top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-07

The Rise and Rise of Television Torture

http://www.interpretthis.org/2014/01/05/the-rise-and-rise-of-television-torture

13 years ago

524 upvotes – 285 comments

The new Photosynth

http://photosynth.net/preview/

13 years ago

445 upvotes – 91 comments

Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/us/burglars-who-took-on-fbi-abandon-shadows.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

429 upvotes – 88 comments

CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html

13 years ago

370 upvotes – 124 comments

Scaling Mercurial at Facebook

https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/

13 years ago

360 upvotes – 241 comments

Will Work for Food and Lodging

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/will-work-for-food-and-lodging

13 years ago

314 upvotes – 124 comments

Get Facebook WiFi for your business

https://www.facebook.com/business/facebook-wifi

13 years ago

298 upvotes – 286 comments

At last, a law to stop almost anyone from doing almost anything

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/06/law-to-stop-eveyone-everything

13 years ago

266 upvotes – 188 comments

New algorithm can dramatically streamline solutions to the ‘max flow’ problem

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/new-algorithm-can-dramatically-streamline-solutions-to-the-max-flow-problem-0107.html

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 44 comments

160-Year-Old Documents Intentionally Destroyed in Franklin County, N.C.

http://stumblingintheshadowsofgiants.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/160-year-old-documents-intentionally-destroyed-in-franklin-county-n-c/

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 64 comments

Digital Ocean said it would shut down my blog if I didn’t edit a blog post.

http://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/digital-ocean-threatened-to-shut-down-my-blog-if-i-didnt-remove-or-edit-a-blog-post/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 155 comments

Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages

https://github.com/blog/1715-faster-more-awesome-github-pages

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 63 comments

Introducing Jelly

http://blog.jelly.co/post/72563498393/introducing-jelly

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 128 comments

The First Look at the New Oculus VR Prototype

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2014/01/oculus-rift

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 71 comments

Why we should give free money to everyone

https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money-to-everyone/31639050894-e44e2c00

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 164 comments

We switched from an icon font to SVG

http://ianfeather.co.uk/ten-reasons-we-switched-from-an-icon-font-to-svg/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 88 comments

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review

http://www.jx0.org/2013/12/dell-xps-13-developer-edition-review.html

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 165 comments

Demons: A short film about depression and suicide

http://demonsfilm.net/

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 4 comments

This working group has failed

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 28 comments

Cambridge, MA City Council adopts resolution to commemorate thirty years of GNU

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/cambridge-ma-city-council-adopts-resolution-to-commemorate-thirty-years-of-gnu

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 7 comments

Why I am switching to promises

http://spion.github.io/posts/why-i-am-switching-to-promises.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 90 comments

Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark

http://mentalfloss.com/article/30380/why-some-civil-war-soldiers-glowed-dark

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 6 comments

Links 2013

http://worrydream.com/Links2013/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Sneakers – Fast background processing for Ruby

http://sneakers.io

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 37 comments

Introducing GitHub Traffic Analytics

https://github.com/blog/1672-introducing-github-traffic-analytics

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

Greatest: C unit testing library in one file

https://github.com/silentbicycle/greatest

13 years ago

★ 1.5k C ISC
98 upvotes – 45 comments

Google Analytics for GitHub

https://github.com/igrigorik/ga-beacon

13 years ago

★ 3.5k Go MIT
94 upvotes – 28 comments

JavaScript for hackers

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-javascript-for-hackers-1/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

What I Learned In My First Year Of iOS Consulting

http://brandontreb.com/learned-first-year-ios-consulting

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

Tor website needs your help

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-website-needs-your-help

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 9 comments

How We Got Our First 2,000 Users Doing Things That Don't Scale

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3024472/how-we-got-our-first-2000-users-doing-things-that-dont-scale?utm_source=Product+Hunt&utm_campaign=af88ca3153-daily-email-01-06-2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cd7d34185-af88ca3153-104053773

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

The Seven Deadly Sins of Startup Storytelling

http://firstround.com/article/The-Seven-Deadly-Sins-of-Startup-Storytelling

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 4 comments

Hammerspace: Persistent, Concurrent, Off-heap Storage

http://nerds.airbnb.com/hammerspace-persistent-concurrent-off-heap-storage/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

Response to the request to remove CFRG co-chair

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.irtf.cfrg/2337

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: email - Send emails easily in Go

https://github.com/jordan-wright/email#email

13 years ago

★ 2.7k Go MIT
69 upvotes – 29 comments

Hover.css – A collection of CSS3-powered hover effects

http://ianlunn.github.io/Hover/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

KDE Frameworks 5 Tech Preview

http://dot.kde.org/2014/01/07/frameworks-5-tech-preview/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

What happened to US life expectancy?

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/chart-what-happened-to-us-life-expectancy/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 109 comments

Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To Developers To Date

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/07/apple-10b-in-app-store-sales-in-2013-15b-paid-out-to-developers-to-date/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 67 comments

Linksys resurrects classic blue router, with open source and $300 price

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/linksys-resurrects-classic-blue-router-with-open-source-and-300-price/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

Valve Reveals First Gen Steam Machines

http://store.steampowered.com/news/12175/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Where did you hang out while HN was down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7016853

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 67 comments

Bruce Schneier Joins Startup Co3 Systems

http://threatpost.com/bruce-schneier-joins-startup-co3-systems/103429

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 24 comments
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