top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-15

Show HN: Kimono – Never write a web scraper again

http://kimonify.kimonolabs.com/kimload?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kimonolabs.com%2Fwelcome.html

12 years ago

717 upvotes – 230 comments

Blackphone

https://www.blackphone.ch/

12 years ago

408 upvotes – 204 comments

Super successful companies

http://blog.samaltman.com/super-successful-companies

12 years ago

397 upvotes – 148 comments

VC Pitches in a Year or Two

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2014/01/vc-pitches-in-a-year-or-two.html

12 years ago

280 upvotes – 96 comments

Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation

http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25401

12 years ago

248 upvotes – 244 comments

The Next Phase of Node.js

http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/15/the-next-phase-of-node-js/index.html

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 130 comments

Why Are There So Many Pythons?

http://www.toptal.com/python/why-are-there-so-many-pythons

12 years ago

211 upvotes – 111 comments

N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-computers-not-connected-to-internet.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesworld

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 139 comments

Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful on Windows

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/LivingAHighDPIDesktopLifestyleCanBePainful.aspx

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 142 comments

No-fly list takes legal hit

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_24911422/u-s-government-loses-challenge-no-fly-lists

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 49 comments

Coming soon: Stripe CTF3, distributed systems edition

https://stripe.com/blog/ctf3-coming-soon

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 44 comments

Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=experts-time-division-days-hours-minutes

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 148 comments

Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 132 comments

The Periodic Table of Rust Types

http://cosmic.mearie.org/2014/01/periodic-table-of-rust-types/

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 85 comments

Light Table ClojureScript Tutorial

https://github.com/swannodette/lt-cljs-tutorial

12 years ago

★ 861 Clojure MIT
150 upvotes – 8 comments

US physically hacks 100,000 foreign computers

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/01/us-physically-hacks-100000-foreign-computers-20141154313871671.html

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 105 comments

Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space

http://blog.mongohq.com/making-remote-work-work-an-adventure-in-time-and-space/

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 53 comments

TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction And Volume Identification

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2014/01/truecrypt-master-key-extraction-and.html

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 73 comments

The Productivity Cycle

https://alexsexton.com/blog/2014/1/the-productivity-cycle/

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 38 comments

How does SSL work?

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/20803/how-does-ssl-work

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 27 comments

Dogecoin now accounts for more transactions than any other cryptocurrency

http://bitinfocharts.com

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 139 comments

Are passwords stored in memory safe?

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/29019/are-passwords-stored-in-memory-safe

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 72 comments

Xpra: Screen for X

http://xpra.org/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 34 comments

WikiLeaks releases Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Environment draft

http://wikileaks.org/tpp-enviro/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 19 comments

We Hacked North Korea With Balloons and USB Drives

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/01/we-hacked-north-korea-with-balloons-and-usb-drives/283106/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 82 comments

How To Hire Outsourced Developers

http://www.donnfelker.com/how-to-hire-outsourced-developers/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 77 comments

FarmLogs Raises $4M Series A To Further Advance Farming Into The Age of Apps

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/15/farmlogs-raises-4m-series-a-to-bring-farming-into-the-age-of-apps/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 36 comments

MapGive - Open Mapping from the US State Dept.

http://mapgive.state.gov/the-cause/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 25 comments

Hate Parking Tickets? Fixed Fights Them In Court For You

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/15/fight-parking-ticket-fixed/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 136 comments

Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development

http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 63 comments

Complexity of FreeBSD VFS using ZFS as an example

http://www.hybridcluster.com/blog/complexity-freebsd-vfs-using-zfs-example-part-1-2/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

List of languages that compile to JS

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS

12 years ago

★ 16.5k CoffeeScript MIT
95 upvotes – 48 comments

Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/15/siliconvalley-collusion-lawsuit-idUSL2N0KP02P20140115

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 89 comments

Handybook Buys Exec in a Deal for the On-Demand World

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/exec-an-errand-service-exits-with-an-acquisition/?_r=1&

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

$695 USB cable wins TAS's editors' choice award

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/2013-tas-editors-choice-awards-digital-interconnects/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 163 comments

Ampere to get rational redefinition

http://www.nature.com/news/ampere-to-get-rational-redefinition-1.14512

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

Obtaining Antibiotics without a Prescription (2002)

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200207183470319

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 95 comments

3 Million Teens Leave Facebook In 3 Years: The 2014 Facebook Demographic Report

http://istrategylabs.com/2014/01/3-million-teens-leave-facebook-in-3-years-the-2014-facebook-demographic-report/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 50 comments

Man jailed in UK for refusing to give police USB stick password

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25745989

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 108 comments

CudaSharp - Making C# run on the GPU

http://khyperia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/making-c-run-on-gpu.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

Man Poses as Woman on Online Dating Site; Barely Lasts Two Hours

http://jezebel.com/man-poses-as-woman-on-online-dating-site-barely-lasts-1500707724

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Houdini – A new way to test web apps

http://www.tryhoudini.com

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

Please Don't Learn Category Theory (2013)

http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/posts/2013-10-14-please-dont-learn-cat-theory.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 79 comments

Ripple – Chat with people nearby

http://ripplechat.io

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 49 comments
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