top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-02-01

Mystery signal from a helicopter

http://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicopter.html

12 years ago

1101 upvotes – 78 comments

How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry

http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/how-inapp-purchases-has-destroyed-the-industry/

12 years ago

829 upvotes – 524 comments

Microsoft please clean your store of junk

http://oneslash.postach.io/microsoft-please-clean-your-store-from-junk

12 years ago

346 upvotes – 110 comments

Big changes to Erlang

http://joearms.github.io/2014/02/01/big-changes-to-erlang.html

12 years ago

325 upvotes – 133 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7162197

12 years ago

299 upvotes – 381 comments

We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer

http://nytimes.com/2014/01/31/opinion/we-are-giving-ourselves-cancer.html?from=mostemailed

12 years ago

260 upvotes – 155 comments

School ditches rules and loses bullies

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/school-ditches-rules-and-loses-bullies-5807957

12 years ago

253 upvotes – 108 comments

Honest Android Games

http://honestandroidgames.com/

12 years ago

230 upvotes – 67 comments

Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw Bitcoin protocol

http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bitcoin.html

12 years ago

229 upvotes – 26 comments

The Only Interview Question That Matters

http://www.inc.com/lou-adler/best-interview-question-ever.html

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 173 comments

Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

http://parkerrr.com/ill-pirating-adobes-products-now/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 172 comments

Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

https://whereby.com

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 73 comments

Fixing Windows 8 (2013)

http://jaymachalani.com/blog/2013/12/12/fixing-windows-8

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 104 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7162201

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 160 comments

Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7161236

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 91 comments

Belgian professor in cryptography hacked

http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20140201_011

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 28 comments

Microsoft backs off on Metro

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245960/Steven_J._Vaughan_Nichols_Told_you_so_Microsoft_backs_off_on_Metro

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 113 comments

Why Bloom filters work the way they do (2012)

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/why-bloom-filters-work-the-way-they-do/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 6 comments

Mailpile Alpha Release: Shipping Bits and Atoms

https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2014-01-31_Alpha_Release_Shipping_Bits_and_Atoms.html

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 45 comments

China’s Deceptively Weak (and Dangerous) Military

http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/chinas-deceptively-weak-and-dangerous-military/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 101 comments
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