top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-21

Firebase is Joining Google

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2014-10-21-firebase-joins-google.html

12 years ago

879 upvotes – 227 comments

My Day Interviewing for the Service Economy Startup from Hell

http://thebillfold.com/2014/10/my-day-interviewing-for-the-service-economy-startup-from-hell/

12 years ago

604 upvotes – 274 comments

Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29645760

12 years ago

510 upvotes – 74 comments

I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (2011)

http://zef.me/3666/i-hate-puzzles/

12 years ago

436 upvotes – 255 comments

India’s Downward Spiral

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/india%E2%80%99s-downward-spiral

12 years ago

275 upvotes – 143 comments

Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking

http://time.com/3513875/soda-may-age-you-as-much-as-smoking/

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 248 comments

Magic Leap Secures $542M Led by Google

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/21/magic-leap-tech/

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 104 comments

Strengthening 2-Step Verification with Security Key

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/10/strengthening-2-step-verification-with.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoogleOnlineSecurityBlog+%28Google+Online+Security+Blog%29

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 141 comments

Introducing Phoenix, Swift set free

https://ind.ie/phoenix/

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 117 comments

Troubling Arguments from the Government in Smith v. Obama

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/troubling-arguments-government-smith-v-obama

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 75 comments

Twitter Natural Language Processing

http://www.ark.cs.cmu.edu/TweetNLP/

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 29 comments

Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles

http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html?round=two

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 68 comments

US Army Survival Manual (2006) [pdf]

http://www.pssurvival.com/ps/military_fms/fm_21-76_us_army_survival_manual_2006.pdf

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 68 comments

Lecture 9: How to Raise Money

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec09

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 44 comments

Avoiding systemd isn't hard

http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 105 comments

The Introverted Face

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-introverted-face/381697/?single_page=true

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 109 comments

Show HN: Run dedicated iOS Simulators in the browser

https://appetize.io/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 67 comments

Flat UI Colors

http://flatuicolors.com/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 121 comments

When Women Stopped Coding

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 184 comments

Escape from Microsoft Word

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/oct/21/escape-microsoft-word/

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 77 comments

A grouped pure CSS parallax demo

http://keithclark.co.uk/articles/pure-css-parallax-websites/demo3/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 40 comments

“Startup Names” by Paul Graham (2006)

http://aux.messymatters.com/pgnames.html

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Luakernel – Lua + SQLite + musl libc running on x86

https://github.com/ers35/luakernel

12 years ago

★ 271 C CC0-1.0
115 upvotes – 24 comments

Case law is set free; what next?

http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2014/10/caselaw-is-set-free-what-next.html

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 24 comments

What port should I use?

http://blog.mailgun.com/25-465-587-what-port-should-i-use/

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 29 comments

Xerox Alto Source Code

http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/xerox-alto-source-code/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 19 comments

A Brief, Opinionated History of the API [pdf]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B941PmRjYRpnbWVTajRzaUVCelk/view

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 24 comments

The loneliest plant in the world (2011)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/10/136029423/the-loneliest-plant-in-the-world

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 19 comments

Introducing Consul Template

https://hashicorp.com/blog/introducing-consul-template.html

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 16 comments

The ethics of the Guardian's Whisper bombshell

http://m.cjr.org/303546/show/fa2aa41c24bd3f6153bb074404b15eb1/?

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 53 comments

Cuckoo Filters, Practically Better Than Bloom [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/cuckoo-conext2014.pdf

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 9 comments

Why pro-systemd and anti-systemd people will never get along

http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 111 comments

Sweet Alert for Bootstrap – Blends nicely with any Bootstrap based project

http://lipis.github.io/bootstrap-sweetalert/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 36 comments

The anarchic experimental schools of the 1970s

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29518319

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 66 comments

“The following surprisingly difficult problem was given to my son's Math Circle”

https://plus.google.com/114134834346472219368/posts/CR1ZoNe9ojQ

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 89 comments

Synaptic – Architecture-free neural network library for Node.js and the browser

http://synaptic.juancazala.com/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 6 comments

The Lyme Wars (2013)

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/01/130701fa_fact_specter?currentPage=all

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 50 comments

Martin Gardner, puzzle master extraordinaire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29688355

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

Redis Sentinel properties and fail scenarios

http://antirez.com/news/80

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 6 comments

Neural Turing Machines [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5401v1.pdf

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

Hoverboard? Still in the Future

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/technology/hoverboard-still-in-the-future.html

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 40 comments

Tracking Planes with RTL-SDR and Dump1090

http://www.satsignal.eu/raspberry-pi/dump1090.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 13 comments

Why the World Is Too Optimistic About China's Economic Future

http://qz.com/281609/larry-summers-explains-why-the-world-is-too-optimistic-about-chinas-economic-future/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 44 comments

Governor Snyder signs a law to ban Tesla direct sales in Michigan

http://www.wxyz.com/news/state/governor-snyder-signs-a-law-to-ban-tesla-direct-sales

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 55 comments

Checkboxes that kill your product

http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 56 comments

Privilege Escalation on Windows 8/UEFI Systems

https://www.mitre.org/publications/technical-papers/presentation-extreme-privilege-escalation-on-windows-8uefi-systems

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Paul Dirac: The Quiet Genius Died 30 Years Ago

http://blog.lindau-nobel.org/paul-dirac-the-quiet-genius-died-30-years-ago/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Gaming with one arm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8485817

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 50 comments
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