top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-29

Yahoo stopping all new development of YUI

http://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/96098168666/important-announcement-regarding-yui

12 years ago

450 upvotes – 223 comments

Leading Anti-Marijuana Academics Are Paid by Painkiller Drug Companies

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/leading-anti-marijuana-academics-are-paid-by-painkiller-drug-companies

12 years ago

293 upvotes – 90 comments

Submarine Cable Map 2014

http://submarine-cable-map-2014.telegeography.com/#

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 110 comments

Conrod – A Rust GUI Library

http://blog.piston.rs/2014/08/30/conrod-update/

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 70 comments

Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2014/08/29/intel-unleashes-its-first-8-core-desktop-processor?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 145 comments

Chartist – Simple responsive charts

http://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 49 comments

At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140818-at-multiverse-impasse-a-new-theory-of-scale/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 140 comments

From the startup who allegedly stole software and raised $2M with it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8242361

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 109 comments

Show HN: Chan – pure C implementation of Go channels

https://github.com/tylertreat/chan

12 years ago

★ 1.4k Shell Apache-2.0
150 upvotes – 44 comments

Quantum Gravity Expert Says "Philosophical Superficiality" Has Harmed Physics

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2014/08/21/quantum-gravity-expert-says-philosophical-superficiality-has-harmed-physics/?-k

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 70 comments

Roadmap to Alpha Centauri

http://nautil.us/issue/3/in-transit/roadmap-to-alpha-centauri?utm_source=tss&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=linkfrom_feature

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 63 comments

The Art of Profitability

http://codingvc.com/the-art-of-profitability

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 18 comments

Coinbase Insured

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/95927658922/coinbase-insured

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 41 comments

Building Clojure services at scale

http://blog.josephwilk.net/clojure/building-clojure-services-at-scale.html

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 21 comments

Pump and Dump: How To Rig the IPO Market with $20M

http://wolfstreet.com/2014/08/28/how-to-rig-the-entire-ipo-market-with-just-20-million/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 63 comments

Inside One of the World's Largest Bitcoin Mines

http://www.thecoinsman.com/2014/08/bitcoin/inside-one-worlds-largest-bitcoin-mines/

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 103 comments

Bhyve – BSD Hypervisor

http://bhyve.org/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 61 comments

How to choose?

http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/is-the-most-rational-choice-the-random-one/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 94 comments

Fix the versioning

https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/1805

12 years ago

★ 27.3k JavaScript MIT
115 upvotes – 78 comments

What People Cured of Blindness See

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/people-cured-blindness-see

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 31 comments

If You Want to See Inequality in the U.S. at Its Worst, Visit an Impound Lot

http://time.com/3182726/if-you-want-to-see-inequality-in-the-u-s-at-its-worst-visit-an-impound-lot/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 121 comments

Y Combinator to recruit more black entrepreneurs

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/08/29/y-combinator-diversity-black-entrepreneurs/14743163/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 74 comments

Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Negative Effects

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/530401/evidence-grows-that-online-social-networks-have-insidious-negative-effects/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 43 comments

Perf.fail – Do, learn, fail forward

http://perf.fail/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 12 comments

Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (2011)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2245

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

India Opens 15M Bank Accounts in Modi’s Inclusion Drive

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-28/india-opens-15-million-bank-accounts-in-modi-s-inclusion-drive.html

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 37 comments

How We Work on Queries at GitHub

http://samlambert.com/posts/how-we-work-on-queries-at-gitHub/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Taming math and physics using SymPy [pdf]

http://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pdf

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

Go interfaces make test stubbing easy

http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-interfaces-make-test-stubbing-easy

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

New Sublime Text 3 New Beta

http://www.sublimetext.com/3

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 48 comments

Is De-Skilling Killing Arts Education?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/f-scott-hess/is-deskilling-killing-you_b_5631214.html

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 68 comments

Keurig competitors crack company's DRM code

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/keurig-competitors-crack-companys-drm-code-082814.html

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 88 comments

Roche Biochemical Pathways charts – navigable and annotated

http://www.roche.com/sustainability/for_communities_and_environment/philanthropy/science_education/pathways.htm

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Howm – A Vim-like tiling X11 window manager

https://github.com/HarveyHunt/howm

12 years ago

★ 659 C GPL-2.0
71 upvotes – 60 comments

A look at Assembly, the community that founds companies

http://cmxhub.com/a-look-behind-the-curtains-at-assembly-the-new-community-that-founds-companies/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

Haskell performance profiling with ghc-events-analyze

http://www.well-typed.com/blog/86/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 1 comments

Social sciences suffer from severe publication bias

http://www.nature.com/news/social-sciences-suffer-from-severe-publication-bias-1.15787

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 52 comments

Galileo satellites experience orbital injection anomaly on Soyuz launch

http://www.arianespace.com/news-press-release/2014/8-23-2014.asp

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 90 comments

Vikram Chandra Is a Novelist Who’s Obsessed with Writing Computer Code

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/29/vikram-chandra-is-a-novelist-who-s-obsessed-with-writing-computer-code.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

Why Semantic Versioning Isn't

https://gist.github.com/jashkenas/cbd2b088e20279ae2c8e

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 35 comments

These are the rules

http://www.internetrules.info/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 29 comments

Ebola: Experimental drug ZMapp is '100% effective' in animal trials

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28980153

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 47 comments

Apache Software Foundation Now Accepts Bitcoin Donations

http://newsbtc.com/2014/08/29/apache-software-foundation-now-accepts-bitcoin-donations/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

Bonuses Are the New Raises

http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2014/08/27/bonuses-are-the-new-raises/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 50 comments

Bitcoin’s Earliest Adopter Is Cryonically Freezing His Body to See the Future

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: Tech stories with lots of conversation in past 24 hours

http://knowabout.it

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 28 comments

Tripping through IBM’s 1937 corporate songbook

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/tripping-through-ibms-astonishingly-insane-1937-corporate-songbook/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 17 comments

Arthur T. Demoulas on return to Market Basket [video]

http://www.wmur.com/money/raw-video-arthur-t-demoulas-on-return-to-market-basket/27770312#!bMgREg

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 18 comments

An airfoil that will never stall, no matter the angle of attack

http://www.propulsivewing.com/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

The Poisoning of Africa's Vultures

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/opinion/the-poisoning-of-africas-vultures.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

My self-contained Tmux configuration

https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux/

12 years ago

★ 24.7k Shell MIT
45 upvotes – 23 comments

TermsFeed – Privacy Policy Generator

https://termsfeed.com/

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 24 comments

Lyft-Off: Zimride’s Long Road to Overnight Success

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/29/6000-words-about-a-pink-mustache/

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 11 comments

Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10

http://code.zynga.com/2014/08/zyngas-first-foray-into-webgl-and-how-it-runs-on-ie10/

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 33 comments
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