top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-15

Project Euler Returns

http://projecteuler.net/news

12 years ago

471 upvotes – 100 comments

Inside the Dark, Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/15/magazine/bad-paper-debt-collector.html

12 years ago

317 upvotes – 260 comments

An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (2012)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beginners

12 years ago

272 upvotes – 106 comments

I am not planning any nuclear attacks

http://henrysmith.org/blog/2014/08/04/not-planning-any-nuclear-attacks/

12 years ago

250 upvotes – 146 comments

Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527051/the-man-who-really-built-bitcoin/

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 30 comments

The 30-year-old health sector billionaire

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28756059

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 76 comments

Tesla's Infinite Mile Warranty

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/infinite-mile-warranty

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 57 comments

The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics

http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/commerrs/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 110 comments

Vindinium: An artificial intelligence programming challenge

http://vindinium.org/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 42 comments

Green Arabia

http://www.idlewords.com/2014/08/green_arabia.htm

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 68 comments

Kivy – Open-source Python library for rapid development of applications

http://kivy.org/

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 47 comments

Packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out

http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/everything-about-learning/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 50 comments

How “Legal” Are Seed Libraries?

http://www.postcarbon.org/article/2339769-just-how-legal-are-seed-libraries

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 74 comments

AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs [pdf]

http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2014/08/Future-of-AI-Robotics-and-Jobs.pdf

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 149 comments

Show HN: Practical Guide to Mobile Apps Using Phonegap and Famo.us

http://www.practicalguidetomobileapps.com/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 70 comments

Open Source Game Clones

http://osgameclones.com

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 28 comments

Where I Should Live, According to Math

http://munsonscity.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/where-i-should-live-according-to-math/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 75 comments

The Law-School Scam

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/the-law-school-scam/375069/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 78 comments

Ask HN: How to learn design as a hacker?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8182084

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 49 comments

NSA/GCHQ: The HACIENDA Program for Internet Colonization

http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/NSA-GCHQ-The-HACIENDA-Program-for-Internet-Colonization-2292681.html

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 49 comments
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