top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-17

Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html

13 years ago

711 upvotes – 227 comments

How to Raise Money

http://paulgraham.com/fr.html

13 years ago

538 upvotes – 116 comments

GitHub announces 3D File Diffs

https://github.com/blog/1633-3d-file-diffs

13 years ago

438 upvotes – 114 comments

Smart Things Jeff Bezos Has Said

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/09/09/the-25-smartest-things-jeff-bezos-has-ever-said.aspx

13 years ago

307 upvotes – 107 comments

OpenZFS launch

http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Announcement

13 years ago

293 upvotes – 163 comments

The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-prison-inmates-treated-like-people

13 years ago

260 upvotes – 214 comments

Starlite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite

13 years ago

244 upvotes – 71 comments

Nodeschool.io

http://nodeschool.io

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 27 comments

iOS 7 before and after screenshots

https://tapfame.com/ios7/

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 159 comments

jor1k: OR1000 Javascript Emulator Running Linux

http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k/

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 69 comments

Diablo 3 to permanently remove its auction houses in March 2014

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/09/diablo-3-to-permanently-remove-its-auction-houses-in-march-2014/

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 142 comments

It's A Terrible Time To Buy An Expensive House

http://patrick.net/housing/crash1.html

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 193 comments

Obama administration urges FCC to require carriers to unlock mobile devices

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/obama-administration-urges-fcc-to-require-carriers-to-unlock-mobile-devices/2013/09/17/17b4917e-1fd4-11e3-b7d1-7153ad47b549_print.html

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 85 comments

The Difference Between Funny and LOL

https://readtapestry.com/s/ww3HtHfmW/

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 54 comments

Cancer vaccine begins Phase I clinical trials

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2013/09/cancer-vaccine-begins-phase-i-clinical-trials

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 40 comments

US Military Scientists Solve a Fundamental Problem of Viral Marketing

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519361/us-military-scientists-solve-the-fundamental-problem-of-viral-marketing/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 66 comments

CDC Threat Report: ‘We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era’

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/cdc-amr-rpt1/

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 109 comments

If It's Important, Don't Hack It

http://insideintercom.io/if-its-important-dont-hack-it/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 34 comments

Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet

http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Brazil-looks-to-break-from-US-centric-Internet-4819946.php

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 97 comments

Daniel Dennett: The Normal Well-Tempered Mind

http://edge.org/conversation/normal-well-tempered-mind

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 115 comments

Structure Sensor: Capture the World in 3D

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/occipital/structure-sensor-capture-the-world-in-3d

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 49 comments

Distributed systems for fun and profit

http://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 14 comments

Big Programming, Small Programming – Glow, the language

http://fendrich.se/blog/2013/09/03/big-programming/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 62 comments

Apiary: Beautiful API docs, raises seed round, adds premium features

http://blog.apiary.io/2013/09/17/Apiary-Is-Growing/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 34 comments

Why I Play Video Games

http://jackmcdade.com/blog/why-i-play-video-games

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 65 comments

Tesla Motors hiring talent for developing self-driving cars

http://www.efinancehub.com/tesla-motors-inc-nasdaqtsla-seeking-to-hire-an-adas-controls-engineer-to-develop-autonomous-driving-technologies/122963.html

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 83 comments

How a law to fight the Mafia could stop patent trolls

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/17/heres-how-a-law-designed-to-fight-the-mafia-could-stop-abusive-patent-lawsuits/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

The Five Year Itch

http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-five-year-itch

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 65 comments

DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery

http://www.datatables.net

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Lekh Diagram for Android – A sketch recognition diagramming app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avabodh.lekh

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

Meet Hidden Lynx: The most elite hacker crew you’ve never heard of

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/meet-hidden-lynx-the-most-elite-hacker-crew-youve-never-heard-of/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 25 comments

iOS App Store now allows legacy downloads to support older OSes

http://9to5mac.com/2013/09/17/ios-app-store-now-allows-legacy-app-downloads-to-support-older-hardware-and-software/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 80 comments

Costa Concordia: Stricken ship set upright in Italy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24121480

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

The Limitations of Intelligence

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_limitations.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Why monads have not taken the Common Lisp world by storm (2008)

http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/common-lisp-monads.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 48 comments

OVH Forum – Turnover on dedicated servers

http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showpost.php?p=54520&postcount=1

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 69 comments

Bjarne Stroustrup – The Essence of C++ [video]

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Opening-Keynote-Bjarne-Stroustrup

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 83 comments

Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of Sonar

https://medium.com/p/72c6f8bec7df

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 5 comments

What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know

https://www.schneier.com/essay-429.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 26 comments

Instacart Expands To Chicago

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/17/growing-10-weekly-grocery-delivery-service-instacart-expands-to-chicago/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 32 comments

Facebook’s Cassandra paper, annotated and compared to Apache Cassandra 2.0

http://www.datastax.com/documentation/articles/cassandra/cassandrathenandnow.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

Sudoku as a Service with Julia

http://iaindunning.com/2013/sudoku-as-a-service.html

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Let the Poor Have Fun

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/opinion/let-the-poor-have-fun.html

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

The Best Programmer in the World is the One Having the Most Fun

http://hackerhmb.tumblr.com/post/61477929414/thebestprogrammerintheworld

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Reimbursement of Exit Operators

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-September/002824.html

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 44 comments

Goldbely (YC W13) Raises $3M Led By Intel Capital

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/17/goldbely-funding-video-demo/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments

He took on a patent troll and won

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/took+patent+troll/8921261/story.html

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

Where'd The Water Go? Google Maps Water Pixel Detection With Canvas

http://tech.bellycard.com/blog/where-d-the-water-go-google-maps-water-pixel-detection-with-canvas/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments
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