top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-25

Fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox

http://willyreport.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-willy-report-proof-of-massive-fraudulent-trading-activity-at-mt-gox-and-how-it-has-affected-the-price-of-bitcoin/

12 years ago

648 upvotes – 131 comments

Scribd and Quora considered harmful

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/quora-scribd-considered-harmful.html

12 years ago

511 upvotes – 136 comments

I Broke My Phone’s Screen, and It Was Awesome

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4018

12 years ago

279 upvotes – 112 comments

The Design Of SQLite4

http://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/design.wiki

12 years ago

252 upvotes – 67 comments

Don’t Believe Anyone Who Tells You Learning To Code Is Easy

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/24/dont-believe-anyone-who-tells-you-learning-to-code-is-easy/

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 180 comments

Meet the algorithm that can learn “everything about anything”

http://gigaom.com/2014/05/23/meet-the-algorithm-that-can-learn-everything-about-anything/

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 76 comments

US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe

http://nypost.com/2014/05/24/son-finds-his-lost-mother-in-a-stone-age-tribe/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 110 comments

Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others

https://plus.google.com/+KajSotala/posts/hofuxyXz78j

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 116 comments

End Mass Incarceration Now

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/opinion/sunday/end-mass-incarceration-now.html?_r=0

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 82 comments

So You Want to Write Your Own CSV code

http://tburette.github.io/blog/2014/05/25/so-you-want-to-write-your-own-CSV-code/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 121 comments

What does a neural network actually do?

http://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/what-does-a-neural-network-actually-do/#

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 38 comments

LoopBack, a new Node.js framework by StrongLoop

http://loopback.io

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 65 comments

Fitness Crazed

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/opinion/sunday/fitness-crazed.html?hpw&rref=opinion

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 114 comments

Unix history repository

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo

12 years ago

★ 7.2k Assembly
118 upvotes – 6 comments

VoCore: A coin-sized Linux computer with wifi

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/vocore-a-coin-sized-linux-computer-with-wifi

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 42 comments

DEFCON Capture the Flag Qualification Challenge #1

http://www.endgame.com/blog/defcon-capture-the-flag-qualification-challenge-1.html

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 16 comments

Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World

http://www.utexas.edu/news/2014/05/16/admiral-mcraven-commencement-speech/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 117 comments

Mill CPU Specification [video]

http://millcomputing.com/docs/specification/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 32 comments

The Art of Unix Programming (2008)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

Symbolics Genera Concepts

http://lispm.de/genera-concepts

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 4 comments

Cisco CEO Predicts ‘Brutal’ IT Consolidation

http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/05/22/cisco-ceo-predicts-brutal-brutal-consolidation/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 51 comments

Can someone :help me?

http://ajh17.github.io/2014/05/25/can-someone-help-me/index.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 52 comments

Using Genetic Algorithms to Break Things

http://westleyargentum.github.io/blog/2014/05/18/using-genetic-algorithms-to-break-things/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 43 comments

The Nordic region is becoming a hothouse of entrepreneurship (2013)

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21570834-nordic-region-becoming-hothouse-entrepreneurship-if-doubt-innovate?fb_ref=activity

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

EventHub – An open source event analytics platform

https://github.com/Codecademy/EventHub

12 years ago

★ 1.3k Java
82 upvotes – 10 comments

Reverse-engineering the TL431

http://www.righto.com/2014/05/reverse-engineering-tl431-most-common.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

Star Trek: The Next Generation Was the Last Sci-Fi Show Hopeful About the Future

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/star-trek-the-next-generation-future

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 76 comments

Visualization of tweets during Champions League final

http://cartodb.github.io/lisbon-2014/#/4/44.62/10.77/75

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

What Happened at UserLand

http://inessential.com/2014/05/24/what_happened_at_userland

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

Wikipedia: We’ve won. Now what?

http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2014/05/22/weve-won-no-tail-lights-now-what/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: As a software developer, how do I get into brain research?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7796237

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 53 comments

Asynchronous I/O that doesn’t get in your way, written in D

http://vibed.org

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

Is Piketty All Wrong?

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/is-piketty-all-wrong/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: My wife developed an Android app but she's too shy to post it on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7797953

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments
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