top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-10

Bézier Clock

http://jackf.net/bezier-clock/

12 years ago

810 upvotes – 69 comments

A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It in the Metal

http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/hodinkee-apple-watch-review

12 years ago

610 upvotes – 464 comments

Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/call-me-maybe-introducing-free-voice.html

12 years ago

487 upvotes – 207 comments

Apple event overshadows unflattering news at Snapchat, Tinder

http://fortune.com/2014/09/09/apple-event-overshadows-bad-news-snapchat-tinder/

12 years ago

420 upvotes – 101 comments

Swift Has Reached 1.0

https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=14

12 years ago

272 upvotes – 169 comments

The Y Combinator (no, not that one) – A Crash Course on Lambda Calculus

https://medium.com/@ayanonagon/the-y-combinator-no-not-that-one-7268d8d9c46

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 46 comments

No Association Between Salt And Blood Pressure, Study Finds

http://time.com/3313332/salt-and-blood-pressure/

12 years ago

244 upvotes – 157 comments

Elixir Release v1.0.0

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/commit/52ff7e96867c027745d29f5d3feb77f546f22c4f

12 years ago

★ 26.3k Elixir Apache-2.0
214 upvotes – 40 comments

Falling in Love with the Dark

http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/falling-in-love-with-the-dark?utm_source=tss&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=linkfrom

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 39 comments

Google search indexes itself

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dproranktracker.com%2B%2B%2BHostgator%2BCoupon%2BCode%3ACOUPON333&pws=0&hl=en#pws=0&hl=en&q=site:http:%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F%2Fsearch

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: Real-time Fare Estimate Comparisons for Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and Taxi

http://www.whatsthefare.com/

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 65 comments

How the global banana industry is killing the world’s favorite fruit

http://qz.com/164029/tropical-race-4-global-banana-industry-is-killing-the-worlds-favorite-fruit/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 104 comments

Race and Attraction, 2009 – 2014

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/race-attraction-2009-2014/

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 165 comments

Angular-data: data store and caching for Angular.js

http://angular-data.pseudobry.com/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 45 comments

Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts

https://isleaked.com/en.php

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 127 comments

Bike lanes have sped up car traffic in New York City

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/8/6121129/bike-lanes-traffic-new-york

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 294 comments

Poor UI Design Can Kill – Air Inter Flight 148, a Harsh Lesson Learned

http://blog.martindoms.com/2011/01/24/poor-ui-design-can-kill/

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 95 comments

CLion – Brand New IDE for C and C++ Developers

http://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2014/09/05/clion-brand-new-ide-for-c-and-c-developers/

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 51 comments

A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline

http://doc-ok.org/?p=1057

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: Thumbor – open-source on-demand image cropping, resizing, and filters

http://thumbor.org

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 21 comments

D’s Garbage Collector Problem

http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/ds-garbage-collector-problem/

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 53 comments

Raise the Crime Rate (2012)

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-13/politics/raise-the-crime-rate/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 76 comments

Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click

https://blog.cloudflare.com/participate-in-the-internet-slowdown-with-one-click

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 92 comments

Behind Every Good Whisky Is a Trusty Distillery Cat

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/09/09/347093135/behind-every-good-whisky-is-a-trusty-distillery-cat

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 56 comments

Macworld lays off most staff

https://twitter.com/DanFrakes/status/509753738454528000

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 87 comments

Node OS

http://node-os.com/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 80 comments

Stanford engineer aims to connect the world with ant-sized radios

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/september/ant-radio-arbabian-090914.html?utm_content=bufferaae5e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 36 comments

Link-time optimization in GCC, part 3 – LibreOffice

http://hubicka.blogspot.com/2014/09/linktime-optimization-in-gcc-part-3.html

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 19 comments

SpaceX Vies With Boeing as NASA’s Taxi to Station

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-10/musk-s-spacex-vies-with-boeing-to-build-nasa-taxi-to-mars.html

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 49 comments

Running Raspberry Pis as Thin Clients with Ubuntu 14.04

http://www.uzerp.com/blog/running-raspberry-pis-as-thin-clients-with-ubuntu-14-04-lts/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

Coinbase (YC S12) Opens to Europe

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/10/coinbase-europe/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

Microsoft is killing the Nokia and Windows Phone brands

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/10/6131695/microsoft-is-killing-the-nokia-and-windows-phone-brands

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 90 comments

I wrote the original blue screen of death, sort of

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/09/10/10556421.aspx

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 30 comments

DistroWatch QA: Distributions not adopting systemd

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20140908#qa

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 69 comments

Is It O.K. To Kill Cyclists?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to-kill-cyclists.html?pagewanted=all

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 143 comments

The era of radical concrete

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29082338

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

What Apple Pay Could Mean for In-App Purchases

http://markokarppinen.com/post/97133131413/whither-iap-or-what-apple-pay-could-mean-for-in-app

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 41 comments

Jenga – Physijs

http://chandlerprall.github.io/Physijs/examples/jenga.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Metacompilers Part 1 (2008)

http://www.bayfronttechnologies.com/mc_tutorial.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

Facebook is convinced this man is his mother

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/10/6126027/facebook-is-convinced-this-man-is-his-mother-deep-face

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 21 comments

Understanding Rails' protect_from_forgery

http://blog.nvisium.com/2014/09/understanding-protectfromforgery.html

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Realms Wiki – Simple Git-backed wiki inspired by Gollum

http://realms.io

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Books that have stayed with us

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/books-that-have-stayed-with-us/10152511240328859

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 57 comments

Building a DIY Oven for DIY Powder Coating

http://www.homediystuff.com/building-a-diy-oven-from-filing-cabinet/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

Copatterns in Idris

https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris-dev/wiki/Copatterns

12 years ago

★ 3.4k Haskell
56 upvotes – 13 comments

5M Gmail passwords leaked to Russian Bitcoin forum

http://www.dailydot.com/crime/google-gmail-5-million-passwords-leaked/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Germany Fights Population Drop

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/world/europe/germany-fights-population-drop.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 74 comments

QPDF: A Content-Preserving PDF Transformation System

http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments

Relativity Visualized

http://www.spacetimetravel.org/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: 1HOP, a free tool to handle deep linking across all devices

https://1hop.commandiq.com

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 4 comments

Stonehenge was accompanied by 17 neighboring shrines, 3D laser scans find

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29126854

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

Mark Cuban's Plan for Limiting Scope of Discovery in Lawsuits

http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/3378986/banking-and-capital-markets-trading-and-technology/mark-cubans-plan-for-limiting-scope-of-discovery-in-lawsuits.html

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 37 comments

Free Online SmallTalk Books

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments

For London's Cabbies, Job Entails World's Hardest Geography Test

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/special-features/2014/08/140808-london-cabbies-knowledge-cabs-hansom-uber-hippocampus-livery

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 68 comments

A Neural Network for Factoid Question Answering over Paragraphs

http://cs.umd.edu/~miyyer/qblearn/

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 7 comments

Jetpack helps soldiers run faster [video]

http://researchmatters.asu.edu/videos/jetpack-helps-soldiers-run-faster

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 32 comments

The Risk in Sending Your Startup’s Technology Offshore

http://karllhughes.com/2014/risk-of-offshore-outsourcing/

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 50 comments
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