top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-17

I was asked to crack a program in a job interview

http://erenyagdiran.github.io/I-was-just-asked-to-crack-a-program-Part-1/

12 years ago

997 upvotes – 302 comments

Artificial sweeteners linked to glucose intolerance

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329872.600-artificial-sweeteners-linked-to-glucose-intolerance.html

12 years ago

412 upvotes – 180 comments

JavaScript for OS X Automation

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/releasenotes/InterapplicationCommunication/RN-JavaScriptForAutomation/index.html

12 years ago

357 upvotes – 113 comments

How I Pranked My Roommate with Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads

http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-my-roommate-with-targeted-facebook-ads/

12 years ago

343 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I always wanted

http://cleverdeck.com

12 years ago

305 upvotes – 135 comments

Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger

http://engineering.heroku.com/blogs/2014-09-17-erlang-in-anger

12 years ago

292 upvotes – 51 comments

Emacs Lisp's Future

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-09/msg00434.html

12 years ago

269 upvotes – 156 comments

iOS 8 reviewed

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/ios-8-thoroughly-reviewed/

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 194 comments

A scientist stole my root beer

http://naturespoisons.com/2014/09/17/a-scientist-stole-my-root-beer-safrole-sassafras/

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 40 comments

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd ed.

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operating-Edition/dp/0321968972/ref=zg_bs_3756_28

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 55 comments

The C++14 Standard: What You Need to Know

http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/the-c14-standard/240169034

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 134 comments

Debian Security Advisory: DSA-3025-1 apt

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3025

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 64 comments

How Gangs Took Over Prisons

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/how-gangs-took-over-prisons/379330

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 171 comments

Eleventh Grade Tech Trends

https://medium.com/musings-about-text-boxes/eleventh-grade-tech-trends-aca537e9ce62

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 67 comments

The Traveling Salesman with Simulated Annealing, R, and Shiny

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/traveling-salesman-with-simulated-annealing-r-and-shiny/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 25 comments

ClojureScript, Lisp's Revenge [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTawgp3SKy8

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 34 comments

Craig Gentry named MacArthur Fellow for work on fully homomorphic encryption

http://www.macfound.org/fellows/914/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 21 comments

Suture – Supervisor Trees for Go

http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2930

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 38 comments

Dremel Releases a Mass-Market 3D Printer

http://makezine.com/2014/09/17/dremel-3d-printer-idea-builder/

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 104 comments

Go Is a Shop-Built Jig

http://robnapier.net/go-is-a-shop-built-jig

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 106 comments

Why Apple Didn't Use Sapphire for iPhone Screens

http://time.com/3377972/why-apple-didnt-use-sapphire-iphone-screens/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 108 comments

HPN-SSH: High Performance ssh and scp

http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 31 comments

Our Favorite Cliché: A World Filled with Idiots

http://www.davidbrin.com/idiotplot.html

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 93 comments

Helm, a functionally reactive game engine

http://helm-engine.org/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 12 comments

Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations

http://daringfireball.net/2014/09/apple_watch

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 114 comments

CircuitMaker: a free PCB design tool powered by Altium

http://circuitmaker.com

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 53 comments

Perceptions haven't caught up to decline in crime

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/upshot/perceptions-havent-caught-up-to-decline-in-crime.html?rref=upshot&abt=0002&abg=0

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 108 comments

An Orangutan Learns to Fish

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/orangutan-learns-fish

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 16 comments

From Backbone to React: Our Experience Scaling a Web Application

http://www.techsonian.net/2014/09/from-backbone-to-react-our-experience-scaling-a-web-application/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 52 comments

Song of the Introvert

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-song-of-the-introvert/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 67 comments

Transmit for iOS

http://panic.com/transmit-ios/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 32 comments

The New Yahoo Developer Network

https://developer.yahoo.com

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 36 comments

Yitang Zhang, 2014 MacArthur Fellow

http://www.macfound.org/fellows/927/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 11 comments

Files reveal WW2 secret 'Agent Fifi' test for spies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29231936

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Embedding Lisp in C++ – A Recipe

http://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/embedding-lisp-in-cplusplus-a-recipe/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Guide: Writing Testable Code [pdf]

http://misko.hevery.com/attachments/Guide-Writing%20Testable%20Code.pdf

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

Easel Is Shutting Down

http://blog.easel.io/blog/2014/09/17/easel-is-shutting-down/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 50 comments

Why it’s hard to find Android developers

http://blog.sephiroth.it/2014/09/16/why-its-hard-to-find-android-developers/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 56 comments

The Twin Prime Hero: Rags, Riches, and Fame in Mathematics (2013)

http://nautil.us/issue/5/fame/the-twin-prime-hero

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

The New Motorola Moto X (2nd Gen) Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8523/the-new-motorola-moto-x-2014-review

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 31 comments

DOJ Proposal Would Expand FBI Power to Hack Computers Abroad

http://justsecurity.org/15018/justice-department-proposal-massive-expand-fbi-extraterritorial-surveillance/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Memory Chimp – How good is your working memory?

http://awendt.github.io/memory-chimp

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 53 comments

How evolutionary psychology went viral

http://www.thenation.com/article/181555/survival-sexiest?page=full

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 52 comments

How to Find the Right Co-Founders

http://steveblank.com/2014/09/16/who-do-you-need-on-your-startup-team/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Theft: Property-Based Testing for C

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/09/17/property-based-testing-c/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 1 comments

Systemd for Developers I (2011)

http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/socket-activation.html

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Structr - Next-Generation Data CMS Based on Neo4j

http://structr.org

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 31 comments

Faster Backtraces for Native Applications

http://backtrace.io/blog/blog/2014/09/15/bt-lightweight-backtrace-tool/

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments
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