top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-11

My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB)

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-08/msg00012.html

12 years ago

826 upvotes – 263 comments

Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329861.900-woman-of-24-found-to-have-no-cerebellum-in-her-brain.html#.VBHaCWRdURl

12 years ago

496 upvotes – 179 comments

Dimensions – Measure everything you see in the browser

http://felixniklas.com/dimensions/

12 years ago

341 upvotes – 54 comments

Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data or wifi required

https://github.com/ColdSauce/CosmosBrowserAndroid

12 years ago

★ 566 Java
326 upvotes – 158 comments

Peter Thiel AMA

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g4g95/peter_thiel_technology_entrepreneur_and_investor/

12 years ago

304 upvotes – 88 comments

Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/firefox-tools-adapter/

12 years ago

277 upvotes – 25 comments

Inside a Tesla Model S Battery Pack

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/34934-Pics-Info-Inside-the-battery-pack

12 years ago

264 upvotes – 77 comments

iPhone 6 Screens Demystified

http://www.paintcodeapp.com/news/iphone-6-screens-demystified

12 years ago

253 upvotes – 85 comments

There are no B players

http://danieltenner.com/2014/09/11/there-are-no-b-players/

12 years ago

211 upvotes – 95 comments

The State of ZFS on Linux

https://clusterhq.com/blog/state-zfs-on-linux/

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 122 comments

The Curious Case of iPhone 6+ 1080p Display

https://medium.com/@brucewangsg/the-curious-case-of-iphone-6-1080p-display-b33dac5bbcb6

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 127 comments

The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States and India

http://www.annfammed.org/content/12/5/470.long

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 154 comments

The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-reign-of-the-red-delicious/379892/?single_page=true

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 142 comments

Dejavu: Audio fingerprinting and recognition in Python

https://github.com/worldveil/dejavu

12 years ago

★ 6.7k Python MIT
170 upvotes – 25 comments

HelloJS – Client-side OAuth for JS

http://adodson.com/hello.js/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 56 comments

The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.

http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 118 comments

First set of Android apps for ChromeOS

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-set-of-android-apps-coming-to.html

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 86 comments

Our First $37,800 in Annual Recurring Revenue

http://churnbuster.io/blog/our-first-37800-in-annual-recurring-revenue

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 45 comments

Rethinking Prolog [pdf]

http://okmij.org/ftp/kakuritu/rethinking.pdf

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 34 comments

iPhone 6 and Android value

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/10/iphone6

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 238 comments

Linux perf rides the rocket

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-09-11/perf-kernel-line-tracing.html

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 7 comments

Emoji One

http://www.emojione.com/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 60 comments

Introducing Chaos Engineering

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/09/introducing-chaos-engineering.html

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

The Revenge of the Circulating Fan

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/09/circulating-fans-air-conditioning.html

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 85 comments

Caml Trading – Experiences with OCaml on Wall Street [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/jane-street-caml-ocaml

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

Hakaru: An embedded probabilistic programming language in Haskell

http://indiana.edu/~ppaml/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 116 comments

A Posix Queue Implementation

http://zinascii.com/2014/a-posix-queue-implementation.html

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 13 comments

Open Source All-in-One Wireless Development Board

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/LinkIt-ONE-p-2017.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Probable Cache Poisoning of Mail-Handling Domains

http://www.cert.org/blogs/certcc/post.cfm?EntryID=206

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 24 comments

Drop-in GPU Acceleration of GNU Octave

http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/drop-in-acceleration-gnu-octave/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 35 comments

Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator

http://progrium.com/blog/2014/09/10/automatic-docker-service-announcement-with-registrator/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments

Remote Year: Travel with interesting people while working remotely

http://www.remoteyear.com/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 37 comments

Cryptomarkets Are Gentrifying the Drug Trade

https://news.vice.com/article/cryptomarkets-are-gentrifying-the-drug-trade-and-thats-probably-a-good-thing

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 42 comments

Hack ‘n’ Slash now 1.0 and Extra Hackable

http://www.doublefine.com/news/comments/hack_n_slash_now_1.0_and_extra_hackable/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Comcastify.js: Sometimes images just load too damned fast

http://theonion.github.io/comcastifyjs/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

How Google's Autonomous Car Passed the First U.S. State Self-Driving Test

http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/advanced-cars/how-googles-autonomous-car-passed-the-first-us-state-selfdriving-test#.VBEAr6CC8Qo.hackernews

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 55 comments

Motorola Moto 360 Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Motorola+Moto+360+Teardown/28891

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 33 comments

Evolution’s Random Paths Lead to One Place

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140911-evolutions-random-paths-all-lead-to-the-same-place/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Reverse-engineering censorship in China

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6199/1251722

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (1970)

http://thestandardsmanual.com/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

Amazon Cuts Struggling Phone’s Price to 99 Cents

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/technology/amazon-struggling-fire-phone.html?_r=0

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 47 comments

How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up

https://medium.com/everything-about-startups-and-entrepreneurship/how-quitting-my-corporate-job-for-my-startup-dream-f-cked-my-life-up-3b6b3e29b318

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments

Tech Has a Depression Problem

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/09/tech-has-a-depression-problem/380004/?single_page=true

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 59 comments

Shedding Light on the FISC: Court Findings from Our 2007-2008 Case

http://yahoopolicy.tumblr.com/post/97238899258/shedding-light-on-the-foreign-intelligence-surveillance

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

Apple Just Uploaded a U2 Album to Your iPhone and iPad – And Seriously, WTF

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/10/wtf-is-a-u2/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: Any good audio podcasts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302430

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 71 comments

The Most Unconscionable Drug Price Hike I Have Yet Seen

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/09/11/the_most_unconscionable_drug_price_hike_i_have_yet_seen.php

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 66 comments

Hands on with USB Type C: Reversible USB Connectors

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8518/hands-on-with-usb-type-c-reversible-usb-connectors

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments

CausalImpact: Open-source package for estimating causal effects in time series

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/09/causalimpact-new-open-source-package.html

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 4 comments

HP buys Eucalyptus as cloud consolidation commences for real

https://gigaom.com/2014/09/11/hp-buys-eucalyptus-as-cloud-consolidation-commences-for-real/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments

Offical Soylent: Should it be producing Mustard Gas?

http://discourse.soylent.me/t/offical-soylent-should-it-be-producing-mustard-gas/12660

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 20 comments

The Early Development of Programming Languages (1976) [pdf]

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/stanford/cs_techReports/STAN-CS-76-562_EarlyDevelPgmgLang_Aug76.pdf

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 3 comments

Have I been pwned? Check if you have an account that has been compromised

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 47 comments
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