top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-16

Minix 3.3.0

http://www.minix3.org/330.html

12 years ago

600 upvotes – 172 comments

How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/

12 years ago

594 upvotes – 139 comments

Commander Keen source code released

https://github.com/keendreams/keen

12 years ago

★ 1.9k C GPL-2.0
545 upvotes – 138 comments

How to Hire and Build a Remote Team

https://zapier.com/blog/how-to-hire-remote-team/

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 93 comments

Boeing-SpaceX Team Split Space Taxi Award

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-16/boeing-spacex-team-split-space-taxi-award-lawmaker-says.html

12 years ago

244 upvotes – 115 comments

Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf]

https://www.gsaadvantage.gov/ref_text/GS35F0086U/0MII0P.2RKUT8_GS-35F-0086U_PALANTIRTSCS012814.PDF

12 years ago

225 upvotes – 100 comments

Burn Baby Burn

http://avc.com/2014/09/burn-baby-burn/

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 114 comments

Pipes and Filters

http://blog.petersobot.com/pipes-and-filters

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 47 comments

Why Sometimes I Hate Myself

http://tomaszdziurko.pl/2014/09/why-sometimes-i-hate-myself/

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 132 comments

Y Combinator Will Teach a Class on Startups at Stanford This Fall

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/16/y-combinator-will-teach-a-class-on-startups-at-stanford-this-fall/

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 3 comments

The Qt Company Introduces a Unified Website

http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/09/16/the-qt-company-introduces-a-unified-website-and-20e25-monthly-indie-mobile-package/

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 145 comments

Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel

http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html?repost

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 75 comments

Wikileaks releases copies of FinFisher surveillance software

https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles4/index.html

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 32 comments

Tesla prevails in top Massachusetts court over direct sales

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/15/us-tesla-motors-massachusetts-lawsuit-idUSKBN0HA29620140915

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 51 comments

Tim Cook on iMessage Security: It’s Encrypted, and We Don’t Have a Key

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/15/tim-cook-holds-firm-on-imessage-security-its-encrypted-we-dont-have-a-key/

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: Berlin Hacker News

http://berlinhackernews.com

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 79 comments

Docker closes $40M Series C led by Sequoia

https://blog.docker.com/2014/09/docker-closes-40m-series-c-led-by-sequoia/

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 99 comments

Passenger Privacy in the NYC Taxicab Dataset

http://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-stars-passenger-privacy-in-the-nyc-taxicab-dataset/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 24 comments

Smartphones Are Used To Stalk, Control Domestic Abuse Victims

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/09/15/346149979/smartphones-are-used-to-stalk-control-domestic-abuse-victims

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 109 comments

Sendmail removed from OpenBSD base

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140916084251

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 53 comments

A History of Misses for RadioShack

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/for-radioshack-a-history-of-misses/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 101 comments

Whited00r: iOS Community Custom Firmware

http://www.whited00r.com/

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 78 comments

Toshi – An Open Source Bitcoin Node for Developers

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/97671295752/introducing-toshi-an-open-source-bitcoin-node-for

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 37 comments

Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile

http://nautil.us/issue/13/symmetry/impossible-cookware-and-other-triumphs-of-the-penrose-tile

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 24 comments

Running an indie game store

http://itch.io/blog/1/running-an-indie-game-store

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 25 comments

Everything that went wrong while building the Tumblr iOS share extension

http://bryan.io/post/97658826431/everything-that-went-wrong-while-building-the-tumblr

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

Have any long-suspected irrational numbers turned out to be rational?

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/32967/have-any-long-suspected-irrational-numbers-turned-out-to-be-rational

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 24 comments

How drones and UAVs are already affecting construction jobsites

http://www.equipmentworld.com/drones/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 48 comments

Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings

http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp2014105a.html

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 81 comments

NASA to Make Major Announcement Today About Astronaut Transport to the ISS

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/september/nasa-to-make-major-announcement-today-about-astronaut-transport-to-the

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

Why I changed my mind about Node.js

http://calebmadrigal.com/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nodejs/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 100 comments

Jury finds CBS infringes podcasting patent, awards $1.3M

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/jury-finds-cbs-infringes-podcasting-patent-awards-1-3-million/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 59 comments

Pants: Build system by Twitter, Foursquare, and Square

http://pantsbuild.github.io/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 39 comments

The Model Specific Registers of EC2

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-09-15/the-msrs-of-ec2.html

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Chat for Trello

http://www.chat4trello.com

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 5 comments

Emacspeak at Twenty: Looking Back, Looking Forward

http://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2014/09/emacspeak-at-twenty-looking-back.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 13 comments

Hiring a Startup Lawyer

http://adlervermillion.com/tech-law-link-list-hiring-lawyers/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

All About ATM Skimmers

http://krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 49 comments

How to see into the future?

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/3950604a-33bc-11e4-ba62-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3ClFR6nj1

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Quit my job. Company coming after me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8326028

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

Yobi3D – Free 3D Model Search Engine

http://www.yobi3d.com/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Will the Ebola virus go airborne?

http://www.nature.com/news/will-the-ebola-virus-go-airborne-1.15943

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 58 comments

Docker’s So Hot It Just Got $40M It Won’t Start Spending Until Next Year

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/16/dockers-so-hot-it-just-got-40m-it-wont-start-spending-until-next-year/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 1 comments

The Relationship Test

http://dataclysm.org/relationshiptest

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 54 comments

Uber No Longer Banned in Germany

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/16/uber-germany-ban-lifted/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Farmaceuticals: The drugs fed to farm animals and the risks posed to humans

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/farmaceuticals-the-drugs-fed-to-farm-animals-and-the-risks-posed-to-humans/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: My weekend project, Frontends – a Hacker News for Front-end developers

http://www.frontends.org/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 35 comments

Voice Interfaces

http://dcurt.is/voice-interfaces

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 48 comments

Can we trust floating-point numbers? (2006) [pdf]

http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~bjorner/ae-is-budapest/talks/Sept20pm2_Zimmermann.pdf

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 40 comments

New California law requires drivers passing cyclists to give 3 feet of clearance

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_26539096/new-buffer-law-requires-drivers-passing-cyclists-give

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 126 comments

OECD unveils proposals to curb corporate tax avoidance

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/16/uk-oecd-tax-idUKKBN0HB19F20140916?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325480

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 116 comments

Ticketmaster Ticketfast Barcode Format

http://www.georgiecasey.com/2014/09/16/ticketmaster-ticketfast-barcode-format/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 35 comments

A connected headband that helps you focus your thoughts

http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/16/is-mindfulness-and-less-stress-worth-299-the-muse-makes-a-case-review/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 17 comments

Why Scotland looks like the canary in the independence coal mine

http://blogs.reuters.com/mark-leonard/2014/09/16/why-scotland-looks-like-the-canary-in-the-independence-coalmine/

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 85 comments

Amazon’s iPhone dynamic pricing prior to the Apple keynote

http://blog.monitorbook.com/post/97653622519/amazons-iphone-dynamic-pricing-prior-to-the-apple

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 13 comments
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