top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-13

Quick tip for developers who use OS X

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051091

12 years ago

1145 upvotes – 395 comments

Google to Acquire Nest

http://investor.google.com/releases/2014/0113.html

12 years ago

684 upvotes – 568 comments

A member of our community is missing, help find him

http://blog.izs.me/post/72990767417/a-member-of-our-community-is-missing-help-find-him

13 years ago

594 upvotes – 65 comments

A 30 minute introduction to Rust

http://words.steveklabnik.com/a-30-minute-introduction-to-rust

12 years ago

328 upvotes – 156 comments

How the NSA Threatens National Security

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/how_the_nsa_thr.html

12 years ago

274 upvotes – 23 comments

Adrian and Jacob retiring as Django BDFLs

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/bdfls-retiring/

12 years ago

265 upvotes – 79 comments

Super Mario World "Executes Arbitrary Code" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPcV9uIY5i4

12 years ago

234 upvotes – 26 comments

The "Window Resizer" extension for Chrome now contains malware (2013)

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/mlAD1ygc0v0/Cc7IrHdmE5AJ

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 116 comments

Taking PHP Seriously

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/php-history?utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=QCon_EarlyAccessVideos&utm_campaign=StrangeLoop2013

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 111 comments

The World’s Best Bounty Hunter Is 4-Foot-11. Here’s How She Hunts

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/skip-tracing-ryan-mullen/all/1

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 80 comments

Free screencasts to learn Go

https://gocasts.io

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 24 comments

Shell programming with bash: by example, by counter-example

http://matt.might.net/articles/bash-by-example/

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 31 comments

How To: Hosting with Amazon S3, CloudFront and Route 53

http://paulstamatiou.com/hosting-on-amazon-s3-with-cloudfront/

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 67 comments

Outage post-mortem

https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/01/outage-post-mortem/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 41 comments

Hindley-Milner in Clojure

http://www.lispcast.com/Hindley-Milner-in-Clojure

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 77 comments

Pngquant – Lossy PNG compressor

http://pngquant.org/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 55 comments

Docker: The good parts

http://blog.shrikrishnaholla.in/post/2014/01/12/docker-the-good-parts/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 67 comments

New brand site for Sony uses rendered JPG frames for 3D parallax scrolling

http://discover.store.sony.com/be-moved/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 100 comments

Why Infinite-Scrolling in Mobile Apps is Destroying Content Consumption

http://www.thisiselevator.com/infinitescroll/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 76 comments

Everpix VC Feedback

https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence/blob/master/Anonymized%20VC%20Feedback.md

12 years ago

★ 2.4k
115 upvotes – 36 comments

1000x Faster Spelling Correction: Source Code released

http://blog.faroo.com/2012/06/24/1000x-faster-spelling-correction-source-code-released/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 34 comments

Report: NSA bulk metadata collection has “no discernible impact”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/report-nsa-bulk-metadata-collection-has-no-discernible-impact/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

Uber car attacked by Paris cab drivers on strike

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/01/13/uber-car-attacked-by-paris-cab-drivers.html

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 199 comments

Facebook Acquires Branch

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/13/facebook-acquires-branch/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 40 comments

Ghost 0.4 Released

http://blog.ghost.org/ghost-0-4/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 70 comments

The Friends Of My Friends Are Not My Friends

http://minimaxir.com/2014/01/farcical-friends-of-friends-folly/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 60 comments

1% rule (Internet culture)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 61 comments

The architecture of Stack Overflow [video]

http://www.dev-metal.com/architecture-stackoverflow/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 48 comments

A Lisp interpeter in a thousand lines of Bash

https://github.com/alandipert/gherkin/blob/master/gherkin

12 years ago

★ 521 Shell BSD-3-Clause
97 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7048774

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 118 comments

Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9371238/why-is-reading-lines-from-stdin-much-slower-in-c-than-python

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 34 comments

Poor Man's Firebase: LevelDB, REST, and WebSockets

http://procbits.com/2014/01/06/poor-mans-firebase-leveldb-rest-and-websockets

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 24 comments

The Jobless Ph.D. Generation

http://demythify.com/?p=106

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 100 comments

Introducing DNSCrypt (Preview Release)

http://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Self-hosted, open-source infrastructure monitoring and alerting

http://cabotapp.com

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

The Hacker Who Cracked the Code in Iron Man and The Social Network

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2014/01/movie-fake-code/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 39 comments

The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse

http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/08/07/the-lost-world-of-the-london-coffeehouse

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 44 comments

Taxi protest in Paris turns to guerrilla warfare as Uber car attacked on freeway

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2014/01/13/taxi-protest-paris-turns-guerrilla-warfare-uber-car-attacked-freeway/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 131 comments

Byte Magazine Smalltalk-80 Issue

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

An NSA-Proof Twitter, Built With Code From Bitcoin and BitTorrent

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/twister/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

Nest, Google and you

https://nest.com/blog/2014/01/13/nest-google-and-you/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 84 comments

SimCity Offline Is Coming

http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-offline-is-coming

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 96 comments

Mac Apps We Use Every Day

http://brickftp.com/post/1970045-21-mac-apps-we-use-every-day?utm_source=hn

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 59 comments

Chinese troops to seize Zhongye Island back from the Philippines in 2014

http://chinadailymail.com/2014/01/11/chinese-troops-to-seize-zhongye-island-back-from-the-philippines-in-2014/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 74 comments

Readers' tales of extreme commuting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25551393

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 90 comments

Hacker News London meetup, Wednesday 29th January

http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/events/160280882/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

Haskell, Ada, C++, Awk: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/HaskellVsAda-NSWC.pdf

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments

Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicts how the world will change

http://slumz.boxden.com/f244/google-s-ray-kurzweil-predicts-how-world-will-change-2023326/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 84 comments

Scientist: Cats think you are just a big, stupid cat

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57617101-71/scientist-cats-think-you-are-just-a-big-stupid-cat/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 72 comments

Matt Mullenweg is now Automattic's CEO

http://www.poststat.us/matt-mullenweg-now-automattics-ceo/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments
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