top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-18

The Engineer Crunch

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

12 years ago

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

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

Game Theory: How 70,000 Pokemon Players Sabotage Themselves

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

12 years ago

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

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

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

Complaint-Driven Development

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

12 years ago

Irrational Games (Bioshock Infinite) is shutting down

http://irrationalgames.com/

12 years ago

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

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

12 years ago

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

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

12 years ago

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

Your Docker image might be broken without you knowing it

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

12 years ago

Why we love Scala at Coursera

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

12 years ago

Video Processing at Dropbox

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

12 years ago

The Erlang Shell

https://medium.com/p/ab8d8bec3972

12 years ago

KitKat will make your SD Card useless

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

12 years ago

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

Cluster-Level Container Deployment with Fleet

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

12 years ago

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

Gabe Newell: Valve, VAC, and trust

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_and_trust/

12 years ago

Automated deployment with Docker – lessons learnt

https://www.hiddentao.com/archives/2013/12/26/automated-deployment-with-docker-lessons-learnt/

12 years ago

Li Ka-Shing teaches you how to buy a car and house in 5 years

http://therealsingapore.com/content/hong-kong-billionaire-li-ka-shing-teaches-you-how-buy-car-house-5-years

12 years ago

Therac-25

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

12 years ago

Java SE 8 Date and Time

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/jf14-date-time-2125367.html

12 years ago

REPL to any browser in the cloud

https://github.com/cloudup/browser-repl/

12 years ago

★ 732 JavaScript

A Simple Pair Programming Setup with SSH and Tmux

http://www.collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2014/02/18/a-simple-pair-programming-setup-with-ssh-and-tmux/

12 years ago

Rails XSS vulnerability in number formatting (CVE-2014-0081)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/tfp6gZCtzr4

12 years ago

Offer HN: Improve and show your skills by working with a NPO/NGO

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7257553

12 years ago

US Navy ready to deploy laser for first time

http://www.apnews.com/ap/db_15897/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=SgFdoPRA

12 years ago

Abacus (YC W14) Wants to Make Expense Reports Obsolete

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/abacus/

12 years ago

Viber Replaces MongoDB with Couchbase

http://www.couchbase.com/presentations/couchbase-tlv-2014-couchbase-at-viber

12 years ago

Show HN: Massren – multi-rename tool using your text editor

https://github.com/laurent22/massren

12 years ago

★ 1.3k Go

A Sochi Olympics API

http://www.kimonolabs.com/sochi/explorer

12 years ago

EU has secret plan for police to 'remote stop' cars

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10605328/EU-has-secret-plan-for-police-to-remote-stop-cars.html

12 years ago

Rails Data Injection Vulnerability in Active Record (CVE-2014-0080)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/Wu96YkTUR6s

12 years ago

Is it time to move away from silicon-based solar?

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/is-it-time-to-move-away-from-silicon-based-solar/

12 years ago

Valve DNS privacy flap exposes the murky world of cheat prevention

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/02/valve-dns-privacy-flap-exposes-the-murky-world-of-cheat-prevention/

12 years ago

Eventjoy (YC W14) Is A One-Stop Shop For Organizing Events

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/yc-backed-eventjoy-is-a-one-stop-shop-for-organizing-events/

12 years ago

Thousands Play a Single-player Game Simultaneously

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26240191

12 years ago

Aggregating NBA data, PostgreSQL vs MongoDB

http://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/02/17-aggregating-nba-data-PostgreSQL-vs-MongoDB

12 years ago

Why I Chose Academia

http://blog.ketyov.com/2013/04/why-i-chose-academia.html

12 years ago