top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-06

Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-02/06/tim-berners-lee-reclaim-the-web

12 years ago

585 upvotes – 200 comments

Why I Did Not Go To Jail

http://www.bhorowitz.com/why_i_did_not_go_to_jail

12 years ago

580 upvotes – 182 comments

IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments

https://www.quakenet.org/articles/102-press-release-irc-networks-under-systematic-attack-from-governments

12 years ago

361 upvotes – 135 comments

How I Learned to Stop Procrastinating, and Love Letting Go

http://zenhabits.net/leggo/?utm_content=buffer5f9b3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

12 years ago

339 upvotes – 76 comments

Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/02/chromebox-now-for-simpler-and-better.html

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 153 comments

Brackets, a code editor

http://brackets.io

12 years ago

253 upvotes – 124 comments

FBI Checks Wrong Box, Places Student on No-Fly List

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-list-bungle/

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 131 comments

Flappy Bird is proof that no one knows what the audience wants

http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/5/5382450/flappy-bird-is-proof-that-no-one-knows-what-the-audience-is-looking

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 144 comments

Stanford Scientists Put Free Text-Analysis Tool on the Web

http://engineering.stanford.edu/research-profile/stanford-scientists-put-free-text-analysis-tool-web

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 31 comments

Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

https://github.com/antirez/sds

12 years ago

★ 5.4k C BSD-2-Clause
214 upvotes – 127 comments

Show HN: I built this game alone – design, code, music, sound, marketing

http://www.toucheliss.com/

12 years ago

214 upvotes – 76 comments

Money for Nothing

http://www.dansdata.com/gz146.htm

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 77 comments

Make the Type System Do the Work

http://nathan.ca/2014/02/type-rich-programming/

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 132 comments

Why does Apple continue killing bitcoin apps?

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/02/06/apple-bitcoin/

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 133 comments

Guide to Advanced Programming in C

http://pfacka.binaryparadise.com/articles/guide-to-advanced-programming-in-C.html

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 74 comments

CircleCI raises $6m Series A

http://blog.circleci.com/we-raised-a-6m-series-a/

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 47 comments

Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

http://recode.net/2014/02/06/our-love-affair-with-the-tablet-is-over/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 195 comments

ReactOS 0.3.16 released

http://www.reactos.org/node/772

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Hacker News with categories and popularity

http://newshack.io/

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 65 comments

Cervical cancer vaccine inventor to target herpes

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/cervical-cancer-vaccine-inventor-to-target-herpes-20140203-31wvb.html

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 21 comments

Mt.Gox Withdrawals

http://coinsight.org/mtgox.html

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 118 comments

EA certainly isn't making it easy to give Dungeon Keeper a low rating on Android

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPad/Dungeon+Keeper/news.asp?c=57158

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 91 comments

Graphene conducts electricity ten times better than expected

http://www.nature.com/news/graphene-conducts-electricity-ten-times-better-than-expected-1.14676

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 42 comments

Imgur is Covertly Redirecting Image Links on Facebook and Twitter

http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/moved-temporarily/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 70 comments

Warsaw, August 1947

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150325663587093.334866.315289652092&type=3

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 83 comments

Getting to No: The Key to Startup Selling

http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/posts/quuj/getting-to-no-the-key-to-startup-selling

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 30 comments

Django 1.6.2 and 1.7a2 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/feb/06/django-162-and-django-17a2-released/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

There’s something rotten in the state of online video streaming

http://gigaom.com/2014/02/06/theres-something-rotten-in-the-state-of-online-video-streaming-and-the-data-is-starting-to-emerge/?post_id=744271220_10152208272006221#_=_

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 61 comments

You don't have big data

http://blog.mongohq.com/you-dont-have-big-data/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: A developers-only news site you join via pull request

http://pullup.herokuapp.com/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 46 comments

DataBall

http://grantland.com/features/expected-value-possession-nba-analytics/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 14 comments

Turkey cracking down on Internet usage

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/02/05/turkey-internet-censorship/5220339/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Tory Boss of Government Coding Education Initiative Can't Code

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/02/tory-boss-of-government-coding-education-initiative-cant-code-lottie-dexter/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 89 comments

JEP 188: Java Memory Model Update

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/188

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 1 comments

Why is quality of pseudorandom number generators important?

http://superuser.com/questions/712551/why-are-people-so-bothered-about-truly-random-numbers-instead-of-ones-generated

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 76 comments

Linux should be a part of School Education

http://www.linuxfederation.com/linux-part-school-education/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 109 comments

Bitcoin users smash their iPhones after Apple bans Blockchain from App Store

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/bitcoin-iphone-smash-apple-blockchain/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

Candy Japan 2013 Year in Review

http://www.candyjapan.com/2013-year-in-review

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Four Books to Master JavaScript Engineering

http://dannygarcia.tumblr.com/post/75769524212/four-books-to-master-javascript-engineering

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

Why I Gave Up My Front-Row Seat in Silicon Valley

http://founderdating.com/why-i-gave-up-silicon-valley-for-tel-aviv/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

Blockchain’s Response to Apple

http://blog.blockchain.info/2014/02/06/blockchain-response-to-apple/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 60 comments

Sony sells its VAIO PC business, makes TV arm its own subsidiary

http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/06/sony-sells-vaio/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 70 comments

What Is NASA for?

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/mysteries_of_the_universe/2014/02/nasa_s_mission_its_search_for_meaning_has_limited_its_science_and_damaged.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 91 comments

Amazon Acquires Video Gaming Studio Double Helix Games

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/05/amazon-acquires-video-gaming-studio-double-helix-games/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 37 comments

A Guide to Basic CSS Layout Structures and Quirks

http://db.marknadal.com/css.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

Silicon Valley has a dress code

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/silicon-valley-has-dress-code-you-better-believe-it

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 77 comments

Bitcoin banned in Russia?

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&nv=1&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://top.rbc.ru/economics/06/02/2014/903864.shtml&usg=ALkJrhgdOzgXxs2Ebd-QI_S3udaTO61stQ

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 60 comments

Report: Fracking raising water supply worries

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/02/05/ceres-report-fracking-water-supplies/5230583/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 32 comments

Introduction to HTML and CSS

https://github.com/mjhea0/thinkful-html

12 years ago

★ 165 HTML MIT
59 upvotes – 19 comments
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