top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-20

Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft

http://imgur.com/a/NJBuH

12 years ago

fork() can fail

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2014/08/19/fork/

12 years ago

Fish vs. Fish in Street Fighter II

http://www.twitch.tv/fishplaystreetfighter

12 years ago

YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

https://www.youtab.me/

12 years ago

Rails 4.2.0 beta1: Active Job, Deliver Later, Adequate Record, Web Console

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/8/20/Rails-4-2-beta1/

12 years ago

Screenshots Forever and Ever Until You Can’t Stand it

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4365

12 years ago

The Chairless Chair, an invisible chair that you can wear

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/20/tech/innovation/the-chairless-chair/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

12 years ago

Linux Performance

http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html

12 years ago

Programming language subreddits and their choice of words

https://github.com/Dobiasd/programming-language-subreddits-and-their-choice-of-words

12 years ago

★ 825 Python

RISC creator is pushing open source chips

http://gigaom.com/2014/08/19/risc-creator-is-pushing-open-source-chips-for-cloud-computing-and-the-internet-of-things/

12 years ago

The Little Book of Semaphores

http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=83

12 years ago

Word Perhect

http://wordperhect.net/

12 years ago

Ask HN: Why are there two Job Ads at the top?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202376

12 years ago

Apache Wave on Sandstorm.io

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-20-apache-wave.html

12 years ago

GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance

https://fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-hackers-discover-hacienda-government-surveillance-and-give-us-a-way-to-fight-back

12 years ago

Uber Opens Its API

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/20/uber-api-part-deux/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)

12 years ago

Clocks

http://procyonic.org/clocks/index.html

12 years ago

Faster Spelling Correction algorithm (2012)

http://blog.faroo.com/2012/06/07/improved-edit-distance-based-spelling-correction/

12 years ago

Security Analysis of a Full-Body Scanner

https://radsec.org/

12 years ago

Which Is Closer: Local Beer or Local Whiskey?

http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/08/19/which-is-closer-local-beer-or-local-whiskey/

12 years ago