top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-19

Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/facebook-buying-whatsapp-for-16b-in-cash-and-stock-plus-3b-in-rsus/

12 years ago

1129 upvotes – 802 comments

AI

http://blog.samaltman.com/ai

12 years ago

616 upvotes – 311 comments

WebGL Water

http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

12 years ago

467 upvotes – 131 comments

The future of Fiber

https://fiber.google.com/newcities/

12 years ago

449 upvotes – 282 comments

“Facebook turned me down” (2009)

https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/3109544383

12 years ago

388 upvotes – 191 comments

Machines are better referees than humans but we’ll be sued if we use them

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/02/18/machines-are-better-referees-than-humans-but-well-be-sued-if-we-use-them/

12 years ago

300 upvotes – 61 comments

Redesigned Python.org

http://www.python.org/

12 years ago

214 upvotes – 125 comments

Putin on the Ritz

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/595-Putin-on-the-Ritz.html

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 85 comments

Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp

http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbers-that-explain-why-facebook-acquired

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 82 comments

WRT120N fprintf Stack Overflow

http://www.devttys0.com/2014/02/wrt120n-fprintf-stack-overflow/

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 42 comments

Life of Brian (Krebs)

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/596-Life-of-Brian.html

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 50 comments

Levels of Excellence

http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/levels-of-excellence/

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 44 comments

How I was able to track the location of any Tinder user

http://blog.includesecurity.com/2014/02/how-i-was-able-to-track-location-of-any.html

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 70 comments

Steve Jobs threatened Palm’s CEO, court documents reveal

http://pando.com/2014/02/19/court-documents-reveal-steve-jobs-blistering-threat-to-ceo-who-wouldnt-join-wage-fixing-cartel/

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 113 comments

Making ActiveRecord 2x faster

http://tenderlovemaking.com/2014/02/19/adequaterecord-pro-like-activerecord.html

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 44 comments

UK Court: David Miranda Detention Legal Under Terrorism Law

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/19/uk-court-david-miranda-detention-legal-terrorism-law/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 132 comments

This App Trains You to See Farther

http://www.popularmechanics.com/_mobile/science/health/med-tech/this-app-trains-you-to-see-farther-16506910

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 72 comments

Sta.li: Static Linux

http://sta.li

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 98 comments

Canonical announces first partners to ship Ubuntu phones around the globe

http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/canonical-announces-first-partners-to-ship-ubuntu-phones-around-the-globe/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 46 comments

Facebook

http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2014/02/facebook/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 84 comments

How Microryza Acquired the Domain Experiment.com

http://priceonomics.com/how-microryza-acquired-the-domain-experimentcom/

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 87 comments

F.C.C. to Try Again on Net Neutrality

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/business/fcc-to-propose-new-rules-on-open-internet.html?hp&_r=0

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 137 comments

Never Be Intimidated

http://nancyhua.com/2014/02/19/never-intimidated/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: My side project just reached #6 on App Store music charts

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noon-pacific/id803563983?mt=8

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 62 comments

Steve Perlman's Wireless Technology Is Finally Here

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-18/steve-perlmans-amazing-wireless-machine-is-finally-here

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 100 comments

Comparison of C/Posix standard library implementations for Linux

http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 40 comments

Costs of a PostgreSQL connection

http://hans.io/blog/2014/02/19/postgresql_connection/index.html

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 59 comments

Tesla Beats In Q4 With Adjusted Revenues Of $761M

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/tesla-beats-in-q4-with-adjusted-revenues-of-761m-expects-35000-car-deliveries-this-year/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 38 comments

Google I/O announced for June 25-26

https://plus.google.com/+SundarPichai/posts/hVVvM5MJU3d

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7262662

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 49 comments

The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/02/the-powerlessness-of-positive-thinking.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 104 comments

REPL: To JSON what Excel is to CSV

http://repl.cc

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 64 comments

Software Startups Get JetBrains Tools at 50% Off

http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2014/02/19/attention-startups-get-jetbrains-tools-at-50-off/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

How Long Does Mass Extinction Take?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-long-mass-extinction-180949711/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 50 comments

A probabilistic model of prime numbers based on network theory

http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3612

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 4 comments

A Fervent Defense of Frequentist Statistics

http://lesswrong.com/lw/jne/a_fervent_defense_of_frequentist_statistics/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 28 comments

Feed some real fish via this web app

https://www.aquard.io/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 47 comments

HP to begin charging for firmware updates and service packs for servers

http://www.zdnet.com/hp-to-begin-charging-for-firmware-updates-and-service-packs-for-servers-7000026110/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 67 comments

Heap's new interface for analytics: clicking around your site

http://blog.heapanalytics.com/the-event-visualizer/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

Nokia Treasure Tag: Never lose your valuables again

http://conversations.nokia.com/2014/02/19/never-lose-valuables-nokia-treasure-tag/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

The 10x Engineer and Delegated Responsibility

http://ianlotinsky.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/the-10x-engineer-and-delegated-responsibility/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

Great Algorithms that Revolutionized Computing

http://en.docsity.com/news/interesting-facts/great-algorithms-revolutionized-computing/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

San Francisco Startup ZenPayroll Raises $20M, Finds Novel Ways to Lure Workers

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/02/19/san-francisco-startup-zenpayroll-raises-20m-finds-novel-ways-to-lure-workers/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 71 comments

MtGox's Bitcoin price drops to $260 (others at $600+)

https://www.mtgox.com/trade

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 76 comments

Git – A simple guide

http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

NZ court rules Megaupload warrant legal, dealing blow to Dotcom

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/19/us-newzealand-megaupload-warrant-idUSBREA1I02F20140219

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

PH7 – An Embedded Implementation of PHP (C Library)

https://github.com/symisc/PH7

12 years ago

★ 506 C
69 upvotes – 65 comments

Source of the recent outagelet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7261591

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 47 comments

Can Quiet, Efficient 'Space Elevators' Really Work?

http://www.space.com/24739-space-elevator-tether-technology.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 106 comments

ZenPayroll Raises $20M From General Catalyst And Kleiner At $100M+ Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/cloud-based-payroll-app-zenpayroll-raises-20m-from-general-catalyst-and-kleiner-at-a-100m-plus-valuation/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments