top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-15

“People simply empty out”

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/people-simply-empty-out.html

13 years ago

723 upvotes – 463 comments

Callbacks as our Generation's Goto Statement

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Aug-15.html

13 years ago

621 upvotes – 274 comments

Introducing Stripe UK

https://stripe.com/blog/introducing-stripe-uk

13 years ago

371 upvotes – 164 comments

Campaign for a new HTTP Error code: 451 - Blocked for legal reasons

http://www.451unavailable.org/

13 years ago

362 upvotes – 88 comments

The limits of Google’s openness

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/08/15/the-limits-of-google-s-openness.aspx

13 years ago

302 upvotes – 293 comments

Show HN: Virtual Machines in the Browser

http://blog.grunseid.com/2013/arc.html

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 148 comments

The NSA is Commandeering the Internet

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/the_nsa_is_comm.html

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 126 comments

Firebase Leaves Beta Today

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-08-15-firebase-leaves-beta-today.html

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 44 comments

Google confirms Java and OpenSSL crypto PRNG on Android are broken

http://android-developers.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/some-securerandom-thoughts.html

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 149 comments

The anatomy of the perfect technical interview from a former Amazon VP

http://firstround.com/article/The-anatomy-of-the-perfect-technical-interview-from-a-former-Amazon-VP

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 113 comments

Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23709009

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 71 comments

Introducing choir.io

http://corte.si/posts/choir/intro/choir.html

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 40 comments

Smalltalk runtime in the browser

http://amber-lang.net/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 33 comments

Programmer's Dilemma

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/231d7499a75

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 106 comments

Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw used in Bitcoin heist

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/google-confirms-critical-android-crypto-flaw-used-in-5700-bitcoin-heist/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 43 comments

RethinkDB 1.8: date support, querying nested objects, 8x disk usage improvements

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/1.8-release/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 50 comments

Why does this Java program terminate despite appearing that it shouldn't?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16159203/why-does-this-java-program-terminate-despite-that-appears-that-it-shouldt-and

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 121 comments

Destructuring Assignment in ECMAScript 6

http://fitzgeraldnick.com/weblog/50/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 56 comments

The Story of Japan's 'Lost Decades' was a Hoax

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2013/08/11/now-for-the-truth-the-story-of-japans-lost-decades-is-the-worlds-most-absurd-media-myth/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 92 comments

Hackers backdoor the human brain, successfully extract sensitive data

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134682-hackers-backdoor-the-human-brain-successfully-extract-sensitive-data

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 68 comments

UK courts have not been forthcoming with access to website blocking orders

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/org-asks-court-for-web-blocking-documents

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

It's the real thing

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/07/its-real-thing.html?m=1

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 78 comments

Why I should have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)

http://250bpm.com/blog:4

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 119 comments

GitHub realtime activity as soundscape

https://choir.io/player/f9c750f2bedb0c0f

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

The unbundling of Craigslist and Reddit

http://alexshye.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/the-unbundling-of-craigslist-and-reddit/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 63 comments

Datomic in the browser

http://ragnard.github.io/2013/08/12/datomic-in-the-browser.html

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 12 comments

QEMU 1.6.0 is now available

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/228260

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

word2vec – Tool for computing continuous distributed representations of words

https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/indie-web/?mbid=social10797854

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 36 comments

Breakthrough: Scientists have built a fully-functional mouse heart

http://io9.com/researchers-have-re-built-a-beating-mouse-heart-from-hu-1134672119

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 11 comments

GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack

https://status.github.com/?date=8-15-2013

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 102 comments

Beating the CAP Theorem Checklist

http://ferd.ca/beating-the-cap-theorem-checklist.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

The Kickstarter Culture Wars

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2149613-1,00.html

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 57 comments

New Form of Carbon is Stronger Than Graphene and Diamond

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/518301/new-form-of-carbon-is-stronger-than-graphene-and-diamond/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 49 comments

Sheryl Sandberg earns $100M, but won't pay interns

http://www.news.com.au/money/money-matters/sheryl-sandberg-earns-100m-but-won8217t-pay-interns/story-e6frfmd9-1226697612115

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 79 comments

Crowdery (YC S13) Provides A/B Testing for a Brand’s Physical Products

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/15/crowdery-provides-ab-testing-for-a-brands-physical-products/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 6 comments

ZFS Forensics – Recovering Files From a Destroyed Zpool

http://www.joyent.com/blog/zfs-forensics-recovering-files-from-a-destroyed-zpool

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

Phantom Types in Rust

http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/08/15/phantom_types_in_rust.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

Be a sociopath—or just act like one

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/08/self-help

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 82 comments

Ink (YC S12) Releases New iOS Layer That Allows Apps to Interact, Share Data

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/15/inks-new-mobile-framework-lets-ios-apps-talk-to-each-other-share-data-you-know-like-on-android/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

Site Search Should Be Sexy: How Swiftype Raised $1.7M

http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2013/08/15/site-search-should-be-sexy-how-swiftype-raised-1-7-in-seed-funding-from-sv-bigwigs/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

Machine Learning Notes - Linear Regression

http://vilkeliskis.com/blog/2013/08/14/machine_learning_part_1_linear_regression.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Peter Shih Complains About the Shithole City He's Forced to Make His Millions In

http://uptownalmanac.com/2013/08/tech-founder-complains-about-shithole-city-hes-forced-make-his-millions

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 31 comments

You can now perform all basic actions in Bitcoin through SMS

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/58354652059/you-can-now-perform-all-basic-actions-in-bitcoin

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 27 comments

Curated list for bootstrapping developers

http://adamghill.com/2013/08/15/curated-list-of-software-bootstrapping-resources/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

Two Ways to Get to a $100 Million Valuation

http://www.betakit.com/super-angel-boris-wertz-says-theres-only-two-ways-to-get-to-a-100-million-valuation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=super-angel-boris-wertz-says-theres-only-two-ways-to-get-to-a-100-million-valuation

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

iPad Text Editor with Python Embedded for Automation

http://editorial-app.com/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Create unlimited one-off Invoices (Built with AngularJS)

http://metaware.github.io/angular-invoicing/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Some Startups Say the Cloud Is a Waste of Money

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/memsql-and-amazon/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 57 comments

Things You Didn’t Know About Synchronization in Java and Scala

http://www.takipiblog.com/2013/08/15/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-synchronization-in-java-and-scala/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 23 comments

Bletchley – A Collection of Practical Cryptanalysis Tools

https://code.google.com/p/bletchley/

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments

Why Aren't More Designers Starting Companies?

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/08/why-arent-more-startups-founded-by-designers/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 48 comments
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