top 50% 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

Look at the humongous type that Hindley-Milner infers for this tiny program

http://spacemanaki.com/blog/2014/08/04/Just-LOOK-at-the-humongous-type/

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 56 comments

YC Hacks Winner: Athelas – Blood imaging and analysis from your smartphone

http://ychacks.challengepost.com/submissions/25781-athelas

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 81 comments

Python web scraping resources

http://jakeaustwick.me/python-web-scraping-resource/?mc_list=python

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 33 comments

I'm a woman CEO and it doesn't change anything

http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/08/04/mathilde-collin-im-a-woman-ceo-and-it-doesnt-change-anything/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 117 comments

I'm getting screwed with my stock options

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131847

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 85 comments

In secret cyberwar game, reservist techies pummel miltary cyberwarriors

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20140804/NEWS04/308040019

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 100 comments

Game of Hacks

http://www.gameofhacks.com/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 53 comments

Nemex – A tiny app that helps you to track and curate ideas and projects

http://beta.nemex.io/

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 59 comments

Homeless Fonts

http://www.homelessfonts.org

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 48 comments

The Mobile Web should just work for everyone

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/07/31/the-mobile-web-should-just-work-for-everyone.aspx?

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 123 comments

The Abandoned Facebook Tech That Now Helps Power Apple

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/datastax/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 33 comments

Affordable Housing Draws Middle Class to Inland Cities

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/04/business/affordable-housing-drives-middle-class-to-cities-inland.html

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 112 comments

Tumblr: Hashing Your Way to Handling 23,000 Blog Requests per Second

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/8/4/tumblr-hashing-your-way-to-handling-23000-blog-requests-per.html

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 23 comments

Reverse Engineering a NAND Flash Device Management Algorithm

http://joshuawise.com/projects/ndfslave

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 29 comments

Adam Carolla won’t let Personal Audio drop podcast patent infringement lawsuit

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/08/01/adam_carolla_won_t_let_personal_audio_drop_podcast_patent_infringement_lawsuit.html

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 39 comments

Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strength

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329803.900-robotic-suit-gives-shipyard-workers-super-strength.html#.U9_rW_ldVu0

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: QuoDB – Movie quote search engine based on subtitles

http://www.quodb.com

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

‘White Label’ Money Laundering Services

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/white-label-money-laundering-services/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 39 comments

Design culture is a frozen shithole

http://blog.colepeters.com/design-culture-is-frozen-shithole/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

Xamarin Acquires Petzold

http://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-acquires-petzold/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: San Francisco MUNI Transit Delays, Visualized

http://bdon.org/transit/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments

Are fish more intelligent than we realize?

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/4/5958871/fish-intelligence-smart-research-behavior-pain

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 67 comments

Israeli Iron Dome firms infiltrated by Chinese hackers

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28583283

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Call to Speakers – Find and track conference speaking opportunities

https://calltospeakers.com

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

“They Have No Use for Someone Who Looks and Dresses Like Me”

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140325160616-16553--they-have-no-use-for-someone-who-looks-and-dresses-like-me?trk=eml-ced-b-art-M-0&midToken=AQHHy9b_jZx3Cw&ut=1Qc5PziQGF-C81

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 57 comments

Death of the taxi medallion: SF cab company ponders major change

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/death-of-the-taxi-medallion-sf-cab-company-ponders-major-change/Content?oid=2856068

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: A 16-bit Forth machine written in VHDL

https://github.com/inforichland/yafc

12 years ago

★ 72 VHDL
80 upvotes – 16 comments

Gwan – a fast 150kb web server supporting 14 scripting languages

http://www.gwan.ch/benchmark

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments

Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar (YC S11)

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/04/its-official-square-acquires-food-delivery-service-caviar/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 20 comments

How to turn small talk into smart conversation

http://ideas.ted.com/2014/07/28/how-to-turn-small-talk-into-smart-conversation/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Free Survey Creator

http://www.freesurveycreator.com/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 32 comments

Alamofire: HTTP networking library written in Swift

http://nshipster.com/alamofire/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

The unified control group hierarchy in Linux kernel 3.16

http://lwn.net/Articles/601840/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

Comcast Confessions: why the cable guy is always late

http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/4/5960251/comcast-confessions-why-the-cable-guy-is-always-late

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

Sweden just claimed the world’s second-largest Wikipedia

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08/01/sweden-of-all-places-just-claimed-the-worlds-second-largest-wikipedia/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

The Stellar object model

http://gdb.svbtle.com/the-stellar-domain-model

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Command Line Faxing

https://www.petekeen.net/command-line-faxing

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

HTTPS Support Launching Now

http://central.sonatype.org/articles/2014/Aug/03/https-support-launching-now/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments

Patients’ Symptoms Raise Concern About Ebola in New York

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/health/patient-at-mount-sinai-has-ebola-like-symptoms-hospital-says.html?_r=1

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Is there an over supply of tech products and services?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131898

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

Xiaomi’s One More Thing

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/30/xiaomis-one-more-thing/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

2014 Pwnie Award Nominations

http://pwnies.com/nominations/?year=2014

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: Blast.js separates text for typographic manipulation

http://julian.com/research/blast/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 19 comments

Paypal's 2-Factor-Authentication: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

http://blog.internot.info/2014/06/paypals-2-factor-authentication2fa-good.html

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments

Ask HN: How many hours can you productively program a day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131116

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 57 comments
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