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

Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

http://brutalhonesty.io

12 years ago

370 upvotes – 217 comments

My Isometric Voxel Engine: One Year Later

http://www.voxelquest.com/news/voxel-quest-one-year-update-roughly

12 years ago

362 upvotes – 84 comments

Tesla: Introducing Autopilot and Dual Motor All Wheel Drive

http://www.teslamotors.com

12 years ago

339 upvotes – 220 comments

What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?

http://rw.runnersworld.com/sub-2/

12 years ago

339 upvotes – 159 comments

Pigshell – Unix the Web

http://pigshell.com/v/0.6.2/

12 years ago

333 upvotes – 78 comments

CSS: It was twenty years ago today

https://dev.opera.com/articles/css-twenty-years-hakon/

12 years ago

298 upvotes – 114 comments

Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety

http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/10/why-12-foot-traffic-lanes-are-disastrous-for-safety-and-must-be-replaced-now/381117/

12 years ago

258 upvotes – 205 comments

How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)

http://gizmodo.com/how-fighter-jets-lock-on-and-how-the-targets-know-1644871272

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 85 comments

Judge Rejects Defense That FBI Illegally Hacked Silk Road, on a Technicality

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/silk-road-judge-technicality/

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 172 comments

Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/paul-graham-and-jessica-livingston-studio-1-0-10-09-J5e3sjvtRrys6nd286HWUA.html

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 65 comments

Rich Command Shells

http://waywardmonkeys.org/2014/10/10/rich-command-shells/

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 98 comments

Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/watch-netflix-in-ubuntu-today/

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 102 comments

The Toughest Adversity I've Ever Faced

http://scottbarbian.com/the-toughest-adversity-ive-ever-faced

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 106 comments

Our Journey to and Through YC

https://medium.com/@UseShout/our-journey-to-and-through-yc-a1d118e47f5

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 23 comments

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2014/press.html

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 80 comments

Excel.vim

https://github.com/yakiang/excel.vim

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 57 comments

Spark Breaks Previous Large-Scale Sort Record

http://databricks.com/blog/2014/10/10/spark-breaks-previous-large-scale-sort-record.html

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 56 comments

DEFCON Router Hacking Contest Reveals Major Vulnerabilities

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/def-con-router-hacking-contest-success-fun-learning-and-profit-many

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 59 comments

Microsoft’s Quantum Mechanics

http://www.technologyreview.com/photoessay/531606/microsofts-quantum-mechanics/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 37 comments

Things I Won't Work With: Peroxide Peroxides

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/10/10/things_i_wont_work_with_peroxide_peroxides.php

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 53 comments

Move Fast, Don't Break Your API

http://amberonrails.com/move-fast-dont-break-your-api/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 15 comments

Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery

http://pgbovine.net/command-line-bullshittery.htm

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 215 comments

PostgreSQL 9.4 Beta 3 Released

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1547/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 6 comments

Sartre on the Nobel Prize (1964)

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1964/dec/17/sartre-on-the-nobel-prize/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 33 comments

Ride Sharing by the Numbers

http://blog.whatsthefare.com/2014/10/it-pays-to-compare.html

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Imgix.js, a JavaScript library for responsive imaging

http://www.imgix.com/imgix-js

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 32 comments

Satya Nadella Email to Employees: RE: Grace Hopper Conference

http://news.microsoft.com/2014/10/09/satya-nadella-email-to-employees-re-grace-hopper-conference/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 81 comments

Behind League of Legends, E-Sports’s Main Attraction

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/technology/riot-games-league-of-legends-main-attraction-esports.html

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 68 comments

40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs

http://www.usatoday.com/longform/news/nation/2014/10/09/suicide-mental-health-prevention-research/15276353/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 109 comments

Watch This Tesla Drive Itself at the Press of a Button [video]

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/10/watch-this-tesla-drive-itself-at-the-press-of-a-button/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

'Bad Paper' Explores the Underworld of Debt Collection

http://www.npr.org/2014/10/09/354846672/bad-paper-explores-the-underworld-of-debt-collection

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 42 comments

Transducers for JavaScript

https://github.com/cognitect-labs/transducers-js

12 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript Apache-2.0
79 upvotes – 22 comments

Are We Really Conscious?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/opinion/sunday/are-we-really-conscious.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 52 comments

Is ZFS a suitable replacement for other Linux filesystems?

https://clusterhq.com/blog/zfs-suitable-replacement-file-systems/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 84 comments

Amazon Must Be Stopped

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119769/amazons-monopoly-must-be-broken-radical-plan-tech-giant

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 101 comments

200,000 private Snapchat images astray

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dagbladet.no%2F2014%2F10%2F10%2Fnyheter%2Finnenriks%2Fteknologi%2Fmobil%2Fsnapchat%2F35661463%2F&edit-text=&act=url

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 29 comments

All pull requests will be accepted. Let's see where it goes

https://github.com/tomekw/whatever

12 years ago

★ 281 Python
68 upvotes – 25 comments

Sonic.net implements DNSSEC, performs MITM against customers

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/21150

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

Tesla: No self-driver, but exotic features and go-fast model

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/10/09/tesla-musk-safety-driver-aids/16986665/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

Pash: An Open-Source Reimplementation of Windows PowerShell for Mono

https://github.com/Pash-Project/Pash

12 years ago

★ 516 C# BSD-3-Clause
64 upvotes – 7 comments

The Birth of Visual Basic (2006)

http://www.forestmoon.com/BIRTHofVB/BIRTHofVB.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 59 comments

Ceylon 1.1.0 is now available

http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2014/10/09/ceylon-1/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

Famed Antikythera wreck yields more treasures

http://www.nature.com/news/famed-antikythera-wreck-yields-more-treasures-1.16124

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Time Warner Cable Shareholders Approve Sale to Comcast

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-09/time-warner-cable-shareholders-approve-sale-to-comcast.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 43 comments

Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures: An Analysis of Production Failures

http://neverworkintheory.org/2014/10/08/simple-testing-can-prevent-most-critical-failures.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

Google Timer

https://www.google.com/search?q=timer&pws=0&hl=en

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 34 comments

Using Presto in Our Big Data Platform on AWS

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/10/using-presto-in-our-big-data-platform.html

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 2 comments

Microsoft CEO does about-face on women and raises

http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2014/10/10/microsoft-satya-nadella-women-raises/17023777/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 93 comments

The future of the book

http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21623373-which-something-old-and-powerful-encountered-vault

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 19 comments

Minipresso – Hand-powered portable espresso machine

http://www.wacaco.com/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Minard's map of Napoleon's invasion of Russia

http://dmmh.dclure.org/neatline/show/minard

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 13 comments

Transducers now available for Java/JavaScript/Ruby

http://cognitect-labs.github.io/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 17 comments

Ubisoft's Game Developer 'Limbo'

http://kotaku.com/ubisofts-game-developer-limbo-1644500222

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 48 comments

A wage revolution could end extreme poverty in Asia

http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/a-wage-revolution-could-mean-the-end-of-extreme-poverty-in-asia-and-massive-knock-on-effects-for-africa

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments
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