top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-13

Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/245561031/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-UEZdQ4D9zd883gw8tn3D&show_recommendations=true

12 years ago

1257 upvotes – 558 comments

AWS Lambda

http://aws.amazon.com/lambda/

12 years ago

526 upvotes – 158 comments

0h h1 – A little logic game

http://0hh1.com

12 years ago

411 upvotes – 152 comments

Welcome to a comet

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/11/Welcome_to_a_comet

12 years ago

387 upvotes – 78 comments

A new team at Reddit

http://blog.samaltman.com/a-new-team-at-reddit

12 years ago

368 upvotes – 352 comments

Alexander Grothendieck has died

http://www.liberation.fr/sciences/2014/11/13/alexandre-grothendieck-ou-la-mort-d-un-genie-qui-voulait-se-faire-oublier_1142614

12 years ago

356 upvotes – 52 comments

AWS EC2 Container Service

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloud-container-management/

12 years ago

350 upvotes – 84 comments

Handmade Hero: C game from scratch

http://handmadehero.org/

12 years ago

286 upvotes – 55 comments

Google Lifts the Turing Award into Nobel Territory

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/google-lifts-the-turing-award-into-nobel-territory/?ref=technology

12 years ago

266 upvotes – 65 comments

Americans’ Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/americans-cellphones-targeted-in-secret-u-s-spy-program-1415917533-lMyQjAxMTI0NTEwMzAxMTMwWj

12 years ago

252 upvotes – 67 comments

F# 4.0 Preview

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/fsharpteam/archive/2014/11/12/announcing-a-preview-of-f-4-0-and-the-visual-f-tools-in-vs-2015.aspx

12 years ago

249 upvotes – 71 comments

Why I Walked Away From a $12M Acquisition Offer 18 Months After Our Launch

http://www.groovehq.com/blog/startup-acquisition-offer

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 61 comments

Facebook Go Libraries

https://github.com/facebookgo

12 years ago

227 upvotes – 92 comments

Welcome, New Emacs Developers

http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2014/11/13/welcome-new-emacs-developers/

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 45 comments

Idea that intestinal bacteria affect mental health gains ground

http://www.nature.com/news/gut-brain-link-grabs-neuroscientists-1.16316

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 84 comments

Screeps – the world's first MMO sandbox strategy game for programmers

http://www.screeps.com/

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 79 comments

Thrust: Chromium-based cross-platform, cross-language application framework

https://github.com/breach/thrust/

12 years ago

★ 2.7k C++ MIT
184 upvotes – 55 comments

Making Ruby Faster

http://omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/11/12/making-ruby-faster/

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 61 comments

German Cloud Company Offering Free Heat If You Have Room for Some of Its Servers

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/11/11/cloud_heat_is_putting_servers_in_homes_and_offices_and_the_heat_from_them.html

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 83 comments

Tell HN: Hacker News Profile Leak (Fixed)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604586

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 62 comments

Pilot Who Survived Space Crash Says Parachute Opened Itself

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-12/pilot-who-survived-spacecraft-crash-says-parachute-opened-itself.html

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 83 comments

Android 5.0 Lollipop reviewed

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/android-5-0-lollipop-thoroughly-reviewed/?

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 84 comments

Simple Revision Control

http://www.catb.org/~esr/src/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 173 comments

Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology

http://fortune.com/2014/11/13/googles-larry-page-the-most-ambitious-ceo-in-the-universe/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 74 comments

It’s time to extend the US Privacy Act to EU citizens

http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2014/11/its-time-to-extend-us-privacy-act-to-eu.html

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 101 comments

Lisp in Small Pieces: Table of Contents and Code

http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 40 comments

The Mercenaries: Ex-NSA hackers are shaping the future of cyberwar

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/11/how_corporations_are_adopting_cyber_defense_and_around_legal_barriers_the.single.html

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 69 comments

Lecture 16: How to Run a User Interview

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec16/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

The Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Languages

http://dippl.org

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 13 comments

Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/technology/amazon-hachette-ebook-dispute.html?ref=technology&_r=0

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

The Visible Atomic Bomb

http://unmakingthebomb.com/visible-bomb/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 41 comments

Clumsy, an open-source utility for simulating broken networks on Windows

http://jagt.github.io/clumsy/index.html

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 19 comments

Teaching OCaml

http://ocaml.org/learn/teaching-ocaml.html

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

Samples for using LLVM and Clang as a library

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2014/samples-for-using-llvm-and-clang-as-a-library/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 3 comments

The pitfalls of using ssh-agent, or how to use an agent safely

http://rabexc.org/posts/pitfalls-of-ssh-agents

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Online Labs Designed Its Own ARM Servers To Take On AWS, DigitalOcean

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/online-labs-designed-its-own-arm-servers-to-take-on-aws-digitalocean/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Stoffi – a music player

https://github.com/simplare/stoffi

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

C# and .NET's Sudden Ubiquity

http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/c-and-nets-sudden-ubiquity/240169282

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 28 comments

J for C Programmers

http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/contents.htm

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 45 comments

That Time Buffett Smashed the Efficient Market Hypothesis

http://thereformedbroker.com/2014/01/03/that-time-buffett-smashed-the-efficient-market-hypothesis/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 51 comments

Saving old software from extinction in the age of cloud computing

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/saving-old-software-from-extinction-in-the-age-of-cloud-computing/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 7 comments

Chroma.js – A JavaScript library for color conversions and color scales

https://github.com/gka/chroma.js

12 years ago

★ 10.5k JavaScript
66 upvotes – 6 comments

Typewriters are back, and we have Edward Snowden to thank

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/12/typewriters-are-back-and-we-have-edward-snowden-to-thank/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 55 comments

The Illusion Machine That Teaches Us How We See

http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/the-illusion-machine-that-teaches-us-how-we-see

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

Event Notifications for Amazon S3

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/s3-event-notification/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Google's MathFu: a x-platform geometry math library for C++

http://google.github.io/mathfu/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

Why Are So Few Blockbuster Drugs Invented Today?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/why-are-there-so-few-new-drugs-invented-today.html?_r=0

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 57 comments

LodePNG: All-in-one PNG image decoder and encoder for C and C++

http://lodev.org/lodepng

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: What's the best way to buy a claimed domain name?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603308

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 35 comments
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