top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-03

Fired? Speak No Evil

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/opinion/fired-speak-no-evil.html

13 years ago

726 upvotes – 355 comments

Toshiba says they made a mistake but they still cannot help me

http://bandyt.site44.com/toshiba/

13 years ago

700 upvotes – 192 comments

Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2014/01/02/bob-swartz-losing-aaron

13 years ago

366 upvotes – 204 comments

David Cameron's Internet porn filter is the start of censorship creep

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/03/david-cameron-internet-porn-filter-censorship-creep

13 years ago

321 upvotes – 205 comments

Show HN: Given an API, Generate client libraries in Node, Python, PHP, Ruby

https://github.com/pksunkara/alpaca

13 years ago

★ 2.4k Go MPL-2.0
268 upvotes – 73 comments

Business Ideas for 2014

http://www.scottsbarlow.com/100-awesome-business-ideas-for-2014/

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 77 comments

How printers and Photoshop detect and refuse to process images of currency

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/projects/currency/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 116 comments

Docker on Linode

https://blog.linode.com/2014/01/03/docker-on-linode/

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 66 comments

Growing From $5,000 to $25,000 in MRR

http://blog.statuspage.io/growing-from-5000-to-25000-in-mrr

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: How do you drive web traffic to your successful side projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007203

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 99 comments

How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache misses

http://danluu.com/3c-conflict/

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 29 comments

129 Cars

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/513/129-cars

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 62 comments

I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a "hacker"

http://blog.lizdenys.com/2014/01/03/i-do-not-feel-like-a-hacker/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 108 comments

Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/03/nsa-asked-spying-congress-bernie-sanders

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 73 comments

Intermittent fasting: The good things it did to my body

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25549805

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 148 comments

Python 2.x vs. 3.x survey results

https://wiki.python.org/moin/2.x-vs-3.x-survey

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 79 comments

Durr: A shivering unisex bracelet that investigates our perception of 5 minutes

http://skreksto.re/products/durr

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 101 comments

You can now create a Bitcoin clone by filling out a simple webform

http://coingen.io

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 76 comments

Academics Against Mass Surveillance

http://www.academicsagainstsurveillance.net/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 36 comments

Unfinished, unfair and brutally difficult

http://www.polygon.com/2014/1/2/5264192/dayz-early-access-lessons

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 49 comments

iOS 7 only is the only sane thing to do

http://berzniz.com/post/72083083450/ios7-only-is-the-only-sane-thing-to-do

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 79 comments

Federating Do-It-Yourself ISPs from around the world

http://www.ffdn.org/en/article/2014-01-03/federating-do-it-yourself-isps-around-world

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

Read your Standard Libraries

http://blog.codingforinterviews.com/reading-code-standard-libraries/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 54 comments

IBM 704 Scientific Computer

http://www.zl2al.com/blog/category/ibm-704-computer/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 4 comments

The Difficulty Of Private Contact Discovery

https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 71 comments

Researchers have identified how the ‘wall’ around cancer tumours functions

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/breaking-down-cancers-defence-mechanisms

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

Compile Clojure to Objective-C

https://github.com/joshaber/clojurem

13 years ago

★ 286 Clojure
91 upvotes – 38 comments

ICANN's new rules for domain registrants require you to verify an email address

https://iwantmyname.com/blog/2014/01/icanns-new-rules-for-domain-registrants-require-you-to-verify-your-contact-details.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 82 comments

"Silence is for the weak"

http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Relearning to code after 20 years

http://weather-explorer.com/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

How to use Photoshop to design interfaces

http://nathanbarry.com/how-to-use-photoshop-to-design-interfaces

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 71 comments

Twitter SVP Chris Fry Breaks Down How His Engineering Org Works

http://recode.net/2014/01/02/twitter-svp-chris-fry-breaks-down-how-his-engineering-org-works/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

Teaching Software Architecture with GitHub

http://avandeursen.com/2013/12/30/teaching-software-architecture-with-github/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Blip.tv deletes Python content

http://holdenweb.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/bliptv-deletes-python-content.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

Does Snapchat's CEO Need to Go?

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/03/snapchat-ceo-go/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 84 comments

Andreessen: Bubble Believers 'Don't Know What They're Talking About'

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303640604579298330921690014-lMyQjAxMTA0MDAwMzEwNDMyWj

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 64 comments

Jubilee, a new Rack server for JRuby based on the high-performance Vert.x

https://github.com/isaiah/jubilee

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

Making Python's __init__ method magical

http://blog.lerner.co.il/making-init-methods-magical-with-autoinit/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 40 comments

When Growth Hacking Goes Bad

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/03/when-growth-hacking-goes-bad/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 16 comments

Screen shots of source code seen in TV and film

http://moviecode.tumblr.com/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments

What happens if authorities seize your laptop?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25458533

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 81 comments
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