top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-14

Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-restrictedmedia/2014Jan/0060.html

12 years ago

597 upvotes – 406 comments

US Supreme Court declines to hear appeal by patent troll

http://www.inc.com/jeremy-quittner/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-troll.html

12 years ago

468 upvotes – 86 comments

The Great Firewall of Yale

http://162.209.96.128/

12 years ago

409 upvotes – 126 comments

Public speaking is tough

http://speaking.io

12 years ago

371 upvotes – 106 comments

Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/net-neutrality-is-half-dead-court-strikes-down-fccs-anti-blocking-rules/

12 years ago

360 upvotes – 126 comments

Why 'Her' will dominate UI design even more than 'Minority Report'

http://www.wired.com/design/2014/01/will-influential-ui-design-minority-report

12 years ago

334 upvotes – 212 comments

AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution

http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/14/amd-launches-kaveri-processors-aimed-at-starting-a-computing-revolution/

12 years ago

313 upvotes – 187 comments

Project Euler

http://projecteuler.net/

12 years ago

306 upvotes – 134 comments

Mother

https://sen.se/store/mother/?utm_expid=78993385-1.X-oIkUsIR8aRPG13DPrvIg.0

12 years ago

305 upvotes – 193 comments

PSD to HTML is Dead

http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/psd-to-html-is-dead

12 years ago

304 upvotes – 164 comments

PSA: Back Up Your Shit

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/01/psa-back-up-your-shit/

12 years ago

242 upvotes – 127 comments

X^2 is the sum of three periodic functions

http://gotmath.com/?p=760

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 53 comments

How I Built a Raspberry Pi Tablet

http://makezine.com/2014/01/07/how-i-built-a-raspberry-pi-tablet/

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Funded.io rapid prototype

http://funded.io

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 58 comments

Asm.js AOT compilation and startup performance

https://blog.mozilla.org/luke/2014/01/14/asm-js-aot-compilation-and-startup-performance/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 83 comments

Engineering Managers Should Code 30% of Their Time

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/engineering-managers-should-code-30-of-t/240165174

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 124 comments

Fingers can detect nano-scale wrinkles even on a seemingly smooth surface

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130916110853.htm

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 43 comments

A command-line murder mystery

https://github.com/veltman/clmystery

12 years ago

★ 6.1k
146 upvotes – 47 comments

On compiling 34 year old C code

http://drj11.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/on-compiling-34-year-old-c-code/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 38 comments

Google's new business model

http://stratechery.com/2014/googles-new-business-model/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 57 comments

Everyone can now track down noisy tabs

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/01/everyone-can-now-track-down-noisy-tabs.html

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 108 comments

China cloning on an 'industrial scale'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25576718

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 88 comments

On Google's Acquisition of Nest

http://daringfireball.net/2014/01/googles_acquisition_of_nest

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 128 comments

Georgia Tech Researchers Reveal Phrases that Pay on Kickstarter

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/georgia-tech-researchers-reveal-phrases-pay-kickstarter

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 24 comments

Rails Consulting for Fun and Profit

http://joshsymonds.com/blog/2014/01/14/rails-consulting-for-fun-and-profit/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 67 comments

Germans abandon hope of US 'no-spy' treaty

http://www.thelocal.de/20140114/germany-gives-up-hope-of-no-spy-deal-with-nsa-usa

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 97 comments

Elixir and the Internet of Things – Handling a Stampede

http://www.neo.com/2014/01/14/elixir-and-the-internet-of-things-handling-a-stampede

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 17 comments

Principles for making things for the web

https://github.com/veltman/principles

12 years ago

★ 1.2k
106 upvotes – 9 comments

Lawsuit: Oracle called $50K 'good money for an Indian'

http://www.itworld.com/it-management/399838/ex-oracle-salesman-claims-complaining-about-wage-discrimination-got-him-fired

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 92 comments

What salary does the founder of your favorite startup get?

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/14/salary-founder-favorite-startup-get-probably-high-one/#!sbu1l

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 84 comments

USA ISP Speed Index

http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/usa

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 65 comments

Dropbox and Uber: Worth Billions, But Still Inches From Disaster

http://www.wired.com/business/2014/01/dropbox-uber/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 71 comments

The case for an antibiotics tax

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/13/the-case-for-an-antibiotics-tax/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein&wpisrc=nl_wonk

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 84 comments

AMD Kaveri Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7677/amd-kaveri-review-a8-7600-a10-7850k

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

The NASA Studies on Napping

http://priceonomics.com/the-nasa-studies-on-napping/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 31 comments

Scala – 1 Star Would Not Program Again

http://overwatering.org/blog/2013/12/scala-1-star-would-not-program-again/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 79 comments

Patrick McKenzie AMA on BetaList

http://ama.betalist.com/patrick-mckenzie

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

An experimental Vim fork with multi-threading capabilities

https://github.com/tarruda/vim/tree/event-loop

12 years ago

★ 123 C
75 upvotes – 33 comments

Yandex can now search for Facebook posts

http://en.itar-tass.com/non-political/714496

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 40 comments

Stanford Whizzes Develop an Astoundingly Cheap Fix for Clubfoot

http://www.wired.com/design/2014/01/curing-kids-style-design-thinking/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 26 comments

Nanocubes: Fast Visualization of Large Spatiotemporal Datasets

http://nanocubes.net/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

The PC’s Death Might Also Mean the Web’s Demise

http://www.wired.com/business/2014/01/death-pc-also-mean-end-web/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 95 comments

Court strikes down FCC’s net neutrality rules

http://gigaom.com/2014/01/14/breaking-court-strikes-down-fccs-net-neutrality-rules/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 78 comments

WP Engine Raises $15M

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/14/wp-engine-raises-15m-from-north-bridge-growth-equity-to-invest-in-product-development-accelerate-growth/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Why smiling in your passport photo is forbidden

http://travel.stackexchange.com/q/11534/101

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 62 comments

VVVVjs lab

http://lab.vvvvjs.com/index.php

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

The famo.us controversy

http://blog.siliconpublishing.com/2013/12/the-famo-us-controversy/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments
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