top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-04

Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/ceo/index.html

12 years ago

1023 upvotes – 564 comments

Put.io

http://put.io

12 years ago

688 upvotes – 319 comments

Don't End The Week With Nothing

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-end-the-week-with-nothing

12 years ago

456 upvotes – 101 comments

After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv?currentPage=all

12 years ago

428 upvotes – 139 comments

Scenes from a militarized America

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/02/04/scenes-from-a-militarized-america-iowa-family-terrorized/

12 years ago

344 upvotes – 98 comments

Firefox 27 Released

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/27.0/releasenotes/

12 years ago

328 upvotes – 184 comments

DEA redacts tactic that's more secret than parallel construction

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/04/method-so-acceptable-dea-cant-even-tell-you-its-na/

12 years ago

309 upvotes – 160 comments

Indian School Girl Creates Washing Machine That Runs Without Electricity

http://trak.in/innovation/indian-school-girl-invents-washing-machine-without-electricity-302013/

12 years ago

294 upvotes – 120 comments

Sheriff Fires Cop Who Threatened to Arrest Me for Taking Photos of Cops

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/02/03/sheriff-fires-cop-who-threatened-to-arrest-me-for-taking-photos-of-cops

12 years ago

280 upvotes – 70 comments

Modern Microprocessors: A 90 Minute Guide

http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 37 comments

Paper, by MiSoft

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/02/04/paper-paper-paper

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: Should I sue drchrono (YC W11) for violating their contract w/ me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178004

12 years ago

211 upvotes – 31 comments

The Unpaid Bill that Launched a Thousand Starships

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/the-unpaid-bill-that-launched-a-thousand-starships/1100-4857/

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 99 comments

Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, as long as they benefit

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/03/google-apple-silicon-valley-free-market-joke

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 172 comments

Sigma.js, a JavaScript library dedicated to graph drawing

http://sigmajs.org/

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 36 comments

KeePass: OpenSource Password Manager

http://keepass.info/

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 135 comments

Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon Existing Users

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2014/02/03/adobe-require-new-epub-drm-july-expects-abandon-existing-users/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 98 comments

Hacking Airline Lounges for Free Meals

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/02/hacking_airline.html

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 115 comments

Jamaican Bobsledders Ride Dogecoin Into Olympics

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-04/jamaican-bobsledders-ride-dogecoin-into-olympics.html

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 52 comments

Nginx 1.5.10 released with SPDY 3.1 support

http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES?1.5.10

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 28 comments

Your SaaS product is too cheap if you never lose customers because of pricing

http://blog.close.io/your-saas-product-is-too-cheap-if-you-never-lose-customers-because-of-pricing

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 74 comments

Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/feb14/02-04newspr.aspx

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 17 comments

Facebook Paper's gesture problems

http://scotthurff.com/posts/facebook-paper-gestures

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 64 comments

Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV

https://github.com/dinedal/textql

12 years ago

★ 9.1k Go MIT
130 upvotes – 91 comments

Becoming A Software Consultant: My Backstory

http://brandontreb.com/becoming-software-consultant-backstory

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 38 comments

Follow-up on "Linux server monitoring tools"

http://aarvik.dk/linux-monitoring-tools-suggestions-from-hacker-news/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 20 comments

Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/feb14/02-04mail2.aspx

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 52 comments

My love affair with AngularJS

http://redbeacon.github.io/2014/02/04/My-love-affair-with-AngularJS/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 88 comments

Managing Node.js Callback Hell with Promises, Generators and Other Approaches

http://strongloop.com/strongblog/node-js-callback-hell-promises-generators/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 47 comments

CTF3 architecture

https://stripe.com/blog/ctf3-architecture

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Facebook's Lookback

https://www.facebook.com/lookback

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 124 comments

Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101250930776491

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 63 comments

Data Structures in Clojure: Hash Tables

http://macromancy.com/2014/02/03/data-structures-clojure-hash-tables.html

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Asusgate: A story about thousands of crimeless victims

http://nullfluid.com/asusgate.txt

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 53 comments

Why I avoid SDKs in production

http://brandur.org/sdk

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 43 comments

Stripe adds multiple subscriptions

https://stripe.com/blog/multiple-subscriptions

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 19 comments

Surge Price Predictor for Airbnb Hosts

http://beyondstays.com/pricing

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

4D Tesseract: Fourth Dimension Game

http://www.fourthdimensiongame.com

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 41 comments

The Case of the Missing Magenta

http://nowiknow.com/the-case-of-the-missing-magenta/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 45 comments

Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days in orbit

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/01/30/air-force-mysterious-x-37b-space-plane-passes-400-days-in-orbit/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 65 comments
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