top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-17

How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn

http://shubh.am/how-i-bypassed-2-factor-authentication-on-google-yahoo-linkedin-and-many-others/

12 years ago

392 upvotes – 143 comments

Pain we forgot

http://www.lighttable.com/2014/05/16/pain-we-forgot/

12 years ago

364 upvotes – 153 comments

Dual-touch smartphone design concept

http://blog.assaflavie.com/touch?

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 57 comments

Hello from 1978

http://www.nycresistor.com/2014/05/15/pdp-11/

12 years ago

210 upvotes – 38 comments

LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 40 comments

Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (1999)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3408/the_cabal_valves_design_process_.php

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 25 comments

A Critique of “Don’t Fuck Up The Culture”

http://scottberkun.com/2014/critique-dont-fuck-up-culture/

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 72 comments

Are coders worth it? (2013)

http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/james-somers-web-developer-money/

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 114 comments

New algorithm shakes up cryptography

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140515163739.htm

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 32 comments

Free Data Mining Books

http://christonard.com/12-free-data-mining-books/

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 4 comments

Cheap smartphones are about to change everything

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/cheap-smartphones

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 91 comments

Learn AngularJS with free interactive lessons

http://www.learn-angular.org/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: I feel like an 'expert beginner' and I don't know how to get better

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7761134

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 52 comments

'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27441156

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 42 comments

Font Awesome 4.1 released

http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 45 comments

Why I push for Python

http://lorenabarba.com/blog/why-i-push-for-python/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 122 comments

LibreSSL at BSDCan

http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2071?

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

Tell HN (dang, kogir, et al): Thanks for all your hard work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7760815

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 36 comments

Richard Stallman – "Free Software and Your Freedom" (Beijing, China)

http://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20140517-beijing

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

Kicksat burned up, including Sprites

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zacinaction/kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space/posts/843807

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

New planet-hunting camera produces best-ever image of an exoplanet

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/may/planet-camera-macintosh-051614.html

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Programming Language Popularity on GitHub and Stack Overflow

http://langpop.corger.nl/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 49 comments

Why Nerds are Unpopular (2003)

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 115 comments

Swiss to vote on $25 an hour minimum wage

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/05/16/swiss-minimum-wage/9166687/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 112 comments

Cells: Lightweight Virtual Smartphones

http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/projects/cells/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 6 comments

GoCircuit: Simple language-agnostic cluster programming

https://github.com/gocircuit/circuit

12 years ago

★ 1.9k Go Apache-2.0
74 upvotes – 4 comments

Hadoop's Uncomfortable Fit in HPC

http://glennklockwood.blogspot.com/2014/05/hadoops-uncomfortable-fit-in-hpc.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments

Auto-expiring TODO notes in Ruby

https://github.com/andyw8/do_by

12 years ago

★ 264 Ruby MIT
60 upvotes – 40 comments

The Water That The Coast Guard Won’t Save You From

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/but-not-simpler/2014/05/16/water-coast-guard-wont-save/#.U3ed4i_c0wU

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 49 comments

Sonic.Net Offering 1 Gbps, Unlimited Phone for $40 in California

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/SonicNet-Offering-1-Gbps-Unlimited-Phone-for-40-in-California-128995

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

Algorithm appointed board director

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27426942?HN2

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 26 comments

Lighthouse: Decentralized Kickstarter

http://blog.vinumeris.com/2014/05/17/lighthouse/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

How WePay Failed Eden Alexander

http://kittystryker.com/2014/05/not-waving-but-drowning-how-wepay-failed-eden-alexander/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 47 comments
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