top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-09-15

Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/GatesNotesV2/Personal/Books-I-Read-This-Summer

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 96 comments

Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database

http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html

14 years ago

258 upvotes – 55 comments

Facebook explains what's wrong with the mobile web

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-coremob/2012Sep/0021.html

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 109 comments

The Pirate Bay - 9 years and still bloody runnin

https://thepiratebay.se/blog/222

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 139 comments

U.S. Taxpayers Are Gouged on Mass Transit Costs

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-26/u-s-taxpayers-are-gouged-on-mass-transit-costs.html

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 216 comments

Fast Inverse Square Root

http://blog.quenta.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 29 comments

The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6292/iphone-5-a6-not-a15-custom-core

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 94 comments

Bollywood vs. Bin Laden

http://reason.com/archives/2011/02/08/bollywood-vs-bin-laden

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 59 comments

The Minimum Viable Rails Stack, Now Reddit Frontpage Approved

http://goodfil.ms/blog/posts/2012/09/15/minimum-viable-rails-stack/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 41 comments

Little-Known Awesome Algorithms: Fenwick Range Trees

http://www.swageroo.com/wordpress/little-known-awesome-algorithms-fenwick-range-trees-rapidly-find-cumulative-frequency-sums/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 14 comments

Programmers Must Take Vitamin D

http://e2open.org/programmers-need-to-take-vitamin-d/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 113 comments

The power of ignoring mainstream news

http://joel.is/post/31582795753/the-power-of-ignoring-mainstream-news

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 105 comments

The Data Journalism Handbook

http://datajournalismhandbook.org/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

Apple builds massive 20 Megawatt solar farm in North Carolina

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/behold-apples-massive-solar-farm-from-the-sky-photos/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 53 comments

Intro to Genetic Algorithms in Javascript Part 2

http://burakkanber.com/blog/machine-learning-genetic-algorithms-in-javascript-part-2/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 11 comments

Google offers tool to bridge Android and iOS app dev

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/15/google_j2objc_tool/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: Can I visit your tech business in NY City?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4526159

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

Prime Number Visualization Simulation Spiral

http://www.numbersimulation.com/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

White Paper: Haskell vs. F# vs. Scala [pdf]

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gph/papers/pdf/fhpc12.pdf

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

See your site like the rest of the world does. On the Nokia X2-01

http://generatedcontent.org/post/31441135779/mobileweb-row

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments
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