top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-26

Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft

http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6067663/this-is-ubers-playbook-for-sabotaging-lyft

12 years ago

1224 upvotes – 391 comments

Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK

http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2014/08/26/some-dark-patterns-now-illegal-in-uk-interview-with-heather-burns/

12 years ago

653 upvotes – 260 comments

A Single Div

http://a.singlediv.com/

12 years ago

649 upvotes – 140 comments

Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-21/vermont-quits-war-on-drugs-to-treat-heroin-abuse-as-health-issue

12 years ago

479 upvotes – 143 comments

Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/hyperlapse-instagrams-new-app-is-like-a-15000-video-setup-in-your-hand

12 years ago

438 upvotes – 149 comments

The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-around-the-world

12 years ago

366 upvotes – 101 comments

JavaScript: Servo’s only garbage collector

https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/08/26/javascript-servos-only-garbage-collector/

12 years ago

304 upvotes – 16 comments

How Norway has avoided the 'curse of oil'

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28882312

12 years ago

271 upvotes – 143 comments

Mozilla Unveils $33 Intex Cloud FX Smartphone

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/26/mozilla-unveils-33-intex-cloud-fx-smartphone/

12 years ago

271 upvotes – 124 comments

Ask HN: Startup stole our software, and raised $2MM with it. What should we do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227225

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 67 comments

The poisoned NUL byte, 2014 edition

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-poisoned-nul-byte-2014-edition.html

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 17 comments

Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/26/amazon-fire-phone-sales-data

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 213 comments

The State of NAT Traversal

https://www.zerotier.com/blog/?p=226

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 96 comments

This Man Built a $3M Business a Year After Four Years in Prison

http://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2014/08/21/how-this-man-built-a-3m-business-a-year-on-from-four-years-in-prison/

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 46 comments

Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (2008)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/20/late-bloomers-2

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 67 comments

RethinkDB 1.14: binary data, seamless migration, and Python 3 support

http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/1.14-release/

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 48 comments

Introducing Meteor 0.9.0, the Meteor Package Server, and Isobuild

https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/08/26/meteor-090-new-packaging-system

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 62 comments

Holographic universe experiment begins

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/august-2013/holographic-universe-experiment-begins

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 47 comments

Helmhurts: Placing a WiFi router with the Helmholtz equation

http://jasmcole.com/2014/08/25/helmhurts/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 19 comments

Microservices for the Grumpy Neckbeard

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/microservices_for_the_grumpy_neckbeard.html

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 102 comments

Show HN: Weird iOS, a list of the weirdest, most artful or unexpected apps

http://weirdios.tumblr.com

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web

http://monitorbook.com

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 54 comments

The fundamental problem of programming language package management

http://blog.ezyang.com/2014/08/the-fundamental-problem-of-programming-language-package-management/

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Pol.is – a new commenting system powered by machine learning and D3

https://pol.is

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 41 comments

Sublime Text 3 Updated

http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16696&sid=17192023051cb99eb52ebf3f9e3c6824

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 85 comments

Slap: Terminal-based text editor

https://github.com/slap-editor/slap

12 years ago

★ 6.1k JavaScript MIT
110 upvotes – 39 comments

Statistics: Losing Ground to CS, Losing Image Among Students

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/08/statistics-losing-ground-to-cs-losing-image-among-students.html

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 70 comments

Tim Hortons agrees to Burger King offer for $94 a share

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-hortons-agrees-to-burger-king-offer-for-94-a-share-1.2746948

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 117 comments

Self Employed CV

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8226643

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work (2005)

http://legacy.igda.org/why-crunch-modes-doesnt-work-six-lessons

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 57 comments

PACER Deleting Old Cases; Time to Fix PACER

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140821/07015128275/pacer-deleting-old-cases-time-to-fix-pacer.shtml

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 26 comments

Email encryption in transit

https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 40 comments

The FAA vs. Model Airplanes

http://jonathanturley.org/2014/08/24/the-faa-vs-model-airplanes/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

This Man Has Nothing to Hide – Not Even His Email Password

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/this-man-has-nothing-to-hide/379041/?single_page=true

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 93 comments

A briefcase-size radio weapon could wreak havoc in our networked world

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/military/electromagnetic-warfare-is-here#.U_zUdUSgY1c.hackernews

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

Constants

http://blog.golang.org/constants

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 29 comments

Generation Later, Poor Are Still Rare at Elite Colleges

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/education/despite-promises-little-progress-in-drawing-poor-to-elite-colleges.html

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 68 comments

Building Interactive HTML5 Videos

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/08/building-interactive-html5-videos/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Square Cash 2.0 Adds Free Money Transfer by Text Message, Payment Notes and More

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/26/square-cash-2-0-adds-free-money-transfer-by-text-message-payment-notes-and-more/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

Bare Metal Raspberry Pi BASIC

http://highcaffeinecontent.com/rpi/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

California Governor Signs Law Requiring a ‘Kill Switch’ on Smartphones

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/california-governor-signs-law-requiring-a-kill-switch-on-smartphones

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 64 comments

Apple and IBM: This Time It’ll Be Different

http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/08/24/shift-happens-apple-ibm-this-time-itll-be-different/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Snapchat Raising a New Round at a $10B Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/26/snapchat-raising-a-new-round-at-a-10b-valuation/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 50 comments

MediaGoblin 0.7.0: Time Traveler's Delight Released

http://mediagoblin.org/news/mediagoblin-0.7.0-time-travelers-delight.html

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

A New Analytics Toolbox with Apache Spark – Going Beyond Hadoop

http://planetcassandra.org/blog/the-new-analytics-toolbox-with-apache-spark-going-beyond-hadoop/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 27 comments

R. Crumb, the Art of Comics No. 1 (2010)

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6017/the-art-of-comics-no-1-r-crumb

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 2 comments

An Ansible Tutorial

https://serversforhackers.com/editions/2014/08/26/getting-started-with-ansible/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’

http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/26/social-media-and-the-spiral-of-silence/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 85 comments

Unbounded Robotics to Shut Down Due to Willow Garage Spin-Off Agreement

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/unbounded-robotics-shut-down

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 7 comments
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