top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-02

Before the Startup

http://paulgraham.com/before.html

12 years ago

703 upvotes – 163 comments

Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac

http://lapwinglabs.com/blog/hacker-guide-to-setting-up-your-mac

12 years ago

474 upvotes – 253 comments

The NSA and Me

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/02/the-nsa-and-me/

12 years ago

463 upvotes – 101 comments

How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math

http://nautil.us/issue/17/big-bangs/how-i-rewired-my-brain-to-become-fluent-in-math-rd

12 years ago

458 upvotes – 144 comments

India, U.S. Agree to Joint Exploration of Mars

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2014/10/01/india-u-s-to-agree-to-joint-exploration-of-mars

12 years ago

414 upvotes – 92 comments

We Got Accepted into Techstars and Turned Them Down

http://talkroute.com/got-accepted-into-techstars-turned-it-down/

12 years ago

320 upvotes – 152 comments

The Physical Web

https://github.com/google/physical-web

12 years ago

★ 5.9k Java Apache-2.0
250 upvotes – 82 comments

Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

12 years ago

★ 25.4k QML
246 upvotes – 85 comments

Why no one wants to host the 2022 olympics

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/why-no-one-wants-to-host-the-2022-olympics-225450509.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: GoldenLayout – JavaScript Layout Manager

https://golden-layout.com/

12 years ago

211 upvotes – 66 comments

Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/code-published-for-unfixable-usb-attack/

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 135 comments

JPMorgan Says Data Breach Affected 76M Households

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/jpmorgan-says-data-breach-affected-76-million-households.html

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 97 comments

Lecture 4: Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec04/#

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 19 comments

How Exercise May Protect Against Depression

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/how-exercise-may-protect-against-depression/?src=me

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 87 comments

An Australian researcher has worked out how to store 1000TB on a CD

http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20140309-26116.html

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 128 comments

Ericsson open-sources OpenWebRTC, rival to Google’s WebRTC implementation

https://gigaom.com/2014/10/02/ericsson-open-sources-openwebrtc-to-provide-alternative-to-googles-webrtc-implementation/

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 50 comments

CUPS 2.0

https://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-2.0/relnotes.html

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 60 comments

HFT in my backyard – III

http://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/hft-in-my-backyard-iii/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 12 comments

Apple allows hot code push for JS downloaded and run by WebKit

https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/10/02/Apple-hot-code-push-mobile

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 71 comments

Contact Lost with Planes One by One as FAA Fire Spread

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/contact-lost-with-planes-one-by-one-as-faa-center-fire-spread.html

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 51 comments

Re: MemSQL the “world's fastest database”? (2012)

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 45 comments

Why I took on building a better way to frame any poster, print or photo

https://medium.com/@jhubball/custom-framing-is-a-racket-61461b12278d

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 85 comments

Study suggests that memory loss in Alzheimer's patients may be reversed

http://neurosciencenews.com/alzheimers-memory-loss-reversal-1377/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 40 comments

Making Fast-Paced Multiplayer Networked Games Is Hard

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MarkMennell/20140929/226628/Making_FastPaced_Multiplayer_Networked_Games_is_Hard.php

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 53 comments

Three months at Y Combinator: what it’s like and how to get in

http://blog.frontapp.com/three-months-at-y-combinator-what-its-like-and-how-to-get-in/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 48 comments

CVE-2014-7284: Lack of randomness in Linux kernel network secrets

http://secondlookforensics.com/ngro-linux-kernel-bug/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 19 comments

GitHub.com momentarily blacklisted in Russia

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8401784

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 50 comments

Looking for help improving performance of GNU Make

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2014-10/msg00000.html

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Route leak incident on October 2, 2014

https://blog.cloudflare.com/route-leak-incident-on-october-2-2014/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 46 comments

A possible future for PHP

http://karlitschek.de/2014/10/a-possible-future-for-php/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 89 comments

Three Years on Rikers Without Trial

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/law-3

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

http://shapecatcher.com

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

U.S. v. Ross Ulbricht: Declaration of Joshua J. Horowitz [pdf]

http://antilop.cc/sr/files/2014_10_01_Declaration_of_Josh_Horowitz_defense_attorney.pdf

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 70 comments

Aerodrums

http://aerodrums.com/aerodrums/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 30 comments

Inspeqtor: easy application infrastructure monitoring

http://www.mikeperham.com/2014/10/02/introducing-inspeqtor/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

A Lua interpreter written in C#

http://www.moonsharp.org/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Farewell CoffeeScript

https://github.com/staltz/rxmarbles/commit/57e37f176e0e005abd2c4fa0253bbd8f57fe1bd9

12 years ago

★ 4.2k JavaScript BSD-3-Clause
75 upvotes – 53 comments

SAT solving – An alternative to brute force Bitcoin mining (2013)

https://jheusser.github.io/2013/02/03/satcoin.html

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 26 comments

Elusive Form of Evolution Seen in Spiders

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20141002-in-social-spiders-evidence-that-groups-evolve/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 26 comments

Beautiful Chemistry

http://beautifulchemistry.net/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 5 comments

Why They Called It the Manhattan Project (2007)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/science/30manh.html?pagewanted=all

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

A Visual Tour of Erlang (2012) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHoWfeNuAN8

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

Against Empathy

http://bostonreview.net/forum/paul-bloom-against-empathy

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 27 comments

Tesla to unveil D and other product on October 9th

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/517486950589014016

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

JPMorgan Discovers Further Cyber Security Issues

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/jpmorgan-discovers-further-cyber-security-issues/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

With Dry Taps and Toilets, California Drought Turns Desperate

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/us/california-drought-tulare-county.html?smid=tw-share

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 55 comments

Redesigning the OpenDNS DNS database for low latency

http://labs.opendns.com/2014/10/01/redesigning-dns-database-low-latency/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: What is HN reading?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8401011

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 80 comments

How to do research at the MIT AI Lab (1988) [pdf]

https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/misc/how-to.pdf

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

How We Use AWS, Ansible, and Packer to Make Deployment Awesome

http://branchmetrics.io/blog/2014/09/19/how-we-deploy/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments

Cumulus Linux – first impressions

http://packetlife.net/blog/2014/oct/1/cumulus-linux-first-impressions/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 27 comments

Korea begins commercialized LTE service based on IPv6

http://www.whowired.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=404401

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments
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