top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-06-11

With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/206401-with-the-machine-hp-may-have-invented-a-new-kind-of-computer

12 years ago

595 upvotes – 292 comments

I hate stacked area charts (2011)

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/11/i-hate-stacked-area-charts/

12 years ago

369 upvotes – 64 comments

Why we're suing the CIA

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/jun/11/why-were-suing-cia/

12 years ago

360 upvotes – 76 comments

Share: The Icon No One Agrees On

https://bold.pixelapse.com/minming/share-the-icon-no-one-agrees-on

12 years ago

336 upvotes – 160 comments

Response by Ray Kurzweil to chatbot Eugene Goostman “passing the Turing test”

http://www.kurzweilai.net/response-by-ray-kurzweil-to-the-announcement-of-chatbot-eugene-goostman-passing-the-turing-test

12 years ago

331 upvotes – 155 comments

Bret Victor: Seeing Spaces [video]

https://vimeo.com/97903574

12 years ago

302 upvotes – 83 comments

Expedia Starts Accepting Bitcoin for Hotel Bookings

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/06/11/expedia-starts-accepting-bitcoin-for-hotel-bookings/

12 years ago

262 upvotes – 101 comments

Trashing Chromebooks

http://www.systemcall.org/blog/2014/06/trashing-chromebooks/

12 years ago

261 upvotes – 61 comments

Ars tests Internet surveillance by spying on an NPR reporter

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/what-the-nsa-or-anyone-can-learn-about-you-from-internet-traffic/?

12 years ago

244 upvotes – 65 comments

Microsoft fights U.S. warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server

http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/microsoft-fights-us-search-warrant-for-customer-e-mails-held-in-overseas-server/2014/06/10/6b8416ae-f0a7-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html

12 years ago

225 upvotes – 93 comments

Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail

http://grahamcluley.com/2014/06/feedly-blackmail-ddos/

12 years ago

219 upvotes – 134 comments

HFS+ Bit Rot

http://blog.barthe.ph/2014/06/10/hfs-plus-bit-rot/

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 101 comments

Beautiful illusions: the economics of uberX

http://justin-singer.org/blog/2014/06/beautiful-illusions/

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 116 comments

Intel Bringing SIMD to JavaScript

https://01.org/blogs/tlcounts/2014/bringing-simd-javascript

12 years ago

183 upvotes – 100 comments

Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine

http://lispm.de/symbolics-lisp-machine-ergonomics

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 91 comments

Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27793464

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 120 comments

Postgres-XL: Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based Database Cluster

http://www.postgres-xl.org/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 66 comments

KDE Ships Second Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace

http://kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0-beta2/

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 116 comments

Algorithmic complexity attacks and libc qsort()

http://calmerthanyouare.org/2014/06/11/algorithmic-complexity-attacks-and-libc-qsort.html

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 52 comments

Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology

http://www.snipe.net/2014/05/please-stop-asking-me-to-speak-about-women-in-technology/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 87 comments

Open Wireless Movement

https://openwireless.org/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 50 comments

Essential LaTeX packages

http://www.howtotex.com/packages/9-essential-latex-packages-everyone-should-use/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 48 comments

There's A Gold-Dispensing ATM on West 57th Street

http://www.scoutingny.com/gold-dispensing-atm-on-west-57th-street/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 76 comments

101 Ways to Save Apple (1997)

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/apple_pr.html

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 85 comments

Magpie – Git-backed Evernote replacement

https://magpie-notes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#what-is-magpie

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 39 comments

Island of California

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

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

Online JSON editor

http://cdn.rawgit.com/jdorn/json-editor/master/demo.html

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

How to colocate your first server at a datacenter

http://blog.definedcode.com/colocation

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 65 comments

No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean

http://www.lacnic.net/en/web/anuncios/2014-no-hay-mas-direcciones-ipv4-en-lac

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 46 comments

Introducing UberTAXI

http://blog.uber.com/UberTAXI

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 61 comments

Efficient way to calculate active users

https://engineering.helpshift.com/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

Where Be Monsters? The Daedalus Sea Serpent and the War for Credibility

http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/where-be-monsters-daedalus-sea-serpent-and-war-for-credibility

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Sorting in Python

http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/SortSearch/sorting.html

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 16 comments

Brazil's billion-dollar gym experiment

http://mosaicscience.com/story/brazils-billion-dollar-gym-experiment

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 59 comments

Storj – Blockchain-based decentralized storage network

http://storj.io/#gk1

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

Neelie Kroes responds to taxi protests in Europe

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/blog/my-view-todays-taxi-protests-and-what-it-means-sharing-economy

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 33 comments

Building Products at SoundCloud – Part I: Dealing with the Monolith

http://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/building-products-at-soundcloud-part-1-dealing-with-the-monolith

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Stronger-than-steel fibre spun from wood

http://www.kth.se/en/aktuellt/nyheter/tra-kan-ersatta-bomull-och-glasfiber-1.481498

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Homebrew Oculus Rift Eye Tracker

http://jdarpinian.blogspot.com/2014/06/homebrew-oculus-rift-eye-tracker.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

Swiftkey Keyboard Android is now free

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 68 comments

Broadening Node.js Contributions

http://www.joyent.com/blog/broadening-node-js-contributions

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 16 comments

BitTorrent Chat: The Want For Privacy

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2014/06/11/bittorrent-chat-the-want-for-privacy/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

Plan – Cron jobs in Python

https://github.com/fengsp/plan

12 years ago

★ 1.1k Python
57 upvotes – 18 comments

The Problem of Induction (1967)

http://www.csulb.edu/~cwallis/100/articles/salmon.html

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Discover Recipes by Ingredients

http://skipthepizza.com/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 47 comments
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