top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-20

Rosetta: ESA’s ‘sleeping beauty’ wakes up from deep space hibernation

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/ESA_s_sleeping_beauty_wakes_up_from_deep_space_hibernation

12 years ago

366 upvotes – 109 comments

Intel's "cripple AMD" function (2009)

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49

12 years ago

356 upvotes – 124 comments

Linux 3.13

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.13

12 years ago

281 upvotes – 46 comments

Build Git – Learn Git

http://kushagragour.in/blog/2014/01/build-git-learn-git/

12 years ago

261 upvotes – 41 comments

Code is not Literature

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-reading/

12 years ago

240 upvotes – 83 comments

Romanian saves OpenBSD?

http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/01/19/romanian-billionaire-saves-openbsd/

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 78 comments

Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available to the public

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/17/half-of-taxpayer-funded-research-will-soon-be-available-to-the-public/

12 years ago

203 upvotes – 78 comments

Kids, this is story of How I Met... my VPS hacked

http://www.corrspt.com/blog/2014/01/18/tale-vps-hacked/

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 86 comments

Candy Crush Saga creators have trademarked the word “candy”

http://www.gamezebo.com/news/2014/01/20/king-has-trademarked-word-candy-and-youre-probably-infringing

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 89 comments

Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 221 comments

Dad gets OfficeMax mail addressed 'Daughter Killed in Car Crash'

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-officemax-mail-20140119,0,6457094.story#axzz2qubhydAY

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 64 comments

The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 139 comments

You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

http://www.cato.org/blog/youre-eight-times-more-likely-be-killed-police-officer-terrorist

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 62 comments

Douglas Adams's Mac IIfx

http://www.vintagemacworld.com/iifx.html

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes

http://hike.io

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 83 comments

Cython 0.20

https://github.com/cython/cython/blob/master/CHANGES.rst#020-2014-01-18

12 years ago

★ 10.7k Cython Apache-2.0
144 upvotes – 14 comments

Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

http://baboom.com/

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 103 comments

A big step towards Firefox generational and compacting GC

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/01/20/a-big-step-towards-generational-and-compacting-gc/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 29 comments

Nissan Sells 100,000 LEAFs, Captures 48% Of Worldwide Electric Vehicle Market

http://insideevs.com/nissan-sells-100000-leafs-captures-48-of-worldwide-market-to-date/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 94 comments

Google set to face Intellectual Ventures in landmark patent trial

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/20/us-google-iv-trial-idUSBREA0J0PC20140120

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 51 comments

Git add -p

http://johnkary.net/blog/git-add-p-the-most-powerful-git-feature-youre-not-using-yet/

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 86 comments

Apache Spark: The Next Big Data Thing?

http://blog.mikiobraun.de/2014/01/apache-spark.html

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 23 comments

Jamaican bobsleigh team raises $25k in Dogecoin

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/20/jamaican-bobsled-team-raises-dogecoin-winter-olympics

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 48 comments

NHS patient data to be made available for sale to drug and insurance firms

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/19/nhs-patient-data-available-companies-buy

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 61 comments

To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes

http://susieye.com/2014/01/20/to-the-girls-of-hackernews-i-am-a-female-founder-who-codes/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 232 comments

The effect of today’s technology on tomorrow’s jobs

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21594298-effect-todays-technology-tomorrows-jobs-will-be-immenseand-no-country-ready?

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 112 comments

This startup tells you when companies try your competitors’ software

http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/20/this-startup-tells-you-when-companies-try-your-competitors-software-and-is-growing-25-a-month/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 45 comments

FBI files on Richard Feynman

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/fbi-files-on-richard-feynman-1165/#366875-responsive-documents

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 56 comments

Tesla Motors’ Over-the-Air Repairs

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/523621/tesla-motors-over-the-air-repairs-are-the-way-forward/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

The 2 Biggest Mistakes I Made (Before Reaching $500 MRR)

https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/the-2-biggest-mistakes-i-made-before-reaching-500-mrr

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: A Clojure game library

https://github.com/oakes/play-clj

12 years ago

★ 939 Clojure Unlicense
93 upvotes – 31 comments

Microsoft paying YouTubers for Xbox One mentions

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/stealth-marketing-microsoft-paying-youtubers-for-xbox-one-mentions/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 115 comments

Updating Torrents Via Feed URL

http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

An old system and a SWAT team

https://blog.linode.com/2014/01/19/an-old-system-and-a-swat-team/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 49 comments

Smoking is Worse Than You Imagined

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/smoking-is-worse-than-you-imagined.html?action=click&contentCollection=Books&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 125 comments

How do I keep the passion and energy up after 17 years of writing software?

http://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18345/how-do-i-keep-the-passion-and-energy-up-after-17-years-of-writing-software

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 23 comments

Scala turns 10

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.scala/17

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Akiva – A simple NLP, question-answering artificial intelligence

https://github.com/thebigdb/akiva

12 years ago

★ 347 Ruby MIT
71 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Fez, a file-based build tool for JavaScript

http://isaacbw.com/general/fez/2014/01/20/fezes-are-cool.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

Cyber attack that sent 750k malicious emails traced to hacked refrigerator

http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/cyber-attack-that-sent-750k-malicious-emails-traced-to-hacked-refrigerator-tvs-and-home-routers-20140120-hv96q.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

Why you will love nftables

https://home.regit.org/2014/01/why-you-will-love-nftables/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

The Life of a Stripe Charge

https://www.petekeen.net/life-of-a-stripe-charge

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Wikipedia's A/B testing is wrong

http://synference.blogspot.com/2014/01/why-wikipedias-highly-successful-ab.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 29 comments

What should we expect from a modern init system?

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/ip8e1DqJdxT

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 95 comments

Startups Founded by French Entrepreneurs

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2014/01/20/10-startups-didnt-know-founded-french-entrepreneurs/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 49 comments

Why 3D Doesn't Work and Never Will (2011)

http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/why-3d-doesnt-work-and-never-will-case-closed

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 72 comments

HP brings Windows 7 back 'due to popular demand' as buyers shun Windows 8

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2323993/hp-brings-windows-7-back-due-to-popular-demand-as-buyers-shun-windows-8

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: I quit my job to help communities fund energy efficiency upgrades

http://www.sparkfund.co/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 37 comments

Google discards extensions that force feed users ads in Chrome

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57617467-93/google-discards-extensions-that-force-feed-users-ads-in-chrome/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 48 comments
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