top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-27

C3.js: D3-based reusable chart library

http://c3js.org/

12 years ago

350 upvotes – 80 comments

Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105948

12 years ago

344 upvotes – 54 comments

Useful Unix commands for exploring data

http://datavu.blogspot.com/2014/08/useful-unix-commands-for-exploring-data.html

12 years ago

343 upvotes – 151 comments

Building 3D with Ikea

http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/building_3d_with_ikea

12 years ago

337 upvotes – 61 comments

What happened to Motorola

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/September-2014/What-Happened-to-Motorola/

12 years ago

262 upvotes – 95 comments

Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1180

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 118 comments

How to walk through walls using the 4th dimension [video]

http://marctenbosch.com/news/2014/08/new-trailer-how-to-walk-through-walls-using-the-fourth-dimension/

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 95 comments

People suck at technical interviews

http://seldo.com/weblog/2014/08/26/you_suck_at_technical_interviews

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 173 comments

Microsoft filed patent applications for scoped and immutable types

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 86 comments

Firefox OS is a developer's best friend

http://binary-choice.blogspot.com/2014/08/firefox-os-is-developers-best-friend.html

12 years ago

200 upvotes – 41 comments

Firefox 32 Supports Public Key Pinning

http://monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com/2014/08/firefox-32-supports-public-key-pinning.html

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 100 comments

The Technology Behind Hyperlapse from Instagram

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/95922900787/hyperlapse

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 48 comments

The Guide to Not Buying a 3D Printer

http://chopmeister.blogspot.com/2014/08/sifting-through-features-or-guide-to.html

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 59 comments

Linda Sandvik Resigns As Director Of Code Club

https://gist.github.com/drtortoise/5dc254c614d6b6a19116

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 80 comments

The Arachnids That Live on Your Face

http://news.ncsu.edu/2014/08/face-mites-2014/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 32 comments

Maps that illustrate the global economy

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/26/6063749/38-maps-that-explain-the-global-economy

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 40 comments

How Google Works

http://www.howgoogleworks.net/

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 55 comments

Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/08/introducing-more-powerful-dropbox-pro/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 144 comments

How serious is the California drought? Before and after pictures

http://imgur.com/a/IgoUq

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 72 comments

Dockersh – a shell that puts users into individual docker containers

https://github.com/Yelp/dockersh

12 years ago

★ 1.2k Go Apache-2.0
110 upvotes – 30 comments

C++11 FQA anyone?

http://yosefk.com/blog/c11-fqa-anyone.html

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 87 comments

The Future Programming Manifesto

http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=893

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 106 comments

Entangled Photons Make a Picture from a Paradox

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/entangled-photons-make-a-picture-from-a-paradox/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 44 comments

Transmitting binary information from one person’s brain to another

http://www.newsweek.com/emailing-your-brainwaves-future-communication-266155

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 42 comments

A few useful things to know about machine learning (2012) [pdf]

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/pedrod/papers/cacm12.pdf

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 7 comments

Implementing a "sketch" style of rendering in webGL

http://floored.com/blog/2014/sketch-rendering.html

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 14 comments

Van Gogh Museum

http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 50 comments

Speak up

http://www.defmacro.org/2014/08/27/speakup.html

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

UX Lessons from Weebly

http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/blog/ux-lessons-from-weebly

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 12 comments

Dropbox Pro – 1 TB for $99/year

https://www.dropbox.com/pro

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 99 comments

3-D Printed Keys Can Pick High-Security Locks in Seconds

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/3d-printed-bump-keys/?mbid=social_twitter

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 62 comments

Getting Started in *Lisp (1991) [pdf]

http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/nov06/GettingStartedinStarLisp.pdf

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Pre-commit – A framework for managing multi-language pre-commit hooks

http://pre-commit.com

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Google Adds 152 Patents to Its Non-Assertion Pledge

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/26/google-adds-152-patents-to-its-non-assertion-pledge/?ncid=fb&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=fb&utm_content=FaceBook

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

State of Ethereum: August Edition

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/27/state-ethereum-august-edition/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Call emails, not phones

https://dialzoo.me/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 49 comments

What's the Real U.S. Unemployment Rate? We Have No Idea

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-27/whats-the-unemployment-rate-new-research-suggests-we-have-no-idea

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

ISA showdown: Is ARM, x86, or MIPS intrinsically more power efficient?

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188396-the-final-isa-showdown-is-arm-x86-or-mips-intrinsically-more-power-efficient

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 39 comments

Benchmarking Hubspot's S-1: How Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

http://tomtunguz.com/hubspot-ipo/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 1 comments

Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby

http://sportyapp.com

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 48 comments

It Is Not About the Money, Silly, It Is All About the Time

http://jacquesmattheij.com/it-is-not-about-the-money-silly-it-is-all-about-the-time

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 119 comments

Scientists sniffing out the Western allergy epidemic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28934415

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 45 comments

Where rump kernels are heading

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.rumpkernel.user/416

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

LendingClub Files for $500M IPO

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/27/lendingclub-files-for-500m-ipo/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 43 comments

New experiment at Fermilab focuses on nature of space itself

http://couriernews.suntimes.com/2014/08/26/new-experiment-fermilab-focuses-nature-space/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

PlotDevice: a Python-based graphics environment for the Mac

http://plotdevice.io

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 9 comments

JPMorgan and Other Banks Struck by Coordinated Cyberattack

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/technology/hackers-target-banks-including-jpmorgan.html

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

Introducing mobile A/B testing

https://mixpanel.com/mobile-ab-testing/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 22 comments

How Cops and Hackers Could Abuse California’s New Phone Kill-Switch Law

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-cops-and-hackers-could-abuse-californias-new-phone-kill-switch-law/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 32 comments

Kato.im Launches Kato Teams, a Free Chat Platform for Businesses

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/27/kato-im-launches-kato-teams-a-free-chat-platform-for-businesses/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Don’t Want Me to Recline My Airline Seat? You Can Pay Me

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/upshot/dont-want-me-to-recline-my-airline-seat-you-can-pay-me.html

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 117 comments

How Netflix came to pay Comcast for Internet traffic

http://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-to-pay-comcast-for-internet-traffic/

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 29 comments

Codefund – Crowdfunding for Aspiring Coders

https://www.codefund.io/

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 25 comments

Targeting Direct Cash Transfers to the Extremely Poor [pdf]

http://ssg.mit.edu/~krv/pubs/AbelsonVS_kdd2014.pdf

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 7 comments

Black Box Driven Development in JavaScript

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/08/black-box-driven-development-in-javascript/

12 years ago

37 upvotes – 21 comments
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