top 50% 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

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

Open Source Game Clones

http://osgameclones.com

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 28 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

Tax haven in the heart of Britain (2011)

http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporation-city

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 71 comments

Starbucks to Revise Policies to End Irregular Schedules for Its 130,000 Baristas

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/us/starbucks-to-revise-work-scheduling-policies.html

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 53 comments

Blink won’t implement pointer events

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162757#c64

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 63 comments

A Blockchain-based DNS and HTTP server

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain

12 years ago

★ 1.7k CoffeeScript
103 upvotes – 25 comments

The Zen of Gradient Descent

http://mrtz.org/blog/the-zen-of-gradient-descent/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 11 comments

Basic Income is Practical Today, Necessary Soon

http://hawkins.ventures/post/94846357762/basic-income-is-practical-today-necessary-soon

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 129 comments

How Boston Police Used Facial Recognition Technology to Spy on Thousands

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/beantowns-big-brother

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Lit – a modern literate programming tool

https://github.com/cdosborn/lit

12 years ago

★ 277 Haskell GPL-2.0
95 upvotes – 61 comments

Quality Software Costs Money – Heartbleed Was Free

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2636165

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 70 comments

The Future of College?

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/the-future-of-college/375071/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

Astrophysicists propose new twist on Big Bang

https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/waterloo-astrophysicists-propose-new-twist-big-bang?utm_source=social_organic&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=sciam_infographic

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Blot, a static blog powered by Dropbox

https://blot.im/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

Are processors pushing up against the limits of physics?

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/are-processors-pushing-up-against-the-limits-of-physics/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 43 comments

Better Browsing for Ruby Developers

http://www.omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/08/15/browser-plugins-for-chrome-and-firefox/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Firing of Los Alamos political scientist spurs criticism

http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2014/08/updated-firing-los-alamos-political-scientist-spurs-criticism

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

Connecting the UK Student Tech Scene

http://ammaar.me/connecting-the-uk-student-tech-scene

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

TCP Stealth

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kirsch-ietf-tcp-stealth/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 28 comments

Ksplice: Automatic Rebootless Kernel Updates (2008) [pdf]

http://ksplice.com/doc/ksplice.pdf

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 32 comments

Caesar and the Pirates

http://www.livius.org/caa-can/caesar/caesar_t01.htm

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Incremental GC in Ruby MRI

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10137

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Titan Distributed Graph Database 0.5.0

http://s3.thinkaurelius.com/docs/titan/0.5.0/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

Experiment on the effect of body-worn cameras on police use-of-force (2013) [pdf]

http://www.policefoundation.org/sites/g/files/g798246/f/201303/The%20Effect%20of%20Body-Worn%20Cameras%20on%20Police%20Use-of-Force.pdf

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 48 comments

Schrodinger's Cat Video and the Death of Clear Text

https://citizenlab.org/2014/08/cat-video-and-the-death-of-clear-text/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

Watch 1,000 robots in biggest programmable swarm yet

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-08/15/biggest-robot-swarm

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

Goless: Go-like semantics built on top of Stackless Python

https://github.com/rgalanakis/goless

12 years ago

★ 505 Python Apache-2.0
50 upvotes – 20 comments

Stream Processing with a Spreadsheet [pdf]

http://hirzels.com/martin/papers/ecoop14-activesheets.pdf

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 4 comments

Dystopian sci-fi is making us fear all new technology

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-08/15/dystopian-scifi-is-damaging-us

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 39 comments

Mixer – A MySQL Proxy powered by Go

https://github.com/siddontang/mixer

12 years ago

★ 770 Go MIT
42 upvotes – 18 comments

Kevin Rose Steps Into Part-Time Role at Google Ventures to Build a New Startup

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/15/kevin-rose-google-ventures-north/

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 29 comments

My wish list for Postgres 9.5

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2014/08/15/my-postgres-wishlist-for-9.5/

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 48 comments

Optimisation with Continuations

http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2014/06/optimisation-with-continuations.html

12 years ago

39 upvotes – 0 comments

VisualRust: A basic Visual Studio extension for Rust

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/dcd9075c-46da-4164-be4a-4d09589efcad

12 years ago

38 upvotes – 9 comments

Hackers’ Efforts to Identify Officer Create Turmoil

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/us/ferguson-case-roils-collective-called-anonymous.html

12 years ago

38 upvotes – 21 comments
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