top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-26

John Carmack on Inlined Code

http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html

12 years ago

456 upvotes – 260 comments

Show HN: Airtable, a real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid

https://airtable.com/invite/a3sz9t7b

12 years ago

361 upvotes – 125 comments

The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-09-26/the-secret-goldman-sachs-tapes

12 years ago

256 upvotes – 65 comments

Use Python in Excel without add-ins

http://xlwings.org/

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 70 comments

Breaking the Silk Road's Captcha

https://github.com/mieko/sr-captcha/blob/gh-pages/index.md

12 years ago

★ 471
238 upvotes – 19 comments

HFT in my backyard – II

http://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/hft-in-my-backyard-ii/

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 65 comments

Juno: A free environment for the Julia language

http://junolab.org/

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 30 comments

The economics of a web-based book

http://practicaltypography.com/economics-year-one.html

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 73 comments

Clojure Distilled

http://yogthos.github.io/ClojureDistilled.html

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 51 comments

My $300 Home Cloud Server

http://xrds.acm.org/blog/2014/09/my-300-home-cloud-server-a-story-of-blood-sweat-and-ebay/

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 121 comments

Meeting strangers in the street

http://blog.lauramichet.com/2014/08/17/meeting-strangers-in-the-street/

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 78 comments

Docker is the Heroku Killer

http://www.brightball.com/devops/docker-is-the-heroku-killer

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 68 comments

Why the Z-80's data pins are scrambled

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/why-z-80s-data-pins-are-scrambled.html

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 37 comments

The Invention Machine: Cleveland Duo Churns Out Ideas Worth Billions

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2014/02/12/the-invention-machine-cleveland-duo-churns-out-ideas-worth-billions/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 32 comments

Quit Covering Up Your Toxic Hellstew with Docker

http://blog.neutrondrive.com/posts/235158-docker-toxic-hellstew

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 51 comments

Marc Andreessen Sounds Warning on Startups Burning Cash

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/marc-andreessen-sounds-warning-on-start-ups-burning-cash/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 90 comments

Pebilepsy – Pebble app for seizure tracking and measurement

http://pebilepsy.neutun.com

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 34 comments

FPGAs for Dummies [pdf]

http://www.altera.com/literature/misc/FPGAs_For_Dummies_eBook.pdf

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 20 comments

Re: CVE-2014-6271 – remote code execution through bash

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/734

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 51 comments

3rd Shellshock Vulnerability Found

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/741

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 42 comments

Spec-me-maybe: Introduces the “maybe” syntax to RSpec

https://github.com/davidcelis/spec-me-maybe

12 years ago

★ 169 Ruby
99 upvotes – 37 comments

Systemd: The Biggest Fallacies

http://judecnelson.blogspot.com/2014/09/systemd-biggest-fallacies.html

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 50 comments

India's Mars mission: Picture that spoke 1,000 words

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29357472

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 5 comments

Easy, realtime, system-wide Shellshock monitoring

http://draios.com/shellshock-sysdig/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 32 comments

Captain Crunch needs your help

https://www.qikfunder.com/crowdfund/help-john-draper-captain-crunch

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

Shellshock BASH Vulnerability Tester

https://shellshocker.net/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 54 comments

Midnight.js: a jQuery plugin to switch headers based on the content below

http://aerolab.github.io/midnight.js/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 16 comments

Entrepreneur is a silly word, and you sound silly when you call yourself one

http://unsolicited.consulting/article/entrepreneur-is-a-silly-word

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 67 comments

Father and Daughter Reunion

http://www.worth.com/index.php/component/content/article/4-live/6722-father-and-daughter-reunion

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 44 comments

Cognitive Artificial Intelligence: The MicroPsi Project

http://www.micropsi.com/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Rockstor, a Linux and BTRFS Based NAS Solution

http://rockstor.com

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 49 comments

Amazon Takes a Big Step Toward Making Its Own Deliveries

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/amazon-takes-big-step-toward-competing-directly-ups/?mbid=social_twitter

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 61 comments

iPhone 6: Comparing InvenSense and Bosch Accelerometers

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1324098

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Pagerbot, a chat bot for managing PagerDuty on-call schedules

https://stripe.com/blog/pagerbot

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

Why Free Online Classes Are Still the Future of Education

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/free-online-classes-still-future-education/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 60 comments

How to Start a Startup Lecture 2: Full Transcript

http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-2-ideas-products-teams-and-execution-part-ii-annotated

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

Fighting to Honor a Father’s Last Wish: To Die at Home

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/nyregion/family-fights-health-care-system-for-simple-request-to-die-at-home.html

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 27 comments

Meteor 0.9.3: Packaging updates and improvements

https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/09/25/meteor-093-packaging-system-updates

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

ARM’s Rebuttal to RISC-V: “The Case for Licensed Instruction Sets”

http://www.linleygroup.com/mpr/article.php?id=11268

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 45 comments

NSA Technology Transfer Program – 2014 Technology Catalog [pdf]

https://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/tech_transfers/nsa_technology_transfer_program.pdf

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 52 comments

Deploying Go servers with Docker

http://blog.golang.org/docker

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Glass Doesn't Flow (2011)

http://www.cmog.org/article/does-glass-flow

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 27 comments

The Days They Changed the Gauge (1966)

http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1966/66-8/gauge.html

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

Which GPUs to Get for Deep Learning

http://timdettmers.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 29 comments

Technical analysis of client identification mechanisms

http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/client-identification-mechanisms

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

Ello, goodbye

https://aralbalkan.com/notes/ello-goodbye/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Standard ML Family GitHub Project

http://sml-family.org/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

National Intelligence Estimate: The Chinese Cultural Revolution (1967) [pdf]

http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0001095914.pdf

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Why Question Answering Is Hard

http://nicklothian.com/blog/2014/09/25/why-question-answering-is-hard/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

Podcasts are back and making money

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/podcasts-are-back--and-making-money/2014/09/25/54abc628-39c9-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: 123D Catch by AutoDesk – Create 3D scans of virtually any object

http://www.123dapp.com/catch

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 19 comments

Why a FILE-BASED dependency manager rocks for C/C++

http://blog.biicode.com/file-based-cpp-dependency-manager/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

Code Archeology – Lines of code by age

https://www.smrrd.de/code-archeology-updated.html

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Soothe – Uber for Massages

https://www.soothe.com/

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 48 comments

Translating technological terms throws up some peculiar challenges

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21620221-translating-technological-terms-throws-up-some-peculiar-challenges-cookies-caches-and-cows

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 19 comments
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