top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-04

If you move your mouse continually the query may not fail. Do not stop moving

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/168702

13 years ago

493 upvotes – 163 comments

Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

http://jasonkincaid.net/2014/01/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elephant/

13 years ago

451 upvotes – 246 comments

How I reverse engineered my bank's security token

http://valverde.me/2014/01/03/reverse-engineering-my-bank%27s-security-token

13 years ago

311 upvotes – 63 comments

Anatomy of a cheap USB-to-Ethernet adapter

http://projectgus.com/2013/03/anatomy-of-a-cheap-usb-ethernet-adapter

13 years ago

279 upvotes – 74 comments

Why we have to boycott RSA

http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/01/why-we-have-to-boycott-rsa.html

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 69 comments

Rap Genius is Back on Google

http://news.rapgenius.com/Rap-genius-founders-rap-genius-is-back-on-google-lyrics

13 years ago

242 upvotes – 188 comments

Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/04/snappylabs/

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 89 comments

The Builder's High

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-builders-high/#HN

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 22 comments

An 8086 PC emulator in 4043 bytes

http://ioccc.org/2013/cable3/hint.html

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 38 comments

How Daft Punk Created One of Their Most Famous Samples

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/01/03/daft_punk_one_more_time_sample_video_shows_how_the_electronic_music_producers.html

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 94 comments

Why You Should Probably Stop Using Antibacterial Soap

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2014/01/five-reasons-why-you-should-probably-stop-using-antibacterial-soap/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=01032014&utm_content=surprisingscienceantibacterialsoap

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 117 comments

The problem is with the product

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/01/02/scoble-glass

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 92 comments

Haskell vs. Erlang for bittorent clients

http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.ca/2010/04/haskell-vs-erlang-for-bittorent-clients.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 26 comments

I Got Fired Last Week. That’s a Good Thing. Here’s Why

http://alexgivesup.com/2013/12/23/i-got-fired-last-week-thats-a-good-thing-heres-why/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 82 comments

Five Paragraph Essays

http://blog.42floors.com/five-paragraph-essays/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 73 comments

Using Rust for an Undergraduate OS Course

http://rust-class.org/pages/using-rust-for-an-undergraduate-os-course.html

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 71 comments

Python 3.3: Trust Me, It's Better Than Python 2.7 (2013)

https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/python-3-dot-3-trust-me-its-better-than-python-2-dot-7-by-dr-brett-cannon

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 37 comments

We Need Viable Search Engine Competition

http://peebs.org/2014/01/04/we-need-viable-search-engine-competition-now/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 140 comments

Sen. Rand Paul says he's suing over NSA policies

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/sen-paul-says-hes-suing-over-nsa-policies/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 70 comments

How Python 3 Should Have Worked (2012)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/python3

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 76 comments

How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/capt-trevor-greene/science-cuts-canada_b_4534729.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 52 comments

Idaho to take back control of privately run state prison

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/03/idaho-take-control-privately-run-state-prison

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

OwnCloud 6

http://owncloud.org/six/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 39 comments

Increasing the size of Ruby objects to minimize CPU cache misses

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/495

13 years ago

★ 23.5k Ruby
86 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: LINQ for Go

https://github.com/ahmetalpbalkan/go-linq

13 years ago

★ 3.6k Go Apache-2.0
84 upvotes – 51 comments

New York State Is Set to Loosen Marijuana Laws

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/nyregion/new-york-state-is-set-to-loosen-marijuana-laws.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 50 comments

Hire this guy for love

http://mibake.co

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 32 comments

Ocean Radiation and the Fukushima Disaster

http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-facts-about-ocean-radiation-and-the-fukushima-disaster/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

Object oriented programming with ANSI-C (1993)

https://ritdml.rit.edu/bitstream/handle/1850/8544/ASchreinerBook1993.pdf?sequence=1

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 54 comments

Web standards killed the HTML star

http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2014/jan/03/web-standards-killed-the-html-star/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 52 comments

Economists agree: Raising the minimum wage reduces poverty

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/04/economists-agree-raising-the-minimum-wage-reduces-poverty/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 85 comments

Do Women Only Initiatives Really Help Women?

http://nibletz.com/2013/11/20/women-only-initiatives-help/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 136 comments

Life After Amazon

http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/60517-life-after-amazon.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 49 comments

What is the best cross-platform note taking tool?

http://www.slant.co/topics/697/~what-is-the-best-cross-platform-note-taking-tool

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 55 comments

Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Mega [video]

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/vice-news/kim-dotcom-the-man-behind-mega

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

The Mathematics of Gamification

http://engineering.foursquare.com/2014/01/03/the-mathematics-of-gamification/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 3 comments
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