top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-02-17

An Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding the App Store 70/30 Revenue Split

http://blog.anylistapp.com/2015/02/open-letter-to-tim-cook-regarding-app-store-revenue-split/

11 years ago

389 upvotes – 216 comments

Why the world's biggest military keeps losing wars

http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/why_the_worlds_biggest_military_keeps_losing_wars

11 years ago

324 upvotes – 268 comments

Duplicate SSH Keys Everywhere

https://blog.shodan.io/duplicate-ssh-keys-everywhere/

11 years ago

310 upvotes – 84 comments

Tesla Motors Announces a New Home Battery

http://offgridquest.com/news/tesla-motors-announces-a-new-home-batter

11 years ago

289 upvotes – 217 comments

My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

http://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/741.php

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 235 comments

“RNG broken for last 4 months”

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-February/054580.html

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 158 comments

First fully sandboxed Linux desktop app

http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2015/02/17/first-fully-sandboxed-linux-desktop-app/

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 131 comments

Lego’s 1981 Ad Campaign

http://joshsummers.co.uk/2015/02/16/Lego-1981-Beautiful-Advert/

11 years ago

275 upvotes – 142 comments

Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us

http://bitbashing.io/2015/02/16/shipping-culture.html

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 162 comments

The billionaire’s typewriter

http://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 94 comments

The Problem with Job Titles

http://blog.workshape.io/the-problem-with-job-titles/

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 101 comments

Debian developer prompted to revisit FreeBSD after 20 years

http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9317-has-linux-lost-its-way-comments-prompt-a-debian-developer-to-revisit-freebsd-after-20-years

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 109 comments

The Sierpinski triangle page to end most Sierpinski triangle pages

http://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 41 comments

The Gig Economy Is Being Sued to Death

http://www.fastcompany.com/3042248/the-gig-economy-wont-last-because-its-being-sued-to-death

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 149 comments

A female computer science major at Stanford: “Floored” by the sexism

http://fortune.com/2015/02/17/a-female-computer-science-major-at-stanford-floored-by-the-sexism/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 158 comments

Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity [pdf]

http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 43 comments

Why I Don't Hate Git: Hidden Consistency

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/2/17/ui-and-hidden-consistency/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 48 comments

The Expert in a Year Challenge

http://www.experttabletennis.com/expert-in-a-year/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 64 comments

SlideMail – an email app that can think

http://www.slidemailapp.com/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 59 comments

Introducing DataFrames in Spark for Large Scale Data Science

http://databricks.com/blog/2015/02/17/introducing-dataframes-in-spark-for-large-scale-data-science.html

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 41 comments
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