top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-13

Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

http://gizmodo.com/fuck-it-im-going-back-to-firefox-1685425815

11 years ago

1174 upvotes – 636 comments

The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/02/fda_inspections_fraud_fabrication_and_scientific_misconduct_are_hidden_from.single.html

11 years ago

552 upvotes – 173 comments

Stop Using LinkedIn

http://www.stopusinglinkedin.com

11 years ago

534 upvotes – 230 comments

Sergey Aleynikov Sues FBI Agents Who Arrested Him

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-12/goldman-sachs-ex-programmer-sues-fbi-agents-who-arrested-him

11 years ago

391 upvotes – 208 comments

Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/02/13/Final-1.0-timeline.html

11 years ago

364 upvotes – 125 comments

More than 39M Americans Only Have Access to One Wired Broadband Provider

http://broadbandnow.com/report/2013-underserved/

11 years ago

299 upvotes – 121 comments

Firefox Nightly now plays Amazon.com Flash videos using Shumway

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2015-February/002683.html

11 years ago

249 upvotes – 105 comments

David Carr Dies at 58

http://nytimes.com/2015/02/13/business/media/david-carr-media-equation-columnist-for-the-times-is-dead-at-58.html

11 years ago

240 upvotes – 45 comments

App Container and Docker

https://coreos.com/blog/app-container-and-docker/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 60 comments

Google's Vint Cerf Warns of 'digital Dark Age'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31450389

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 146 comments

Play Breakout while you pull to refresh

https://github.com/dasdom/BreakOutToRefresh

11 years ago

★ 2.4k Swift MIT
195 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Littlebox, a pure CSS icon library – worth continuing?

http://littlebox.cabmaddux.com

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 68 comments

How to Write a New Git Protocol

https://rovaughn.github.io/2015-2-9.html

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 13 comments

C99 tricks

http://blog.noctua-software.com/c-tricks.html

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 96 comments

Google Is Shutting Down Google Helpouts, Its Expert Video Chat Service

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/13/google-pulls-its-helpouts-mobile-applications-from-the-app-stores/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 88 comments

Why Is My Smart Home So Dumb?

http://gizmodo.com/why-is-my-smart-home-so-fucking-dumb-1684949715

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 150 comments

Nginx optimization: Understanding sendfile, tcp_nodelay and tcp_nopush

https://t37.net/nginx-optimization-understanding-sendfile-tcp_nodelay-and-tcp_nopush.html

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 29 comments

U.S. Droughts Predicted to Be the Worst in 1,000 Years

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-droughts-will-be-the-worst-in-1-000-years1/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 98 comments

Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03167v1.pdf

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 38 comments

The Pursuit of Beauty: Yitang Zhang solves a pure-math mystery

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 32 comments

Japan Has More Car Chargers Than Gas Stations

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-13/japan-has-more-car-chargers-than-gas-stations-carbon-climate

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 39 comments

Apple Gears Up to Challenge Tesla in Electric Cars

http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-titan-car-project-to-challenge-tesla-1423868072

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 166 comments

Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2534976

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 105 comments

The introvert's guide to getting noticed

http://www.pauldessert.com/blog/the-introverts-guide-to-getting-noticed.php

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 41 comments

React.js in Real Life at Codecademy

http://www.infoq.com/articles/reactjs-codecademy?utm_source=hacker%20news&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=react_js_article

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 11 comments

Which topics get the upvote on Hacker News?

http://blog.datadive.net/which-topics-get-the-upvote-on-hacker-news/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 16 comments

Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/jmtzzLiiejc

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 65 comments

On MicroSD card problems (2010)

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 19 comments

How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music

http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/how-i-taught-my-computer-to-write-its-own-music

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 40 comments

Haiku OS – Fundraising 2015

https://www.haiku-os.org/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

Olark – The First Three Years

https://www.olark.com/customers/olark-the-first-three-years

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

SigOpt (YC W15) Helps Customers Optimize Everything from Ads to Shaving Cream

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/12/sigopt-launch/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

Why OccupyGPL is wrong

http://www.rants.org/2015/02/11/why_occupygpl_is_wrong/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 80 comments

Unemployment Is Killing 45,000 People Each Year

https://news.vice.com/article/unemployment-is-killing-45000-people-each-year

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

Another Game Boy emulator for your terminal

https://github.com/dobyrch/termboy-go

11 years ago

★ 456 Go MIT
73 upvotes – 19 comments

Tinychart – simple, ready-to-go charts

http://tinychart.co/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

Catch 'em All: Using an Arduino to Trade Pokemon

http://pepijndevos.nl/2015/02/13/catch-em-all.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

How to Game Silicon Valley’s System

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/moneyball-for-startups/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 35 comments

With no trademark, Sriracha name is showing up everywhere

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-sriracha-trademark-20150211-story.html#page=1

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 54 comments

The prisoners trying to code their way to a better life

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31359126

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 55 comments

IRC as a Hiring Filter

http://www.jasonwhaley.com/blog/2015/2/13/irc-as-a-hiring-filter

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 86 comments

Sriracha CEO on why he chose not to trademark the brand

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150212/07144630001/sriracha-boss-trademark-mmmmm-no-thanks.shtml

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 41 comments

With Porches and Parks, a Texas Community Aims for Urban Utopia

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/12/385474414/with-porches-and-parks-a-texas-community-aims-for-urban-utopia

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 25 comments

A Deep Dive into Recurrent Neural Nets

http://nikhilbuduma.com/2015/01/11/a-deep-dive-into-recurrent-neural-networks/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 1 comments

Colour Science for Python

http://www.colorpipe.org/colour-science-for-python/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

The Avail Programming Language

http://www.availlang.org/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

Circuit Breaker Design Pattern

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/common/circuitbreaker.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

ESLint – The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript

http://eslint.org/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9043968

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 73 comments
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