top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-31

FTP Server at LSUHealth New Orleans

http://samsclass.info/125/proj11/conway.htm

12 years ago

342 upvotes – 95 comments

I Ghostwrite Chinese Students' Ivy League Admissions Essays

http://www.vice.com/read/i-ghostwrote-hundreds-of-chinese-students-ivy-league-admissions-essays-897

12 years ago

282 upvotes – 217 comments

Notes on bookmarks from 1997

https://notes.pinboard.in/u:vitorio/05dec9f04909d9b6edff

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 52 comments

Common App Rejections

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/rejections/

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 128 comments

71 TiB DIY NAS Based on ZFS on Linux

http://louwrentius.com/74tb-diy-nas-based-on-zfs-on-linux.html

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 129 comments

If programming languages were weapons

http://bjorn.tipling.com/if-programming-languages-were-weapons

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 63 comments

Boeing Flies on 99% Ada

http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 157 comments

Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140831.html

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 42 comments

AnandTech Publisher Anand Shimpi Headed to Apple

http://recode.net/2014/08/31/veteran-tech-journalist-anand-shimpi-headed-to-apple/

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 48 comments

Avoiding Event Chains in Single Page Applications

http://www.code-experience.com/avoiding-event-chains-in-single-page-applications/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 63 comments

Popping a shell on the Oculus developer portal

https://bitquark.co.uk/blog/2014/08/31/popping_a_shell_on_the_oculus_developer_portal

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 16 comments

Bayesian vs. frequentist: squabbling among the ignorant

http://madhadron.com/posts/2014-08-30-frequentist_and_bayesian_statistics.html

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 38 comments

DebConf 2014's QA with Linus Torvalds [video]

http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/QA_with_Linus_Torvalds.webm

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

Curl.io – Share files from your terminal or ssh

http://curl.io/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 65 comments

Embedding Scheme for a game mission scripting DSL

http://carloscarrasco.com/embedding-scheme-for-a-game-mission-scripting-dsl.html

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 24 comments

A call to arms: Helping Internet services accept anonymous users

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-anonymous-users

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 15 comments

Richard Dawkins' response to “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?"

http://edge.org/response-detail/25366

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 71 comments

A Financial Model Comparing Car Ownership with UberX in Los Angeles

http://gohe.ro/1wVkvkj

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 111 comments

This is why you never end up hiring good developers

http://qz.com/258066/this-is-why-you-dont-hire-good-developers/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 50 comments

Apple Working with American Express on iPhone 6 Mobile Payments

http://recode.net/2014/08/31/apple-partnering-with-american-express-on-new-iphone-payments-system/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 75 comments
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