top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-08

Light Table is now open source

http://www.chris-granger.com/2014/01/07/light-table-is-open-source/

13 years ago

1256 upvotes – 431 comments

Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/01/07/dell-wasnt-joking-about-that-28-inch-sub-1000-4k-monitor-its-only-699/

13 years ago

335 upvotes – 231 comments

In memory of Aaron, bulk XML of every federal and state law and court ruling

http://webpolicy.org/category/empirical-law/legal-data/

13 years ago

284 upvotes – 55 comments

T-Mobile CEO: “This industry blows,” biggest carriers offer “horseshit”

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/t-mobile-ceo-this-industry-blows-biggest-carriers-offer-horsesh/

13 years ago

254 upvotes – 184 comments

Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Instead

http://jlongster.com/Stop-Writing-JavaScript-Compilers--Make-Macros-Instead

13 years ago

242 upvotes – 133 comments

The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen (2007)

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html?ref

13 years ago

241 upvotes – 237 comments

To Stop Procrastinating, Look to Science of Mood Repair

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303933104579306664120892036?mod=trending_now_2

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 66 comments

Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001)

http://chrisdone.com/posts/dijkstra-haskell-java

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 250 comments

How's my SSL?

https://www.howsmyssl.com

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 86 comments

Amusing ourselves to death

http://onthepathofknowledge.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/amusing-ourselves-to-death/

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 124 comments

Another go at Go failed

http://oneofmanyworlds.blogspot.com/2014/01/another-go-at-go-failed.html

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 267 comments

London's first pay-per-minute cafe

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jan/08/pay-per-minute-cafe-ziferblat-london-russia

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 165 comments

French-UAE Intel Satellite Deal in Doubt – US Parts Raise Security Concerns

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140105/DEFREG04/301050006

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 83 comments

Digital Ocean vs. Linode

http://blog.schneidmaster.com/digital-ocean-vs-linode/

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 130 comments

Childhood amnesia kicks in around age 7

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2014/01/childhood-amnesia-kicks-in-around-age-7.html

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 125 comments

Quietnet: Chat client that works over near-ultrasonic sound

https://github.com/Katee/quietnet

13 years ago

★ 2.9k Jupyter Notebook MIT
151 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Codebox - Open-source cloud and desktop IDE

https://github.com/FriendCode/codebox

13 years ago

★ 4.1k JavaScript Apache-2.0
136 upvotes – 65 comments

The best Postgres feature you're not using – CTEs aka WITH clauses

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/11/18/best-postgres-feature-youre-not-using/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 77 comments

Stripe adds multiple account support

https://stripe.com/blog/manage-multiple-accounts

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 87 comments

The Open-Office Trap

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/01/the-open-office-trap.html

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 121 comments

Ben Horowitz Explained

http://fitsnstarts.tumblr.com/post/72678355503/ben-horowitz-explained

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 68 comments

Introducing R to a non-programmer in one hour

http://alyssafrazee.com/introducing-R.html

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 36 comments

Two Huge Companies Betting On Firefox OS

http://fastcolabs.com/3024539/screw-android-here-are-two-huge-companies-betting-on-firefox-os

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 45 comments

JPMorgan Pays for Shorting Madoff Without Telling Anyone

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-07/jpmorgan-pays-for-shorting-madoff-without-telling-anyone.html

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 84 comments

Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/hire-by-auditions-not-resumes/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 53 comments

The New York Times Redesign is Live

http://www.nytimes.com/?redesign=true

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 105 comments

Security experts boycott prominent security conference over NSA ties

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/07/at-least-six-security-experts-boycott-prominent-security-conference-over-nsa-ties/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

Zappos says goodbye to bosses

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2014/01/03/zappos-gets-rid-of-all-managers/#

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 84 comments

First light images emerge from Gemini Planet Imager

https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2014/Jan/NR-14-01-01.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 9 comments

A Short Talk about Richard Feynman (2005)

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/short-talk-about-richard-feynman/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 31 comments

Consciousness as a State of Matter

http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1219

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 134 comments

“SPDY does not clearly outperform HTTP over cellular networks” [pdf]

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2013/program/p303.pdf

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 64 comments

So someone "stole" your idea

http://kent.io/post/72627254258/the-well-of-lost-ideas?ref=hn

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 91 comments

FBI Drops Law Enforcement as 'Primary' Mission

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/05/fbi_drops_law_enforcement_as_primary_mission

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304213904579095303368899132

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 71 comments

FLIR – Thermal Imaging Device for iPhone 5

http://www.flir.com/US/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 62 comments

The year in Kickstarter 2013

http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2013

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

Optimising Haskell for a tight inner loop

http://neilmitchell.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/optimising-haskell-for-tight-inner-loop.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

Datomic 2013 Recap

http://blog.datomic.com/2014/01/datomic-2013-recap.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 6 comments

Github was down

https://status.github.com/??

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 49 comments

BMW shows off 'drifting' self-drive cars

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25653253

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 139 comments

Facebook Buys Bangalore Based App Monitoring Co Little Eye Labs

http://www.medianama.com/2014/01/223-facebook-little-eye-labs/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

Licensed to Bill

http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/noplate.asp

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 32 comments

Report: 47% of U.S. Jobs At Risk of Being Automated Out of Existence

http://technoccult.net/archives/2013/10/08/report-47-of-u-s-jobs-at-risk-of-being-automated-out-of-existence/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7025889

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: Where are the interesting jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7021585

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 56 comments

Y Combinator’s safes spread – L.A. accelerator is now issuing them

http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/07/y-combinators-safe-notes-spread-l-a-accelerator-now-issuing-them-too-exclusive/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments
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