top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-19

Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

http://limetext.org/

12 years ago

442 upvotes – 244 comments

Maps of the Roman Empire

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/19/5942585/40-maps-that-explain-the-roman-empire?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=ezraklein&utm_content=tuesday

12 years ago

345 upvotes – 91 comments

Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/aug14/08-19steveb.aspx

12 years ago

343 upvotes – 138 comments

Amit's Game Programming Information

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html

12 years ago

317 upvotes – 29 comments

Seneca: On the Shortness of Life

http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/seneca_younger/brev_e.html

12 years ago

316 upvotes – 79 comments

XKCD “Time” Wins Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story

http://www.thehugoawards.org/2014/08/2014-hugo-award-winners/

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 22 comments

NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub

https://github.com/TheUpshot/Military-Surplus-Gear

12 years ago

★ 303
214 upvotes – 132 comments

The 1,000-hour rule (2009)

http://www.pgbovine.net/1000-hour-rule.htm

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 119 comments

WRTnode Opened for $25

http://wrtnode.com/

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 93 comments

High Performance Map Interactions Using HTML5 Canvas

http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/high-performance-map-interactions-using-html5-canvas/

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 25 comments

Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android

http://engineering.columbia.edu/sync-columbia-engineering-team-first-run-ios-apps-android-platform

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 102 comments

The S in Rest

http://teddziuba.github.io/2014/08/18/the-s-in-rest/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 70 comments

China's Underground Wholesale Markets

http://www.youngmoneychina.com/2014/08/the-truth-behind-chinas-underground-wholesale-markets/

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 49 comments

California “Kill Switch” Bill Could Be Used to Disrupt Protests

https://cdt.org/blog/california-kill-switch-bill-could-be-used-to-disrupt-protests/

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 134 comments

Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load

http://gcaptain.com/watch-triple-e-leaves-port-with-world-record-load/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 64 comments

Why doesn't Sandstorm just run Docker apps?

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-19-why-not-run-docker-apps.html

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 27 comments

YC Demo Day Session 1

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/yc-demo-day-session-1-gingko-bioworks-bikanta-checkr-walksource-cleartax-and-more/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 101 comments

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Raising Money at a Valuation Approaching $10B

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/spacex/

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 98 comments

Intellectual Ventures cuts 140 employees from its patent-buying workforce

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/nathan-myhrvolds-intellectual-ventures-cuts-fifth-patent-buying-workforce/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 77 comments

Fixing Bad Data in Datomic

http://blog.datomic.com/2014/08/stuff-happens-fixing-bad-data-in-datomic.html

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 16 comments

GPLGPU: An Open-Source GPU

http://gplgpu.com/?p=88

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 9 comments

The Derivative of a Number

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/the-derivative-of-a-number/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Finding Your First Customers

https://yourfirstcustomers.com/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

Complete iOS7 Course for free

http://www.producthunt.com/posts/the-complete-ios7-course

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

Dyad: Minimal, portable async networking library for C

https://github.com/rxi/dyad

12 years ago

★ 1.4k C MIT
97 upvotes – 46 comments

Vedeu: Ruby-based terminal GUI framework

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8196685

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

YC Demo Day Session 2

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/yc-demo-day-session-2-helion-bitaccess-ubiome-fixed-and-more/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 43 comments

Reading Literature on Screen: A Price for Convenience?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/arts/reading-literature-on-screen-a-price-for-convenience.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 75 comments

A JavaScript Quality Guide

https://github.com/bevacqua/js/

12 years ago

★ 2.9k MIT
86 upvotes – 68 comments

Baseball Bat With an Axe Handle Brings More Power, Fewer Injuries

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/axe-bat/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

QuickCheck by example: Number theory and Okasaki's red-black trees

http://matt.might.net/articles/quick-quickcheck/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 2 comments

Delivery Startups Are Back Like It’s 1999

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/magazine/delivery-start-ups-are-back-like-its-1999.html

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments

Half a Decade After Demo Day

http://blog.billclerico.com/half-a-decade-after-demo-day

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

Bitcoin’s Price Falls 12%, to Lowest Value Since May

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/bitcoins-price-sinks-but-causes-little-alarm-among-traders/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 83 comments

DIY diagnosis: How an extreme athlete uncovered her genetic flaw

http://mosaicscience.com/story/diy-diagnosis-how-extreme-athlete-uncovered-her-genetic-flaw

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 5 comments

Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back

http://ignorenomoreapp.com/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 94 comments

YC Demo Day Session 4

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/yc-demo-day-session-4/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 34 comments

Old car batteries could make cheaper, more efficient solar panels

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/08/18/old-car-batteries-could-make-cheaper-more-efficient-solar-panels/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

When 'Right-Sizing' Vacant Properties Goes Wrong

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2014/08/when-right-sizing-vacant-properties-goes-wrong/375416/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

My First 12 Years at Amazon.com

http://jeff-barr.com/2014/08/19/my-first-12-years-at-amazon-dot-com/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/19/im-a-cop-if-you-dont-want-to-get-hurt-dont-challenge-me/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 55 comments

Always Talk to Strangers

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/social-cohesion-heart-attack-prevention/378694/?single_page=true

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 32 comments

Inequality and Web Search Trends

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/upshot/inequality-and-web-search-trends.html?_r=0

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

YC Demo Day Session 3

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/yc-demo-day-session-3-upower-edyn-craft-coffee-immunity-project-and-more/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments

Computer Eyesight Gets a Lot More Accurate

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/computer-eyesight-gets-a-lot-more-accurate/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Secret Sharing and Erasure Coding: Guide for the Aspiring Dropbox Decentralizer

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/16/secret-sharing-erasure-coding-guide-aspiring-dropbox-decentralizer/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 1 comments

Show HN: Datastringer, a tool for hacker-journalists

http://bbc-news-labs.github.io/datastringer/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

A tool that converts PDFs to SVG, built using PDF.js

http://pramodhkp.github.io/pdf2svg/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 12 comments

Sins of software development

http://blog.ionelmc.ro/2014/08/14/the-three-sins-of-software-development/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 41 comments

Why Genius may struggle to annotate the world

http://themassolit.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/why-genius-may-struggle-to-annotate-the-world/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 18 comments

On GNU and on hackers

http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/08/18/on-gnu-and-on-hackers

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 35 comments

Windows XP upgrade proves tricky business for John Lewis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28790582

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 66 comments

Stanley Kubrick Photos

http://collections.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult_VPage&VBID=24UP1GYLAQP3&SMLS=1&SrvRsp=1&PN=1

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 5 comments

DOM: attributes sadness

http://annevankesteren.nl/2014/08/attributes

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments

Ecuador Turning to Virtual Currency

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-11/ecuador-turning-to-virtual-currency-after-oil-loans-correct-.html

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 34 comments

ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Competition

http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2014/results

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments

Police Drop Bomb on Radicals' Home in Philadelphia (1985)

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-radicals-home-in-philadelphia.html

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 60 comments

Linux-on-the-desktop pioneer Munich now considering a switch back to Windows

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/linux-on-the-desktop-pioneer-munich-now-considering-a-switch-back-to-windows/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 50 comments

Reddit Advertising: Results of a 1-Week Campaign

http://blogwriterswanted.com/reddit-advertising-1-week-campaign/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 26 comments

How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/08/18/340716269/how-long-do-cds-last-it-depends-but-definitely-not-forever

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 27 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments