top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-02-15

A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour

http://jeffarchibald.ca/60-hour-work-week-badge-honour/

12 years ago

468 upvotes – 313 comments

The French way of cancer treatment

http://blogs.reuters.com/anya-schiffrin/2014/02/12/the-french-way-of-cancer-treatment/

12 years ago

285 upvotes – 196 comments

Hacking Flappy Bird with Machine Learning

http://sarvagyavaish.github.io/FlappyBirdRL/

12 years ago

243 upvotes – 51 comments

What did Persona get right? Why did Persona fail to gain wide adoption?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_AAR

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 146 comments

Important Kickstarter Security Notice

https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/important-kickstarter-security-notice

12 years ago

210 upvotes – 196 comments

Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format

https://github.com/bup/bup

12 years ago

★ 7.3k Python
186 upvotes – 61 comments

Why I Dropped Out Of YC

http://wikichen.is/writing/why-i-dropped-out-of-yc/

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 146 comments

Lack of exercise kills roughly as many as smoking, study says

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/07/lack-of-exercise-kills-roughly-as-many-as-smoking-study-says.html

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 147 comments

Disney Accelerator

http://www.disneyaccelerator.com

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 50 comments

Why Loneliness Matters in the Social Age

http://wikichen.is/writing/forever-alone/

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 57 comments

Was Y Combinator Worth It?

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/15/was-y-combinator-worth-it/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 55 comments

The Brief, Wondrous Life of Zina Lahr

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/media/The-Brief-Wondrous-Life-of-Zina-Lahr.html?

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 10 comments

PostgreSQL 9.4 – What I was hoping for

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2014/02/15/PostgreSQL-9.4-What-I-Wanted/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 40 comments

95% of climate models agree: the observations must be wrong

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/02/95-of-climate-models-agree-the-observations-must-be-wrong/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: Sublimall, SublimeText synchronized

http://sublimall.org/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 58 comments

Git 1.9 Release Notes

https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

Is the Universe a Simulation?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/opinion/sunday/is-the-universe-a-simulation.html?action=click&contentCollection=Media&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 136 comments

Ding.io

https://ding.io

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 66 comments

The New Normal: 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gbps-ddos-attacks/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 48 comments

The world's smallest and fastest classical JavaScript inheritance pattern

https://github.com/javascript/augment

12 years ago

★ 860 JavaScript MIT
91 upvotes – 54 comments
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