top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-11

Today is The Day We Fight Back

https://thedaywefightback.org/

12 years ago

2061 upvotes – 258 comments

Curse Of The Gifted (2000)

http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/novelties/ESR%20-%20Curse%20Of%20The%20Gifted.html

12 years ago

632 upvotes – 356 comments

Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2014/02/11/sony-sells-waterproof-mp3-player-inside-bottle-water/

12 years ago

326 upvotes – 137 comments

135 new currencies at Stripe

https://stripe.com/blog/new-currencies

12 years ago

296 upvotes – 143 comments

Did English ever have a formal version of “you”?

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9780/did-english-ever-have-a-formal-version-of-you

12 years ago

294 upvotes – 193 comments

Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’

http://www.coindesk.com/massive-concerted-attack-launched-bitcoin-exchanges/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoinDesk+%28CoinDesk+-+The+Voice+of+Digital+Currency%29

12 years ago

291 upvotes – 211 comments

Why Indie Developers Go Insane

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-indie-developers-go-insane.html

12 years ago

264 upvotes – 83 comments

Toward Go 1.3

http://talks.golang.org/2014/go1.3.slide#1

12 years ago

257 upvotes – 257 comments

Bitcoin withdrawal processing suspended

https://www.bitstamp.net/article/bitcoin-withdraws-suspended/

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 252 comments

Git Push Heroku Master: Now 40% Faster

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/2/11/git_push_heroku_master_now_40_faster

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 44 comments

Glenn Greenwald's news site, The Intercept, is up

https://firstlook.org/theintercept

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 36 comments

Netflix performance on Verizon and Comcast has been dropping for months

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/netflix-performance-on-verizon-and-comcast-has-been-dropping-for-months/

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 85 comments

Screwed by Square

http://alexshvartsman.com/2014/02/11/screwed-by-square/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 57 comments

Why Don't Schools Teach Debugging?

http://danluu.com/teach-debugging/

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 127 comments

Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems

http://www.therestartpage.com/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 53 comments

Npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/76320673650/funding

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 77 comments

Widespread sex differences in gene expression in the human brain (2013)

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131122/ncomms3771/full/ncomms3771.html

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 201 comments

Webhooks Level Up

https://github.com/blog/1778-webhooks-level-up

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Abacus – Killing The Expense Report

https://www.abacus.com/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 66 comments

Phaser – Desktop and Mobile HTML5 Game Framework

http://phaser.io/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 23 comments

Flappy Bird MMO

http://69.164.192.211/flappy.html

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 58 comments

The Day We Do Nothing Of Consequence

http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2014/02/11/the-day-we-do-nothing-of-consequence/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 77 comments

DigitalOcean opens a Singapore Datacenter

https://digitalocean.com/blog_posts/we-re-excited-to-announce-our-singapore-datacenter-sgp1

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 70 comments

Responsive JavaScript

http://www.responsivejavascript.com/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

Yelp’s Style Guide

http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2014/02/yelps-got-style-and-the-guide-to-back-it-up.html

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 18 comments

Pullup, the site you join via pull request

http://pullup.io

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 49 comments

Arthur Chu Is Playing Jeopardy the Right Way

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/02/ken_jennings_on_jeopardy_champion_arthur_chu_and_daily_double_hunting.html

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

I wanted to work at Apple really bad, and now not so much.

https://medium.com/apple-daily/f5f8c807d868

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 68 comments

You have a moral obligation to use crypto

http://blog.easydns.org/2014/02/11/you-have-a-moral-obligation-to-use-crypto/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 89 comments

Back To My Roots

https://al3x.net/2014/02/11/back-to-my-roots.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

Facebook Puts a Downer on Upworthy

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-11/facebook-puts-a-downer-on-upworthy.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 54 comments

Camden, New Jersey: America's Most Desperate Town

http://m.rollingstone.com/culture/news/apocalypse-new-jersey-a-dispatch-from-americas-most-desperate-town-20131211

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 76 comments

Large DDoS strikes US, Europe

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/372033,worlds-largest-ddos-strikes-us-europe.aspx

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

How smoking weed is still legal for tourists in Amsterdam

http://travel.stackexchange.com/q/12942/101

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 67 comments

JavaScript has a Unicode problem (2013)

http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

"The Mask" Espionage Malware

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

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Gisp: A Lisp that compiles to Go

https://github.com/jcla1/gisp

12 years ago

★ 530 Go MIT
80 upvotes – 31 comments

Brain Hacks Top Founders Use to Get the Job Done

http://firstround.com/article/The-Brain-Hacks-Top-Founders-Use-to-Get-Stuff-Done?utm_source=Firstround.com+Library&utm_campaign=6705173537-The_Right_Way_to_Grant_Equity_to_Your_Employees&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d9bb43e05b-6705173537-75290789

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

CSS source map support, network performance analysis and more in Firefox DevTools

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/02/css-source-map-support-network-performance-analysis-more-firefox-developer-tools-episode-29/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Do messages get lost when Erlang modules are upgraded?

http://pankajmore.in/code-reloading-in-erlang.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

SymPy – simplify

http://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/simplification.html#simplify

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 25 comments

The Tragedy of Mathematics In Russia

http://www.math.nsc.ru/LBRT/g2/english/ssk/case_e.html

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 45 comments

Elliptic Curves as Elementary Equations

http://jeremykun.com/2014/02/10/elliptic-curves-as-elementary-equations/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 1 comments
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