comments

The Right Stuff: Breaking the PageSpeed Barrier with Bootstrap

http://www.appneta.com/blog/bootstrap-pagespeed/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

Sublime Text 3 Build 3059

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-build-3059

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 105 comments

‘Superbugs’ found breeding in sewage plants

http://news.rice.edu/2013/12/16/superbugs-found-breeding-in-sewage-plants/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 33 comments

The Birth of Standard Error

http://spinellis.gr/blog/20131211/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 20 comments

Reverse Engineering a Furby

http://poppopret.org/2013/12/18/reverse-engineering-a-furby/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 26 comments

Extreme Programming, a Reflection

http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2013/12/10/Thankyou-Kent.html

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 66 comments

Why I create for the web

http://blog.neave.com/post/64669185529/why-i-create-for-the-web

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 29 comments

Netiquette (1995)

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 64 comments

PS4's LLVM-based Developer Toolchain [pdf]

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/slides/Robinson-PS4Toolchain.pdf

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 19 comments

Starting Feb 1, new apps and app updates must be optimized for iOS 7

https://developer.apple.com/news/index.php?id=12172013a#top

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 85 comments

The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002)

http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

Bitcoin Value Sinks After Chinese Exchange Move

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/business/international/china-bitcoin-exchange-ends-renminbi-deposits.html

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 107 comments

Lab Mice Are Being Kept Too Cold, Apparently

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/12/18/lab_mice_are_being_kept_too_cold_apparently.php

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 77 comments

Bedrock: a modern WordPress stack

https://github.com/roots/bedrock

13 years ago

★ 6.5k PHP MIT
82 upvotes – 42 comments

Sexism and Tech and Love

http://loveandvoid.com/2013/12/16/sexism-and-tech-and-love/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 106 comments

The Design of Everyday Things - Course

https://www.udacity.com/course/design101?utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1stdaydesign101

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Bitcoin drops 50% overnight as China’s Biggest BTC exchange stops Yuan deposits

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/18/bitcoin-drops-50-overnight-as-chinas-biggest-btc-exchange-stops-deposits-in-chinese-yuan/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 86 comments

Networking is Overrated

http://wins.softwareadvice.com/networking-is-overrated-1213/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 38 comments

Meta unveils next version of augmented reality glasses for $3k

https://www.spaceglasses.com/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 68 comments

Has Microsoft Gone Nuts?

http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/has-microsoft-gone-nuts.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 97 comments

Gitless: an experimental version control system built on top of Git

http://people.csail.mit.edu/sperezde/gitless/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 46 comments

What It's Like to Live on Low Pay in a Land of Plenty

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/12/17/251992536/security-guards-at-big-tech-companies-struggle-with-low-pay

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 108 comments

Some fun with Redis Cluster testing

http://antirez.com/news/69

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: Let's open-source our unused pitch decks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931130

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Artificial intelligence: Our final invention?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/matt-miller-artificial-intelligence-our-final-invention/2013/12/18/26ed6be8-67e6-11e3-8b5b-a77187b716a3_story.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 94 comments

We are the freak show

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=23079

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 40 comments

Know Your Company grows up and moves out

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3700-big-know-your-company-grows-up-and-moves-out

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 40 comments

Sources: Target Investigating Data Breach

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/sources-target-investigating-data-breach/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

Does Bedtime Honey Improve Sleep? Reasons to Think So

http://blog.sethroberts.net/2013/11/05/honey-at-bedtime-improves-sleep/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 34 comments

All New Mac Pro Available Starting Tomorrow

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/12/18All-New-Mac-Pro-Available-Starting-Tomorrow.html

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 94 comments
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