top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-08

Modern SQL in PostgreSQL

http://www.slideshare.net/MarkusWinand/modern-sql

11 years ago

446 upvotes – 130 comments

Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S?

http://observationdeck.io9.com/why-is-the-dollar-sign-a-letter-s-1683940575

11 years ago

428 upvotes – 130 comments

Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio

https://github.com/mofarrell/p2pvc

11 years ago

★ 2.8k C MIT
375 upvotes – 44 comments

If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers

http://www.dawood.in/if-carpenters-were-hired-like-programmers/

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 154 comments

Modern C [pdf]

http://icube-icps.unistra.fr/img_auth.php/d/db/ModernC.pdf

11 years ago

250 upvotes – 43 comments

Samsung Global Privacy Policy - SmartTV Supplement

https://www.samsung.com/uk/info/privacy-SmartTV.html

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 119 comments

Show HN: Watch People Code

http://www.watchpeoplecode.com/?src=hn

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 72 comments

ISRO to launch Google satellite

http://www.asianage.com/india/isro-launch-google-satellite-300

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 36 comments

Inside a Chinese Bitcoin Mine That's Grossing $1.5M a Month

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/chinas-biggest-secret-bitcoin-mine?gble

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 98 comments

Teletext for Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/ali1234/raspi-teletext

11 years ago

★ 440 C
143 upvotes – 22 comments

µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-default-deny

11 years ago

★ 63k JavaScript GPL-3.0
141 upvotes – 77 comments

AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899

http://www.audiovisualonline.co.uk/product/8041/audioquest-diamond-rj-e-ethernet-cable-12m

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 124 comments

A Tale of Two Zippers

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4364

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 31 comments

The Ken Thompson Hack

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 39 comments

Ecuador becomes the first country to roll out its own digital durrency

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102397137

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 48 comments

The Best Business Book I’ve Ever Read (2014)

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Business-Adventures

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 46 comments

Measuring Feline Capacitance

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/152090/measuring-feline-capacitance

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 18 comments

GCC, LLVM, Copyleft, Companies, and Non-Profits (2014)

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/01/26/llvm.html

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 66 comments

The Dark Master of Russian Film

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/jan/31/dark-master-russian-film/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 3 comments

Getting paid to work on open-source?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9018319

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 51 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics

http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/02/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart (2014)

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-closed-source-drm-video-browser-cory-doctorow

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 72 comments

The Kitchen Bladesmith

http://craftsmanship.net/the-kitchen-bladesmith/#sthash.LHF69bVQ

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Antibiotics targeting mitochondria kill cancer stem cells of several tumor types

http://www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/index.php?journal=oncotarget&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=3174

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

Stupid C++ Template Tricks: Snake

http://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks-snake/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

Demoscene news and downloads

https://www.scene.org/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

Berkeley startup and its energy machines are about to take off

https://gigaom.com/2015/02/04/this-berkeley-startup-its-energy-machines-are-about-to-take-off/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

WhatsSpy Public

https://gitlab.maikel.pro/maikeldus/WhatsSpy-Public/wikis/home

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

Fab Lab – The Machines

http://janka102.github.io/FabLabMachineTest

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 30 comments

Why are we obsessed with the Nazis?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/06/why-obsessed-nazis-third-reich

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 76 comments

SpaceX Webcast of Falcon 9 DSCOVR Launch

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?dscovr

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments
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