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India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin

techdirt.com/articles/20141231/02075529554/indian-government-orders-32-web-sites-blocked-including-github-archiveorg-pastebin-dailymotion-vimeo.shtml

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Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven

ifixit.org/blog/6882/why-i-drilled-holes-in-my-macbook-pro-and-put-it-in-the-oven

621
372
Quake on an oscilloscope

lofibucket.com/articles/oscilloscope_quake.html

859
70
Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs

extremetech.com/computing/182428-ironic-iframes-adblock-plus-is-probably-the-reason-firefox-and-chrome-are-such-memory-hogs

748
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Merry Christmas to HN

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8795524

502
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Mozilla Research Projects

mozilla.org/en-US/research/projects

440
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Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses

nytimes.com/2014/12/22/opinion/prosecute-torturers-and-their-bosses.html

521
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Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network

blog.torproject.org/blog/possible-upcoming-attempts-disable-tor-network

516
121
Git client vulnerability announced

github.com/blog/1938-git-client-vulnerability-announced

818
177
Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)

onbeing.org/program/albert-einstein-the-negro-question-1946

441
291
Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

techcrunch.com/2014/12/12/yahoo-starts-prompting-chrome-users-to-upgrade-to-firefox

460
231
Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy

paperplanes.de/2014/12/10/from-open-to-minimum-vacation-policy.html

675
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Android Studio 1.0

android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/12/android-studio-10.html

725
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The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value [pdf]

gmo.com/America/CMSAttachmentDownload.aspx?target=JUBRxi51IIBoe1yul9uERnfCmQoglFl9k5qwJSfHx8w/WCnFLmEb2MC9GoFnZVlslR5NzCRY1ajgn503icBv67VQg/NVUMWsYvi3A2/L+S28A7Pthjp7LmOfLYQfHMJc

379
131
Introducing .NET Core

blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx

458
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Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”

googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-robot-introducing-no-captcha.html

694
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NASA: We're sending humans to Mars

twitter.com/NASA/status/539814651404754944

1424
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Python idioms I wish I'd learned earlier

prooffreaderplus.blogspot.com/2014/11/top-10-python-idioms-i-wished-id.html

418
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How We Did It: SNL Title Sequence

alex-buono.com/how-we-did-it-snl-titles-sequence

470
56
God's Lonely Programmer

motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer

883
320
Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles

news.sciencemag.org/funding/2014/11/gates-foundation-require-immediate-free-access-journal-articles

1079
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Youtube-dl

rg3.github.io/youtube-dl

597
169
How to reward skilled coders with something other than people management

lizthedeveloper.com/how-to-reward-skilled-coders-with-something-other-than-people-management

414
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2

medium.com/@erikdkennedy/7-rules-for-creating-gorgeous-ui-part-2-430de537ba96

551
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Unicode Text Converter

panix.com/~eli/unicode/convert.cgi?text=The+secret+is+out.+

908
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Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web

eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web

2019
461
WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation

freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/11/freebsd-foundation-announces-generous.html?HN=

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Our lander’s asleep

blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/15/our-landers-asleep

392
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Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec

scribd.com/embeds/245561031/content?access_key=key-UEZdQ4D9zd883gw8tn3D&show_recommendations=true&start_page=1&view_mode=scroll

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Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

news.microsoft.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform-adds-new-development-capabilities-with-visual-studio-2015-net-2015-and-visual-studio-online

2376
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Against Productivity

medium.com/message/against-productivity-b19f56b67da6

329
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Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted

eff.org/press/releases/computer-scientists-ask-supreme-court-rule-apis-cant-be-copyrighted

517
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Doing Business in Japan

kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan

818
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The Other Side of Diversity

medium.com/@ericajoy/the-other-side-of-diversity-1bb3de2f053e

704
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Tom Magliozzi, Co-Host of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies at 77

npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77

963
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FreeBSD turns 21

freebsd.org/news/newsflash.html

412
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Please remove mitsuhiko/*

github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127

634
433
I’m Terrified of My New TV

brennancenter.org/analysis/im-terrified-my-new-tv-why-im-scared-turn-thing

739
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Tim Cook Speaks Up

businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-im-proud-to-be-gay

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Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance

robert.ocallahan.org/2014/10/are-we-fast-yet-yes-we-are.html

651
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#define CTO

blog.gregbrockman.com/define-cto

650
107
Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record

nytimes.com/2014/10/25/science/alan-eustace-jumps-from-stratosphere-breaking-felix-baumgartners-world-record.html

816
236
“Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby

yukinishijima.net/2014/10/21/did-you-mean-experience-in-ruby.html

455
181
Google Inbox

googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-inbox-that-works-for-you.html

1069
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Firebase is Joining Google

firebase.com/blog/2014-10-21-firebase-joins-google.html

879
227
China collecting Apple iCloud data

en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-apple-icloud-data-attack-coincides-launch-new-iphone

491
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Impending kOS

archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320

323
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FFS SSL

wingolog.org/archives/2014/10/17/ffs-ssl

447
152
My Philosophy on Alerting: Observations of a Site Reliability Engineer at Google

docs.google.com/a/gravitant.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa8eMWi8zzAn0YfcApr8Q/preview?sle=true

573
119
Rolling Shutters

jasmcole.com/2014/10/12/rolling-shutters

708
41
Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf

635
177
The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'

keybase.io/blog/2014-10-08/the-horror-of-a-secure-golden-key

1025
230
Hacker News API

blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api

1714
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Yahoo Hacked

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?cd=1&client=firefox-a&ct=clnk&hl=en&q=cache:I8s8KmZhwXMJ:www.futuresouth.us/yahoo_hacked.html+

722
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Marriott Hotels fined $600,000 by FCC for jamming Wi-Fi hotspots [pdf]

transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db1003/DA-14-1444A1.pdf

446
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Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn

timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/feature-germanys-great-tuition-fees-u-turn/2011168.fullarticle

599
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Reddit

blog.samaltman.com/reddit

988
394
Universal SSL

blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl

712
240
Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html

653
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Not a bash bug

paste.lisp.org/display/143864

348
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John Carmack on Inlined Code

number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html

456
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MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code

wired.com/2014/09/mit-students-face-aggressive-subpoena-demanding-source-code-bitcoin-mining-tool

416
123
I Had a Stroke at 33

buzzfeed.com/xtinehlee/i-had-a-stroke-at-33

603
151
TXT Record XSS

who.is/dns/jamiehankins.co.uk

998
228
I was asked to crack a program in a job interview

erenyagdiran.github.io/I-was-just-asked-to-crack-a-program-Part-1

997
302
I'm Leaving Mojang

notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-mojang

1252
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My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB)

lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-08/msg00012.html

826
263
Gravity Simulator

nowykurier.com/toys/gravity/gravity.html

467
131
Stop and Seize

washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize?hpid=z2

323
205
Lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr

medium.com/@michalbohanes/seven-lessons-i-learned-from-the-failure-of-my-first-startup-dinnr-c166d1cfb8b8

356
169
Why Amazon Has No Profits and Why It Works

a16z.com/2014/09/05/why-amazon-has-no-profits-and-why-it-works

633
260
Twitpic is shutting down

blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down

477
153
Failing the startup game at Unbabel

esoteric-code.blogspot.com/2014/09/failing-startup-game-unbabel-yc2014.html

536
235
The Road Ahead

anandtech.com/show/8456/the-road-ahead

537
60
Yahoo stopping all new development of YUI

yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/96098168666/important-announcement-regarding-yui

450
223
Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone

vox.com/2014/8/28/6074177/coffee-naps-caffeine-science

470
161
Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft

theverge.com/2014/8/26/6067663/this-is-ubers-playbook-for-sabotaging-lyft

1224
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Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp

bellingcat.com/resources/case-studies/2014/08/22/gun-safety-self-defense-and-road-marches-finding-an-isis-training-camp

547
106
Why Racket? Why Lisp?

practicaltypography.com/why-racket-why-lisp.html

418
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We have C++14

isocpp.org/blog/2014/08/we-have-cpp14

426
342
Hextris

hextris.github.io/hextris

589
92
MathBox 2

acko.net/files/pres/siggraph-2014-bof/online.html

657
88
What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?

jvns.ca/blog/2014/08/12/what-happens-if-you-write-a-tcp-stack-in-python

408
120
First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse

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172
Prostitution and the internet

economist.com/news/briefing/21611074-how-new-technology-shaking-up-oldest-business-more-bang-your-buck

208
73
Don't be a jerk

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8148068

333
130
How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machines for kids

blog.codestarter.org/post/93985346780/how-we-turn-199-chromebooks-into-ubuntu-based-code

492
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US Sought Permission to Change Historical Record of a Public Court Proceeding

eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/unsealed-us-sought-permission-change-historical-record-public-court-proceeding

437
71
Extracting audio from visual information

newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804

573
127
Stellar

stripe.com/blog/stellar

943
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Show HN: Markov chains explained visually

setosa.io/blog/2014/07/26/markov-chains/index.html

1070
92
Terraform

hashicorp.com/blog/terraform.html

600
110
The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization

nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-marijuana-legalization.html

349
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The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi

blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2014-07-23-12-28_the_sad_state_of_linux_wi-fi.html

432
266
SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage

spacex.com/news/2014/07/22/spacex-soft-lands-falcon-9-rocket-first-stage

561
189
Count to ten when a plane goes down

johncbeck.tumblr.com/post/92074597917/count-to-ten-when-a-plane-goes-down

1112
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Now Accepting Bitcoin on Dell.com

en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2014/07/18/we-re-now-accepting-bitcoin-on-dell-com.aspx

400
199
Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives

newyorker.com/reporting/2014/07/21/140721fa_fact_mnookin?currentPage=all

1483
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Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC

blog.ycombinator.com/y-combinator-has-filed-an-official-comment-with-the-fcc

841
120
Pinboard Turns Five

blog.pinboard.in/2014/07/pinboard_turns_five

491
116
A Server Naming Scheme

mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme

465
199
Python is now the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities

cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-the-most-popular-introductory-teaching-language-at-top-us-universities/fulltext

743
359
PyPy-STM: first “interesting” release

morepypy.blogspot.com/2014/07/pypy-stm-first-interesting-release.html

242
19
Farewell Node.js

medium.com/code-adventures/4ba9e7f3e52b

357
86
New Y Combinator Website

blog.ycombinator.com/new-y-combinator-website

432
133
Sleep as a Competitive Advantage

dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/sleep-as-a-competitive-advantage?_php=true&_r=0&_type=blogs

480
174
Commencement address by Bill and Melinda Gates

news.stanford.edu/news/2014/june/gates-commencement-remarks-061514.html

376
116
A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son

salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a_hole_in_my_2_year_old_son

706
447
My startup failed, and this is what it feels like

medium.com/@nikkidurkin99/my-startup-failed-and-this-is-what-it-feels-like-c5d64b3ae96b

1084
252
Employees That Stay In Companies Longer Get Paid Less

forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2014/06/22/employees-that-stay-in-companies-longer-than-2-years-get-paid-50-less

437
198
Eigenmorality

scottaaronson.com/blog?p=1820&re=1

439
78
Web Starter Kit

developers.google.com/web/starter-kit

553
210
How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?

docs.google.com/document/d/1TI4hjfb5cbEMTaY2vMsG--nlhQkH5N_aKWVGBGGmOuA/edit?usp=sharing

556
435
Kingston and PNY using cheaper components after good reviews

extremetech.com/extreme/184253-ssd-shadiness-kingston-and-pny-caught-bait-and-switching-cheaper-components-after-good-reviews

581
158
Founder Depression

blog.samaltman.com/founder-depression

493
198
All Our Patent Are Belong To You

teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

1999
314
With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer

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

595
292
Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs

boingboing.net/2014/06/10/vermeers-paintings-might-be.html

749
154
Docker 1.0

blog.docker.com/2014/06/its-here-docker-1-0

709
130
Ever Wished Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? He Just Did

stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did

426
77
I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million

slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/06/i_sold_my_startup_for_25_5_million_here_s_how_i_did_it.html

578
236
Alexander Shulgin has died

erowid.org/culture/characters/shulgin_alexander

590
135
Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi

medium.com/programming-ideas-tutorial-and-experience/433852f4b4d1

475
199
Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden

aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18983493.ab

301
169
Sistine Chapel

vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

608
235
We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft

spacecollege.org/isee3/we-are-now-in-command-of-the-isee-3-spacecraft.html

466
62
A Hacker’s Guide to Git

wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git

372
117
Fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox

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

648
131
Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla

donotlick.com/2014/05/23/try-out-fira-sans-a-free-open-source-typeface-commissioned-by-mozilla

338
134
Don't mess with Newegg

blog.newegg.com/patent-trolls-learn-mess-newegg?cm_mmc=SNC-Facebook-_-SS-_-Blog-_-NA

1469
190
The greatest bug I never fixed (2010)

blog.makandra.com/2010/04/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed

389
61
Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email

806
226
State of MetaFilter

metatalk.metafilter.com/23245/State-of-MetaFilter

400
176
Google is Breaking the Internet

jeremypalmer.com/post/86123982870/google-is-breaking-the-internet

503
297
How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn

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

392
143
AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage

blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage

492
258
Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome

jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-Why-React-is-Awesome

632
219
Tell HN: Call your mom

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728411

555
110
Scammed

medium.com/matter/f4a5d98a4f51?attempt=2

260
112
The future of Unreal Tournament begins today

unrealengine.com/blog/the-future-of-unreal-tournament-begins-today

803
141
The Day I Started Lying to Ruth

nymag.com/news/features/cancer-peter-bach-2014-5

566
141
2048, success and me

gabrielecirulli.com/articles/2048-success-and-me

925
222
Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary

rappers.mdaniels.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

600
267
Programming Is a Dead End Job

thecodist.com/article/programming_is_a_dead_end_job

299
183
Burying the URL

allenpike.com/2014/burying-the-url

553
368
The Absurdity of LinkedIn

blog.42floors.com/absurdity-linkedin

803
336
Follow up to the investigation results

github.com/blog/1826-follow-up-to-the-investigation-results

620
330
No Exit

wired.com/2014/04/no-exit?hn=

445
171
Stripe Open-Source Retreat

stripe.com/blog/stripe-open-source-retreat

572
84
Results of the GitHub Investigation

github.com/blog/1823-results-of-the-github-investigation

739
479
SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docked With The Space Station

forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/04/20/spacex-dragon-successfully-docked-with-the-space-station

445
71
The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]

destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

635
227
Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/04/lens-blur-in-new-google-camera-app.html

644
239
Ask HN: CTO wants me to leave

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7579845

403
274
CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked

twitter.com/indutny/status/454773820822679552

562
142
How we got read access on Google’s production servers

blog.detectify.com/post/82370846588/how-we-got-read-access-on-googles-production-servers

1156
192
Rails 4.1.0 released

weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/4/8/Rails-4-1

417
95
Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain

math.stackexchange.com/questions/733754/visually-stunning-math-concepts-which-are-easy-to-explain

560
78
How I Hacked a Router

disconnected.io/2014/03/18/how-i-hacked-your-router

348
89
0^0

askamathematician.com/2010/12/q-what-does-00-zero-raised-to-the-zeroth-power-equal-why-do-mathematicians-and-high-school-teachers-disagree

506
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NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought: Study

reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/uk-usa-security-nsa-rsa-idUKBREA2U0U620140331

425
97
Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire [video]

cbsnews.com/news/tesla-and-spacex-elon-musks-industrial-empire

363
141
Meet the People Taking over Hacker News

blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news

614
286
Tesla Adds Titanium Underbody Shield and Aluminum Deflector Plates to Model S

teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-adds-titanium-underbody-shield-and-aluminum-deflector-plates-model-s

631
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ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text

ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text

695
280
Facebook acquires Oculus VR

facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=1

1449
837
Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not To Hire Apple Workers

businessinsider.com/emails-eric-schmidt-sergey-brin-hiring-apple-2014-3

581
321
What I Learned Negotiating With Steve Jobs

heidiroizen.tumblr.com/post/80368150370/what-i-learned-negotiating-with-steve-jobs

373
146
Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity

slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/03/20/google_ceo_larry_page_elon_musk_would_get_my_inheritance_over_charity.html

640
430
Welcome to Unreal Engine 4

unrealengine.com/blog/welcome-to-unreal-engine-4

468
163
Gravity waves from Big Bang detected

scientificamerican.com/article/gravity-waves-cmb-b-mode-polarization

892
171
Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit

techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes-sexism-and-intimidation-behind-her-github-exit

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1057
Worse

marco.org/2014/03/15/worse

674
280
2048 AI

ov3y.github.io/2048-AI

1040
189
2048

gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048

2903
410
How not to write an API

ghost.teario.com/how-not-to-write-an-api

407
157
Python Language Features and Tricks

sahandsaba.com/thirty-python-language-features-and-tricks-you-may-not-know.html

404
85
The Face Behind Bitcoin?

mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html

1165
678
What Did Not Happen At Mt. Gox

hackingdistributed.com/2014/03/01/what-did-not-happen-at-mtgox

291
92
"Free-to-play" misleading advertising in Europe

gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-02-27-free-to-play-misleading-advertising-in-europe

410
222
GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

1122
304
The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS

whispersystems.org/blog/the-new-textsecure

478
200
Apple's SSL/TLS bug

imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html

413
281
Neovim

github.com/neovim/neovim

879
362
Project Tango

google.com/atap/projecttango

815
339
Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/facebook-buying-whatsapp-for-16b-in-cash-and-stock-plus-3b-in-rsus

1129
802
The Engineer Crunch

blog.samaltman.com/the-engineer-crunch

452
426
By The Time You Give Them a Raise, They’re Already Out The Door

saastr.quora.com/By-The-Time-You-Give-Them-a-Raise-They%E2%80%99re-Already-Out-The-Door

412
372
A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour

jeffarchibald.ca/60-hour-work-week-badge-honour

468
313
Moon

typesetinthefuture.com/moon

689
90
Girls and Software

linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software

765
414
How I hacked Github again

homakov.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-i-hacked-github-again.html

911
190
Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web

wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-02/06/tim-berners-lee-reclaim-the-web

585
200
Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?

davesblog.com/blog/2014/02/05/verizon-using-recent-net-neutrality-victory-to-wage-war-against-netflix

560
226
US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

benswann.com/media-blacks-out-new-snowden-interview-the-government-doesnt-want-you-to-see

869
229
Mystery signal from a helicopter

windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicopter.html

1101
78
Confessions of an ex-TSA agent

politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/tsa-screener-confession-102912_full.html

819
192
Square thinks I don’t exist

kevinchen.co/blog/square-identity-verification

567
252
Revolution in Kiev

zyalt.livejournal.com/984735.html

496
364
Debunking Princeton

facebook.com/notes/mike-develin/debunking-princeton/10151947421191849

812
145
How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love

wired.com/wiredscience/2014/01/how-to-hack-okcupid

506
183
Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850

inessential.com/2014/01/21/network_solutions_auto-enroll_1_850

917
246
Rosetta: ESA’s ‘sleeping beauty’ wakes up from deep space hibernation

esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/ESA_s_sleeping_beauty_wakes_up_from_deep_space_hibernation

366
109
Success at Work, Failure at Home

scott.a16z.com/2014/01/17/success-at-work-failure-at-home

362
165
Cookie Bomb or Let's Break the Internet

homakov.blogspot.com/2014/01/cookie-bomb-or-lets-break-internet.html

362
75
Building an open source Nest

blog.spark.io/2014/01/17/open-source-thermostat

662
250
Show HN: Kimono – Never write a web scraper again

kimonify.kimonolabs.com/kimload?url=http://www.kimonolabs.com/welcome.html

717
230
Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential

lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-restrictedmedia/2014Jan/0060.html

597
406
India Manages to Free Itself of Polio

online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303848104579312453860810752?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories

380
109
Software in 2014

tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/01/01/Software-in-2014

471
256
Light Table is now open source

chris-granger.com/2014/01/07/light-table-is-open-source

1256
431
The Rise and Rise of Television Torture

interpretthis.org/2014/01/05/the-rise-and-rise-of-television-torture

524
285
NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress

theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/04/nsa-spying-bernie-sanders-members-congress

176
63
Fired? Speak No Evil

nytimes.com/2014/01/03/opinion/fired-speak-no-evil.html

726
355
Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower

nytimes.com/2014/01/02/opinion/edward-snowden-whistle-blower.html

804
157