top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-03-05

Stripe Checkout

https://stripe.com/checkout

12 years ago

559 upvotes – 208 comments

Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project

https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/03/05/introducing-the-mozjpeg-project/

12 years ago

409 upvotes – 128 comments

Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused

http://j2kun.svbtle.com/mathematicians-are-chronically-lost-and-confused

12 years ago

300 upvotes – 194 comments

Stick bomb

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_bomb

12 years ago

255 upvotes – 57 comments

Attorneys for Barrett Brown want case on linking to hacked material dismissed

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/mar/04/attorneys-barrett-brown-hyperlink-hacked-material-want-case-dismissed

12 years ago

252 upvotes – 139 comments

Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3v13d2g8klwer3d/AWS%20-%20RubyCentral%20-%20Feb2014.pdf

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 147 comments

Glyphr - HTML5 based font editor

http://glyphrstudio.com/

12 years ago

250 upvotes – 51 comments

Netflix disables use of the Chrome developer console

http://pastebin.com/Lx5gjXsA

12 years ago

248 upvotes – 162 comments

Getty Images makes its images free to use

http://vrge.co/1hMOWPY

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 43 comments

Mexican Protest Site Censored by GoDaddy with the U.S. Embassy's Help

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/03/mexican-protest-site-censored-godaddy-us-embassys-help

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the Rails Tutorial

http://www.softcover.io/

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 61 comments

SimpleCV – Computer Vision platform using Python

http://simplecv.org/

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 37 comments

A software engineer's website

http://clarkduvall.com

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 85 comments

GnuTLS considered harmful (2008)

http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200802/msg00072.html

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 115 comments

When Airlines Screw Up Your Flight, AirHelp (YC W14) Gets You Paid

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/05/when-airlines-screw-up-your-flight-airhelp-gets-you-paid/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 63 comments

The top free-to-play monetization tricks

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130626/194933/The_Top_F2P_Monetization_Tricks.php

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 108 comments

A vast hidden surveillance network, powered by the repo industry

http://betaboston.com/news/2014/03/05/a-vast-hidden-surveillance-network-runs-across-america-powered-by-the-repo-industry/

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 147 comments

Best practices for API versioning?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/389169/best-practices-for-api-versioning/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 70 comments

Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect

http://mappingignorance.org/2014/02/03/mandela-was-right-the-foreign-language-effect/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 76 comments

Every Quadrotor Needs This Failsafe Software

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/aerial-robots/every-quadrotor-needs-this-amazing-failsafe-software#.UxdDHIzx33Y.hackernews

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 51 comments

The Meta-Marketing of ‘The Lego Movie’

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/magazine/the-brilliant-unnerving-meta-marketing-of-the-lego-movie.html

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 123 comments

The Best Tools for UI Hacking (not jsFiddle)

http://williamnewton.co/blog/ui-hacking-in-the-browser/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 32 comments

Arscoin, our own custom cryptocurrency

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/behold-arscoin-our-own-custom-cryptocurrency/

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 135 comments

Major Changes in SAT Announced by College Board

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/education/major-changes-in-sat-announced-by-college-board.html?hp&_r=0

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 147 comments

Mozilla is investigating why Dell is charging to install Firefox

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/03/05/mozilla-investigating-dell-uk-charging-16-25-install-firefox-says-deal-exists-anyone/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 58 comments

Using OpenSSH Certificate Authentication

http://neocri.me/documentation/using-ssh-certificate-authentication/

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 47 comments

2,000 NHS Security Vulnerabilities Disclosed

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/03/2000-nhs-security-vulnerabilities-disclosed/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 33 comments

Congressman Calls To Ban U.S. Dollar In Response To Plea For Bitcoin Ban

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/05/congressman-calls-to-ban-u-s-dollar-in-response-to-bitcoin-ban/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 31 comments

Broderbund founder donates company archives to National Museum of Play

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/04/broderbund-founder-donates-company-archives-to-national-museum-o/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 22 comments

College Board SAT Partnership

https://www.khanacademy.org/sat

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: A Speed Reading Bookmarklet

https://gun.io/blog/openspritz-a-free-speed-reading-bookmarklet/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 48 comments

2014 Goals

https://wiki.mozilla.org/2014

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 87 comments

I want to get into startups, but I don’t know where to start

http://blog.42floors.com/want-get-startups-dont-know-start/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 79 comments

Redis 2.8.7 is out

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/redis-db/cdy_85c1b1U/siu7MCYFBy8J

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

Found it on TechCrunch. Reads like a markov-chain-generated series of buzzwords

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/07/espresso-logic-raises-1-6m-to-make-apis-using-the-data-logic-that-comes-with-reactive-programming/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

Vizify acquired by Yahoo

https://www.vizify.com/yahoo#transition

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 37 comments

The Story of the GnuTLS Bug

http://blog.existentialize.com/the-story-of-the-gnutls-bug.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 5 comments

No more Haml or CoffeeScript

http://kirillzubovsky.com/no-more-haml-or-coffeescript/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 87 comments

Why can we still crack snapchat photos in 12 lines of Ruby?

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/52584/why-can-we-still-crack-snapchat-photos-in-12-lines-of-ruby

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

What’s gone wrong with democracy?

http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21596796-democracy-was-most-successful-political-idea-20th-century-why-has-it-run-trouble-and-what-can-be-do

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 70 comments

Cargo-cult typing, or: Objective-C's default type is id

http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/03/cargo-cult-typing-or-objective-c.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 59 comments

RT Anchor Quits Over Ukraine Coverage, Says Credibility Destroyed

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/03/05/russia_today_anchor_quits_over_ukraine_coverage_former_host_says_network.html

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 32 comments

EBay is worst-run company I have ever seen: Carl Icahn

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101467290

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments

Arduino Sensor Network – Bathroom occupancy detector

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/arduino-sensor-network

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 37 comments

Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties

http://recode.net/2014/03/04/yahoo-to-end-facebook-google-sign-in-on-its-web-properties/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 51 comments

US prosecutors drop link-related charges from Barrett Brown case?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/210801336/17717995604

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 32 comments

HR leaked my salary. Now my team knows I make 3x they do

http://www.brightjourney.com/q/someone-hr-leaked-salary-lunch-now-team-knows-make-3x

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 52 comments

More than 2800 developers speak out about Java 8

http://typesafe.com/blog/java-8-survey-results

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 56 comments

Valve has just started the PC games race to zero

http://www.gamesbrief.com/2014/03/valve-has-just-started-the-pc-games-race-to-zero/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 86 comments
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