top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-09

Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf

12 years ago

635 upvotes – 177 comments

Redis cluster, no longer vaporware

http://antirez.com/news/79

12 years ago

522 upvotes – 49 comments

Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 Quintillion

http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/

12 years ago

424 upvotes – 73 comments

Introducing GIFV

http://imgur.com/blog/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/?forcedesktop=1

12 years ago

332 upvotes – 198 comments

Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana – The Great Knowledge Box Showdown

https://www.stonetemple.com/great-knowledge-box-showdown/

12 years ago

298 upvotes – 168 comments

Rust 0.12.0 released

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-October/011267.html

12 years ago

281 upvotes – 110 comments

What kids around the world eat for breakfast

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/08/magazine/eaters-all-over.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region

12 years ago

245 upvotes – 155 comments

Lecture 6: How to Start a Startup

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec06

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 49 comments

Can Google's search engine find profits? (1999)

http://www.zdnet.com/news/can-googles-search-engine-find-profits/102541

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 63 comments

Firefox OS Shows Continued Global Growth

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/10/09/firefox-os-shows-continued-global-growth/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 120 comments

New Tube for London

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/campaign/new-tube-for-london

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 194 comments

Termtris: A Game Like Tetris in Ten Functions

https://github.com/tylerneylon/termtris

12 years ago

★ 463 Lua Unlicense
144 upvotes – 21 comments

How to kill team motivation in 10 simple steps

http://www.slideshare.net/weekdone/10-team-motivation-killers-and-how-to-fix

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 90 comments

Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/shakespeares-genius-is-nonsense

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 45 comments

My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (2002)

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 39 comments

The Etherkiller (2002)

http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 44 comments

Fluid Actuators from Disney Research Make Soft, Safe Robot Arms

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/beautiful-fluid-actuators-make-soft-safe-robot-arms#.VDaXD69x3zs.hackernews

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 24 comments

Pulse: open, trustworthy, decentralised sync and cloud service

https://ind.ie/pulse/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 23 comments

Microsoft CEO says women need not ask for raise, should trust system

http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2014/10/09/at-women-tech-event-microsoft-ceo-says-women-need-not-ask-for-raise-should/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 91 comments

Google’s Schmidt: Surveillance fears are ‘going to end up breaking the Internet’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/08/googles-schmidt-surveillance-fears-are-going-to-end-up-breaking-the-internet/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 52 comments

Outsourced Jobs Are No Longer Cheap, So They're Being Automated

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/outsourcing-is-no-longer-cheap-so-its-being-automated

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 110 comments

Indonesian Cave Paintings Are 40,000 Years Old

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rockart-ages-indonesian-cave-paintings-are-40000-years-old-180952970/?utm_source=twitter.com&no-ist

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Getting metabolism right

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/flawed-metabolic-networks-1007#.VDaR777d07c.twitter

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 5 comments

Amazon to Open First Brick-and-Mortar Location

http://online.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-open-first-store-1412879124?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStories&cb=logged0.7617116265464574

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 70 comments

Devices being remotely wiped in police custody

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29464889

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 73 comments

64-bit Android L developer preview

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/XG1WmNDMe8H

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 65 comments

Varnish 4.0.2 released

https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/pipermail/varnish-announce/2014-October/000698.html

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 55 comments

Nobody Knows What Running Looks Like

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/nobody-knows-what-running-looks-like/381171/?single_page=true

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 50 comments

Visualizing MNIST: An Exploration of Dimensionality Reduction

https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-10-Visualizing-MNIST/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

Ditch your welcome email

http://kissflow.com/kissu_kissu/ditch-your-welcome-email/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 59 comments

Box acquires MedXT

https://blog.box.com/2014/10/box-acquiring-medxt-to-modernize-collaboration-in-healthcare/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: React-hn – Supports all Hacker News API v0 item types

https://github.com/insin/react-hn

12 years ago

★ 2.2k JavaScript
69 upvotes – 20 comments

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2014/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 33 comments

How to double your app's downloads with keyword optimization

http://blog.discofingers.com/blog/2014/10/8/how-to-double-your-downloads-with-keywords-optimization

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 38 comments

The Intelligent Life of the City Raccoon

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/the-intelligent-life-of-the-city-raccoon

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

An Introduction to Semiconductor Physics, Technology, and Industry

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8223/an-introduction-to-semiconductor-physics-technology-and-industry

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments

Is Kindness Physically Attractive?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/10/09/is-kindness-physically-attractive/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 45 comments

Step-by-step JavaScript interpreter, written in JavaScript

https://neil.fraser.name/software/JS-Interpreter/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

CVE-2014-6277

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6277

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 47 comments

The Evolution of US Restrictions on Using and Exporting Encryption (1997) [pdf]

http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/DOC_0006231614.pdf

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 30 comments

Function Purity and Immutability in D

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/function-purity-and-immutable-data-struc/240169087

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

Weebly (YC W07) Debuts an iPad App for Building and Managing Websites

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/09/weebly-ipad-app/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

Hjson, the Human JSON

http://laktak.github.io/hjson/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 81 comments

Magic in a Box: My First Day Using Myo

https://medium.com/@allingeek/magic-in-a-box-my-first-day-using-myo-aded707c2042

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

Artificial arms get closer to the real thing

http://www.nature.com/news/artificial-arms-get-closer-to-the-real-thing-1.16111?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments

Hybrid materials could smash the solar efficiency ceiling

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/hybrid-materials-could-smash-the-solar-efficiency-ceiling

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 4 comments

The oldest .com domain names

http://www.domainholdings.com/recent-sales/100-oldest-domain-names/

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 38 comments

Can Someone Be Too Smart to Be a Cop?

http://www.mintpressnews.com/can-someone-be-too-smart-to-be-a-cop/192106/

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 54 comments

Spreadsheet showing SHA-256 calculations in step-by-step detail

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mOTrqckdetCoRxY5QkVcyQ7Z0gcYIH-Dc0tu7t9f7tw

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 7 comments

Cold fusion reactor verified by third-party researchers

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191754-cold-fusion-reactor-verified-by-third-party-researchers-seems-to-have-1-million-times-the-energy-density-of-gasoline

12 years ago

40 upvotes – 6 comments

A 16-Level XSS Challenge, held in summer 2014 (plus one hidden level)

https://github.com/cure53/xss-challenge-wiki/wiki/prompt.ml

12 years ago

★ 1.5k
40 upvotes – 4 comments

DIY Coin Checkout – template for product launch

https://github.com/airbrite/diy-checkout#

12 years ago

★ 155 JavaScript
38 upvotes – 20 comments

Uber Flunks the Better Business Bureau Test

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/uber-flunks-the-better-business-bureau-test

12 years ago

38 upvotes – 48 comments
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