| 1. | | Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi (hotelwifitest.com) |
| 671 points by gozmike on July 24, 2014 | 237 comments |
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| 2. | | Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M (wsj.com) |
| 590 points by moritzplassnig on July 24, 2014 | 162 comments |
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| 3. | | Math Intuition Cheatsheet (betterexplained.com) |
| 478 points by jgrodziski on July 24, 2014 | 64 comments |
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| 4. | | Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007) (dheera.net) |
| 265 points by Schiphol on July 24, 2014 | 124 comments |
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| 5. | | A Conference Stole My Identity (futurestack.com) |
| 237 points by jballanc on July 24, 2014 | 142 comments |
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| 6. | | Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed (venturebeat.com) |
| 237 points by owenwil on July 24, 2014 | 96 comments |
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| 7. | | Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012 (nasa.gov) |
| 234 points by jamessun on July 24, 2014 | 157 comments |
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| 8. | | Show HN: Streisand – Silence censorship, automate the effect (github.com/jlund) |
| 234 points by jlund on July 24, 2014 | 52 comments |
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| 9. | | Gog.com Now Supports Linux (gog.com) |
| 225 points by oal on July 24, 2014 | 58 comments |
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| 10. | | Trello, Inc (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 197 points by kissgyorgy on July 24, 2014 | 25 comments |
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| 11. | | Washington, Minnesota officially endorse a “safer, faster” traffic merge (arstechnica.com) |
| 179 points by smacktoward on July 24, 2014 | 200 comments |
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| 12. | | Ray, the self-driving forklift that is parking cars at a German airport (washingtonpost.com) |
| 179 points by digisth on July 24, 2014 | 75 comments |
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| 13. | | CSS One-Liners (alistapart.com) |
| 162 points by Brajeshwar on July 24, 2014 | 54 comments |
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| 14. | | How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe (fogonazos.es) |
| 157 points by lelf on July 24, 2014 | 49 comments |
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| 15. | | The new Cloud9 development environment (c9.io) |
| 190 points by ivarpruijn on July 24, 2014 | 73 comments |
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| 16. | | A Face Recognition Algorithm That Finally Outperforms Humans (medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog) |
| 147 points by Mz on July 24, 2014 | 31 comments |
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| 17. | | ISPs are spending less on their networks as they make more money off them (washingtonpost.com) |
| 156 points by markmassie on July 24, 2014 | 71 comments |
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| 18. | | Master Emacs in one year (github.com/redguardtoo) |
| 145 points by dgellow on July 24, 2014 | 116 comments |
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| 19. | | HN Hiring mapped (gaganpreet.github.io) |
| 132 points by rullopat on July 24, 2014 | 26 comments |
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| 20. | | “You're not allowed science any more” (nature.com) |
| 127 points by thisjepisje on July 24, 2014 | 158 comments |
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| 21. | | Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA (aljazeera.com) |
| 127 points by chmars on July 24, 2014 | 32 comments |
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| 22. | | Open sourcing our email signature parsing library (mailgun.com) |
| 130 points by orliesaurus on July 24, 2014 | 20 comments |
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| 23. | | European Court Says CIA Ran Secret Jail in a Polish Forest (nytimes.com) |
| 124 points by reirob on July 24, 2014 | 48 comments |
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| 24. | | India’s Answer to Google Glass: The Smartshoe (wsj.com) |
| 138 points by skbohra123 on July 24, 2014 | 64 comments |
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| 25. | | A Closer Look at Transit (swannodette.github.io) |
| 122 points by _halgari on July 24, 2014 | 36 comments |
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| 26. | | Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist? |
| 107 points by mdunn on July 24, 2014 | 134 comments |
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| 28. | | Our Startup Would Probably Die If We Were In San Francisco (needwant.com) |
| 103 points by marshallhaas on July 24, 2014 | 69 comments |
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| 29. | | Notorious Airbnb squatter may be the dev behind two flailing Kickstarter games (polygon.com) |
| 95 points by smacktoward on July 24, 2014 | 90 comments |
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| 30. | | Joel Spolsky's business operating system (pixelmonkey.org) |
| 93 points by pixelmonkey on July 24, 2014 | 17 comments |
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The thing that really stuck with me is the 'technically true' aspects. Growing up in various places around the world I encountered a number of people for whom their motto was 'its only illegal if you get caught!' The advantages of this motto were very apparent as a teen, you could run a stop light at 11:30pm, there was hardly anyone around, and you could be home by curfew. You could use your parents car if it was back where they expected it to be when they next needed it. Sort of the ultimate Ferris Bueller.
And then I had as an influence my Grandfather, who was a US Attorney, and who valued his integrity over his own life. I think of him as sort of the other end of this spectrum.
I asked him about his unwillingness to do what others have done (at the time it was drive faster than the speed limit on an empty road) and he said, "Charles, the world is full of pain and anguish, when a man lives by a code he can walk among that pain and anguish and help right its wrongs without being burdened by having contributed to it." (well that is how I remembered it, there was probably a story about hunting in there too) and I didn't really understand it until much later.