top 10 hacker news stories for 2014-08-04

Extracting audio from visual information

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804

12 years ago

573 upvotes – 127 comments

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL

http://wozniak.ca/what-orms-have-taught-me-just-learn-sql

12 years ago

372 upvotes – 234 comments

Hotel fines $500 for every bad review posted online

http://pagesix.com/2014/08/04/hotel-charges-500-for-every-bad-review-posted-online/

12 years ago

344 upvotes – 234 comments

Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?

http://priceonomics.com/is-every-speed-limit-too-low/

12 years ago

293 upvotes – 207 comments

Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python

https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish/blob/master/sunfish.py

12 years ago

★ 3.2k Python
291 upvotes – 95 comments

Friendship Paradox

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

12 years ago

288 upvotes – 69 comments

GNU datamash

http://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 19 comments

Getting rid of burnout permanently

http://kentnguyen.com/personal/getting-rid-burnouts/

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 138 comments

Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible?

http://ryandlane.com/blog/2014/08/04/moving-away-from-puppet-saltstack-or-ansible/

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 179 comments

Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C

https://github.com/tekknolagi/carp

12 years ago

★ 986 C GPL-3.0
212 upvotes – 91 comments
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