top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-01

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120070

12 years ago

449 upvotes – 584 comments

Hate Your ISP? Maybe You Need Community Fiber

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/hate-your-isp-maybe-you-need-community-fiber

12 years ago

355 upvotes – 51 comments

Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8123152

12 years ago

345 upvotes – 139 comments

Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast

http://comonad.com/reader/2014/letter-to-a-young-haskell-enthusiast/

12 years ago

332 upvotes – 173 comments

I found a bug in the .NET framework and fixed it by hand-altering the DLL

http://blog.nullspace.io/clr-bug.html

12 years ago

332 upvotes – 118 comments

Neglected machine learning ideas

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/neglected-machine-learning-ideas/

12 years ago

319 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120085

12 years ago

225 upvotes – 330 comments

ButterDB

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/butterdb/0.1.4

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 43 comments

J002E3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 22 comments

The CIA's Reckless Breach of Trust

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/opinion/The-CIAs-Reckless-Breach-of-Trust.html

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 89 comments

Nintendo Open Source Software Source Code Distribution Page

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/oss/index.html#

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 37 comments

Your Wireless Router Is Broken – Help Us Fix It At DEF CON

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/your-wireless-router-broken-help-us-fix-it-def-con

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 24 comments

Improving the way neural networks learn

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap3.html

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 18 comments

EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor (1981)

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 57 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120079

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 156 comments

Decentralization: I Want to Believe

http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization-i-want-to-believe/

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more

http://omive.com/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 43 comments

Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

https://www.facebook.com/?=asjdasjidj

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Emacs Mini Manual

http://tuhdo.github.io/emacs-tutor.html

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 41 comments

Russia enacts 'draconian' law for bloggers and online media

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28583669

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 164 comments

Colors – A nicer color palette for the web

http://clrs.cc

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 49 comments

Bitcoin contracts

https://curiosity-driven.org/bitcoin-contracts?utm_source=hn

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 31 comments

Dan Ariely’s Timeful App Helps You Better Apply Your Time

http://recode.net/2014/07/31/dan-arielys-timeful-app-helps-you-better-apply-your-time/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 37 comments

A look back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2007)

http://www.wincent.com/a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/2007/07/a_look_back_bra.php

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 33 comments

Beat Detection Using JavaScript and the Web Audio API

http://tech.beatport.com/2014/web-audio/beat-detection-using-web-audio/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

Museum of Endangered Sounds

http://savethesounds.info/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

The Other Aging of America: The Increasing Dominance of Older Firms

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2014/07/aging-america-increasing-dominance-older-firms-litan

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 55 comments

Google Barge Sold For Scrap

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/01/google-barge-sold-for-scrap/?ncid=rss

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

Google Said to Plan Separating Photo Service From Google+

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-01/google-said-to-plan-separating-photo-service-from-google-.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 93 comments

Cron commands to plain English

http://www.cronchecker.net/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

How U.S. Cities’ Public Transit Stacks up

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-your-citys-public-transit-stacks-up/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 44 comments

What you should know before starting node-webkit

http://yedingding.com/2014/08/01/node-webkit-intro-en.html

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 21 comments

Welcome to the public AS/400

http://pub1.de

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

A Visual Expedition Inside the Linux File Systems

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~razvanm/fs-expedition/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 5 comments

Yo Is Trying To Get Parody App YOLO and Others Pulled From The App Store

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/31/yo-is-trying-to-get-parody-app-yolo-pulled-from-the-app-store/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 73 comments

Ask HN: Should I be a plumber?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120135

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 92 comments

ClojureScript development environment with Vim

http://astashov.github.io/blog/2014/07/30/perfect-clojurescript-development-environment-with-vim/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

Barriers faced by newcomers to open source projects: a systematic review [pdf]

http://www.igor.pro.br/publica/papers/OSS2014.pdf

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 35 comments

Google Keep

https://keep.google.com/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 88 comments

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report

http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.html

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: What to work on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8119281

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 52 comments

A Game of Tricks IV – Stylized normal mapping

http://www.alkemi-games.com/a-game-of-tricks-iv-stylized-normal-mapping/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 5 comments

Time to Say Farewell

https://goinstant.com/blog/time-to-say-farewell?hn

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

Federal patent appeal paralegals had no work, so they surfed the Internet

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/07/31/federal-paralegals-had-no-work-so-they-surfed-the-internet/?hpid=z5

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments

The Oculus Rift Made Me Believe I Could Fly

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/oculus-rift-birdly-fly/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 19 comments

Wi-Fi Devices That Use Stray Radio Waves as Their Power Source

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/529576/mobile-gadgets-that-connect-to-wi-fi-without-a-battery/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 18 comments

Russia enacts 'draconian' law for bloggers and online media

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28583669

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: Where is the who is hiring thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8119882

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

Second-Chance Med School

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/education/edlife/second-chance-med-school.html

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8122731

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 82 comments

Roll Your Own CDN

http://www.reinterpretcast.com/roll-your-own-cdn#

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 24 comments

Tech companies thriving in San Diego–Tijuana border zone

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/1/tech-companies-thrivinginsandiegotijuanaborderzone.html

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 14 comments

How Marvel Became the Envy and Scourge of Hollywood

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-marvel-became-envy-scourge-720363

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 47 comments

Google's questionnaire response to Article 29 Working Party

http://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8syaai6SSfiT0EwRUFyOENqR3M/edit

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 37 comments
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