top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-02-23

One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001076.html

12 years ago

534 upvotes – 91 comments

Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304834704579401071892041790

12 years ago

487 upvotes – 337 comments

How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/how-to-make-yourself-work-when-you-just-dont-want-to/

12 years ago

328 upvotes – 108 comments

Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right

https://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm

12 years ago

249 upvotes – 148 comments

Bram Moolenaar responds to Neovim

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/vim_dev/x0BF9Y0Uby8

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 147 comments

Yamaha's Latest Silent Brass

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2014/02/best-sounding-brass-instrument-tech-makes-sound-yamahas-latest-silent-brass/

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 32 comments

Most Winning A/B Test Results are Illusory [pdf]

http://www.qubitproducts.com/sites/default/files/pdf/Plain%20whitepaper%20sans.pdf

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 83 comments

Exxon CEO sues against fracking in his own backyard

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2014/02/22/exxon-ceo-profits-huge-as-americas-largest-natural-gas-producer-but-frack-it-in-his-own-backyard-and-he-sues/print/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 59 comments

Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes

http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoin-mining-hard-way-algorithms.html

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 20 comments

Xorg can now run without privilege on OpenBSD

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140223112426

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 79 comments

The indignity of no work

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/02/social-norms

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 263 comments

Hacking Hacker News

http://joelgrus.com/2012/02/16/hacking-hacker-news/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 50 comments

Jan Koum promoting WhatsApp in the Flyertalk forum (2009)

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/952359-thoughts-about-my-free-iphone-app-whatsapp.html

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 24 comments

Unix koans

http://www.catb.org/~esr//writings/unix-koans/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

Hipster Dev Stack

http://hipsterdevstack.tumblr.com/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 20 comments

Cryptocontracts Will Turn Contract Law Into a Programming Language

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/02/22/we-are-becoming-programmable-society/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 85 comments

Gmail adding prominent 'Unsubscribe' option to marketing emails

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2100020/gmails-unsubscribe-tool-comes-out-of-the-weeds.html

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 107 comments

Google's robots.txt

http://www.google.com/robots.txt

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 91 comments

My life in London's houseboat slums

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/23/london-houseboat-slum-rents-barge

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 129 comments

Regex Golf Part 2: Infinite Problems

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/xkcd1313-part2.ipynb?create=1

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 10 comments
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