top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-04

Twitpic is shutting down

http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/

12 years ago

477 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: Famous Outfits

http://famousoutfits.com/

12 years ago

358 upvotes – 201 comments

New York Police Officers to Begin Wearing Body Cameras in Pilot Program

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/nyregion/new-york-police-officers-to-begin-wearing-body-cameras-in-pilot-program.html

12 years ago

299 upvotes – 200 comments

How to zero a buffer

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-09-04-how-to-zero-a-buffer.html

12 years ago

277 upvotes – 208 comments

Standard Markdown Is Now Common Markdown

http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/

12 years ago

263 upvotes – 220 comments

Designing a Personal Knowledgebase

http://www.acuriousmix.com/2014/09/03/designing-a-personal-knowledgebase/

12 years ago

246 upvotes – 117 comments

Startup CEOs who gave up fortunes to turn employees into millionaires

http://www.businessinsider.com/non-greedy-startup-ceos-who-turned-employees-into-millionaires-2014-9

12 years ago

230 upvotes – 138 comments

White House Names Google’s Megan Smith the Next CTO of the US

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/04/white-house-names-googles-megan-smith-the-next-chief-technology-officer-of-the-united-states/

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 93 comments

Why Walking Helps Us Think

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/walking-helps-us-think

12 years ago

211 upvotes – 50 comments

BankAPI

https://github.com/trustly/bankapi/

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 85 comments

React Components

http://react-components.com/

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 63 comments

Deep sea 'mushroom' may be new branch of life

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29054889

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 30 comments

One hundred rules for NASA project managers (1995) [pdf]

http://www.oliverlehmann.com/project-management-sources/Nasa-Hundred-Rules-for-Project-Managers.pdf

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 34 comments

Dyson 360 Eye

http://www.dyson360eye.com/

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 162 comments

Yao Ming aims to save Africa's elephants by persuading China to give up ivory

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ex-rocket-yao-ming-aims-to-save-africas-elephants--with-china-campaign/2014/09/03/87ebbe2a-d3e1-4283-964e-8d87dea397d6_story.html

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 38 comments

A visual guide to selling Software as a Service

http://www.slideshare.net/prezly/visual-guide-to-selling-software-as-a-service-by-prezly

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Bootstrappers.io – A community for business bootstrappers

http://www.bootstrappers.io/

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Interactive guide to Tetris in ClojureScript

http://shaunlebron.com/t3tr0s-slides

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 15 comments

Dreadnoughtus, a 130,000-Pound Dinosaur That Wasn’t Done Growing

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/09/04/this-is-the-kind-of-dinosaur-you-find-in-hollywood

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 52 comments

Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Will Too

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/etsy-ceo-to-businesses-if-net-neutrality-perishes-we-will-too/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 98 comments

YC Investment Policy and Email List

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-investment-policy-and-email-list

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 36 comments

Nearly All U.S. Home Depot Stores Hit By Credit Card Theft

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/data-nearly-all-u-s-home-depot-stores-hit/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 111 comments

Scotland's Decision

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8699/index.html

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 127 comments

Uber Is Currently Fighting the Battle That Jitneys Lost 100 Years Ago

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/uber-is-currently-fighting-the-battle-that-jitneys-lost-1629552478

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 77 comments

Calico, Google’s Anti-Aging Company, Announces New Research Facility

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/googles-anti-aging-company-announces-new-research-facility/?ref=technology

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 61 comments

Go Execution Modes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nr-TQHw_er6GOQRsF6T43GGhFDelrAP0NqSS_00RgZQ

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 51 comments

Socket.io 1.1.0 released

http://socket.io/blog/socket-io-1-1-0/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 22 comments

Where does Ruby go from here?

http://blog.sefindustries.com/the-happiness-manifesto/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Give 7 billion people a physical address

http://locationawarenames.org/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 103 comments

OMG Markdown

http://spinhalf.net/omg-markdown/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 86 comments

Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Using Wage Earnings to Support a New Business (2012) [pdf]

http://www.frbatlanta.org/documents/news/conferences/13rdc/s2_p1_new_firms_Perez.pdf

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 39 comments

Portugal's growing number of young entrepreneurs

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29027462

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

Peter Thiel's Contrarian Strategy

http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-contrarian-strategy

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Super Looper – Disco Sequencer App

http://superlooper.universlabs.co.uk/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 36 comments

Secret Network Connects Harvard Money to Payday Loans

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-04/secret-network-connects-harvard-money-to-payday-loans.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 55 comments

Google Chromebook Comparison Chart

http://prodct.info/chromebooks/?

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

LogMeIn has acquired Meldium (YC W13)

https://blog.meldium.com/home/2014/9/4/announcing-logmein-meldium

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 40 comments

How Samsung's VR Headset Convinced John Carmack to Join Oculus VR

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/samsung-gear-vr-john-carmack/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 51 comments

American Horror, Ivy League Edition

http://www.newsweek.com/american-horror-ivy-league-edition-263448

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 55 comments

How Caffeine Evolved to Help Plants Survive and Help People Wake Up

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/science/how-caffeine-evolved-to-help-plants-survive-and-help-people-wake-up.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

Wordpress 4.0

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.0

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 41 comments

The Science of Crawl, Part 1: Deduplication of Web Content

http://blog.urx.com/urx-blog/2014/9/4/the-science-of-crawl-part-1-deduplication-of-web-content

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: MealDays – Meal planner for my wife

http://www.mealdays.com

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 75 comments

When Feces Is the Best Medicine

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/when-feces-is-the-best-medicine/379491/?single_page=true

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

A new basis for open, distributed, real-time communication

http://matrix.org/blog/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 37 comments

Life outside the lab: The ones who got away

http://www.nature.com/news/life-outside-the-lab-the-ones-who-got-away-1.15802

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 28 comments

MEAN Development Stack on Google Compute Engine

https://developers.google.com/cloud/mean/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 25 comments

Ideal Image Slider

http://gilbitron.github.io/Ideal-Image-Slider

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 36 comments

Why a Tennessee town has the fastest internet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-echochambers-29038650

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

The Worst Amazon Horror Story I Have Ever Heard

http://www.startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-business/amazon-fba-program/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

The Long View on Macintosh Common Lisp (2013)

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2013/2/17_Macintosh_Common_Lisp.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 20 comments

Donald MacKenzie on high-frequency trading

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n17/donald-mackenzie/be-grateful-for-drizzle

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 102 comments

The Hazards of Going on Autopilot

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/hazards-automation

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 27 comments

Andrew Kay, founder of Kaypro, dies at 95

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/sep/03/andrew-kay-mit-kaypro-computers-pioneer/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Why my children were lucky to get accepted to a Finnish school in Qatar

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/why-my-children-were-lucky-to-get-accepted-to-a-finnish-school-in-qatar/article20284411/?page=all

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 69 comments

StatusPage.io's User Onboarding Toolbox

http://blog.statuspage.io/our-user-onboarding-toolbox

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

IKEA Channels Apple in a Hilarious Ad for Its New Catalog ‘Bookbook’

http://time.com/3265308/ikea-catalog-2015/

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 27 comments

Untangling the God Object

http://werve.net/articles/untangling-the-god-object/

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 27 comments

Microsoft gears up to mass produce large-screen touch displays

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-gears-up-to-mass-produce-large-screen-touch-displays-7000033257/

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Mjolnir, an automation/productivity app for OS X

http://mjolnir.io/

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 29 comments
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