top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-22

Google Inbox

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-inbox-that-works-for-you.html

12 years ago

1069 upvotes – 451 comments

My adventures in CNC robotics

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/rstory/

12 years ago

390 upvotes – 49 comments

FTDI driver kills fake FTDI FT232s

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232/

12 years ago

342 upvotes – 306 comments

The man with the golden blood

http://mosaicscience.com/story/man-golden-blood

12 years ago

302 upvotes – 102 comments

How Wizards of the Coast distributed equity as a startup

http://www.peteradkison.com/blog-entry-3-wizards-of-the-coast-equity-distributions-part-2/?2

12 years ago

275 upvotes – 123 comments

Fastsocket – A highly scalable socket for Linux

https://github.com/fastos/fastsocket

12 years ago

★ 3.7k C GPL-2.0
260 upvotes – 43 comments

Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/uk-hungary-internet-tax-idUKKCN0IB0RI20141022

12 years ago

254 upvotes – 118 comments

Docker Development Patterns

http://www.hokstad.com/docker/patterns

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 30 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Answers Q&A in Mandarin at Chinese University

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10101708164336771

12 years ago

248 upvotes – 174 comments

PhotoMath – Smart camera calculator

https://photomath.net/

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 54 comments

Fabric – Mobile developer platform by Twitter

https://dev.twitter.com/products/fabric

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 70 comments

What If Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/magazine/what-if-age-is-nothing-but-a-mind-set.html

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 81 comments

LastPass command-line interface tool

https://github.com/lastpass/lastpass-cli

12 years ago

★ 2.9k C GPL-2.0
173 upvotes – 69 comments

What it took for SpaceX to become a serious space company

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/what-it-took-for-spacex-to-become-a-serious-space-company/381724/?single_page=true

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 48 comments

Erlang and IBM Power8 in the cloud: super-high single-system parallelism

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-October/081407.html

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 59 comments

The mystery of the disappearing Silk Road murder charges

http://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-murder-charges-ross-ulbricht/

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 123 comments

A Soldier Explains What It Was Like in the World War I Trenches (1916)

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119933/interview-wounded-world-war-i-soldier-bulgaria

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: I built an Android game after work with a friend in 6 months

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thirtymatches.apuraditos

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 88 comments

New AWS Directory Service

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-directory-service/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 37 comments

The joy of text – the fall and rise of interactive fiction

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/22/interactive-fiction-awards-games

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 33 comments

Foundations of Data Science [pdf]

https://research.microsoft.com/en-US/people/kannan/book-no-solutions-aug-21-2014.pdf

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 15 comments

Say Goodbye to the Last Vacuum Tube Product

http://electronicdesign.com/blog/say-good-bye-last-vacuum-tube-product

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 97 comments

Twitter Digits

https://www.digits.com/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 47 comments

How Google Handles IT for Its Workers

http://online.wsj.com/articles/how-does-google-handle-it-for-its-workers-ask-cio-ben-fried-1413751227

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 90 comments

Redfin buys Walkscore

http://blog.walkscore.com/2014/10/look-back-look-ahead/#.VEf46IftIso

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

Raspberry Pi Founder Shows Off Incoming Touch Panel for Making DIY ‘Pi Pads’

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/21/pi-pads/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

The Emacs Commune (2002)

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch06.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 24 comments

Twenty Things to do with a Computer (1971) [pdf]

http://www.stager.org/articles/twentythings.pdf

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 13 comments

Inside San Francisco's housing crisis

http://www.vox.com/a/homeless-san-francisco-tech-boom

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 174 comments

Two-Minute Guide to Git

http://www.garyrobinson.net/2014/10/git-in-two-minutes-for-a-solo-developer.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

A Clone of Chips Challenge in Haskell

https://github.com/egonSchiele/chips

12 years ago

★ 145 Haskell
86 upvotes – 48 comments

U.N.C. Investigation Reveals ‘Shadow Curriculum’ to Help Athletes

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/sports/university-of-north-carolina-investigation-reveals-shadow-curriculum-to-help-athletes.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 100 comments

Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains [pdf]

http://www.blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments

Clones Wars: Video Game Litigation Illustrated

https://medium.com/patents-technology-law/clones-wars-video-game-litigation-illustrated-36682abb4d68

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

Steve Wozniak to teach at University of Technology, Sydney

http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/557833/steve-wozniak-teach-uts/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

Progress Software to Acquire Telerik for $263M

http://online.wsj.com/articles/progress-software-to-acquire-telerik-for-263-million-1413983315

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 57 comments

Fake versus Real FTDI USB Serial Chips

http://zeptobars.ru/en/read/FTDI-FT232RL-real-vs-fake-supereal

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 34 comments

45,000-year-old modern human bone yields a genome

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/10/45000-year-old-modern-human-bone-yields-a-genome/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 5 comments

Everyday Statistics for Programmers: Nonlinear Regression

http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2014/10/everyday-statistics-for-programmers_21.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

http://www.getpoint.co/?campaign=hn

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 38 comments

The autonomous Google car may never happen

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/google_self_driving_car_it_may_never_actually_happen.single.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 63 comments

Neural Turing Machines

http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

Museum of Soviet Calculators On the Web

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

Scalability, Part 2: Hypercubes

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/10/21/scalability-part-2-hypercubes/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

AI Swarms on the Blockchain

http://www.barisser.com/ai-swarms-on-the-blockchain-f8f56f4f8b14

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Untangling the WebRTC Flow

https://www.pkcsecurity.com/blog#webrtc-flow

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Improving WhatsApp

http://www.maximiliankiener.com/digitalprojects/whatsapp/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 45 comments

Lowly DSL poised for gigabit speed boost

http://www.cnet.com/news/lowly-dsl-broadband-poised-for-gigabit-speed-boost/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 52 comments

The end of apps as we know them

http://blog.intercom.io/the-end-of-apps-as-we-know-them/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 0 comments

A brainfuck compiler written in PHP

https://github.com/igorw/naegleria

12 years ago

★ 90 PHP MIT
47 upvotes – 21 comments

Inbox is a reinvention of email from Google

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/22/7039391/google-inbox

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments

At Facebook, Creating Empathy Among Cyberbullying

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/fashion/Facebook-Arturo-Bejar-Creating-Empathy-Among-Cyberbullying.html

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments
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