top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-02-18

The Engineer Crunch

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-engineer-crunch

12 years ago

452 upvotes – 426 comments

I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/i-crashed-a-wall-street-secret-society.html

12 years ago

323 upvotes – 103 comments

Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide

http://ledracapital.com/blog/2014/2/17/bitcoin-series-19-bizarre-shadowy-paper-based-payment-system-being-rolled-out-worldwide

12 years ago

293 upvotes – 315 comments

Game Theory: How 70,000 Pokemon Players Sabotage Themselves

http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/glory-to-the-helix/

12 years ago

289 upvotes – 69 comments

Snowden Documents Reveal Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters/

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 81 comments

Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with stack overflows?

http://embeddedgurus.com/state-space/2014/02/are-we-shooting-ourselves-in-the-foot-with-stack-overflow/

12 years ago

267 upvotes – 140 comments

There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-whales-alive-today-who-were-born-before-moby-dick-was-written-660944/

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 103 comments

Complaint-Driven Development

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2014/02/complaint-driven-development.html

12 years ago

243 upvotes – 70 comments

Irrational Games (Bioshock Infinite) is shutting down

http://irrationalgames.com/

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 139 comments

A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should really work

http://matthaeuskrenn.com/new-car-ui/

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 159 comments

Show HN: An easy-to-use Text Analysis API – NLP and Machine Learning

http://aylien.com/text-api-demo

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 69 comments

How The Guardian successfully moved its domain to theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2014/feb/18/how-the-guardian-successfully-moved-domain

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 53 comments

Your Docker image might be broken without you knowing it

http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 90 comments

Why we love Scala at Coursera

http://tech.coursera.org/blog/2014/02/18/why-we-love-scala-at-coursera/

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 180 comments

Video Processing at Dropbox

https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/02/video-processing-at-dropbox/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 28 comments

The Erlang Shell

https://medium.com/p/ab8d8bec3972

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 60 comments

KitKat will make your SD Card useless

https://plus.google.com/+TodLiebeck/posts/gjnmuaDM8sn

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 127 comments

Darwin's Children Drew All Over the “On The Origin of Species” Manuscript

http://theappendix.net/blog/2014/2/darwins-children-drew-vegetable-battles-on-the-origin-of-species

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 43 comments

Cluster-Level Container Deployment with Fleet

http://coreos.com/blog/cluster-level-container-orchestration/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 16 comments

At least 9 reported dead, more than 100 injured near Ukraine's parliament

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/renewed-violence-breaks-out-today-near-ukraines-parliament-at-least-one-injured-336993.html

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 43 comments
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