top 50% 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

The U.S. Government's Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use-economic-espionage-benefit-american-corporations/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 16 comments

Unreal Engine Marketplace now open

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/marketplace-now-open-for-business

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

Carmack reveals the challenges of mobile VR game development

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/224894/QA_Carmack_reveals_the_challenges_of_mobile_VR_game_development.php

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 43 comments

CoreOS Image Now Available on DigitalOcean

https://coreos.com/blog/digital-ocean-supports-coreos/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 6 comments

UCLA, Cisco and more join forces to replace TCP/IP

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2602109/lan-wan/ucla-cisco-more-join-forces-to-replace-tcpip.html

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 84 comments

How Andreessen Horowitz Is Disrupting Silicon Valley

https://medium.com/@petersimsie/how-andreessen-horowitz-is-disrupting-silicon-valley-208041d6375d

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 57 comments

Nevada strikes $1.25B tax break deal with Tesla

http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/09/04/nevada-strikes-billion-tax-break-deal-tesla/15096777/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 106 comments

Configuring Rails Environments

http://eng.joingrouper.com/blog/2014/09/02/configuring-rails-environments/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 24 comments

JPMorgan Suffered Exodus of Tech Talent Before Breach by Hackers

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-05/jpmorgan-had-exodus-of-tech-talent-before-hacker-breach.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 51 comments

Why CommonMark Isn't the Solution

https://ariabuckles.github.io/blog/common-markdown/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 53 comments

How ACH works: A developer perspective – Part 4

http://engineering.zenpayroll.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-perspective-part-4/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 27 comments

Motorola Announces the New Moto X

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8491/the-new-moto-x-intial-impressions-and-hands-on

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 74 comments

Essential Coding Theory

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~atri/courses/coding-theory/book/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

Subnetcube – An anonymous minimal discussion board for individual subnets

http://subnetcube.com

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 43 comments

Scaling Redis at Twitter [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP9EKvWt0zo

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

What Every Startup Need to Know About IP in China

http://formdevices.com/blog/No-Fools-Errand.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

The importance of honoring pro-rata agreements

http://www.aaronkharris.com/the-importance-of-honoring-pro-rata-agreements

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 56 comments

Today We’re Eating the Winners of the 1948 Chicken of Tomorrow Contest

http://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/today-eating-winners-1948-chicken-tomorrow-contest/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 66 comments

Moto 360 review

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/5/6108947/moto-360-review

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 73 comments

Your Own Indoor, Hydroponic Grove

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3035102/your-very-own-indoor-hydroponic-grove?utm_content=buffer07698&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 37 comments

Why Flunking Exams Is Actually a Good Thing

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/magazine/why-flunking-exams-is-actually-a-good-thing.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=0

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 76 comments

The full complaint against Oracle by the state of Oregon [pdf]

http://www.doj.state.or.us/releases/pdf/FINAL_Complaint_8_22_14.pdf

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

Gentoo Linux Releases LiveDVD Iron Penguin Edition

http://www.gentoo.org/news/20140826-livedvd.xml

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 48 comments

Farming Startup FarmLogs (YC W12) Triples Market Share in Last Six Months

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/05/farming-startup-farmlogs-triples-marketshare-in-last-six-months/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

Vice Raises $500M in Its Quest for 'Total Media Domination'

http://mashable.com/2014/09/04/vices-investment-500-million/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 37 comments

To Make Streets Safe, Make Them Dangerous

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/to-make-streets-safe-make-them-dangerous/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 71 comments

The Man Who Will Build Google’s Quantum Computer

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

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 20 comments

OCaml Users and Developers Workshop

http://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/2014/09/05/ocaml-2014/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

Alibaba Seeks $21B in Highly Awaited I.P.O

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/alibaba-seeks-21-billion-in-highly-awaited-i-p-o/?ref=technology

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

NLUlite: Natural language parser and database

https://nlulite.com

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Zengine – a platform to build custom business apps

http://www.zenginehq.com/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

For Japanese Linguist, a Long and Lonely Schlep (2012)

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/16/150723840/for-japanese-linguist-a-long-and-lonely-schlep

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 2 comments

Meteor in Action

http://www.meteorinaction.com

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Colors – Experimenting with Construct 2

http://sleepysort.github.io/colors

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 41 comments

Fifty Years of Databases (2012)

http://wp.sigmod.org/?p=688

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 11 comments
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