top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-01-17

Building an open source Nest

http://blog.spark.io/2014/01/17/open-source-thermostat/

12 years ago

Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/introducing-our-smart-contact-lens.html

12 years ago

Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/16/yale-students-made-a-better-version-of-its-course-catalog-then-yale-shut-it-down/

12 years ago

I never finish anyth

http://greig.cc/journal/2014/1/i-never-finish-anyth

12 years ago

Go by Example

https://gobyexample.com/

12 years ago

Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF

http://www.matasano.com/matasano-square-microcontroller-ctf/

12 years ago

Chrome Is The New C Runtime

https://www.mobilespan.com/content/chrome-is-the-new-c-runtime

12 years ago

Dropbox raises about $250 million at $10 billion valuation

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303465004579327001976757542

12 years ago

What Happens When the President Sits Down Next to You at a Café

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/what-happens-when-the-president-sits-down-next-to-you-at-a-cafe/283074/

12 years ago

JavaScript: The Right Way

http://jstherightway.org/

12 years ago

Spotify position in support of systemd in the default init debate

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/msg00287.html

12 years ago

Ask HN: How to find part-time developer work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7077234

12 years ago

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

12 years ago

Obama’s Changes to Government Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/01/17/us/nsa-changes-graphic.html?hp

12 years ago

Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

https://noggin.intel.com/sites/default/files/Intel-Recommended-Reading-List_1H14_0.pdf

12 years ago

Keyboard innovation is making them worse

http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/01/stop-trying-to-innovate-keyboards-youre-just-making-them-worse/

12 years ago

SICP in Clojure

http://sicpinclojure.com

12 years ago

Mystery Rock 'Appears' in Front of Mars Rover

http://news.discovery.com/space/mystery-rock-appears-in-front-of-mars-rover-140117.htm

12 years ago

The sum of all the positive integers is not -1/12

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/01/no-sum-of-all-positive-integers-is-not.html

12 years ago

Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/01/17/amazon-wants-to-ship-your-package-before-you-buy-it/

12 years ago