top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-20

Project Tango

http://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/

12 years ago

Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App

http://blog.textit.in/your-path-to-a-$16b-exit-build-a-j2me-app

12 years ago

Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026698/inside-duckduckgo-googles-tiniest-fiercest-competitor?partner

12 years ago

So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/436410949919313920

12 years ago

Jim Weirich's final GitHub commit

https://github.com/jimweirich/wyriki/commit/d28fac7f18aeacb00d8ad3460a0a5a901617c2d4

12 years ago

★ 271 CSS

Questions People Ask When I Tell Them I Own an Airplane

http://www.fivezeromike.com/blog/2014/2/18/top-questions

12 years ago

Banking Startup Simple Acquired for $117M, Will Continue to Operate Separately

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/simple-acquired-for-117m-will-continue-to-operate-separately-under-its-own-brand/

12 years ago

Y Not – Adventures in Functional Programming (2012)

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1287-rubyconf2012-y-not-adventures-in-functional-programming

12 years ago

I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility

http://qntm.org/responsibility

12 years ago

Bitcrypt broken

http://blog.cassidiancybersecurity.com/post/2014/02/Bitcrypt-broken

12 years ago

Who helps your Linux distribution run smoothly? Thank a packager today

http://opensource.com/business/14/2/thank-a-linux-packager-today

12 years ago

Leaving Google

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/02/19/Leaving-Google

12 years ago

WhatsApp issued takedown against alternative clients a week before acquisition

https://raw.github.com/github/dmca/master/2014-02-12-WhatsApp.md

12 years ago

Scaling to millions of simultaneous connections (2012) [pdf]

http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/558/efsf2012-whatsapp-scaling.pdf

12 years ago

The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Enormous Cost of Letting Finance Rule

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/02/the-rent-is-too-damn-high-2

12 years ago

Building Cordova apps for Firefox OS

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/02/building-cordova-apps-for-firefox-os/

12 years ago

Results of the SQL Performance Quiz

http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2014-02/results-three-minutes-sql-performance-quiz

12 years ago

Fundraising Mistakes Founders Make

http://blog.samaltman.com/fundraising-mistakes-founder-make

12 years ago

The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night and the Media Is Asleep At the Switch

http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/20/the-game-changed/

12 years ago

Tesla CEO Musk on Battery Factor, Model X, Apple [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/tesla-ceo-musk-on-battery-factor-model-x-apple-LzHPROiTSoCyaQMM5Fg9lQ.html

12 years ago

Japanese Travel Tips for Visiting America

http://mentalfloss.com/article/55140/10-japanese-travel-tips-visiting-america

12 years ago

Ukraine protests: Before and after photos from Kiev's battle zone

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-20/kiev-ukraine-protests-before-after/5272570

12 years ago

Venezuela's Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/venezuelas-net-crackdown-escalates

12 years ago

Aereo loses copyright fight, gets banned in 6 states

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/aereo-loses-copyright-fight-to-tv-networks-in-utah/?utm_content=bufferc26cc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

12 years ago

Yasp – Web-based emulator, assembler for students learning assembly language

http://yasp.me/

12 years ago

Vienna again named world's most liveable city

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/19/us-quality-survey-idUSBREA1I1L920140219

12 years ago

There is now an API to build low-volume hardware products

http://gigaom.com/2014/02/20/there-is-now-an-api-to-build-a-low-volume-hardware-products/

12 years ago

Former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Arrested By The FBI

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/jon-mills-arrested/

12 years ago

Cable lobby rebuffed in attempt to ban public broadband networks

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/02/its-dead-kansas-municipal-internet-ban-was-stabbed-shot-and-hanged/

12 years ago

The Path Not Taken by Simple to Remake Finance

http://blog.zactownsend.com/the-path-not-taken-by-simple-bank-to-remake-finance

12 years ago

Ask HN: Best Open Source Phonegap and Titanium Apps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7270378

12 years ago

Show HN: ThreesJS – iOS game Threes for the browser

http://threes.meteor.com/

12 years ago

Show HN: Gargl – Create an API for any website, without writing a line of code

http://jodoglevy.com/jobloglevy/?p=5

12 years ago

The Next Chapter

https://www.simple.com/blog/the-next-chapter/

12 years ago

Responsibly Bringing a new Cryptography Product to Market

https://spideroak.com/blog/20140220090004-responsibly-bringing-new-cryptography-product-market

12 years ago

Reactive (Dataflow) Programming in Java and Clojure with Quasar and Pulsar

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/02/20/reactive/

12 years ago

Gitter – Chat, for GitHub

https://gitter.im/

12 years ago

Open-sourcing Facebook's internal branch of Thrift

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1468950976659943/under-the-hood-building-and-open-sourcing-fbthrift/

12 years ago

The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/02/19/exclusive-inside-story-how-jan-koum-built-whatsapp-into-facebooks-new-19-billion-baby

12 years ago

Balanced Partners With Coinbase and Adds Bitcoin Support

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/balanced-coinbase-bitcoin/

12 years ago

DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2

http://status.namecheap.com/?p=14846

12 years ago

Fast request routing using regular expressions

http://nikic.github.io/2014/02/18/Fast-request-routing-using-regular-expressions.html

12 years ago