top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-22

How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/01/how-to-hack-okcupid/

12 years ago

506 upvotes – 183 comments

We spent a week making Trello boards load fast

http://blog.fogcreek.com/we-spent-a-week-making-trello-boards-load-extremely-fast-heres-how-we-did-it/

12 years ago

445 upvotes – 94 comments

Docker Raises $15M

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/21/docker-raises-15m-for-popular-open-source-platform-designed-for-developers-to-build-apps-in-the-cloud/

12 years ago

333 upvotes – 96 comments

“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/blog/maybe-the-most-orwellian-text-message-ever-sent

12 years ago

297 upvotes – 101 comments

Google Video Quality Report

http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/

12 years ago

276 upvotes – 174 comments

Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

https://github.com/fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle/pull/12#issuecomment-33023169

12 years ago

★ 463 PHP MIT
270 upvotes – 87 comments

Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password

http://www.marco.org/2014/01/22/sunrise-asks-for-apple-id-password

12 years ago

262 upvotes – 105 comments

Dogecoin and the Appeal of Small Numbers

http://diegobasch.com/dogecoin-and-the-appeal-of-small-numbers

12 years ago

245 upvotes – 141 comments

How I “hacked” Kayak and booked a cheaper flight

http://www.josecasanova.com/blog/how-i-hacked-kayak-and-booked-a-cheaper-flight/

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 119 comments

Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you

http://www.joke2k.net/faker/

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 36 comments

Utah is Ending Homelessness by Giving People Homes

http://www.nationofchange.org/utah-ending-homelessness-giving-people-homes-1390056183

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 138 comments

Facebook may lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/22/facebook-princeton-researchers-infectious-disease

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 159 comments

Stripe CTF3: Distributed Systems is live

https://stripe-ctf.com

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 118 comments

How I found a Remote Code Execution bug affecting Facebook's servers

http://www.ubercomp.com/posts/2014-01-16_facebook_remote_code_execution

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 58 comments

Clang and FSF's strategy

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00176.html

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 140 comments

Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/21/18749504.php

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 283 comments

Chrome Bugs Allow Sites to Listen to Your Private Conversations

http://talater.com/chrome-is-listening/

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 31 comments

Intercom raises a Series B round of $23M

http://insideintercom.io/silicon-valley-outsider-raised-30m-30-months/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 35 comments

4k, HDMI, and Deep Color

http://www.toonormal.com/2014/01/10/4k-hdmi-and-deep-color/

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 68 comments

VR and Steam days

http://www.3delement.com/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 61 comments

How Quora Onboards New Users

http://www.useronboard.com/how-quora-onboards-new-users/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 69 comments

TCP backdoor 32764 – how we could patch the Internet (or part of it)

http://blog.quarkslab.com/tcp-backdoor-32764-or-how-we-could-patch-the-internet-or-part-of-it.html

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 20 comments

We recently awarded our biggest bug bounty payout

https://www.facebook.com/BugBounty/posts/778897822124446?stream_ref=10

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 31 comments

Show Your Support For Unity3D Editor On Linux

http://feedback.unity3d.com/suggestions/platforms-unity-editor-for-linu

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right

http://lychee.electerious.com

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 69 comments

Argentina restricts online shopping as foreign reserves drop

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25836208

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 85 comments

Should App.net Accept Bitcoin?

https://bitcoin.app.net

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 60 comments

AMD Debuts New 12- and 16-Core Opteron 6300 Series Processors

http://www.techpowerup.com/197114/amd-debuts-new-12-and-16-core-opteron-6300-series-processors.html

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

Germany's Privacy Stance Boosts Berlin's Tech Startups

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alisoncoleman/2014/01/20/germanys-privacy-stance-boosts-berlins-tech-start-ups/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 61 comments

VMware Buys AirWatch for $1.54 Billion

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/vmware-buys-mobile-security-firm-for-1-54-billion/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2014

http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2014/01/22/language-rankings-1-14/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 32 comments

8086tiny: The world's smallest PC emulator

http://www.megalith.co.uk/8086tiny/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 6 comments

Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/01/21/here-are-24-countries-where-windows-phone-outsells-the-iphone-and-why-it-does/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 79 comments

Myrddin: new programming language for coding close to the metal

http://mimir.eigenstate.org/myrddin.html

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 73 comments

Functions Should Be Short And Sweet, But Why?

http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.ru/2014/01/functions-should-be-short-and-sweet-but.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 65 comments

Connecting to the Internet – Finding My 15-Year-Old Website I Built at 16

http://randomdrake.com/2014/01/22/connecting-to-the-internet-finding-my-15-year-old-website-i-built-at-16/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 49 comments

Warren Buffett offers $1 billion for perfect March Madness bracket

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/01/21/warren-buffett-offers-1-billion-for-perfect-march-madness-bracket/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 70 comments

Nearby Galaxy M82 Hosts a New Supernova

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/22/kaboom_nearby_galaxy_m82_hosts_a_new_supernova.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 40 comments

Balanced Will Release an API to Push Money to Debit Cards

http://blog.balancedpayments.com/push-to-cards/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google Analytics Live

http://engineering.harrys.com/2014/01/02/dynosaur-a-heroku-autoscaler.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

ShowHN: Instantga.me - Endless browser games

http://www.instantga.me/?ref=HN

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: Dogecoin Average - the price of Doge

http://dogecoinaverage.com/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 85 comments

Response to "Math is Not Necessary for Software Development"

http://discretestates.blogspot.com/2014/01/response-to-math-is-not-necessary-for.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 79 comments

Taking PHP Seriously

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/php-history#.Ut-aQoM8B8A.twitter

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Are American Colleges Obsessed With 'Leadership'?

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/why-are-american-colleges-obsessed-with-leadership/283253/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 54 comments
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