top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-09

A Server Naming Scheme

http://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/

12 years ago

Show HN: Sysadmin Casts – simple bite-sized sysadmin screencasts

http://sysadmincasts.com

12 years ago

Retirement of Prof. Andy Tanenbaum

http://www.cs.vu.nl/tanenbaum/

12 years ago

Anti-Patterns in Python Programming

http://lignos.org/py_antipatterns/

12 years ago

The power of lonely: What we do better without other people around

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/03/06/the_power_of_lonely/?page=full

12 years ago

Tor Project Sued

https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/233081133?access_key=key-WFujAqEI3BioFxNO43R3

12 years ago

Alcatel-Lucent sets record of 10 Gbps over traditional copper telephone lines

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/press/2014/alcatel-lucent-sets-new-world-record-broadband-speed-10-gbps-transmission-data-over-traditional

12 years ago

Retraction of 60 articles implicated in a peer review and citation ring

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/press/2014/jul/7.htm

12 years ago

Cinnamon can reverse changes in the brains of mice with Parkinsons

http://www.rush.edu/webapps/MEDREL/servlet/NewsRelease?id=1768

12 years ago

In ‘sexting’ case, police want to photograph teen in sexually explicit manner

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/07/09/in-sexting-case-manassas-city-police-want-to-photograph-teen-in-sexually-explicit-manner-lawyers-say/

12 years ago

An Experimental New Type Inference Scheme for Rust

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/07/09/an-experimental-new-type-inference-scheme-for-rust/

12 years ago

Double Pendulum in fewer than 100 lines of JavaScript

http://www.physicsandbox.com/projects/double-pendulum.html

12 years ago

Show HN: MechanicalSoup, Python library for automating interaction with websites

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8012103

12 years ago

Looks by Dr. Dre

http://www.subtraction.com/2014/07/09/looks-by-dr-dre/

12 years ago

PostgreSQL Performance on Docker

http://www.davidmkerr.com/2014/06/postgresql-performance-on-docker.html

12 years ago

Google Drive Found Leaking Private Data

http://collaboristablog.com/2014/07/google-drive-found-leaking-private-data-warning-shared-links/

12 years ago

The Android Screen Fragmentation Myth

http://rustyshelf.org/2014/07/08/the-android-screen-fragmentation-myth

12 years ago

GameCentral talks to the creator of Oddworld, gains insight into games industry

http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/08/oddworld-new-n-tasty-preview-and-lorne-lanning-interview-weve-become-triple-a-indie-4790351/

12 years ago

Snabb Switch – A toolkit for solving novel problems in networking

https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/wiki

12 years ago

★ 3k Lua Apache-2.0

Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”

http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2014/07/08/google-co-founders-thanks-but-no-thanks/

12 years ago

The Most Shocking Result in World Cup History

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-most-shocking-result-in-world-cup-history/

12 years ago

Cylinders in Spheres

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/july22014/index.html

12 years ago

Show HN: Hyperledger – Open Payments Protocol

http://hyperledger.com/

12 years ago

Company with zero revenue and one employee currently worth 3.8B

https://www.google.com/finance?q=OTCMKTS%3ACYNK&ei=VvW6U4ihAoShiQK2mYC4Cg

12 years ago

Book review: Bad Pharma

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2014/07/08/book-review-bad-pharma/

12 years ago

The Pentagon's $399 Billion Plane to Nowhere

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/07/08/pentagons_399_billion_plane_nowhere?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email

12 years ago

Military uniforms – Expense and stupidity too big to camouflage

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21600700-expense-and-stupidity-too-big-camouflage-out-sight

12 years ago

Watch London in real time: tweets, tubes, etc.

http://wearedata.watchdogs.com

12 years ago

The Video Game That Maps the Galaxy

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/07/the-video-game-that-maps-the-galaxy.html

12 years ago

The Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago

http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/the-oldest-song-in-the-world.html

12 years ago

Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/09/under-surveillance/

12 years ago

Launching Mathematica 10

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2014/07/launching-mathematica-10-with-700-new-functions-and-a-crazy-amount-of-rd/

12 years ago

This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/07/08/this-is-what-happened-when-i-drove-my-mercedes-to-pick-up-food-stamps

12 years ago

Abnormal Brain Structure In Youth Who Commit Homicide

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24936430

12 years ago

A typical day on the ward

http://listrunner.tumblr.com/post/91225625025/youll-cringe-when-you-read-this-but-this-a-typical

12 years ago

Is that whole gamification thing really over?

http://www.information-age.com/industry/software/123458201/whole-gamification-thing-really-over

12 years ago

Why is Docker the new craze in virtualization and cloud computing?

https://opensource.com/business/14/7/why-docker-new-craze-virtualization-and-cloud-computing

12 years ago

Braintree V.Zero SDK – Faster integration, drop-in UI, and pay with PayPal

https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/introducing-braintree-vzero

12 years ago

The Best Programming Font: M+

http://www.macwright.org/2014/07/09/mplus.html

12 years ago

Atom: Hello Windows

http://blog.atom.io/2014/07/09/hello-windows.html

12 years ago

Fun With iBeacon

http://andreamazz.github.io/blog/2014/07/01/fun-with-ibeacon/

12 years ago

PinLater: An asynchronous job execution system

http://engineering.pinterest.com/post/91288882494/pinlater-an-asynchronous-job-execution-system

12 years ago

Interview with YC's Kate Courteau

http://blog.newprofit.com/?p=2432

12 years ago

A Different Path to Fighting Addiction

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/nyregion/a-different-path-to-fighting-addiction.html

12 years ago

How ACH works: A developer perspective – Part 3

http://engineering.zenpayroll.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-perspective-part-3/

12 years ago

No silver bullet: De-identification still doesn’t work

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/no-silver-bullet-de-identification-still-doesnt-work/

12 years ago

Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python [video]

http://pyvideo.org/video/1780/transforming-code-into-beautiful-idiomatic-pytho

12 years ago

Optimize for readability first. What slows down developers when reading code

http://va.lent.in/optimize-for-readability-first/

12 years ago

Understanding The Backbone Mindset

http://benmccormick.org/2014/07/09/understanding-the-backbone-mindset-a-review-of-building-backbone-plugins-by-derick-bailey/

12 years ago

Judge Shoots Down ‘Bitcoin Isn’t Money’ Argument in Silk Road Trial

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/silkroad-bitcoin-isnt-money/

12 years ago