top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-02

Failing the startup game at Unbabel

http://esoteric-code.blogspot.com/2014/09/failing-startup-game-unbabel-yc2014.html

12 years ago

536 upvotes – 235 comments

What I use instead of Google services

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2014/09/what-i-use-instead-of-google-services.html

12 years ago

424 upvotes – 293 comments

Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

https://www.nikcub.com/posts/notes-on-the-celebrity-data-theft/

12 years ago

366 upvotes – 274 comments

Django 1.7 Released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/sep/02/release-17-final/

12 years ago

356 upvotes – 61 comments

Email will last forever

http://blog.frontapp.com/email-will-last-forever/

12 years ago

350 upvotes – 162 comments

How a new HTML element will make the Web faster

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/how-a-new-html-element-will-make-the-web-faster/

12 years ago

311 upvotes – 145 comments

Holdout

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/holdout/

12 years ago

264 upvotes – 60 comments

Uber ordered to halt transportation services in Germany

http://www.dw.de/smartphone-app-uber-ordered-to-halt-transportation-services-in-germany/a-17894286

12 years ago

258 upvotes – 425 comments

A Call for a Low-Carb Diet

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/health/low-carb-vs-low-fat-diet.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 240 comments

A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap4.html

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 80 comments

Gridlock vs. Bottlenecks: A visual explanation

http://setosa.io/blog/2014/09/02/gridlock/index.html

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 17 comments

Making MySQL Better at GitHub

https://github.com/blog/1880-making-mysql-better-at-github

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 140 comments

Lost Lessons from 8-Bit BASIC

http://prog21.dadgum.com/198.html

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 80 comments

Mailvelope – OpenPGP Encryption for Webmail

https://www.mailvelope.com/

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 78 comments

Drawbridge

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 44 comments

Time Travel Simulation Resolves “Grandfather Paradox”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-travel-simulation-resolves-grandfather-paradox/

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 124 comments

React vs. Ember – EmberNYC slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1afMLTCpRxhJpurQ97VBHCZkLbR1TEsRnd3yyxuSQ5YY

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 66 comments

The skyline problem

https://briangordon.github.io/2014/08/the-skyline-problem.html

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 44 comments

There Are Only Two Weeks Left to Comment on Net Neutrality

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/02/there-are-only-two-weeks-left-to-comment-on-net-neutrality/

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 26 comments

Typelevel Scala and the future of the Scala ecosystem

http://typelevel.org/blog/2014/09/02/typelevel-scala.html

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 76 comments

Who wrote the text for the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog in Windows 3.1?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/09/02/10554253.aspx

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 30 comments

Early Modern Recipes (1600-1800) in a Modern Kitchen

http://rarecooking.wordpress.com/

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 41 comments

High-Performance Packet Filtering with Pflua

http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/09/02/high-performance-packet-filtering-with-pflua

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 4 comments

HTTP/2 interop pains

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/09/02/http2-interop-pains/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: RandomStartup.org – Refresh the page to discover another startup

http://www.randomstartup.org/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 45 comments

Hacking Hearthstone with machine learning – Defcon talk wrap-up

http://www.elie.net/blog/hearthstone/i-am-a-legend-hacking-hearthstone-with-machine-learning-defcon-talk-wrap-up

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 31 comments

Neurons in human skin perform advanced calculations

http://www.medfak.umu.se/english/about-the-faculty/news/newsdetailpage/neurons-in-human-skin-perform-advanced-calculations.cid238881

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 19 comments

A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

http://uilang.com

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 45 comments

Update to Celebrity Photo Investigation

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/09/02Apple-Media-Advisory.html

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 85 comments

I'd like Caltrain to publish raw train data

http://www.stackallocated.com/caltrain-scraper/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 50 comments

Hacking a ping pong table

http://sidigital.co/blog/lab-notes-hacking-our-ping-pong-table

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Tribler – Search and stream torrents

http://www.tribler.org/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

Cottage Computer Programming (1984)

http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programming.php

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: I have to analyze 100M lines of Java – where do I start?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8257327

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 122 comments

Mysterious Phony Cell Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls

http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/mysterious-phony-cell-towers-could-be-intercepting-your-calls

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

Vellvm: Verifying the LLVM

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Estevez/vellvm/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 7 comments

The Billion-Dollar Telescope Race

http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/the-billion_dollar-telescope-race

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (1990)

http://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Virtual_Worlds/LucasfilmHabitat.html

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 64 comments

Hyperreal numbers: infinities and infinitesimals

https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905/posts/14b9fdM62un

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments

Zeplin – Collaboration app for front end developers and UI designers

https://zeplin.io

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

The End of Agile: Death by Over-Simplification

http://effectivesoftwaredesign.com/2014/03/17/the-end-of-agile-death-by-over-simplification/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 54 comments

MIPS Strikes Back: 64-bit Warrior I6400 Arrives

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8457/mips-strikes-back-64bit-warrior-i6400-architecture-arrives

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 44 comments

MasterCard-Branded National eID Card Launched in Nigeria

http://www.zdnet.com/nigeria-launches-new-biometric-id-card-brought-to-you-by-mastercard-7000033133/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 62 comments

More Workers Are Claiming ‘Wage Theft’

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/business/more-workers-are-claiming-wage-theft.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 54 comments

No One Tweets Like the Japanese, and That Was a Problem for Twitter

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/how-twitter-handles-traffic-from-the-japanese-who-tweet-like-no-one-else/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 50 comments

Drug Market ‘Agora’ Replaces the Silk Road as King of the Dark Net

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/agora-bigger-than-silk-road/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 48 comments

The unstoppable TI-84 Plus: How an outdated calculator still holds a monopoly

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/09/02/the-unstoppable-ti-84-plus-how-an-outdated-calculator-still-holds-a-monopoly-on-classrooms/?hpid=z13

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 75 comments

A Google Site Meant to Protect Is Helping Hackers Attack

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/how-hackers-use-virustotal/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Home Depot Investigates a Possible Data Breach

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/technology/home-depot-data-breach.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Scsh – Scheme as a Unix shell

http://scsh.net/about/what.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

Colour Science for Python

http://colour-science.org/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

Support for writing GHC passes in Coq

http://www.megacz.com/berkeley/coq-in-ghc/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Awesome-radio – a curated list of radio resources and information

https://github.com/kyleterry/awesome-radio

12 years ago

★ 299 MIT
51 upvotes – 4 comments

Linux Laptop Recommendations

http://jc00ke.com/2014/09/02/linux-laptop-recommendations/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: What is HN reading?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8257369

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 90 comments

Inside the Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma (2011)

http://www.wired.com/2011/09/ff_uvb76/all/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 21 comments

An Inside Look at Anonymous, the Radical Hacking Collective

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/08/masked-avengers

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 16 comments
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