top 20 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

We’re tackling aging

http://www.calicolabs.com/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 85 comments

Neuromancer, 30 years old this month

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/28/william-gibson-neuromancer-cyberpunk-books

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 61 comments

Sysmon – Log system activity to the Windows event log

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dn798348

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Why Not a Three-Day Week?

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/three-day-week

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 106 comments

Clojure Style Guide

https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide

12 years ago

★ 4k
75 upvotes – 27 comments

Non-Transparent Memory Safety

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1175

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

Nigel Richards, The Best Scrabble Player

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-makes-nigel-richards-the-best-scrabble-player-on-earth/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

Soviet Armored Military Vehicles for Sale

http://www.sovietarmor.com/for_sale.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 40 comments

Towards daily imaging of Spaceship Earth

https://www.planet.com/pulse/towards-daily/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 7 comments

How to bypass Zeus Trojan’s self protection mechanism

http://int0xcc.svbtle.com/how-to-bypass-zeus-trojans-self-protection-mechanism

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments
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