top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-17

Hextris

http://hextris.github.io/hextris/

12 years ago

589 upvotes – 92 comments

When Patients Read What Their Doctors Write

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/08/14/340351393/when-patients-read-what-their-doctors-write

12 years ago

281 upvotes – 105 comments

Unix Wildcards Gone Wild

http://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCode_Unix_WildCards_Gone_Wild.txt

12 years ago

269 upvotes – 51 comments

“Prison is a bit like copyright”, says jailed Pirate Bay founder

http://senficon.eu/2014/08/prison-is-a-bit-like-copyright-peter-sunde/

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 58 comments

NSA's BIOS Backdoor a.k.a. God Mode Malware

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/nsa-bios-backdoor-god-mode-malware-deitybounce/?Print=Yes

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 68 comments

Spaced Repetition is Awesome

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/spaced_repetition_is_awesome.html?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_campaign=rss

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 78 comments

Unschooling: The Case for Setting Your Kids Into the Wild

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/Unschooling-The-Case-for-Setting-Your-Kids-Into-the-Wild.html

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 192 comments

An Iron Curtain Has Descended Upon Psychopharmacology

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/16/an-iron-curtain-has-descended-upon-psychopharmacology/

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 115 comments

Entropy

http://andrew-hoyer.com/experiments/entropy/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 29 comments

Programming in Elixir with the Phoenix Framework

http://gogogarrett.sexy/programming-in-elixir-with-the-phoenix-framework-building-a-basic-CRUD-app/

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 26 comments

A Mother’s Journey Through the Unnerving Universe of ‘Unboxing’ Videos

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/magazine/a-mothers-journey-through-the-unnerving-universe-of-unboxing-videos.html

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 95 comments

Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/08/venture-capitalists-get-paid-well-to-lose-money/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

Drop that spoon: The truth about breakfast cereals (2010)

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/nov/23/food-book-extract-felicity-lawrence

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 97 comments

A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has failed to replace it

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/a-brief-history-of-usb-what-it-replaced-and-what-has-failed-to-replace-it/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 52 comments

Teaching Is Not a Business

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/opinion/sunday/teaching-is-not-a-business.html

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 76 comments

CipherShed, the Truecrypt fork

https://ciphershed.org

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 58 comments

Let's Take a Trip Inside a Power Strip

http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/661-power-strip-bar-surge-protection.html

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Card Trick Leads to New Bound on Data Compression (2010)

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/421819/card-trick-leads-to-new-bound-on-data-compression/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 23 comments

Dissecting Message Queues

http://www.bravenewgeek.com/dissecting-message-queues/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/technology/in-the-sharing-economy-workers-find-both-freedom-and-uncertainty.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 62 comments
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