top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-02

Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/opinion/edward-snowden-whistle-blower.html

13 years ago

804 upvotes – 157 comments

“Vacations are for the weak”

http://sethbannon.com/vacations-are-for-the-weak

13 years ago

486 upvotes – 356 comments

Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00005.html

13 years ago

401 upvotes – 302 comments

Can-Do vs. Can’t-Do Culture

http://recode.net/2014/01/01/can-do-vs-cant-do-culture/

13 years ago

342 upvotes – 129 comments

How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/

13 years ago

336 upvotes – 129 comments

Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz" equivalent?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6999429

13 years ago

260 upvotes – 331 comments

Lock Picking – A Basic Guide

https://www.hackthis.co.uk/articles/picking-locks-a-basic-guide

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 110 comments

Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7128

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 147 comments

Hyperloop: Not so fast

http://blogs.mathworks.com/seth/2013/11/22/hyperloop-not-so-fast/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 141 comments

Gate Tower Building

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

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 50 comments

Free Bootstrap Themes

http://www.blacktie.co/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 57 comments

Resolving power button issues in Mac OS X Mavericks

http://binchewer.org/blog/index.php?id=1

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 144 comments

The Saddest SaaS Pricing Pages of the Year

http://blog.priceintelligently.com/blog/bid/192297/The-Saddest-SaaS-Pricing-Pages-of-the-Year

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 82 comments

Happy New Year from Y Combinator

http://blog.ycombinator.com/happy-new-year-from-y-combinator

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 12 comments

NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-seeks-to-build-quantum-computer-that-could-crack-most-types-of-encryption/2014/01/02/8fff297e-7195-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_print.html

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 106 comments

Jolla Outsells iPhone 5S and 5C in Finland

http://www.jollausers.com/2014/01/jolla-outsells-iphone-5s-and-5c-in-finland/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 81 comments

Ask HN: Female hacker-founder AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6998559

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 74 comments

The Best To-Do List: A Private Gist

http://carlsednaoui.com/post/70299468325/the-best-to-do-list-a-private-gist

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 90 comments

Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field

http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/10/1/80/abstract

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 35 comments

Memory cache optimizations

http://blog.libtorrent.org/2013/12/memory-cache-optimizations/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 11 comments

K-means Clustering 86 Single Malt Scotch Whiskies

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/12/k-means-clustering-86-single-malt-scotch-whiskies.html

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 25 comments

Improve Your Python: Metaclasses and Dynamic Classes With Type

http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2013/12/28/improve-your-python-metaclasses-and-dynamic-classes-with-type/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 13 comments

Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland

https://commotionwireless.net/blog/building-mesh-network-rural-somaliland

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 40 comments

Machine that Levitates Objects Using Sound [video]

http://www.hardware-360.com/three-dimensional-mid-air-acoustic-manipulation/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 41 comments

Pure JS OCR via Emscripten

http://antimatter15.com/wp/2013/12/ocrad-js-pure-javascript-ocr-via-emscripten/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Homebrew Cask – CLI workflow for the administration of Mac binaries

https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask

13 years ago

★ 21.9k Ruby BSD-2-Clause
86 upvotes – 24 comments

Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 pass 10% market share, Windows XP falls below 30%

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/01/windows-8-windows-8-1-pass-10-market-share-windows-7-still-gains-windows-xp-falls-30/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 72 comments

Distributed systems for fun and profit (free ebook)

http://book.mixu.net/distsys/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

Resolutions

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2014/01/01/resolutions#

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

How Scarcity Trap Affects Our Thinking, Behavior

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/02/259082836/how-scarcity-mentaly-affects-our-thinking-behavior

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Nothing Focuses The Mind Like The Ultimate Deadline: Death

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/31/256596253/nothing-focuses-the-mind-like-the-ultimate-deadline-death

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

Your USB cable, the spy: Inside the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/inside-the-nsas-leaked-catalog-of-surveillance-magic/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

92 Facebook Apps Have Access To My Account

http://mypermissions.org/clean2014/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 67 comments

Ways to be a Better Programmer in 2014

http://programming.oreilly.com/2014/01/7-ways-to-be-a-better-programmer-in-2014.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: We made 1 app this year

http://lentor.io/saved/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 73 comments

The Inverse Power of Praise (2007)

http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 39 comments

Find Friends Abuse

http://blog.snapchat.com/post/72013106599/find-friends-abuse

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 65 comments

The Sugar Addiction Taboo

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/the-sugar-addiction-taboo/282699/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 91 comments

Rex – palm-sized, single-board computer for DIY robots

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alphalem/rex-the-brain-for-robots

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

MapReduce and Spark

http://vision.cloudera.com/mapreduce-spark

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

Public Domain Day 2014: The fight for the public domain is on now

http://everybodyslibraries.com/2014/01/01/public-domain-day-2014-the-fight-for-the-public-domain-is-on-now/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 4 comments

Rapgenius Uniques Fall 90%

https://www.quantcast.com/rapgenius.com?

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 118 comments

100 growth hacks in 100 days – 1 to 10

http://www.slideshare.net/RobinYjord/100-growth-hacks-100-days-1-to-10#!

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 33 comments
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