top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-04-16

Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/04/lens-blur-in-new-google-camera-app.html

12 years ago

644 upvotes – 239 comments

Better bash in 15 minutes

http://robertmuth.blogspot.com/2012/08/better-bash-scripting-in-15-minutes.html

12 years ago

475 upvotes – 151 comments

TurboTax Maker Intuit Funnels Millions to Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/turbotax-maker-funnels-millions-to-lobby-against-easier-tax-returns/

12 years ago

473 upvotes – 182 comments

They say “nothing will change”

https://medium.com/p/5c546662abc0

12 years ago

423 upvotes – 116 comments

The Worst Part of YC

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-worst-part-of-yc

12 years ago

354 upvotes – 107 comments

Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/04/street-view-and-recaptcha-technology.html

12 years ago

347 upvotes – 148 comments

GoDaddy Released My Personal Information to a Spammer Troll

http://skepchick.org/2014/04/godaddy-released-my-personal-information-to-a-spammer-troll/

12 years ago

342 upvotes – 141 comments

Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/tech-volunteers-eff-needs-your-help

12 years ago

334 upvotes – 54 comments

Tptacek's Review of "Practical Cryptography With Go"

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/3cc34251e501c2c8ffb7/raw/cf9ff4e7ce13985458b240980e91202ac732b4e6/Practical+Cryptography+in+Go+

12 years ago

284 upvotes – 250 comments

Those Who Say Code Does Not Matter

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/173827-those-who-say-code-does-not-matter/fulltext

12 years ago

266 upvotes – 265 comments

First Atomic Clock Wristwatch

http://leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/

12 years ago

219 upvotes – 60 comments

Canadian bill to crack down on illegal downloads has privacy experts worried

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04/13/new-bill-to-crack-down-on-illegal-downloads-has-privacy-experts-worried/

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 23 comments

Successful private key extraction from OpenVPN using Heartbleed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7598616

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 21 comments

Create JavaScript, CSS Interactions With Zero Lines of Code

http://interactions.webflow.com

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 59 comments

Project Ara – Google's modular phone project

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/google-project-ara/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 152 comments

Improve developer habits by showing time cost of DB queries

http://danbirken.com/quicktip/2014/04/16/improve-developer-habits-with-db-diagnostisc.html

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 69 comments

Creating a Bare Bones Bootloader

http://www.reinterpretcast.com/creating-a-bare-bones-bootloader

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 11 comments

SigmaVPN: Stateless OpenVPN Replacement Using NaCl Encryption Library

http://frozenriver.net/SigmaVPN

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 66 comments

Coding the Angular Tutorial App in Backbone

http://blog.42floors.com/coded-angular-tutorial-app-backbone-took-260-code/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 70 comments

Chrome Remote Desktop goes mobile

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/04/chrome-remote-desktop-goes-mobile.html

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 54 comments
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