top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-03

Standard Markdown

http://standardmarkdown.com/

12 years ago

1167 upvotes – 366 comments

The Unexotic Underclass

http://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/

12 years ago

461 upvotes – 305 comments

CSS Shapes Editor for Chrome

http://razvancaliman.com/writing/css-shapes-editor-chrome/

12 years ago

401 upvotes – 33 comments

Logitech K480 – Bluetooth Multi-Device Keyboard

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/multi-device-keyboard-k480?crid=26

12 years ago

339 upvotes – 179 comments

Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/09/03/visualizing-garbage-collection-algorithms/

12 years ago

329 upvotes – 22 comments

Introducing split diffs

https://github.com/blog/1884-introducing-split-diffs

12 years ago

280 upvotes – 51 comments

Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data

http://www.salar.ly

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 109 comments

How to Read a Patent

http://adlervermillion.com/how-to-read-a-patent/

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 29 comments

Traction Book – A Startup Guide to Getting Customers

http://tractionbook.com/

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 35 comments

Georgia dealers want Tesla store shuttered for selling too many Teslas

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/georgia-dealers-want-tesla-store-shuttered-for-selling-too-many-teslas-192235038.html

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 205 comments

Tesla selects Nevada for battery plant

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-source-tesla-selects-nevada-battery-plant-200941469.html

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 57 comments

First US appeals court hears argument to shut down NSA database

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/first-us-appeals-court-hears-argument-to-shut-down-nsa-database/

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 49 comments

Building My Own Home Router

http://nickpegg.com/2014/8/building_my_own_home_router,_part_1.html

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 117 comments

Generative eBook Covers

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/09/03/generative-ebook-covers

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 29 comments

Perdue Says Its Hatching Chicks Are Off Antibiotics

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/03/345315380/perdue-says-its-hatching-chicks-are-off-antibiotics?sc=tw

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 43 comments

Startup Aims to Give Everyone the Mighty Shipping Power of Amazon

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/the-next-big-thing-you-missed-startup-aims-to-give-everyone-the-mighty-shipping-power-of-amazon/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 86 comments

Bitcoin Available at 10,000 Indomaret Stores in Indonesia

http://www.coinsetter.com/bitcoin-news/2014/09/03/bitcoin-available-at-10000-indomaret-stores-in-indonesia-1455

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 20 comments

Isolating Football Player Movement by Eliminating Camera Motion

http://phdfootball.blogspot.com/2014/09/isolating-player-movement-by.html

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 35 comments

Blackbox: Safely store secrets in Git

https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox

12 years ago

★ 6.7k Go MIT
150 upvotes – 43 comments

What's a Mathematician to do?

http://mathoverflow.net/a/44213

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 44 comments

Strategies to quickly become productive in an unfamiliar codebase

http://devblog.nestoria.com/post/96541221378/7-strategies-to-quickly-become-productive-in-an

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 31 comments

Highcharts – JavaScript charting framework

https://github.com/highslide-software/highcharts.com/

12 years ago

★ 12.4k TypeScript
124 upvotes – 83 comments

Langton's ant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton%27s_ant

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 42 comments

Pseudo-satellites: A cheap alternative to satellites is starting to take off

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21614095-cheap-alternative-satellites-starting-take-west-wind-blows

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 53 comments

A failed experiment: How LG screwed up its webOS acquisition

http://gigaom.com/2014/08/28/a-failed-experiment-how-lg-screwed-up-its-webos-acquisition/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 75 comments

Sergey Aleynikov Loses in Goldman Fight Over Fees

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-03/ex-goldman-programmer-s-legal-fee-advance-rejected.html

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 45 comments

Founder Stories: Tracy Young of PlanGrid (YC W12)

http://blog.ycombinator.com/founder-stories-tracy-young-of-plangrid-yc-w12

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8266016

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 207 comments

Actors, Green Threads and CSP on the JVM

http://boundary.com/blog/2014/09/03/no-you-cant-have-a-pony/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 47 comments

Go Builder Plan

http://golang.org/s/builderplan

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

3 mutations that created the Ice Bucket Virus

http://blog.99.co/?p=433

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 4 comments

Typesafe’s Commitment to the Scala Ecosystem

http://typesafe.com/blog/typesafes-commitment-to-the-scala-ecosystem

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 19 comments

Say hello to x64 Assembly, Part 2

http://0xax.blogspot.com/2014/09/say-hello-to-x64-assembly-part-2.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

A Very Rare Book: The mystery surrounding a copy of Galileo’s pivotal treatise

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/16/a-very-rare-book

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 12 comments

Facebook is down

https://www.facebook.com/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 51 comments

Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026698/inside-duckduckgo-googles-tiniest-fiercest-competitor

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

New Google lab working on quantum computing hardware

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530516/google-launches-effort-to-build-its-own-quantum-computer/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

Phone Firewall Identifies Rogue Cell Towers Trying to Intercept Your Calls

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/cryptophone-firewall-identifies-rogue-cell-towers/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

C11 Lock-free Stack

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/09/02/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 11 comments

Testing Emacs Packages: surprisingly non-awful

http://jamesporter.me/2014/05/15/testing-elisp.html

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

JSX: XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript – Draft specification

http://facebook.github.io/jsx/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 43 comments

I disagree with Turing and Kahneman regarding the strength of statistical evidence

http://andrewgelman.com/2014/09/03/disagree-alan-turing-daniel-kahneman-regarding-strength-statistical-evidence/#.VAcdcfPG37I.twitter

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

Physicists Take Low-Light Images Using Less Than One Photon per Pixel

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/researchers-take-low-light-images-using-less-than-one-photon-per-pixel-22f03c391235

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking (2012)

http://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

Standard Flavored Markdown

http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-flavored-markdown/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 3 comments

Using BGP data to find Spammers

http://www.bgpmon.net/using-bgp-data-to-find-spammers/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Samsung's Gear VR Is a Portable Oculus Rift for the Galaxy Note 4

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/3/6098745/samsung-gear-vr-oculus-announcement-hands-on

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 33 comments

Productivity and the Work Week (2000)

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 41 comments

Methylphenidate Exposure Induces Dopamine Neuron Loss in Mice

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0033693

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: NodeGear – Node.js hosting on Docker

https://nodegear.com/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 43 comments

ZooKeeper primer and use cases

https://www.found.no/foundation/ZooKeeper-King-of-Coordination/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 7 comments

Facebook Is Down on Web and Mobile in Several Parts of the World

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/03/why-is-facebook-down/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

The Games That Never Were: Sim Gotham

http://www.videogametourism.at/node/2041/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Create a food ordering app like JustEat with AngularJS

http://blog.stamplay.com/create-a-food-ordering-app-like-justeat-with-angularjs/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

Lending Club Can Be a Better Bank Than the Banks

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-27/lending-club-can-be-a-better-bank-than-the-banks

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 50 comments

Django 1.7 released

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

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 1 comments

Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming (2009) [pdf]

http://research.scee.net/files/presentations/gcapaustralia09/Pitfalls_of_Object_Oriented_Programming_GCAP_09.pdf

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Clojure Transducers: An Approachable Overview

https://gist.github.com/ptaoussanis/e537bd8ffdc943bbbce7

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

The bttn – the simplest user interface

http://bt.tn/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 63 comments

ZenPayroll (YC W12) Gives Small Business the Tech Tools of Big Business

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/zenpayroll-gives-small-business-the-tech-tools-of-big-business/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 2 comments
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