top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-09-28

Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html

12 years ago

Material Design for Bootstrap

https://fezvrasta.github.io/bootstrap-material-design/

12 years ago

LibreSSL: More Than 30 Days Later

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2014-libressl.html

12 years ago

Writing a simple operating system from scratch (2010) [pdf]

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr/lectures/opsys/10_11/lectures/os-dev.pdf

12 years ago

Peter Thiel's Zero to One Might Be the Best Business Book I've Read

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/peter-thiel-zero-to-one-review/380738/?single_page=true

12 years ago

Dear clueless assholes: stop bashing bash and GNU

https://weev.livejournal.com/409835.html

12 years ago

Hong Kong protest: Why are pro-democracy supporters staging a sit-in?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/hong-kong-protest-why-are-prodemocracy-supporters-staging-a-sitin-9760234.html

12 years ago

Building OS X Apps with JavaScript

http://tylergaw.com/articles/building-osx-apps-with-js

12 years ago

Machine learning is teaching us the secret to teaching

http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/teaching-me-softly

12 years ago

The downfall of Quora (2013)

http://thegoodones.quora.com/Interesting-read

12 years ago

Amazon Mobile Analytics

http://aws.amazon.com/mobileanalytics/?sc_channel=TA&sc_campaign=mobile_analytics&sc_publisher=Techmeme&sc_medium=Sponsor_posts&sc_category=web_mobile_social&sc_content=TA_Sponsor_post_A&sc_detail=TA_Techmeme.com_mobile_analytics_Sponsor_post_A

12 years ago

How does SQLite work? Part 1: Pages

http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/27/how-does-sqlite-work-part-1-pages/

12 years ago

Show HN: A Google Calendar Door Sign

http://newfangled.me/door-sign/

12 years ago

Why the Facebook Experiment Is Lousy Social Science

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/news/20140828facebookexperiment

12 years ago

Fans raise cash to help phone phreaker John Draper, aka Cap‘n Crunch

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/fans-raise-cash-to-help-phone-phreaker-john-draper-aka-capn-crunch/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29&utm_content=Netvibes

12 years ago

Rob Pike: Reflections on Window Systems (2008) [video]

http://epresence.kmdi.utoronto.ca/1/watch/630.aspx

12 years ago

Area programmer laments designers don’t use the same tools he does

http://blog.lacebark.io/2014/09/25/area-programmer-lament-designers-dont-use-the-same-tools-he-does/

12 years ago

What's up with the number 163?

https://plus.google.com/101584889282878921052/posts/7u73y5FzEZY?pid=5963315119367216690&oid=101584889282878921052

12 years ago

California blue whales, once nearly extinct, are back at historic levels

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/8/6122867/we-nearly-hunted-blue-whales-to-extinction-now-theyre-bouncing-back

12 years ago

Yahoo is killing off the Yahoo Directory

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/98474044364/progress-report-continued-product-focus?wow

12 years ago