top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-04

Android is for startups

http://blog.audobox.com/android-is-for-startups/

13 years ago

514 upvotes – 299 comments

How not to check the validity of an email address

http://www.dellsystem.me/posts/dont-do-drugs-kids/

13 years ago

437 upvotes – 235 comments

School is a prison and damaging our kids

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/26/school_is_a_prison_and_damaging_our_kids/

13 years ago

391 upvotes – 380 comments

Warning: Google Authenticator upgrade loses all accounts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6325760

13 years ago

344 upvotes – 168 comments

AngularJS Tutorial: Learn to Build Modern Web Apps

http://www.thinkster.io/pick/GUIDJbpIie/angularjs-tutorial-learn-to-build-modern-web-apps

13 years ago

326 upvotes – 91 comments

KitKat's new website

http://kitkat.com

13 years ago

300 upvotes – 150 comments

Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars

http://news.yahoo.com/glare-london-skyscraper-melted-jaguar-133036022.html

13 years ago

268 upvotes – 205 comments

The New AWS Command-Line Interface

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/09/new-aws-command-line-interface-cli.html

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 66 comments

N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section

http://news.rapgenius.com/Atodd-when-harvard-met-sally-n-gram-analysis-of-the-new-york-times-weddings-section-lyrics

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 64 comments

Learn X in Y minutes where X = Go

http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/go/

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 88 comments

How The Art of Computer Programming was ruined for me

http://anuragramdasan.com/weblog/on-how-TAOCP-was-ruined-for-me/

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 113 comments

Yahoo showed us 30 days of logos. Here’s the one consumers liked best

http://survata.com/blog/yahoo-showed-us-30-days-of-logos/

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 98 comments

Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 154 comments

My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

http://texpaste.herokuapp.com

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 65 comments

HDMI 2.0 officially announced

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/04/hdmi-2-0-official-4k-60fps-32-channel-audio/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 133 comments

"Forensics for Prosecutors" mentions backdoor in TrueCrypt (page 15) [pdf]

http://cryptome.org/2013/09/computer-forensics-2013.pdf

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 57 comments

From Mr Average to Superman: Craig Davidson's account of using steroids (2008)

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/may/18/healthandwellbeing.features1

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 101 comments

We Post Nothing About Our Daughter Online

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/data_mine_1/2013/09/facebook_privacy_and_kids_don_t_post_photos_of_your_kids_online.html

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 141 comments

Why Cassandra Doesn't Need Vector Clocks

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/why-cassandra-doesnt-need-vector-clocks

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 68 comments

OpenStack adds new hypervisor to support Docker containers

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/32960/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 11 comments

Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/09/amazon-elasticache-now-with-a-dash-of-redis.html

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 40 comments

Didn't Get Enough Sleep? You Might As Well Be Drunk

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/09/04/didnt-get-enough-sleep-you-might-as-well-be-drunk/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 67 comments

How to spot a fake Canon flash

http://petapixel.com/2013/09/03/spot-fake-canon-flash-learned-hard-way/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 65 comments

Cap'n Proto v0.3: Python support, better tools, other improvements

http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/news/2013-09-04-capnproto-0.3-python-tools-features.html

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 22 comments

Sleep 'boosts brain cell numbers'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23932577

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

Oddities in x86 Assembly

https://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/x86oddities

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 7 comments

London to Brighton train ride, 1953-2013 [video]

http://flowingdata.com/2013/09/04/london-to-brighton-train-ride-1953-2013/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 52 comments

Getting drunk in North Korea

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/getting-drunk-in-north-korea/279310/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

iOS7 is not about flat

https://medium.com/p/2aa9dba0d202

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 125 comments

NFL Players Union Partners with Uber To Prevent Players Driving Drunk

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/sports/football/for-nfl-players-an-app-to-combat-impaired-driving.html?ref=sports&_r=4&

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 76 comments

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (2011)

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

Comparison of 4 different NTP stratum 1 clocks

http://www.febo.com/time-freq/ntp/stats/index.html

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

Update – We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases

http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/update-no-upgrade-pricing-for-mac-app-store-purchases

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 68 comments

MyOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6329158

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

Samsung unveils Galaxy Gear smartwatch with built-in camera, 70 apps

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/04/samsung-unveils-galaxy-gear/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: st – simple statistics from the command line

https://github.com/nferraz/st

13 years ago

★ 935 Perl MIT
73 upvotes – 25 comments

Intel processor microcode security update

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/09/msg00126.html

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Users Get Routed: Traffic Correlation on Tor by Realistic Adversaries [pdf]

http://www.ohmygodel.com/publications/usersrouted-ccs13.pdf

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

An inside look at Google’s data-driven job interview process

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/an-inside-look-at-googles-data-driven-job-interview-process/2013/09/03/648ea8b2-14bd-11e3-880b-7503237cc69d_story.html?wprss=rss_social-postbusinessonly&Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 74 comments

Life of an HTTP Request

https://shellycloud.com/blog/2013/09/life-of-an-http-request

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

Potential major security flaw on HP laptop?

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/potential-major-security-flaw-hp-laptop-discovered-rtl-sdr/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Kim Dotcom resigns as Mega director

http://www.couriermail.com.au/business/breaking-news/kim-dotcom-resigns-as-mega-director/story-fnihsevj-1226710712019

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 37 comments

ExoBrowser: The Experimentation Platform to Build a Next generation Web Browser

https://github.com/spolu/breach/wiki/The-Experimentation-Platform-to-Build-a-Next-generation-Web-Browser

13 years ago

★ 5.3k JavaScript MIT
62 upvotes – 56 comments

New open source tech Marathon wants to make your data center run like Google’s

http://gigaom.com/2013/09/04/new-open-source-tech-marathon-wants-to-make-your-data-center-run-like-googles/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 22 comments

Does pressing the pedestrian crossing button actually do anything?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23869955

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 66 comments

Go style Channels for Lua

https://github.com/majek/lua-channels

13 years ago

★ 141 Lua
58 upvotes – 16 comments

Why you should join a big company first

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/kids-startup-hype/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 82 comments

What Second Life got right, and no one else has since

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=625&doc_id=267244

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 42 comments

Reading Other People's Code (2012)

http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/32154944661/reading-other-peoples-code?utm=hackernews

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

Ministry of Sound sues Spotify for copyright infringement

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/04/ministry-of-sound-sues-spotify

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 52 comments

Polycraft - A WebGL 3D tower defence game

http://ga.me/polycraft

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

Jetcd: Java client library for etcd

http://blog.justinsb.com/blog/2013/09/04/jetcd-etcd-java-binding/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

Gnome Developers Re-Implement Middle-Click Paste

http://news.softpedia.com/news/GNOME-Developers-Re-Implement-Middle-Click-Paste-380352.shtml

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 39 comments
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