top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-11

Polaroid Cube

http://www.polaroid.com/cube

12 years ago

575 upvotes – 181 comments

Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years

http://tylertringas.com/storemapper-store-locator-bootstrapped-to-50k

12 years ago

434 upvotes – 58 comments

OpenStreetMap Then and Now

https://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#11/52.3647/5.0427

12 years ago

406 upvotes – 106 comments

Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-requests-lyft/

12 years ago

353 upvotes – 243 comments

Compile like it's 1992

http://fabiensanglard.net/Compile_Like_Its_1992/

12 years ago

315 upvotes – 40 comments

I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-facebook-for-two-days-heres-what-it-did-to-me/

12 years ago

304 upvotes – 115 comments

Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/movies/robin-williams-oscar-winning-comedian-dies-at-63.html

12 years ago

293 upvotes – 63 comments

White House launches “U.S. Digital Service,” with HealthCare.gov fixer at helm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11/white-house-launches-u-s-digital-service-with-healthcare-gov-fixer-at-the-helm

12 years ago

276 upvotes – 139 comments

Reverse Engineering for Beginners: Free book

http://beginners.re/

12 years ago

276 upvotes – 28 comments

A Diablo 3 Story

http://diablo3story.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-diablo-3-story.html

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 97 comments

Almost perfect: the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation (1993)

http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 87 comments

Intel's 14nm Technology in Detail

http://anandtech.com/show/8367/intels-14nm-technology-in-detail

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 31 comments

The end of neighbours

http://www.macleans.ca/society/the-end-of-neighbours/

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 147 comments

Inside a Chinese Bitcoin Mine

http://www.thecoinsman.com/2014/08/bitcoin/inside-chinese-bitcoin-mine/

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 44 comments

Why I've Said Goodbye to Mobile in Favor of PC

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ThomasHenshell/20140807/222732/Why_Ive_Said_Goodbye_to_Mobile_in_Favor_of_PC.php

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 84 comments

Imgui: Immediate Mode Graphical User Interface with minimal dependencies

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

12 years ago

★ 72.8k C++ MIT
134 upvotes – 41 comments

My Experience at YC Hacks

http://www.erica.biz/2014/my-experience-at-yc-hacks/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: What info do you web scrape for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8163719

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 110 comments

Inside Apple’s Internal Training Program

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/technology/-inside-apples-internal-training-program-.html

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 17 comments

Windows 1.0 and the Applications of Tomorrow (2005)

http://charlespetzold.com/etc/Windows1/index.html

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 64 comments

Google Invests in $300M Submarine Cable to Improve Connection Between Japan, US

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/11/google-invests-in-300m-submarine-cable-to-improve-connection-between-japan-and-the-us/?ncid=rss

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 72 comments

Why one of cybersecurity’s thought leaders uses a pager instead of a smart phone

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11/why-one-of-cybersecuritys-thought-leaders-uses-a-pager-instead-of-a-smart-phone/

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 47 comments

Key Advances in the OpenGL Ecosystem

https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-group-announces-key-advances-in-opengl-ecosystem

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 42 comments

Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview: A Glimpse into Core M

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8355/intel-broadwell-architecture-preview

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 54 comments

Square Appointments

https://squareup.com/appointments

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 46 comments

The Inner Guts of Bitbucket [video]

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2014/08/11/the-inner-guts-of-bitbucket/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

DashGum – Free Bootstrap Admin Template

http://www.blacktie.co/demo/dashgumfree/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 29 comments

German armed forces warn that carbon fiber might be cancer-causing

http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/Bundeswehr-warnt-vor-Krebs-durch-Carbonfasern,cfk114.html

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 55 comments

An App Store for Algorithms

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

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 45 comments

Glowing Plant Is One of Y Combinator’s First Biotech Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/11/glowing-plant-is-one-of-y-combinators-very-first-biotech-startups/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 61 comments

Can We Trust the Libraries We Use?

http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0271/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 53 comments

Facebook Does It Again. Cheating Dalvik

http://blog.mohitkanwal.com/blog/2014/08/11/facebook-does-it-again-cheating-dalvik/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 65 comments

The story of pro wrestling is the story of American capitalism

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/money-in-the-bank/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

Pyrasite: Tools for injecting code into running Python processes

http://pyrasite.com/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Simple algorithmic trading in JavaScript

https://www.cloud9trader.com

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 48 comments

BadUSB – On accessories that turn evil [pdf]

https://srlabs.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/SRLabs-BadUSB-BlackHat-v1.pdf

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

Iris: Decentralized Cloud Messaging

http://iris.karalabe.com/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Amateur Radio Universal Text Messaging/Contact Initiative

http://www.aprs.org/aprs-messaging.html

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

Open Brain Computing Interface

http://openbci.com/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

BuzzFeed Raises $50M from Andreessen Horowitz

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/technology/a-move-to-go-beyond-lists-for-content-at-buzzfeed.html

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: PojoViz – Visualize the structure of any JavaScript library, framework

http://maurizzzio.github.io/PojoViz/public/vulcanize.html#readme

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

How Times Square Works

http://gizmodo.com/how-times-square-works-1582269710?curator=MediaREDEF

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments

Colgate Total Ingredient Linked to Hormones, Cancer Spotlights FDA Process

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-11/in-35-pages-buried-at-fda-worries-over-colgate-s-total.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Aerobatic – Smart Hosting for Single Page Apps

http://www.aerobatic.io

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

Low-level Bitcoin

https://curiosity-driven.org/low-level-bitcoin

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

JuliaCon 2014 Opening Session Presentations

http://julialang.org/blog/2014/08/juliacon-opening-session/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

The U.S. Digital Services Playbook

https://github.com/whitehouse/playbook

12 years ago

★ 1.5k SCSS
67 upvotes – 10 comments

FYI: The entire new 'Cosmos' series is now on Netflix

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8163444

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

Back to Square One

http://www.fastcompany.com/3033412/back-to-square-one

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

The Network is Reliable

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2655736

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

Hashids – Generate short hashes from numbers

http://www.hashids.org

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 28 comments

Sugar: the evolution of a forbidden fruit

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/sugar-the-evolution-of-a-forbidden-fruit/article19969475/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 43 comments

Repowering California for all purposes with wind, water, and sunlight [pdf]

http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/CaliforniaWWS.pdf

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Stellar-backed Twitter upvote bot

https://gdb.svbtle.com/a-twitter-bot-which-issues-its-own-currency

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments
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