top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-07

Hacker News API

http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api

12 years ago

1714 upvotes – 298 comments

GitHub Student Developer Pack

https://education.github.com/pack

12 years ago

1022 upvotes – 207 comments

Plastc Card

https://www.plastc.com/#

12 years ago

648 upvotes – 346 comments

SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/90549

12 years ago

579 upvotes – 164 comments

Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose surveillance orders

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/twitter-sues-us-government-over-limits-on-ability-to-disclose-surveillance-orders/2014/10/07/5cc39ba0-4dd4-11e4-babe-e91da079cb8a_story.html

12 years ago

470 upvotes – 129 comments

Rust means never having to close a socket

http://blog.skylight.io/rust-means-never-having-to-close-a-socket/

12 years ago

337 upvotes – 162 comments

Show HN: Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution

https://github.com/citusdata/postgres_vectorization_test

12 years ago

★ 335 C Apache-2.0
332 upvotes – 36 comments

A replacement for JavaScript's “alert”

https://github.com/t4t5/sweetalert

12 years ago

★ 22.3k TypeScript MIT
312 upvotes – 106 comments

Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012)

http://blog.garrytan.com/travel-planning-software-the-most-common-bad

12 years ago

299 upvotes – 180 comments

Reverse engineering the binary data format for Star Wars: Yoda Stories

http://www.zachtronics.com/yoda-stories/

12 years ago

299 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: ReadMe.io – Beautiful Documentation Made Easy

http://readme.io/home

12 years ago

266 upvotes – 79 comments

Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/cheating-video-poker/

12 years ago

250 upvotes – 173 comments

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/press.html

12 years ago

241 upvotes – 52 comments

Lecture 5, How to Start a Startup: Peter Thiel

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec05/

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 79 comments

Introducing Carrot

http://www.introducingcarrot.com/

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 80 comments

Failed Startup Post-Mortems

http://3things.gitbooks.io/77-failed-startup-post-mortems/

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 59 comments

What we did about expired links on HN

http://pastebin.com/bSW5dfRQ

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 96 comments

Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/07/yahoo-lays-off-employees-in-india-reportedly-up-to-2000-affected/

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 54 comments

Talking about “types”

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/blog/2014/10/07

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 118 comments

Scala – The good, the bad and the very ugly

http://www.slideshare.net/Bozho/scala-the-good-the-bad-and-the-very-ugly

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 174 comments

Show HN: JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle

http://www.javascriptbattle.com/

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 42 comments

The Limits of Friendship

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-media-affect-math-dunbar-number-friendships

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 57 comments

AIs are now re-writing history

http://www.robertelliottsmith.com/?p=530

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 53 comments

Flipkart, Amazon of India, has sales of $100M in one day

http://www.livemint.com/Industry/TM8tDvrv3OfeYjeXkEPXZI/Flipkart-hits-100-million-sales-target-in-10-hours.html

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 54 comments

Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/object-oriented-programming-is-an-expensive-disaster-which-must-end

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 119 comments

Up All Night: The Science of Sleeplessness (2013)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/11/up-all-night-2?currentPage=all

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

Massive Moniker.com Breach, Valuable Domains Stolen

http://dotweekly.com/massive-moniker-com-breach-valuable-domains-stolen/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 12 comments

Samsung Electronics forecasts 60% fall in quarterly profit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29516806

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 50 comments

Slow is not a dirty word

http://www.jamesvandyne.com/slow-is-not-a-dirty-word/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

The Placebo Effect Doesn’t Apply Just to Pills

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/upshot/the-placebo-effect-doesnt-apply-just-to-pills.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&abt=0002&abg=1&_r=0

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Hacker News implemented using the new API

https://realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

The amazing progress of LEDs

http://www.vox.com/2014/10/7/6936361/the-amazing-progress-of-leds-in-one-chart

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 51 comments

Choosing a Web Framework: Django, Flask, or Pyramid

https://www.airpair.com/python/posts/django-flask-pyramid

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/tales-trash

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 56 comments

The LED's Dark Secret (2009)

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/optoelectronics/the-leds-dark-secret

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

Interview with Brad Cox, the Man Behind Objective-C (2009)

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.25/25.07/2507RoadtoCode-BradCoxInterview/index.html

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 39 comments

Exclusive: Yahoo India Is Laying Off Everybody in India. Everybody

http://www.nextbigwhat.com/yahoo-india-layoff-297/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

The Extropian Roots of Bitcoin

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/extropian-roots-bitcoin/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

800 year old Magna Carta manuscript reveals its secrets

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2014/10/800-year-old-magna-carta-manuscript-reveals-its-secrets.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

Solar sends energy prices below zero in middle of day

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/solar-sends-energy-prices-below-zero-in-middle-of-day-63767

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 76 comments

King of click: the story of the greatest keyboard ever made

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/7/6882427/king-of-keys

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 55 comments

Why do we keep repeating the Milgram experiments?

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-do-we-keep-repeating-the-milgram-experiments

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 59 comments

Blockchain Is Latest Bitcoin Start-Up to Lure Big Investment

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2014/10/06/blockchain-is-latest-bitcoin-start-up-to-lure-big-investment/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 26 comments

Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-questions-20141007-story.html

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 52 comments
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