top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-20

Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft

http://imgur.com/a/NJBuH

12 years ago

831 upvotes – 109 comments

fork() can fail

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

12 years ago

760 upvotes – 313 comments

Fish vs. Fish in Street Fighter II

http://www.twitch.tv/fishplaystreetfighter

12 years ago

372 upvotes – 69 comments

YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

https://www.youtab.me/

12 years ago

349 upvotes – 88 comments

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

322 upvotes – 132 comments

Screenshots Forever and Ever Until You Can’t Stand it

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

12 years ago

238 upvotes – 39 comments

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

220 upvotes – 68 comments

Linux Performance

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

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 22 comments

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
176 upvotes – 55 comments

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

175 upvotes – 93 comments

The Little Book of Semaphores

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

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 19 comments

Word Perhect

http://wordperhect.net/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 66 comments

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

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

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 35 comments

Apache Wave on Sandstorm.io

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

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 45 comments

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

138 upvotes – 79 comments

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

134 upvotes – 84 comments

Clocks

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

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 5 comments

Faster Spelling Correction algorithm (2012)

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

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 20 comments

Security Analysis of a Full-Body Scanner

https://radsec.org/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 63 comments

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

111 upvotes – 31 comments

Dat, open-source software, seeks to restart the open data revolution

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/dat/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 18 comments

Who Stole the Four-Hour Workday?

http://www.vice.com/read/who-stole-the-four-hour-workday-0000406-v21n8

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 97 comments

BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/20/6047603/bks-iyengar-who-helped-bring-yoga-to-the-west-has-died

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

Scientists find traces of sea plankton on ISS surface

http://en.itar-tass.com/non-political/745635

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 34 comments

An editor for composed programs

http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/an_editor_for_composed_programs

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 35 comments

Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/thumbtack-an-online-market-for-services-raises-100-million/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

Optimizing Elasticsearch Searches

https://www.found.no/foundation/optimizing-elasticsearch-searches/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: Opstarts – Startup planning and forecasting without spreadsheets

https://opstarts.com/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 44 comments

Researchers find it’s easy to hack traffic lights

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/08/researchers-find-its-terrifyingly-easy-to-hack-traffic-lights/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 42 comments

Counterfeit U.S. Cash Floods Crime Forums

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/counterfeit-u-s-cash-floods-crime-forums/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 57 comments

Knot DNS: A high-performance, authoritative DNS server

https://lwn.net/Articles/606968/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 33 comments

Ancient Maya cities found in jungle

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/three-ancient-maya-cities-found-in-jungle-140815.htm

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 19 comments

The White House vows to let programmers dress informally

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/20/the-white-house-vows-to-let-programmers-dress-like-ones-do/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 92 comments

Minecraft vanilla 4KB HDD, with read/write heads

http://imgur.com/a/8ESMW

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

The Tech Behind Dropbox’s New User Experience on Mobile, Part 2

https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/08/tech-behind-dropboxs-new-user-experience-for-mobile/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Icann bids to stop Iran web domain seizure

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28582478

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 52 comments

Window Functions in PostgreSQL

http://www.gab.lc/articles/window_functions_postgresql.php

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Autistics in the Silicon Valley

http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/autistics-in-the-silicon-valley?utm_content=buffer77a0f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 45 comments

Researchers Easily Slipped Weapons Past TSA’s X-Ray Body Scanners

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/study-shows-how-easily-weapons-can-be-smuggled-past-tsas-x-ray-body-scanners

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 41 comments

Adding LGPL v3 to Qt

http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/08/20/adding-lgpl-v3-to-qt/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Stanford Driving Software (2011)

http://stanforddriving.sourceforge.net/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

For German, Swiss Privacy Start-Ups, a Post-Snowden Boom

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/20/for-german-swiss-privacy-start-ups-a-post-snowden-boon/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 25 comments

A Leader Struggles to Sell Software Meant to Aid Sales

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/business/smallbusiness/yeswares-matthew-bellows-on-his-ironic-challenge.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments

Uber starts same-day grocery delivery service in US

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28869386

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 64 comments

VC Pavel Curda Admits He Pestered Woman Entrepreneur For Sex In “Deal” Email

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/20/european-investor-admits-he-pestered-woman-entrepreneur-for-sex-in-deal-email/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Why didn’t the Universe become a black hole?

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-50-why-didnt-the-universe-become-a-black-hole-f4da68466e21

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone found a good co-founder using “founder dating” techniques?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202470

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

The color of every photo on the internet blended together is orange

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/the-color-of-every-photo-on-the-internet-blended-together-is-orange/378614/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 63 comments

Shoes By Jews launching today (yes we're real)

https://shoesbyjews.com/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 32 comments

My open source brain data

https://medium.com/@mattangriffel/afa45dd83246

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Systemd 216 released including DNS resolver and full TTY stream parsing

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-August/022295.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 64 comments

Learn Dart in 15 Minutes

http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/dart/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Decentralized, k-ordered unique IDs in Clojure

https://github.com/maxcountryman/flake

12 years ago

★ 142 Clojure BSD-3-Clause
53 upvotes – 15 comments

The Advantages of Dyslexia

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-advantages-of-dyslexia/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti (2013)

http://www.damninteresting.com/three-thrown-over-the-cuckoos-nest/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments

Are One-Star Reviews for Assholes?

http://priceonomics.com/are-one-star-reviews-for-assholes/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 54 comments

GNU LibreJS

http://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 72 comments

Is The Speed of Light Everywhere the Same?

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/speed_of_light.html

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 54 comments
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