top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-23

“Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby

http://www.yukinishijima.net/2014/10/21/did-you-mean-experience-in-ruby.html

12 years ago

455 upvotes – 181 comments

1984 v. Brave New World

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/1984-v-brave-new-world.html

12 years ago

449 upvotes – 195 comments

Old Masters: After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/23/magazine/old-masters-at-top-of-their-game.html

12 years ago

411 upvotes – 104 comments

Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems

http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447

12 years ago

362 upvotes – 193 comments

Ask HN: My 56-year-old father is a developer having a tough time finding a job

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8501149

12 years ago

318 upvotes – 216 comments

Verizon Wireless injecting tracking UIDs into HTTP requests

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8500131

12 years ago

299 upvotes – 146 comments

AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-region-germany/

12 years ago

293 upvotes – 107 comments

Y Combinator, a Two-Year-Old, and a Pregnant Wife

http://tiempoapp.com/y-combinator-a-two-year-old-and-a-pregnant-wife

12 years ago

288 upvotes – 147 comments

Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online for Free

http://www.messagetoeagle.com/vaticanlibrary.php#.VEkMGhZ0Yim

12 years ago

280 upvotes – 134 comments

Ten years of Ubuntu

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/ten-years-of-ubuntu-how-linuxs-beloved-newcomer-became-its-criticized-king/

12 years ago

246 upvotes – 170 comments

Mono for Unreal Engine

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Oct-23.html

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 90 comments

Fingerprints Are Usernames, Not Passwords (2013)

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user-names-not.html

12 years ago

219 upvotes – 102 comments

Migrating from AWS to AWS

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/100758229719/migrating-from-aws-to-aws

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 15 comments

EFF Relaunches Surveillance Self-Defense Guide

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/eff-relaunches-surveillance-self-defense

12 years ago

203 upvotes – 46 comments

Are we at Peak Google?

http://stratechery.com/2014/peak-google/

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 142 comments

Diary of a Corporate Sellout

https://medium.com/message/diary-of-a-corporate-sellout-587479c215f4

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 35 comments

An Imaginary Town Becomes Real, Then Not

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/03/18/290236647/an-imaginary-town-becomes-real-then-not-true-story

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 39 comments

More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the Homeless

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/22/357846415/more-cities-are-making-it-illegal-to-hand-out-food-to-the-homeless

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 189 comments

Facebook Rooms

http://www.rooms.me/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 110 comments

Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea

http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6079

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 36 comments

Mapillary in the OpenStreetMap iD Editor

http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2014/10/21/iD-and-mapillary.html

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 24 comments

Building a Forex Trading Platform Using Kafka, Storm and Cassandra

http://insightdataengineering.com/blog/Building_a_Forex_trading_platform_using_Kafka_Storm_Cassandra.html

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 39 comments

A Natural A/B Test of Harassment

http://developers.kongregate.com/blog/a-natural-a-b-test-of-harassment

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 128 comments

China no longer has a stranglehold on the world's supply of rare earth metals

http://www.vox.com/2014/10/22/7031243/china-grip-rare-earth-metals-supply-weakening

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 66 comments

Who am I?

https://news.ycombinator.com/whoami

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 24 comments

Comparing OCaml and Standard ML

http://adam.chlipala.net/mlcomp/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 68 comments

Bay Area tech company caught paying imported workers $1.21 per hour

http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/23/efi-underpaying-workers/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 88 comments

CSS-only plotting

https://github.com/asciimoo/cssplot/

12 years ago

★ 779 CSS
102 upvotes – 31 comments

The laborers of content moderation on Facebook

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 19 comments

Apple Maps Connect

https://mapsconnect.apple.com

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 43 comments

Microsoft Cloud Strength and Hardware Progress Drive Record Q1 Revenue

http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/PressReleaseAndWebcast/FY15/Q1/default.aspx

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

Ello Raises $5.5M, Legally Files as Public Benefit Corp.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/23/ello-raises-5-5-million-legally-files-as-public-benefit-corp-meaning-no-ads-ever/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 88 comments

Tug: Use Docker for development

https://github.com/nitrous-io/tug

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 28 comments

New Microscope Collects Dynamic Images of the Molecules that Animate Life

http://www.hhmi.org/news/new-microscope-collects-dynamic-images-molecules-animate-life

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

Lecture 10: How to Start a Startup

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec10

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

How Crowdsourcing Turned on Me

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/how-crowdsourcing-turned-on-me

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

Linux Container Security

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/33170.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 16 comments

TestFlight Beta Testing

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/testflight/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 32 comments

PostgreSQL is more popular than MySQL

http://www.databasefriends.co/2014/03/favorite-relational-database.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 49 comments

Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin, Blows Everyone’s Mind

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/mark-zuckerberg-speaks-mandarin-blows-everyones-mind/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 55 comments

London Datastore

http://data.london.gov.uk/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments

The Writer Automaton, Switzerland [video]

http://www.chonday.com/Videos/the-writer-automaton

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Results of 2014 State of Clojure and ClojureScript Survey

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2014/10/20/results-of-2014-state-of-clojure-and-clojurescript-survey

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

A New Provable Factoring Algorithm

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/10/18/a-new-provable-factoring-algorithm/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

Ruby's Object.new in C

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.2.0.preview1/symbols/Object#annotation=4033996&line=1866

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Teaming up with Oxford University on Artificial Intelligence

http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2014/10/teaming-up-with-oxford-university-on.html

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

Kippo Honeypot Video Gallery

http://blog.tjll.net/kippo-honeypot-video-gallery/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Node.js Advisory Board

https://www.joyent.com/blog/node-js-advisory-board

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments

Apple 1 Motherboard Sold for $905,000

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22247/lot/286/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 46 comments

Zulu: Multi-platform Commercialized OpenJDK

http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zulu

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 28 comments

So Where Did All the Women Coders Go?

http://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2014/10/23/so-where-did-all-the-women-coders-go/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 22 comments
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