top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-13

My Philosophy on Alerting: Observations of a Site Reliability Engineer at Google

https://docs.google.com/a/gravitant.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa8eMWi8zzAn0YfcApr8Q/preview?sle=true

12 years ago

573 upvotes – 119 comments

The Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His NSA Leaks

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/snowdens-first-emails-to-poitras/

12 years ago

427 upvotes – 108 comments

Always bet on text

http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html

12 years ago

355 upvotes – 196 comments

Building Web Apps with Go

http://codegangsta.gitbooks.io/building-web-apps-with-go/

12 years ago

302 upvotes – 40 comments

On Getting Wasted

http://harpers.org/blog/2014/10/on-getting-wasted/

12 years ago

276 upvotes – 62 comments

How Wolves Change Rivers [video]

https://vimeo.com/86466357

12 years ago

253 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Snapception – Intercept all snapchats received over the network

https://github.com/thebradbain/snapception

12 years ago

★ 610 Python MIT
210 upvotes – 80 comments

Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals

http://patshaughnessy.net/2014/10/13/following-a-select-statement-through-postgres-internals

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 35 comments

The Future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/615220/45105d9668fe1eb1/

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 44 comments

Disney’s New Production Renderer ‘Hyperion’

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/disneys-new-production-renderer-hyperion-yes-disney/

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 26 comments

AngularJS 1.3.0

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2014/10/angularjs-130-superluminal-nudge.html

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 86 comments

Guide List for Startups Applying to Y Combinator

http://kevinwilliamdavid.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-list-for-startups-applying-to-y-combinator/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 19 comments

The Free Internet Project

http://thefreeinternetproject.org/

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 59 comments

The Space Shuttle’s Controversial Launch Abort Plan

http://www.tested.com/science/space/460233-space-shuttles-controversial-launch-abort-plan/

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 42 comments

Why threads can't fork

http://thorstenball.com/blog/2014/10/13/why-threads-cant-fork/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 68 comments

Startup School Doodle Notes 2014

http://startupnotes.org

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 21 comments

The difficulties we face to monetize our open source project

http://www.locomotivecms.com/articles/we-tried-to-solve-the-open-source-revenue-equation#.VDxcEhHF8Wx

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 47 comments

Losing 58.3 Lbs for Science

http://blog.zactownsend.com/losing-58-lbs-for-science

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 90 comments

The problematic culture of “Worse is Better”

http://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-13/worseisworse.html

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 116 comments

Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX

https://gitlab.brokenpipe.de/stettberger/avremu/tree/master

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 18 comments

Why I Love Startup School

http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/why-i-love-startup-school

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 28 comments

An open source tool to generate a complete backend from a MySql database

http://crud-admin-generator.com

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 37 comments

The Unix System: Making Computers Easier to Use (1982) [video]

http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2014/1/27/ATT-Archives-The-UNIX-System-Making-Computers-Easier-to-Use#.VDvlphuyFfA.hackernews

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 65 comments

Homebrew Cray-1A

http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 22 comments

First Impressions of Systemd, and They Are Not Good

http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9237-first-impressions-of-systemd

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 105 comments

Linux 3.17

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.17

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

When Theft Was Worse Than Murder

http://nautil.us/issue/12/feedback/when-theft-was-worse-than-murder

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 49 comments

The Dutch Pension Plan

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/business/no-smoke-no-mirrors-the-dutch-pension-plan.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A11%22%7D&_r=1

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 46 comments

Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

http://andrisatteka.blogspot.com/2014/10/creepy-visitor-tracking-using-linkedin.html

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 54 comments

Nixie – Wearable camera that can fly [video]

https://flynixie.com/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 53 comments

For business school graduates, investment banking is out and consulting is in

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21623673-graduates-worlds-leading-business-schools-investment-banking-out-and-consulting

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 72 comments

Humans are not constraint solvers

http://amigueloferreira.pt/humans-are-no-constraint-solvers/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

DMCA Takedown Notice for Popcorn Time and Time4Popcorn

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-07-11-MPAA.md

12 years ago

★ 6.2k DIGITAL Command Language
81 upvotes – 103 comments

Time-Lock Encryption (2011)

http://www.gwern.net/Self-decrypting%20files

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

Fun with Dependent Types in Haskell

http://www.alfredodinapoli.com/posts/2014-10-13-fun-with-dependent-types-in-haskell.html

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

Ethersheet – An open-source collaborative spreadsheet

https://ethersheet.org

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

How English beat German as the language of science

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29543708

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 79 comments

Distributed is not necessarily more scalable than centralized

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2014/07/distributed-is-not-necessarily-more.html

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Why Does Spain Have the World's Highest Concentration of Elevators?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/why-does-spain-have-the-worlds-highest-concentration-of-elevators/381288/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 54 comments

Why don't you use Bootstrap?

http://www.punkchip.com/why-dont-you-use-bootstrap/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 69 comments

Dronecode – Open source UAV platform

https://www.dronecode.org

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Charles Petzold Departing MSDN Magazine

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msdnmagazine/archive/2014/10/01/10561803.aspx

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 21 comments

The Horrible Implications of the EU VAT “Place of Supply” Change

http://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2014/10/13/the-horrible-implications-of-the-eu-vat-place-of-supply-change/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Arrow's Theorem

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arrows-theorem/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 36 comments

Hive: Free unlimited cloud storage for you and your friends

https://www.hive.im

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Find bugs before your users do

http://bughunt.io/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 40 comments

Fuzzing on Edison: field report

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/edison_fuzz/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 36 comments

Venture Capitalists Return to Backing Science Startups

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/business/venture-capitalists-return-to-backing-science-start-ups.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

C++ unified call syntax: x.f(y) vs. f(x,y) [pdf]

http://isocpp.org/files/papers/N4174.pdf

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 69 comments

Tamper: Chrome devtools extension for capturing and editing HTTP requests

http://dutzi.github.io/tamper/#

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Anonabox: a Tor hardware router

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/augustgermar/anonabox-a-tor-hardware-router

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 41 comments

SparkFun MicroView Review

http://rheingoldheavy.com/sparkfun-microview-review/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

“Complete Acquiesence”: How the Pontiac Aztek Happened

http://blog.caranddriver.com/complete-acquiesence-bob-lutz-reveals-how-the-pontiac-aztek-happened/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 56 comments
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