top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-28

Square thinks I don’t exist

http://kevinchen.co/blog/square-identity-verification/

12 years ago

567 upvotes – 252 comments

We're Shutting Down and I'm Scared

http://startupsanonymous.com/story/were-shutting-down-and-im-scared/

12 years ago

388 upvotes – 193 comments

The descent to C

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/cdescent/

12 years ago

377 upvotes – 230 comments

Eve Online wages largest war in its 10 year history

http://www.polygon.com/2014/1/28/5352774/eve-online-wages-largest-battle-in-its-10-year-history

12 years ago

360 upvotes – 178 comments

Facebook can now read your texts

http://tony.calileo.com/fb/

12 years ago

354 upvotes – 213 comments

Open for everyone

http://blog.svbtle.com/open-for-everyone

12 years ago

327 upvotes – 265 comments

There Are Only Four Billion Floats – So Test Them All

http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-four-billion-floatsso-test-them-all/

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 118 comments

Vim Croquet

http://www.drbunsen.org/vim-croquet/

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 55 comments

Vinod Khosla Wants Californians To Keep Out of Martins Beach

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/27/264901370/california-fights-billionaire-s-keep-out-sign-for-beach-access

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 161 comments

Why not kill -9 a process?

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8916/why-not-kill-9-a-process

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 120 comments

Medium raises $25 million

http://recode.net/2014/01/28/medium-evan-williams-post-twitter-media-startup-raises-25-million-round/?utm_source=appnet

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 88 comments

Dutch Court of Appeals overturns Pirate Bay IP blockade

http://bureaubrandeis.com/duly-noted/court-appeals-denies-ip-block/

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 54 comments

I Built a Social Network for Food and Here’s How I Did it

http://blog.yumhacker.com/post/74733516768/yumhacker-i-built-a-social-network-for-food-and-heres

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 70 comments

Microsoft Joins the Open Compute Project, Shares its Server Designs

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/01/27/microsoft-joins-open-compute-project-shares-server-designs/

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 48 comments

CoffeeScript 1.7.0

http://coffeescript.org#changelog

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 88 comments

How to Start an Anonymous Blog

http://untraceableblog.com/

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 171 comments

World’s First Carbon Fiber 3D Printer Announced

http://3dprint.com/worlds-first-carbon-fiber-3d-printer-announced-the-mark-one

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 41 comments

Mistakes Programmers Make when Starting in Machine Learning

http://machinelearningmastery.com/mistakes-programmers-make-when-starting-in-machine-learning/

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 63 comments

Redesigned Conversations

https://github.com/blog/1767-redesigned-conversations

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 44 comments

Dogecoin Tutorial

http://howtodogecoin.com/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 102 comments

Ukraine crisis: Parliament abolishes anti-protest law

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25923199

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 132 comments

Avatar: A browser OS with built-in privacy and anonymity

http://sneakpeek.avatar.ai/technology.html

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 48 comments

Linode CLI

https://blog.linode.com/2014/01/28/linode-cli/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 26 comments

Issue 62938 – Barometer driver hangs and kills accelerometer on its way

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62938

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 25 comments

A positioning engine to make overlays, tooltips and dropdowns faster

https://github.com/HubSpot/tether

12 years ago

★ 8.4k JavaScript MIT
99 upvotes – 13 comments

Things you should know about Token-based Authentication

http://blog.auth0.com/2014/01/27/ten-things-you-should-know-about-tokens-and-cookies

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

New era of fast genetic engineering

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129530.900-right-on-target-new-era-of-fast-genetic-engineering.html#.Uuf4hXfTlok

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 18 comments

Technology and wealth inequality

http://blog.samaltman.com/technology-and-wealth-inequality

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 158 comments

Halluxwater: NSA Exploit of the Day

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/halluxwater_nsa.html

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 78 comments

The one map you need to understand Ukraine’s crisis

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/24/this-is-the-one-map-you-need-to-understand-ukraines-crisis/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 51 comments

Oh my god, it's a girl (2010)

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/01/oh-my-god-its-girl.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 101 comments

Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-filters-gone-17993.html

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 82 comments

Ember.js is driving me crazy

http://softwaresimply.blogspot.com/2014/01/emberjs-is-driving-me-crazy.html

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 110 comments

A Tiny Startup’s Plot to Beat Google at Big Data

http://wrd.cm/1k2ZiLj

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Taplytics – Mobile A/B testing you'll actually use

http://blog.taplytics.com/mobile-ab-testing-youll-actually-use/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Rename GTFO to GOAWAY

https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/pull/366

12 years ago

★ 3.7k Makefile
67 upvotes – 86 comments

DeepMind to Work Directly With Google’s Search Team

http://recode.net/2014/01/27/more-on-deepmind-ai-startup-to-work-directly-with-googles-search-team/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

How CodeCombat Was Built

http://blog.leanstack.io/how-codecombat-was-built/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

How to safely invoke Webhooks

http://blog.fanout.io/2014/01/27/how-to-safely-invoke-webhooks/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Silicon Valley Is Now Public Enemy No. 1, And We Only Have Ourselves To Blame

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/28/blowback-silicon-valley-is-now-public-enemy-1/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 79 comments

Atomic Clocks Make a Quantum Leap in Accuracy

http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7029/Atomic-Clocks-Make-a-Quantum-Leap-in-Accuracy.aspx

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 43 comments

The problems SparkFun has letting people bring dogs into work

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1381

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 86 comments

RIP Martin Schaedel: 1985–2009

http://blog.rb.cm/martin-schaedel

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 32 comments

Keepod Unite: $7 PC to bridge the digital divide

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keepod-unite

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 43 comments

Oculus Is Awesome for Games, But It’s the Future of Movies

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2014/01/oculus-movies/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 66 comments

Google Glass Now Works With Actual Glasses

http://recode.net/2014/01/27/google-glass-now-works-with-actual-glasses/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 28 comments

Apple TV graduates from hobby/accessory to product line ahead of major changes

http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/28/apple-tv-graduates-from-hobbyaccessory-to-product-line-ahead-of-major-changes/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 59 comments

Fat Models – A Django Code Organization Strategy

http://redbeacon.github.io/2014/01/28/Fat-Models-a-Django-Code-Organization-Strategy

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 32 comments
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