top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-01

Mosh: A replacement for SSH

https://mosh.mit.edu/

12 years ago

402 upvotes – 122 comments

Batsh – A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch

http://batsh.org/

12 years ago

400 upvotes – 124 comments

My year with a distraction-free iPhone

https://medium.com/@jakek/my-year-with-a-distraction-free-iphone-and-how-to-start-your-own-experiment-6ff74a0e7a50

12 years ago

286 upvotes – 181 comments

Our Use of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/01/344043763/our-use-of-little-words-can-uh-reveal-hidden-interests

12 years ago

255 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252715

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 324 comments

Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/aug/31/plants-offices-workers-productive-minimalist-employees

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 91 comments

Urgent security warning that may affect all internet users

http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2014/09/01/urgent-security-warning-may-affect-internet-users/

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 116 comments

Shenzhen trip report – visiting the world's manufacturing ecosystem

http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2014/09/01/shenzhen-trip-r.html

12 years ago

203 upvotes – 70 comments

How I Start: Go

http://howistart.org/posts/go/1

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 35 comments

The Advanced Cave Culling Algorithm – making Minecraft faster

https://tomcc.github.io/2014/08/31/visibility-1.html

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 24 comments

Fourier Image Filtering

http://david.li/filtering

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 48 comments

The Wolf

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-wolf/

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 69 comments

Predicting the next Math.random() in Java

http://franklinta.com/2014/08/31/predicting-the-next-math-random-in-java/

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 56 comments

AppleID password brute force proof-of-concept

https://github.com/hackappcom/ibrute

12 years ago

★ 1.3k Python
141 upvotes – 80 comments

Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro

https://gist.github.com/kgabis/d06211c29439ee01a5ab

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 139 comments

Kotlin, the Swift of Android

http://blog.gouline.net/2014/08/31/kotlin-the-swift-of-android/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252732

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 213 comments

The End of Big Twitter

http://text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2014/08/the-end-of-big-twitter.html

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 92 comments

Go’s runtime C to Go rewrite, by the numbers

http://dave.cheney.net/2014/09/01/gos-runtime-c-to-go-rewrite-by-the-numbers

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 48 comments

Machine Learning Cheat Sheet Map

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/machine_learning_map/index.html

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 17 comments

Hackers Build a Skype That’s Not Controlled by Microsoft

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/tox/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 39 comments

Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems

http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 58 comments

Let's Make a Promo – Creating Videos for Apps

https://medium.com/@djfumberger/lets-make-a-promo-d32e15d574b7

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 14 comments

String Deduplication – A new feature in Java 8 Update 20

https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2014/08/string-deduplication-new-feature-java-8-update-20-2/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 39 comments

What your first-grade life says about the rest of it

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/29/what-your-1st-grade-life-says-about-the-rest-of-it

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 58 comments

An Overview of Kernel Lock Improvements [pdf]

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/linuxcon-2014-locking-final.pdf

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 11 comments

The Poor Man's Triple Headed Display

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/bchafy/lood.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 43 comments

Google 'discourages' users of old browsers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29012038

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 115 comments

A girl with three biological parents

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28986843

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 80 comments

Ivory Language: an eDSL for safe systems programming in Haskell

http://ivorylang.org/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 2 comments

Subverting hierarchy with Git

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/subverting_hierarchy_with_git/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 5 comments

CodeSpells – Craft Magical Spells Using Code [video]

http://codespells.org/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

Library to diff DOM changes with PhantomJs

https://github.com/fouber/page-monitor

12 years ago

★ 2k JavaScript
64 upvotes – 3 comments

How do dolphins sleep without drowning? [video]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/videos/category/ask-smithsonian/ask-smithsonian-how-do-dolphins-sleep-witho/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

The U.S. Navy Tests Its Ships in This Indoor Ocean

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/navy-tests-ships-indoor-ocean-180952431/?no-ist

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 38 comments

How and why we defeated DirCrypt

https://www.checkpoint.com/download/public-files/TCC_WP_Hacking_The_Hacker.pdf

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252725

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 116 comments

The McCollough Effect

http://www.cheswick.com/ches/projects/me/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

2Q buffer cache algorithm

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/2Q-buffer-cache-algorithm

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails

http://blog.mccartie.com/2014/08/28/digital-ocean.html

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: How do you manage time between working and “absorption”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8251929

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 37 comments
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