top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-28

Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6074177/coffee-naps-caffeine-science

12 years ago

470 upvotes – 161 comments

Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience

https://medium.com/@zmh/bye-google-maps-ea3ea10f84dc

12 years ago

355 upvotes – 168 comments

Hal Finney being cryopreserved now

http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2014-August/082585.html

12 years ago

300 upvotes – 269 comments

Readings in Databases

http://rxin.github.io/db-readings/

12 years ago

278 upvotes – 45 comments

Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal

https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/wiki/KeyDistribution

12 years ago

261 upvotes – 92 comments

Myths About Working as an Engineer at a Startup

http://karllhughes.com/2014/myths-working-engineer-startup/

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 137 comments

Inside Google’s Drone-Delivery Program

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/inside-googles-secret-drone-delivery-program/379306/?single_page=true

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 112 comments

The executive order that led to mass spying, as told by NSA alumni

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/a-twisted-history-how-a-reagan-era-executive-order-led-to-mass-spying/

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 89 comments

With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/with-30-million-more-in-hand-ifttt-looks-to-the-internet-of-things/

12 years ago

203 upvotes – 90 comments

Live map of Russia advancing into Ukraine

http://liveuamap.com/?ll=48.11679266819489;37.739980468749984&zoom=8

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 171 comments

Hal Finney: Bitcoin and me (2013)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.msg1643833#msg1643833

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 17 comments

Minting Money with Monero and CPU Vector Intrinsics

http://da-data.blogspot.com/2014/08/minting-money-with-monero-and-cpu.html

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 19 comments

Who's in the Office? The American Workday in One Graph

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/08/27/343415569/whos-in-the-office-the-american-workday-in-one-graph

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 36 comments

Brazil dismantles 'biggest destroyer' of Amazon rainforest

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28961554

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 23 comments

User Experience Design Learning Path

http://www.mysliderule.com/learning-paths/user-experience-design

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 37 comments

Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition

http://news.railstutorial.org/rails_tutorial_3rd_edition/

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 46 comments

Hidden treasure in the D standard library

http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-library/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 29 comments

Google removes authorship from search results

https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 75 comments

How the 'Kung Fu Fighting' Melody Came to Represent Asia

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/08/28/338622840/how-the-kung-fu-fighting-melody-came-to-represent-asia

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

ZeroTier: Network Virtualization Everywhere

https://www.zerotier.com/index.html

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: LuaJIT FFI binding to libuv with coroutines

https://github.com/pguillory/luajit-libuv

12 years ago

★ 191 Lua MIT
101 upvotes – 35 comments

Wire Recorder Project: Recovering old family recordings made on steel wire

http://www.gentweb.co.uk/wirerecorder.htm

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 28 comments

Computers Aren’t Fast Anymore (2013)

http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2013/02/computers-arent-fast-anymore.html

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 110 comments

SeatGeek Raises $35M

http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/the-next-five-years/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Impulse – Dynamic JS Animations for the Mobile Web

http://impulse.luster.io

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 31 comments

Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples

http://lispm.de/symbolics-ui-examples/symbolics-ui-examples.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

Little Free Library

http://littlefreelibrary.org/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

Rudder: An etcd backed overlay network for containers

https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-rudder/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 15 comments

High-achieving men and women are described differently in reviews

http://fortune.com/2014/08/26/performance-review-gender-bias/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 83 comments

PHP 5.6.0

http://php.net/index.php#id2014-08-28-1

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: What are some Bay Area startups that don't use an open office plan?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8237676

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 73 comments

Medicare: Not Such a Budget-Buster Anymore

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/upshot/medicare-not-such-a-budget-buster-anymore.html?src=me&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Most%20Emailed&pgtype=article&abt=0002&abg=1

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 21 comments

An Overview of the Dylan Type System

http://dylanfoundry.org/2014/08/28/type-system-overview/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: SuperTrip

http://www.supertripgame.com/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Call by Meaning [pdf]

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2014003_callbymeaning.pdf

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

What would a UK flag look like without Scotland?

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/august/what-the-fuk

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

Why haven't China's cities learned from America's mistakes?

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/aug/20/why-havent-chinas-cities-learned-from-americas-mistakes

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 61 comments

Hidden obstacles for self driving cars

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530276/hidden-obstacles-for-googles-self-driving-cars/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 81 comments

Student-Built Apps Teach Colleges a Thing or Two

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/nyregion/students-inventing-programs-to-streamline-their-colleges-data.html

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

C++14 lambda tutorial

https://solarianprogrammer.com/2014/08/28/cpp-14-lambda-tutorial/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

The Expanding World of Poverty Capitalism

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/opinion/thomas-edsall-the-expanding-world-of-poverty-capitalism.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 100 comments

Isobuild: why Meteor created a new package system

https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/08/28/isobuild-why-meteor-created-a-new-package-system

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 51 comments

SWAT Team Detains Popular Gamer Who Was Live-Streaming ‘Counter-Strike’

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/27/swat-team-detains-popular-gamer-who-was-live-streaming-counter-strike/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 53 comments

DNA from hagfish being used to synthesize bulletproof slime

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dna-from-this-ugly-fish-is-being-used-to-synthesize-bulletproof-slime?trk_source=popular

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

CoffeeScript 1.8 released

http://coffeescript.org/#changelog

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

Brian Stevens to Step Down as CTO of Red Hat

http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/brian-stevens-step-down-cto-red-hat

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

Detroit Is America’s Emerging Market

http://time.com/3204249/detroit-americas-emerging-market/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 52 comments

Ophal – A Lua web platform

http://ophal.org/about

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

Leap Motion sets a course for VR

https://community.leapmotion.com/t/leap-motion-sets-a-course-for-vr/1642

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments

Data from Yelp's Dataset Challenge

https://www.statwing.com/demos/yelp-dataset-challenge#workspaces/21456

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

How Modular Is Intelligence?

http://www.unz.com/pfrost/how-modular-is-intelligence/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 11 comments

Microsoft, Google, others Co-Author Real-Time Communications Specification

http://msopentech.com/blog/2014/08/19/microsoft-google-hookflash-others-co-author-real-time-communications-specification/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Orfox: New Firefox-based Android Private/Secure Browser

https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2014-August/003717.html

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 24 comments

America’s Tech Guru Steps Down, But He’s Not Done Rebooting the Government

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/healthcare-gov/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 37 comments

The criminalisation of American business

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21614138-companies-must-be-punished-when-they-do-wrong-legal-system-has-become-extortion

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 69 comments

The Mathematics of Herding Sheep

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-mathematics-of-herding-sheep

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments

Likely the most painful password hashing discussion you'll ever read

https://scott.arciszewski.me/misc/Linkedin/Fail.html

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 110 comments
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