top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-09-05

Why Amazon Has No Profits and Why It Works

https://a16z.com/2014/09/05/why-amazon-has-no-profits-and-why-it-works/

12 years ago

633 upvotes – 260 comments

Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html?hn

12 years ago

398 upvotes – 137 comments

How Memorizing “$19.05” Can Help You Outsmart the MTA

http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/96700509489/how-memorizing-19-05-can-help-you-outsmart-the-mta

12 years ago

357 upvotes – 241 comments

Why a Dead Alkaline Battery Bounces [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrGV7zKEdtU

12 years ago

289 upvotes – 51 comments

Mail-in-a-Box

https://mailinabox.email/

12 years ago

250 upvotes – 88 comments

DigitalOcean Partners with CoreOS for Large-Scale Cluster Deployments

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/05/digitalocean-partners-with-coreos-to-bring-large-scale-cluster-deployments-to-its-platform/

12 years ago

245 upvotes – 58 comments

The FBI Says How It ‘Legally’ Pinpointed Silk Road’s Server

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/the-fbi-finally-says-how-it-legally-pinpointed-silk-roads-server/

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 157 comments

Building a deeper understanding of images

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/09/building-deeper-understanding-of-images.html

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 51 comments

The New Moto G

http://www.motorola.com/us/Moto-G-%282nd-Gen.%29/moto-g-2nd-gen-pdp.html

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 167 comments

Policy – A fork of the Scala compiler

https://github.com/paulp/policy/blob/master/README.md

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 114 comments

Why Dyson's robot vacuum took 16 years, and why it's headed to Japan first

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/why-dysons-robot-vacuum-took-16-years-and-why-its-headed-to-j/

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 84 comments

How Gauss Taught Us the Best Way to Hold a Pizza Slice

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/curvature-and-strength-empzeal/

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 33 comments

Bill Gates Has an Idea for a History Class

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/magazine/so-bill-gates-has-this-idea-for-a-history-class.html

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 119 comments

Scala founder: Language due for 'fundamental rethink'

http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/scala-founder-language-due-fundamental-rethink-249845

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 116 comments

Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus

http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 79 comments

Gradually sunsetting SHA-1

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/09/gradually-sunsetting-sha-1.html

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 98 comments

Dell Previews 27-inch ‘5K’ UltraSharp Monitor: 5120x2880

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8496/dell-previews-27inch-5k-ultrasharp-monitor-5120x2880

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 111 comments

AM – Attribute Modules for CSS

http://glenmaddern.com/articles/introducing-am-css

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 55 comments

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera

http://webpolicy.org/2014/09/04/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-coursera/

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 32 comments

Humans are wired for negativity

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/humans-are-wired-for-negativity-for-good-or-ill/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 33 comments
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