top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-19

Chromeos-apk – Run Android APKs on Chrome OS, OS X, Linux and Windows

https://github.com/vladikoff/chromeos-apk/blob/master/README.md

12 years ago

★ 7.8k JavaScript MIT
471 upvotes – 92 comments

What Coke Contains (2013)

https://medium.com/@kevin_ashton/what-coke-contains-221d449929ef

12 years ago

410 upvotes – 178 comments

A Long, Ugly Year of Depression That’s Finally Fading

http://moz.com/rand/long-ugly-year-depression-thats-finally-fading/

12 years ago

313 upvotes – 129 comments

Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-world-really-set-aside-half-planet-wildlife-180952379/?all&no-ist

12 years ago

237 upvotes – 193 comments

Faced with change, an all-female indie dev team evolves to a higher form (2013)

http://the-magazine.org/14/choose-your-character

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 196 comments

Node.js Best Practices

https://www.joyent.com/developers/node/design

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 63 comments

To Get More Out of Science, Show the Rejected Research

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/upshot/to-get-more-out-of-science-show-the-rejected-research.html

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 48 comments

“Transducers” by Rich Hickey at Strange Loop [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mTbuzafcII

12 years ago

203 upvotes – 51 comments

Against Sharing

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/against-sharing/

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 143 comments

How to buy a tank: a BRDM-2 story

http://ntv.livejournal.com/364943.html

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 109 comments

Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/1089

12 years ago

★ 99.1k Vim Script
176 upvotes – 119 comments

Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04823.html

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 34 comments

Keyless SSL: The Nitty Gritty Technical Details

https://blog.cloudflare.com/keyless-ssl-the-nitty-gritty-technical-details/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 68 comments

“The Mess We're In” by Joe Armstrong at Strange Loop [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 77 comments

mdp – A command-line based markdown presentation tool

https://github.com/visit1985/mdp

12 years ago

★ 5.2k C GPL-3.0
157 upvotes – 42 comments

Clarifying some things about Guile-Emacs

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-09/msg00559.html

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 30 comments

Say Hello to X64 Assembly Part 3

http://0xax.blogspot.com/2014/09/say-hello-to-x64-assembly-part-3.html

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 51 comments

Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/09/18/microsoft-ocr-library-for-windows-runtime/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 45 comments

File Systems, Data Loss and ZFS

https://clusterhq.com/blog/file-systems-data-loss-zfs/

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 55 comments

Patent troll gives up, can’t defend “matchmaking” patent under new law

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/lumen-view-gives-up-on-matchmaking-patent-cant-defend-it-under-new-law/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 20 comments

Draining California

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west-snow-fail/draining-california/index.html

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 79 comments

Norway the Slow Way

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/19/travel/reif-larsen-norway.html

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 33 comments

The Gangster's Guide to Upward Mobility

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/11/crooked-ladder

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 131 comments

Ruby 2.1.3 is released

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/09/19/ruby-2-1-3-is-released/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 48 comments

Winter Is Probably Coming Soon

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/18/winter-is-probably-coming-soon/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 69 comments

Flip – A ReactJS Game

http://henleyedition.com/flip-a-reactjs-game/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 15 comments

H2O – an optimized HTTP server and library implementation

https://github.com/kazuho/h2o

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

Microsoft lays off 2,100, axes Silicon Valley research

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/09/18/microsoft-redundancies-idINL1N0RJ25920140918

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

J Has the Best Development Environment (2009)

http://prog21.dadgum.com/48.html

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 41 comments

Particle detector finds hints of dark matter in space

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/alpha-magnetic-spectrometer-detects-positrons-0918

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 15 comments

A Conceptual Look at Om (ClojureScript for React.js)

http://josf.info/blog/2014/09/18/first-ompressions-a-conceptual-look-at-om/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Scotland rejects independence

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/19/scotland-independence-no-vote-victory-alex-salmond

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 128 comments

Life in Timbuktu: how the ancient city of gold is slowly turning to dust

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/16/-sp-life-timbuktu-mali-ancient-city-gold-slowly-turning-to-dust

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 1 comments

Home Depot breach bigger than Target at 56M cards

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/18/home-depot-dataprotection-idUSL3N0RJ5VJ20140918

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Are there startups that went open-source and succeed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8341565

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 59 comments

Programmers are hipster librarians

https://www.omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/09/19/programmers-are-hipster-librarians/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

OWASP Testing Guide 2014

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Testing_Guide_v4_Table_of_Contents

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 5 comments

Climate Science Is Not Settled

http://online.wsj.com/articles/climate-science-is-not-settled-1411143565

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 69 comments

Emojilisp

http://emojilisp.com/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 9 comments

Using Vagrant and Chef for Reproducible, Isolated Rails Development Environments

http://gofullstack.com/articles/using-vagrant-and-chef-for-reproducible-rails-development-environments.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 20 comments

Push-pull Functional Reactive Programming (2009)

http://conal.net/papers/push-pull-frp/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 1 comments

Trial by Fire: Extreme rituals forge intense social bonds

http://aeon.co/magazine/society/how-extreme-rituals-bond-us-for-life/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 42 comments

Peter Thiel Says Computers Haven’t Made Our Lives Significantly Better

http://www.technologyreview.com/qa/530901/technology-stalled-in-1970/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 61 comments

Why Far-Flung Parts of the Internet Broke Today

http://www.renesys.com/2014/09/why-the-internet-broke-today/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 4 comments

Big O Notation: Using not-boring math to measure code's efficiency

https://www.interviewcake.com/big-o-notation-time-and-space-complexity

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: View and diff files in ZFS snapshots

https://github.com/j-keck/zfs-snap-diff

12 years ago

★ 232 PureScript
50 upvotes – 6 comments

Neal Stephenson's “CLANG” Kickstarter video game officially cancelled

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2014/09/19/kickstarter-funded-sword-fighting-game-clang-officially-cancelled

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 36 comments

iPhone 6 Plus Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+6+Plus+Teardown/29206

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 19 comments

A Challenge from Freeman Dyson

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/a-challenge-from-dyson

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments

View Issue/Pull Request Buttons for Gmail

https://github.com/blog/1891-view-issue-pull-request-buttons-for-gmail

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 4 comments
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