top 50% 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

Confessions of a Full Stack DevOp

http://www.ansible.com/blog/confessions-of-a-full-stack-devop

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 49 comments

Windows Phone 8.1 review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7940/windows-phone-81-review

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 106 comments

The Gut Microbes of African Hunter-Gatherers

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/hadza-hunter-gatherer-gut-microbiome/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 38 comments

Streem (YC S12) Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage and Streaming for $20/Month

http://lifehacker.com/streem-offers-unlimited-cloud-storage-and-streaming-for-1563536464

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 74 comments

How to Avoid Sleep Debt

http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/railroad-sleep/getting-sleep/sleep-debt

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

Lavabit appeal confirms original ruling [pdf]

http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/lavabit-usca4-op.pdf

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation (2007)

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments

For $45 Per Month, All the Coffee You Can Drink

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-15/for-45-per-month-all-the-coffee-you-can-drink

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 115 comments

Why We Do All-Hands Support at Olark

http://www.olark.com/customers/why-we-do-all-hands-support

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: If you worked with a grad from a code bootcamp, how effective were they?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7599475

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 82 comments

A collection of not so obvious Python stuff

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/rasbt/python_reference/blob/master/not_so_obvious_python_stuff.ipynb

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

Qt Creator 3.1.0 released

https://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/04/15/qt-creator-3-1-0-released/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Why We Don't Invite Groups to Interviews

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 45 comments

Creating maps using R, Deedle and F# type providers

http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/Create-maps-using-R-Deedle-and-FSharp-type-providers.aspx

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

Mint won't give a clear answer about Heartbleed

https://satisfaction.mint.com/mint/topics/a_definitve_answer_on_whether_mint_was_ever_affected_by_heartbleed

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Microsoft Offers Office Online apps via Chrome Web Store

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247681/Microsoft_concedes_Chromebooks_are_work_worthy?taxonomyId=89

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 48 comments

Spotify Starts Shutting Down Its Massive P2P Network

http://torrentfreak.com/spotify-starts-shutting-down-its-massive-p2p-network-140416/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments

Google Revenue Jumps, But Misses Forecasts

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/technology/google-revenue-jumps-but-misses-forecasts.html?_r=0

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 55 comments

Android OpenSSL has heartbeats disabled

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=34212

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

YC emails are sent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7596018

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 80 comments

Why I Went From Python To Go (and not Node.js) (2012)

http://jordanorelli.com/post/31533769172/why-i-went-from-python-to-go-and-not-node-js

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 71 comments
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