top 10 hacker news stories for 2014-08-09

Prostitution and the internet

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21611074-how-new-technology-shaking-up-oldest-business-more-bang-your-buck

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 73 comments

Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/books/2014/08/john_marciano_s_whatever_happened_to_the_metric_system_reviewed.single.html

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 350 comments

We’re 10 today

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/08/09/10th-birthday/

12 years ago

183 upvotes – 32 comments

Fast and easy Levenshtein distance using a trie (2011)

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=114

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 38 comments

MacBasic

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=MacBasic.txt

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 63 comments

A Message from the Amazon Books Team

http://www.readersunited.com

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 57 comments

One wolf's migration across Europe

http://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2014/aug/08/slavc-wolf-migration-europe

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 25 comments

Hackers Unveil Their Plan to Change Email

http://time.com/3096341/email-encryption-hackers/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 68 comments

Getting It Done with Haskell

https://app.doxiq.com/d/rbczklzyvgczkfgh/Getting-it-Done-with-Haskell-pdf

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 63 comments

The Trucking Industry Needs More Drivers. Maybe It Needs to Pay More

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/upshot/the-trucking-industry-needs-more-drivers-it-should-try-paying-more.html?ref=business&_r=0

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 172 comments
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