top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-03

Marriott Hotels fined $600,000 by FCC for jamming Wi-Fi hotspots [pdf]

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db1003/DA-14-1444A1.pdf

12 years ago

446 upvotes – 184 comments

The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada

http://priceonomics.com/the-man-who-smuggles-traders-joes-into-canada/

12 years ago

405 upvotes – 143 comments

Engineering management lessons

http://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html

12 years ago

375 upvotes – 51 comments

IRIS+

http://3drobotics.com/iris-plus/

12 years ago

337 upvotes – 170 comments

Aboard Amtrak

http://spnzr.com/aboard-amtrak

12 years ago

275 upvotes – 116 comments

Reading the Silk Road configuration

http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/10/reading-silk-road-configuration.html

12 years ago

247 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: JuliusJS – Speech recognition in JavaScript

https://github.com/zzmp/juliusjs

12 years ago

★ 2.5k JavaScript
202 upvotes – 52 comments

Reddit’s crappy ultimatum to remote workers and offices

http://shortlogic.tumblr.com/post/99014759324/reddits-crappy-ultimatum

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 33 comments

The Magic CmdLine and how I got it back

http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/bashheimer.html

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 76 comments

The tourist map of laptops

http://things.gnod.com/laptops/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 133 comments

Postgres 9.5 feature highlight: row-level security and policies

http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-5-feature-highlight-row-level-security/

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 61 comments

Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make

http://www.airpair.com/angularjs/posts/top-10-mistakes-angularjs-developers-make

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 73 comments

A State of Xen – Chaos Monkey and Cassandra

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/10/a-state-of-xen-chaos-monkey-cassandra.html

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 53 comments

Why is 0x00400000 the default base address for an executable?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/10/03/10562176.aspx

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 13 comments

What It's Like to Build a Startup in Gaza

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/like-build-startup-gaza-strip-bombs-drop/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 80 comments

Refactoring Ruby with Monads

http://codon.com/refactoring-ruby-with-monads

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 39 comments

Consider the Lobster (2004)

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster?printable=true

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 48 comments

Aboard a Cargo Colossus: Maersk’s New Container Ships

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/business/international/aboard-a-cargo-colossus-maersks-new-container-ships.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSumSmallMediaHigh&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 97 comments

HTTP/2 Frequently Asked Questions

http://http2.github.io/faq/

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 71 comments

WebSharper: Make web apps in F#

http://websharper.com/

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 83 comments

When 911 calls fail

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/3/6414949/911-call-failures-fcc

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 101 comments

Researchers see signature of “Majorana particles” inside superconducting iron

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/majorana-particle-matter-and-antimatter/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 52 comments

Dirty Assembly Tricks in NES Assembly (2013)

http://andrewkelley.me/post/jamulator.html#dirty-assembly-tricks

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 26 comments

Libsqlfs: A POSIX-style file system on top of an SQLite database

https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs

12 years ago

★ 637 C LGPL-2.1
100 upvotes – 49 comments

Digital revolution has yet to fulfil its promise of productivity and better jobs

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21621237-digital-revolution-has-yet-fulfil-its-promise-higher-productivity-and-better

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 101 comments

Analyzing AngelList Job Postings, Part 2: Salary and Equity Benchmarks

http://codingvc.com/analyzing-angellist-job-postings-part-2-salary-and-equity-benchmarks

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 69 comments

Novena Update

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4146

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

Creating your own Heroku on EC2

http://blog.clearbit.co/ec2-heroku?hn

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Sourcery (YC W13) Raises $2.5M to Connect Kitchens and Local Food Suppliers

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/03/sourcery-raises-2-5m-to-connect-kitchens-and-local-food-suppliers/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: HelloBitcoin. A “Hello World” of Bitcoin, Written in Go

https://github.com/prettymuchbryce/hellobitcoin

12 years ago

★ 256 Go MIT
74 upvotes – 6 comments

Founder Suicides

http://www.feld.com/archives/2014/10/founder-suicides.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

Phison USB Custom Firmware and Existing Firmware Patches

https://github.com/adamcaudill/Psychson

12 years ago

★ 4.1k C# MIT
71 upvotes – 63 comments

Could Ebola vaccine delay be due to an intellectual property spat?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/could-ebola-vaccine-delay-be-due-to-an-intellectual-property-spat-1.2786214

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 60 comments

Ebola: The tolling bell

http://stanfordlawyer.law.stanford.edu/2014/10/ebola-the-tolling-bell/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 51 comments

The Mac.BackDoor.iWorm threat in detail

http://news.drweb.com/show/?i=5977

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 43 comments

The Quest to Build an Elevator into Space

http://gizmodo.com/the-quest-to-build-an-elevator-to-space-1638192427

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 40 comments

How does SQLite work? Part 2: disk seeks are slow don't do them

http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/10/02/how-does-sqlite-work-part-2-btrees/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 4 comments

Usaddress – Python library for parsing unstructured address strings with NLP

http://usaddress.rtfd.org/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Franc – Detect natural languages

https://github.com/wooorm/franc

12 years ago

★ 4.3k JavaScript MIT
51 upvotes – 60 comments

Yahoo Nears Investment in Snapchat

http://online.wsj.com/articles/yahoo-nears-investment-in-snapchat-1412361684

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 46 comments

Geometric Madness: Implementation of computational geometry algorithms [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu-uW7CQkVo

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

Why Coconuts Could Be the Hydrogen Storage Material of the Future

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531416/why-coconuts-could-be-the-hydrogen-storage-material-of-the-future/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments

RethinkDB and CoreOS: Navigating Digital Ocean Together

http://blog.justonepixel.com/geek/2014/10/03/rethinkdb-and-coreos/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 5 comments

The origins of language are not what inherited disorders seemed to suggest

http://nautil.us/issue/17/big-bangs/the-family-that-couldnt-say-hippopotamus?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 24 comments
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