top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-26

Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sr96TFQQE

12 years ago

427 upvotes – 196 comments

An open source engine clone of Age of Empires II

https://github.com/SFTtech/openage

12 years ago

★ 14.1k Python
348 upvotes – 71 comments

Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM (2013) [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpv-Qb-dB6g

12 years ago

288 upvotes – 119 comments

iCloud Uploads Local Data Outside of iCloud Drive

https://datavibe.net/~sneak/20141023/wtf-icloud/

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 116 comments

Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a deposition (1998) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhdDZk45HDI&feature=youtu.be&t=1m13s

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 170 comments

Ask HN: Is the semantic web still a thing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8510401

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 113 comments

Firefox OS Is Coming to Raspberry Pi

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fxos_on_RaspberryPi

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 26 comments

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage (2010)

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage-2/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 124 comments

YC Alum Hacks Jason Calacanis' Voicemail Message to Ask for Investment

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/526449415117361152

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 87 comments

RC fighter model UAV build in Jet engine 360+mph [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz8SjWnVSBs

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 95 comments

Entrepreneurs think they’re badass

http://ryancarson.com/post/101015286840/entrepreneurs-think-theyre-badass

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 86 comments

PPA Impounds UberX Vehicles in Undercover Sting Operation

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/10/26/uber-philadelphia-uberx-ppa-sting-impounds/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 127 comments

The LaTeX cargo cult

http://www.joshparsons.net/latex/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 129 comments

Planjure: A* and Dijkstra's in Om

http://elbenshira.com/blog/planjure-astar-and-dijkstras-in-om/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 5 comments

The Dangers of Eating Late at Night

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/opinion/sunday/the-dangers-of-eating-late-at-night.html?_r=1

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 88 comments

On becoming an expert C programmer

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/c/expert.html

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 76 comments

A startup CEO drives for Uber

http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/25/a-startup-ceo-drives-for-uber/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 55 comments

I � Unicode [pdf]

http://seriot.ch/resources/talks_papers/i_love_unicode_softshake.pdf

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: What to do when your once potential competitor becomes a real competitor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8511559

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 39 comments

FPV Mini Quadcopter Racing Videos

http://www.fpvracing.tv/videos.html

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 32 comments

Even Tetris is hard to test

http://blog.jwhitham.org/2014/10/its-hard-to-test-software-even-simple.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 41 comments

Engelbart's Violin (2012)

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: How I can get out of a job that has me burned out and exhausted?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8511589

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 65 comments

In response to a blog post on Samsung Knox

https://www.samsungknox.com/en/blog/response-blog-post-samsung-knox

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 25 comments

How Standing Desks Can Help Students Focus in the Classroom

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/10/how-standing-desks-can-help-students-focus-in-the-classroom/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 38 comments

Genetic Relations Among Procrastination, Impulsivity, and Goal-Management Ability

https://pdf.yt/d/D_56sQA2ad-fIZeL

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 37 comments

Fast Enough VMs in Fast Enough Time (2013)

http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/fast_enough_vms_in_fast_enough_time

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

The cost of loyalty

http://avc.com/2014/10/the-cost-of-loyalty/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: No more “idea websites” – here's a problem solving website

https://www.thinkero.us/app

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

Leica M Camera Timeline

http://www.ishootfilm.org/timelines/leica-m

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 45 comments

The Great Bitcasa Purge

http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2014/10/26/the-great-bitcasa-purge/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 11 comments

Remarkable – a JavaScript Markdown and Commonmark parser

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable

12 years ago

★ 5.8k JavaScript MIT
50 upvotes – 11 comments

Veteran fraud expert sets his sights on Bitcoin

http://fortune.com/2014/10/24/bitcoin-fraud-scam/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 40 comments

The hitchhiker’s guide to solving problems

http://www.slashie.org/articles/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-solving-problems/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 5 comments

Lifted On Giant Inner Tubes, An Old Tree Moves In Michigan

http://www.npr.org/2014/10/26/358965309/lifted-on-giant-inner-tubes-an-old-tree-moves-in-michigan

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

The Plunge

http://grantland.com/features/the-plunge-shavarsh-karapetyan-heroic-rescue-armenia-trolleybus-ussr-history-finswimming/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 3 comments

The Humpty-Dumpty Guide to OOP

http://www.sicpers.info/2014/10/the-humpty-dumpty-guide-to-oop/

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 30 comments

The Tools of Technomadics (2004)

http://microship.com/resources/technomadic-tools.html

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 5 comments

CVS Disables NFC Terminals, Stops Accepting Apple Pay, Google Wallet

http://www.macworld.com/article/2839081/cvs-disables-nfc-terminals-stops-accepting-apple-pay-google-wallet.html

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 28 comments
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