top 50% 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

662 upvotes – 250 comments

Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)

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

12 years ago

638 upvotes – 177 comments

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

439 upvotes – 125 comments

I never finish anyth

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

12 years ago

334 upvotes – 103 comments

Go by Example

https://gobyexample.com/

12 years ago

301 upvotes – 124 comments

Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF

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

12 years ago

297 upvotes – 72 comments

Chrome Is The New C Runtime

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

12 years ago

294 upvotes – 142 comments

Dropbox raises about $250 million at $10 billion valuation

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

12 years ago

269 upvotes – 166 comments

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

242 upvotes – 146 comments

JavaScript: The Right Way

http://jstherightway.org/

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 132 comments

Spotify position in support of systemd in the default init debate

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

12 years ago

234 upvotes – 174 comments

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

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

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 118 comments

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 35 comments

Obama’s Changes to Government Surveillance

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

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 183 comments

Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 60 comments

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

155 upvotes – 240 comments

SICP in Clojure

http://sicpinclojure.com

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 59 comments

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

144 upvotes – 88 comments

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

140 upvotes – 53 comments

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

135 upvotes – 121 comments

How startups can compete with big company perks

http://esft.com/how-startups-can-compete-with-big-company-perks/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 102 comments

Obama's NSA 'reforms' are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/17/obama-nsa-reforms-bulk-surveillance-remains

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 42 comments

Terry Tao on how to compute non-converging infinite sums (2010)

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/the-euler-maclaurin-formula-bernoulli-numbers-the-zeta-function-and-real-variable-analytic-continuation/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 24 comments

Obama and the N.S.A.: Why He Can't Be Trusted

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/01/obama-and-the-nsa-why-he-cant-be-trusted.html

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: How do you deal with potential acquirers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7074264

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 23 comments

Is looking for Wi-Fi access points purely passive?

http://superuser.com/questions/128166/is-looking-for-wi-fi-access-points-purely-passive/128200

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 46 comments

World's First Massive Online Degree Program Starts Today

http://blog.udacity.com/2014/01/sebastian-thrun-worlds-first-massive.html?m=1

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 66 comments

Pres. Obama Remarks on Intelligence Programs [video]

http://www.c-span.org/Events/Pres-Obama-Remarks-on-Intelligence-Programs/10737443584-1/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 115 comments

Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal?

http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/oddno.html

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 54 comments

How the Drug War Disappeared the Jury Trial

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/how-the-drug-war-disappeared-the-jury-trial/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OTB+%28Outside+The+Beltway+%7C+OTB%29

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 66 comments

Customize iOS7 App Switcher with custom card view

https://github.com/vpdn/MMAppSwitcher

12 years ago

★ 1k Objective-C MIT
92 upvotes – 25 comments

When a great product hits the funding crunch

http://andrewchen.co/2013/11/05/when-a-great-product-hits-the-funding-crunch

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 41 comments

Ad blockers: A solution or a problem?

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9245190/Ad_blockers_A_solution_or_a_problem_

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 185 comments

Ukrainian Protesters Hold Up Mirrors to Police

http://www.zengardner.com/ukrainian-protesters-hold-mirrors-police-forcing-reflect/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 49 comments

A Year on Angular on Rails: A Retrospective

http://www.localytics.com/blog/2014/a-year-on-angular-on-rails-a-retrospective/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

NavSpark: Arduino Compatible with GPS GNSS Receiver

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/navspark-arduino-compatible-with-gps-gnss-receiver

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 42 comments

New Features in PHP 5.6

http://www.sitepoint.com/new-features-php-5-6/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 62 comments

Data Structures in Clojure: Singly-Linked Lists

http://macromancy.com/2014/01/16/data-structures-clojure-singly-linked-list.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Reddit-based product recommendations (weekend project)

http://www.youshouldbuythese.com/?utm=hn

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffic ticket

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/17/us-usa-googleglass-trial-dismissal-idUSBREA0F1XR20140117

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 79 comments

Mutation in key gene allows Tibetans to thrive at high altitude

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/jul/02/mutation-gene-tibetans-altitude

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 23 comments
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