top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-25

Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

http://zachholman.com/posts/only-90s-developers/

12 years ago

710 upvotes – 394 comments

Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

http://www.spritzinc.com

12 years ago

593 upvotes – 213 comments

MtGox.com is offline

https://www.mtgox.com/?dead

12 years ago

587 upvotes – 521 comments

Joint Statement Regarding the Insolvency of Mt. Gox

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/77766809700/joint-statement-regarding-the-insolvency-of-mtgox

12 years ago

353 upvotes – 187 comments

The Mt. Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted

http://www.scribd.com/doc/209050732/MtGox-Situation-Crisis-Strategy-Draft

12 years ago

333 upvotes – 198 comments

Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 with SSL fix

http://9to5mac.com/2014/02/25/apple-releases-os-x-mavericks-10-9-2-with-facetime-audio-contact-blocking-mail-fixes/

12 years ago

315 upvotes – 237 comments

Famous tech acquisitions’ cost per user

https://public.brightside.io/v1/chart/ece4947eb29375535376ca212578cf78

12 years ago

269 upvotes – 95 comments

Consumer Reports Calls Tesla Model S The Best Car Of 2014

http://business.time.com/2014/02/25/tesla-model-s-consumer-reports/

12 years ago

256 upvotes – 137 comments

App-pocalypse Now

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2014/02/app-pocalypse-now.html

12 years ago

242 upvotes – 188 comments

Show HN: Add forms to your static site – no iFrames required

http://www.formspree.com/

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 99 comments

Wolfram Language

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 128 comments

Portal 2 Beta for Linux officially released

http://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1585569369676516320

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 67 comments

Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser

http://www.zdnet.com/servo-inside-mozillas-mission-to-reinvent-the-web-browser-for-the-multi-core-age-7000026606/

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 181 comments

ArnoldC – A programming language based on Arnold Schwarzenegger one-liners

https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC/wiki/ArnoldC

12 years ago

★ 6.8k Scala Apache-2.0
204 upvotes – 38 comments

Overkilling the 8-queens Problem

http://davidad.github.io/blog/2014/02/25/overkilling-the-8-queens-problem/

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 53 comments

Scale of the Universe

http://www.htwins.net/scale2/

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 80 comments

WebGL raytraced eye

http://www.vill.ee/eye/

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 44 comments

A Bitcoin Address with 782,000 BTC Moved Through It

https://blockchain.info/address/1Drt3c8pSdrkyjuBiwVcSSixZwQtMZ3Tew

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 112 comments

`three = 1` in the linux sourcecode

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d158fc7f36a25e19791d25a55da5623399a2644f/fs/ext4/resize.c#L698

12 years ago

★ 230.9k C
176 upvotes – 81 comments

Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in California

http://www.news.com.au/world/tin-cans-filled-with-10-million-in-gold-coins-dating-from-gold-rush-era-found-buried-in-california/story-fndir2ev-1226837801851

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 101 comments

Real money, invested with algorithms

http://blog.quantopian.com/real-money/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 136 comments

Paul Graham Shares Lessons Learned From 630+ YC Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/24/paul-graham-steps-back-at-yc-but-dont-expect-him-to-launch-a-startup/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 66 comments

New message from Mt. Gox

https://www.mtgox.com#new

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 176 comments

'Secret agents' warning removed from Chrome incognito tab

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/app/generated_resources.grd?r1=239201&r2=239282

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 41 comments

Programming With Types, Not Tutorials

https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/chowells79/types-not-tutorials#desk-darkness

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 115 comments

Facebook quietly ends email address system

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26332191

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 93 comments

Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375B Freight Industry

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-25/rolls-royce-drone-ships-challenge-375-billion-industry-freight.html

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 195 comments

Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/business/apparent-theft-at-mt-gox-shakes-bitcoin-world.html

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 80 comments

Explicit Trusted Proxy in HTTP/2.0

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-loreto-httpbis-trusted-proxy20-01

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 45 comments

Gox.com Domain Name Acquired by Mt. Gox Parent Company

http://www.domaininvesting.com/andy-booth-sells-gox-com/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 9 comments

Has goto fail been fixed yet?

http://hasgotofailbeenfixedyet.com/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 96 comments

Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers

http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 53 comments

Schadenfreude

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/02/schadenfreude-1.html

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 144 comments

WhatsApp’s Founder Goes From Food Stamps to Billionaire

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-20/whatsapp-s-founder-goes-from-food-stamps-to-billionaire.html

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 108 comments

Mtgox.com is gone

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/7TgkF/mtgox.com

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 9 comments

Where do we stand on benchmarking the D-Wave 2?

https://plus.google.com/+QuantumAILab/posts/DymNo8DzAYi

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

Google's Hangouts blunder helped WhatsApp

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/software-services/Googles-Hangouts-blunder-helped-WhatsApp/articleshow/30837560.cms

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 98 comments

My Management Lessons from Google, Apple, Dropbox, Twitter and Square

http://firstround.com/article/My-Management-Lessons-from-Three-Failed-Startups-Google-Apple-Dropbox-Twitter-and-Square

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 11 comments

Free Online Courses In Advanced Engineering Topics

http://nptel.ac.in/courses.php?disciplineId=106

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 12 comments

Apple Releases iBeacon Specification

http://beekn.net/2014/02/apple-releases-ibeacon-specification/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 65 comments

Bitcoin Prices Down As Mt. Gox Concerns Escalate

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-prices-mt-gox-concerns-escalate/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

Using PostgreSQL Arrays The Right Way

http://blog.heapanalytics.com/dont-iterate-over-a-postgres-array-with-a-loop/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

Python socket.recvfrom_into() remote buffer overflow

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=GHXSmNEg

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

2014: The year the Americans broke the internet

http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2014/01/18/2014-year-americans-broke-internet-good

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 53 comments

4.4 billion-year-old crystal is oldest confirmed piece of Earth

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/24/world/oldest-earth-fragment/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 34 comments

AngularJS change detection – draft

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10W46qDNO8Dl0Uye3QX0oUDPYAwaPl0qNy73TVLjd1WI/preview?sle=true&pli=1#heading=h.xgjl2srtytjt

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/blob/master/Chapter1_Introduction/Chapter1_Introduction.ipynb

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

Superhost (YC W14) Is Your Personal Assistant For Your Airbnb

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/25/superhost/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 39 comments

The Bitcoin Economics lesson for Engineers

http://econgoat.com/a-lesson-in-economics-for-engineers

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 92 comments

Polio-Like Disease Appears in California Children

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/02/25/us/ap-us-polio-like-illness.html?hp

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

Bugged recordings of prominent Turks are appearing almost every day

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/70baf32a-9d43-11e3-83c5-00144feab7de.html#axzz2uLysvx00

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Joint Statement Regarding the Insolvency of MtGox

http://blog.blockchain.info/2014/02/25/joint-statement/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments
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