top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-16

3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/3d-gifs

12 years ago

Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s

http://m.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/big-breakthroughs-come-in-your-late-30s/283858/

12 years ago

HTTP 308 Incompetence Expected

http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2014/02/http-308-incompetence-expected.html

12 years ago

Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7248829

12 years ago

The Man Who Built Catan

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/02/klaus-teuber-the-settlers-of-catan.html

12 years ago

Letter to MIT community regarding support of students behind ‘Tidbit’

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2014/letter-to-mit-community-regarding-support-of-students-behind-tidbit.html

12 years ago

New Linux userland rootkit with anti-debugging, new backdoors and pcap hiding

http://blackhatlibrary.net/Azazel

12 years ago

Prefer mercurial to git

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00343.html

12 years ago

Ask HN: Where I can post my startup to get beta users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7248460

12 years ago

The Road to Virtual Reality

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2014/02/the-road-to-vr.html

12 years ago

Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol

http://openlibernet.org/faq.html

12 years ago

Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/16/nootropics-survey-results-and-analysis/

12 years ago

Why you should move that button 3px to the left

http://www.gv.com/lib/design-details

12 years ago

IMDB Top 100K Movies – Analysis in Depth, Part 1

http://bugra.github.io/work/notes/2014-02-15/imdb-top-100K-movies-analysis-in-depth-part-1/

12 years ago

A Case for Upserts

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/2/16/a-case-for-upserts/

12 years ago

Analysis of 419,000 FlapMMO attempts

http://t3hz0r.com/post/analysis-flapmmo-attempts

12 years ago

Compiling Quake 3 Virtual Machines To JavaScript

http://www.inolen.com/articles/compiling-quake-3-virtual-machines-to-javascript/

12 years ago

Why not inherit from List?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21692193/why-not-inherit-from-listt

12 years ago

Real-time Search as a Service

http://www.algolia.com

12 years ago

The Enigma of “Blind Tom” Wiggins

http://www.blackpast.org/perspectives/confounded-enigma-blind-tom-wiggins

12 years ago

Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps

http://comcastmyths.tumblr.com/

12 years ago

Show HN: Pumpkin – An open-source HN clone

https://github.com/fananta/Pumpkin

12 years ago

★ 119 JavaScript

Flappy Math Saga

http://www.lobe.io/flappy-math-saga/

12 years ago

Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/14/ongoing-abuse-state-secrets-privilege/

12 years ago

Possible citogenesis concerning whether MtGox ever hosted an MtG trading site

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mt.Gox#Possible_citogenesis_concerning_whether_MtGox_ever_hosted_an_MtG_trading_site

12 years ago

Google acquires Israeli security startup SlickLogin

http://www.geektime.com/2014/02/16/google-acquires-slicklogin/

12 years ago

Gestice – Unlock your Android by shaking it whilst wearing a Pebble

http://gestice.org/

12 years ago

Thousands of People Trying to Play the Same Game of Pokemon

http://www.dorkly.com/article/59332/there-are-thousands-of-people-trying-to-play-the-same-game-of-pokemon

12 years ago

Julia for Matlab users

http://sveme.org/julia-for-matlab-users-i.html

12 years ago

JavaScript Module Loaders Considered Harmful

http://techblog.ironfroggy.com/2014/02/javascript-module-loaders-considered.html

12 years ago

Volatiles Are Miscompiled, and What to Do about It [pdf]

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/emsoft08-preprint.pdf

12 years ago

Ask HN: Is anyone successful with the 7-minute workout so far?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7248736

12 years ago

How to build FreeBSD EC2 images

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-02-16-FreeBSD-EC2-build.html

12 years ago

Defunct Soviet reconnaissance satellite may hit Earth today

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=12054

12 years ago