top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-23

Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video]

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec01/

12 years ago

520 upvotes – 185 comments

Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/

12 years ago

385 upvotes – 162 comments

Israel’s N.S.A. Scandal

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/opinion/israels-nsa-scandal.html?_r=0

12 years ago

344 upvotes – 134 comments

BitPay and PayPal

http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/09/23/bitpay-and-paypal-an-unbeatable-payment-partnership.html

12 years ago

308 upvotes – 147 comments

The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only Two Remain After 1.5PB

http://techreport.com/review/27062/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-only-two-remain-after-1-5pb

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 110 comments

A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/exercism/

12 years ago

250 upvotes – 196 comments

Station Crew Docks Dragon Capsule to ISS

http://www.nasa.gov/content/station-crew-grab-themselves-a-dragon/index.html

12 years ago

227 upvotes – 79 comments

For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option

http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/09/12/netflix_streaming_dvds/

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 262 comments

This email may be worth millions of dollars in sales

http://josephwalla.com/this-email-may-be-worth-millions-of-dollars-in-sales

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 72 comments

Brave New Phone Call

https://medium.com/@stevenlevy/brave-new-phone-call-f4064a4e720f

12 years ago

210 upvotes – 139 comments

HFT in My Backyard

http://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/hft-in-my-backyard-part-i/

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 129 comments

Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29321143

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 81 comments

Official Go support

https://stripe.com/blog/official-go-support

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 110 comments

Ways to Minimize Employee Retention

http://rustyrazorblade.com/2014/09/21-ways-to-minimize-employee-retention/

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 71 comments

Careful with that Buffer

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?p=2535

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: ParseHub – Extract data from dynamic websites

https://www.parsehub.com/

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 69 comments

Logging can be tricky

http://corner.squareup.com/2014/09/logging-can-be-tricky.html

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: Hackers who cook

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8356489

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 207 comments

React-cursor: a JavaScript implementation of the Cursor concept first seen in Om

https://github.com/dustingetz/react-cursor/

12 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript
136 upvotes – 68 comments

Tech salary insights from 1.2M foreign worker visas

http://www.therotationship.com/blog/salaries/is-silicon-valley-in-a-salary-bubble-3-more-insights-from-salar-lys-1-2m-foreign-work-visas/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 137 comments

Netflix refuses CRTC demand to hand over subscriber data

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/netflix-refuses-crtc-demand-to-hand-over-subscriber-data-1.2774921?cmp=rss

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 92 comments

Chipworks Disassembles Apple's A8 SoC: GX6450, 4MB L3 Cache and More

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8562/chipworks-a8

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 10 comments

Heroku DX: The New Heroku Developer Experience

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/9/23/introducing-heroku-dx

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 56 comments

Edit: A Relaxing Mix of Vi and Acme

http://c9x.me/edit/

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 54 comments

Sebastian Thrun Has Left His Role as Google VP and Fellow

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/23/google-x-founder-sebastian-thrun-has-left-his-role-as-google-vp-and-fellow/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 60 comments

Russian Smokejumpers

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/russian-smokejumpers/#page=1

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 60 comments

The Dropbox terabyte conundrum

http://sixcolors.com/post/2014/09/the-dropbox-terabyte-conundrum/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 73 comments

It's called “Ship” not “Shit”

http://blog.heyimcat.com/its-called-ship-not-shit/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 22 comments

Ebola Cases Could Reach 1.4M in 4 Months, C.D.C. Estimates

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/health/ebola-cases-could-reach-14-million-in-4-months-cdc-estimates.html

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 68 comments

“I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging”

http://extension765.com/sdr/18-raiders

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 18 comments

Switch default desktop to Gnome

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/tasksel/tasksel.git/commit/?id=dce99f5f8d84e4c885e6beb4cc1bb5bb1d9ee6d7

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 80 comments

PHP: why GOTO instead of recursion?

https://github.com/igorw/retry/issues/3

12 years ago

★ 540 PHP MIT
84 upvotes – 78 comments

jQuery.com Malware Attack Puts Privileged Enterprise IT Accounts at Risk

http://www.riskiq.com/resources/blog/jquerycom-malware-attack-puts-privileged-enterprise-it-accounts-risk

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 50 comments

Hands-on with the USB Type-C plug

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/reversible-tiny-faster-hands-on-with-the-usb-type-c-plug/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 65 comments

CVE-2014-6273: Buffer overflow vulnerability vulnerability in apt-get

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00219.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 36 comments

NASA’s Balance Mass Challenge

https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9933607

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 56 comments

Startup Law Wisdom from Grellas

http://adlervermillion.com/startup-legal-knowledge-on-hacker-news/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 6 comments

Talko

http://www.talko.com

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Waffle – Split-screen picture conversations with friends

https://wafflechat.com

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

Robinhood Raises $13M to Democratize Stock Market with Zero-Commission Trading

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/23/robinhood-stock-app/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 71 comments

Moral Judgments Depend on What Language We’re Speaking

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/opinion/sunday/moral-judgments-depend-on-what-language-we-are-speaking.html?_r=0

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 49 comments

'One million babies' created by EU student exchanges

http://yahoonewsdigest-intl.tumblr.com/post/98180077267/one-million-babies-created-by-eu-student-exchanges

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 64 comments

JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdatap/v6r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.dp.xm.doc%2Fjson_jsonx.html

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 66 comments

Biz Stone: How I Faked My Way into Google (2013)

http://www.wired.com/2013/04/fakeit/?kw=mytoc_capella

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

Shirt.codes: Get a T-shirt of your favorite code snippet

https://shirt.codes/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 47 comments

Qtile – A hackable tiling window manager written in Python

http://www.qtile.org/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 43 comments

How Two Men Unlocked Modern Encryption

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/09/how-two-men-unlocked-modern-encryption/380520/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Branch – Mobile links that pass data through install and open

http://www.branchmetrics.io/?hn=show

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 20 comments

Finger Trees

http://andrew.gibiansky.com/blog/haskell/finger-trees/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: How do I learn C and C++ when I love high-level languages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8356400

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 58 comments

iPhone 6 TouchID hack

https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2014/09/23/iphone-6-touchid-hack/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 45 comments

CPIP – A C/C++ preprocessor implemented in Python

http://cpip.sourceforge.net/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments

Logo Interpreter

http://www.calormen.com/jslogo/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments

What If Counterfactuals Never Existed?

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119357/altered-pasts-reviewed-cass-r-sunstein

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 14 comments
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