top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-09

Girls and Software

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software

12 years ago

Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3517/t/19492918.aspx

12 years ago

Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature

https://www.google.com/settings/takeout

12 years ago

That “distressed baby" Tim Armstrong blamed for benefit cuts? She’s my daughter

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/02/tim_armstrong_blames_distressed_babies_for_aol_benefit_cuts_he_s_talking.html

12 years ago

Flappy Bird by the Numbers

http://zachwill.com/flappy-bird/

12 years ago

The terrifying surveillance case of Brandon Mayfield

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/the-terrifying-surveillancecaseofbrandonmayfield.html

12 years ago

When Random Isn't Random Enough: Lessons from an Online Poker Exploit

http://www.lauradhamilton.com/random-lessons-online-poker-exploit

12 years ago

Learning to Code vs Learning Computer Science

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/02/learning-to-code-vs-learning-computer-science/

12 years ago

Tex – Show off your best scientific illustration

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/158668/nice-scientific-pictures-show-off

12 years ago

Debian 7.4 Released

http://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140208

12 years ago

High-Speed Trading Isn't About Efficiency—It's About Cheating

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/high-speed-trading-isnt-about-efficiency-its-about-cheating/283677/

12 years ago

Learn C, Then Learn Computer Science

http://qrohlf.com/posts/learn-to-code-then-learn-cs/

12 years ago

What Snow Tells Us About Creating Better Public Spaces

http://thisoldcity.com/advocacy/photos-what-snow-tells-us-about-creating-better-public-spaces-e-passyunk-avenue#.UvfSh4tdU4Q

12 years ago

I've made an open source flappy bird clone

https://github.com/ellisonleao/clumsy-bird

12 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript GPL-3.0

French journalist "hacks" govt by inputting correct URL, later fined $4,000+

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/french-journalist-fined-4000-plus-for-publishing-public-documents/

12 years ago

Broken by design: systemd

http://ewontfix.com/14/

12 years ago

Turkey pushes through new raft of 'draconian' Internet restrictions

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/06/turkey-internet-law-censorship-democracy-threat-opposition

12 years ago

Drone is a Continuous Integration platform built on Docker

https://github.com/drone/drone

12 years ago

★ 35.2k Go Apache-2.0

Streams in Java 8

http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/api/java/util/stream/package-summary.html

12 years ago

Contact Us

http://contact.darkigloo.com/

12 years ago

Netflix Architect on High Availability and Lessons Learned in the Cloud

http://www.infoq.com/articles/cockcroft-high-availability

12 years ago

Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap, Scotty (1980)

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/8004.easterbrook-fulltext.html

12 years ago

The Programming Steamroller Waits For No One (2013)

http://thecodist.com/article/the_programming_steamroller_waits_for_no_one

12 years ago

A Google employee's critique of the Ars Technica Android unforkable article

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/neither-microsoft-nokia-nor-anyone-else-should-fork-android-its-unforkable/?comments=1&post=26199423

12 years ago

A game to learn a new language

http://babadum.com/

12 years ago

Books to Read in a Lifetime

http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8192263011

12 years ago

The Computational Complexity of Machine Learning

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~klivans/395t.html

12 years ago

The importance of co-founder due diligence

http://chrisjamieson.me/the-importance-of-co-founder-due-diligence

12 years ago