top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-01

9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands, shaded according to year of construction

http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/buildings/?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer47b76&utm_medium=twitter#50.8485,5.7066,15

13 years ago

429 upvotes – 73 comments

The Worst Programming Environment in the World?

https://github.com/jloughry/BANCStar/blob/master/README.md

13 years ago

★ 171 C++ MIT
421 upvotes – 177 comments

Ember.js 1.0 Released

http://emberjs.com/blog/2013/08/31/ember-1-0-released.html

13 years ago

311 upvotes – 100 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310234

13 years ago

304 upvotes – 374 comments

How to Choose Colours Procedurally

http://devmag.org.za/2012/07/29/how-to-choose-colours-procedurally-algorithms/

13 years ago

294 upvotes – 30 comments

We Need a Basic Income Guarantee

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/america_is_awash_in_money_yet_poverty_grows_we_need_a_basic_income

13 years ago

268 upvotes – 530 comments

Brilliant or insane code?

http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 107 comments

Man accused of teaching people to beat lie detector tests faces prison

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/indiana-man-accused-of-teaching-people-to-beat-lie-detector-tests-faces-prison-time/2013/08/31/a7cbe74a-08ea-11e3-9941-6711ed662e71_story.html

13 years ago

236 upvotes – 152 comments

Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/08/29/why-a-medieval-peasant-got-more-vacation-time-than-you/

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 125 comments

What did the tech CEO say to the worker he wanted to automate?

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/what-did-tech-ceo-say-worker-he-wanted-automate#.Uh6EtAC_2Bw.facebook

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 222 comments

Welcome to the United States: Discriminated, detained, searched, interrogated

http://www.zdnet.com/discriminated-detained-searched-interrogated-at-the-united-states-border-7000020045/

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 104 comments

C gibberish to English

http://cdecl.org/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Help programmers from Syria get jobs elsewhere

http://hireprogrammersleavingsyria.org

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 58 comments

It’s a Myth That Entrepreneurs Drive New Technology

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/09/entrepreneurs_or_the_state_innovation_comes_from_public_investment.html

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 141 comments

Linus: bool is dangerous in C if you don't understand it

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/31/138

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 117 comments

MOV is Turing Complete [pdf]

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 15 comments

More Connected, Yet More Alone

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/disruptions-more-connected-yet-more-alone/?ref=business&_r=0

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 83 comments

Vietnam Internet restrictions come into effect

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23920541

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 46 comments

Automating Microsoft Office with Python

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/sanand0/ipython-notebooks/master/Office.ipynb

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 29 comments

Unity Game Engine to Get Official 2D Game Support and a Built-In Ad Solution

http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/08/28/unity-game-engine-to-get-official-2d-game-support-and-a-built-in-ad-service/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 42 comments

Why we dropped our free plan

https://medium.com/p/bfab146c47c8

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 45 comments

The Rest of the Lenna Story

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 51 comments

Kevin Spacey on the potential of Netflix to disrupt traditional TV [video]

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/everyone-in-the-tech-and-tv-industries-is-passing-around-this-speech-by-kevin-spacey-2013-8

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 63 comments

Practical AngularJS Examples

http://tutorialzine.com/2013/08/learn-angularjs-5-examples/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310240

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 131 comments

C preprocessor internals

http://monoinfinito.wordpress.com/series/c-preprocessor-internals/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 4 comments

The State of eGovernment in Germany

http://distributed.hamann.se/blog/2013/08/31/the-horrifying-state-of-egovernment-in-germany/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 56 comments

Quickly go back to a directory instead of typing cd ../../..

https://github.com/vigneshwaranr/bd

13 years ago

★ 928 Shell MIT
85 upvotes – 49 comments

Platonic Solids - Why Five?

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/platonic-solids-why-five.html

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

We may get fired and I don't know what to do

http://pastebin.com/L69iMWGn

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 114 comments

Patent trolls put brakes on S.F. transit app

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/dotcommentary/article/Patent-trolls-put-brakes-on-S-F-transit-app-4778304.php

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 57 comments

I am a MUMPS programmer – Ask me anything

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6312391

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 68 comments

These young SF professionals choose to live in RVs

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/These-young-SF-professionals-choose-to-live-in-RVs-4778625.php

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 70 comments
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