top 50% 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

Take the Linux Filesystem Tour

http://tuxradar.com/content/take-linux-filesystem-tour/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 19 comments

$25 Smartphones on Firefox OS to Rock MWC

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1321112

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 84 comments

The WhatsApp Story Challenges Some of the Valley’s Conventional Wisdom

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/23/the-whatsapp-story-challenges-the-valleys-conventional-wisdom/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

LXC 1.0 Released

https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2014-February/008165.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 35 comments

Prison Switcharoo

http://www.cartalk.com/content/prison-switcharoo-0?question

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 73 comments

Molecular Visualisations of DNA [video]

http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehitv/molecular_visualisations_of_dna/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 43 comments

The C++ and programming books I recommend

http://bert-hubert.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-cprogramming-books-i-recommend.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 50 comments

Apple promises fix 'very soon' for Macs with failed encryption

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSBREA1L10220140222

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 67 comments

How Bad Can 1 GB Pages Be?

http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2014/02/18/how-bad-can-1gb-pages-be/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 40 comments

Air Hockey Robot – a 3D printer hack

http://cienciaycacharreo.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/new-project-air-hockey-robot-3d-printer.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 4 comments

Misleading Graph Generator

http://www.yrden.de/misleading-graph-generator/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 35 comments

Why HStore2/jsonb is the most important patch of PostgreSQL 9.4

http://www.databasesoup.com/2014/02/why-hstore2jsonb-is-most-important.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 75 comments

Facebook's big deal shows we're back in the dot-com funny money era

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-facebook-20140221,0,3459685.story

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 62 comments
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