top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-12-31

I fought my ISP's bad behavior and won

http://erichelgeson.github.io/blog/2013/12/31/i-fought-my-isps-bad-behavior-and-won/

13 years ago

400 upvotes – 108 comments

Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300 users and 0 revenue

http://www.sergioschuler.com/startup-lessons-learned-from-my-failed-startup/

13 years ago

380 upvotes – 159 comments

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014

http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2014/pre-1976

13 years ago

365 upvotes – 160 comments

The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/30/the-nsa-reportedly-has-total-access-to-your-iphone/

13 years ago

342 upvotes – 201 comments

How to write a great research paper [pdf]

https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/writing-a-paper-slides.pdf

13 years ago

251 upvotes – 62 comments

Why I no longer contribute to Stack Overflow

http://michael.richter.name/blogs/why-i-no-longer-contribute-to-stackoverflow/

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 236 comments

The RIAA forced me to shut down a successful website/apps I built in high school

http://blog.appgrounds.com/the-riaa-forced-me-to-shut-down/

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 130 comments

Why I'm Interested in Bitcoin

http://cdixon.org/2013/12/31/why-im-interested-in-bitcoin/

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 171 comments

Watch pg write an essay in real time

https://code.stypi.com/hacks/13sentences?doomed=true

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 63 comments

The Mac Pro Review

http://anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 156 comments

Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently

http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmail-more

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 58 comments

Questions I'm asking in technical interviews

http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/30/questions-im-asking-in-interviews/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 40 comments

Mac Pro Late 2013 Teardown

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+Late+2013+Teardown/20778

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 94 comments

Peter Thiel’s Graph of the Year

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/30/peter-thiels-graph-of-the-year/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 91 comments

U.S. to China: We Hacked Your Internet Gear We Told You Not to Hack

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/nsa-cisco-huawei-china/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 63 comments

Best Paper Awards in Computer Science Since 1996

http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html##

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Making extra income with books

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6990470

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 49 comments

Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

http://twister.net.co/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 47 comments

On The Information and How We Operate

http://jessicalessin.com/2013/12/31/on-the-information-and-how-we-operate/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 122 comments

Whistleblower Edward Snowden is tech person of year

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2013/12/28/edward-snowden-is-tech-figure-of-the-year-new-tech-economy/4213953/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 12 comments

SQLAlchemy 0.9.0 Released

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/blog/2013/12/30/sqlalchemy-0.9.0-released/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Steam Removes Game 'Order Of War: Challenge' From User Libraries

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/30/steam-removes-game-order-of-war-challenge-from-user-libraries/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 118 comments

Python 2.x vs 3.x use survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N5N5PG2

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 114 comments

Silicon Valley Hustle: Former Motionloft CEO Accused Of Defrauding Investors

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/30/motionloft-jon-mills/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 19 comments

I, Health Insurer

http://charlespetzold.com/blog/2013/12/I-Health-Insurer.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 106 comments

I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/12/glasshole/all/1

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 83 comments

Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/30/pew-social-networking/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 38 comments

2013: A Bad Year for the Tech Industry

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/2013-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year-for-the-tech-industry/282656/?HN

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 53 comments

Redesigned Window Stops Sound But Not Air

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/516766/redesigned-window-stops-sound-but-not-air-say-materials-scientists/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

Bsdnt – A BSD-licensed bignum library

https://github.com/wbhart/bsdnt/tree/v1.0

13 years ago

★ 233 C
78 upvotes – 49 comments

‘JFK Customs destroyed 11 of my instruments’

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2013/12/jfk-customs-destroyed-11-of-my-instruments.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

No Moore? A golden rule of microchips appears to be coming to an end

http://www.economist.com/news/21589080-golden-rule-microchips-appears-be-coming-end-no-moore

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 63 comments

Bodily maps of emotions

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/12/26/1321664111.abstract

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

The spiral of learning

http://sdqali.in/blog/2012/05/30/the-spiral-of-learning/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

WiTrack – Through-Wall 3D Tracking Using Body Radio Reflections

http://witrack.csail.mit.edu/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

From Erratic to Effective: The Story Behind the Zapier Blog in 2013

https://zapier.com/blog/erratic-effective-story-behind-zapier-blog-2013/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 1 comments

Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone Backdoors

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/31/apple-says-it-has-never-worked-with-nsa-to-create-iphone-backdoors-is-unaware-of-alleged-dropoutjeep-snooping-program/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 51 comments

The Architecture of the Burroughs B5000 (1982)

http://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Burroughs%20B-5000.htm

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 30 comments

2013: A Linux Christmas

http://www.zdnet.com/2013-a-linux-christmas-7000024666/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 37 comments

Scoble says Google Glass is doomed

https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/1UfNLdZAN4h

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 66 comments

Programming Interview Question: Eight Queens

http://jetheis.com/blog/2013/12/01/programming-interview-question-eight-queens/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 59 comments

DigitalHax – Allows you to recover data from "Destroyed" Digital Ocean VM

https://github.com/gregimba/DigitalHax

13 years ago

★ 21 Shell
53 upvotes – 33 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments