top 50% 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

Why the British Are Better at Satire

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/why-the-british-are-better-at-satire/384964/?single_page=true

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 110 comments

Coming Soon in HHVM

http://hhvm.com/blog/8405/coming-soon-in-hhvm

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 58 comments

WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/web/4894818972.html

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 100 comments

How Misaligning Data Can Increase Performance 12x (2013)

http://danluu.com/3c-conflict/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

Blockstore: A Key-Value Store on Bitcoin

http://blog.onename.com/blockstore-bitcoin/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Firefox to get a “walled garden” for extensions, Mozilla to be sole arbiter

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/17/firefox-to-get-a-walled-garden-for-browser-extensions-mozilla-to-be-sole-arbiter/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 102 comments

Create and manipulate fonts using JavaScript

http://www.pluminjs.com/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

Clustering US Senators with k-means

http://blog.dataquest.io/blog/plotting-senators/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 10 comments

The load-balanced capture effect

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2015/02/16/capture/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

Radio Shack lost its way when it ditched its hobbyist customers

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21643461-radio-shack-lost-its-way-when-it-ditched-its-hobbyist-customers-making-it

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 45 comments

Raspberry Pi becomes best-selling UK computer ever as sales top 5M

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2395736/raspberry-pi-makes-history-as-sales-hit-five-million

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Domain Driven Design When Surrounded by Legacy Development (2013) [pdf]

http://domainlanguage.com/ddd/strategy/GettingStartedWithDDDWhenSurroundedByLegacySystemsV1.pdf

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over

http://hyponymo.us/2013/01/29/100-percent-unemployment/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 89 comments

Microsoft is interesting again

https://medium.com/@jason/microsoft-is-interesting-again-very-f9c5bef7116

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 41 comments

OpenGenera 2.0 Virtual Machine Environment

https://github.com/ynniv/opengenera

11 years ago

★ 298 Shell
71 upvotes – 15 comments

What are your biggest career regrets?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9061053

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 77 comments

Password cracking experts decipher elusive Equation Group crypto hash

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/password-cracking-experts-decipher-elusive-equation-group-crypto-hashes/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Working through burnout?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9062360

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 92 comments

Hacking Passion (2013)

http://www.kytrinyx.com/blog/hacking-passion

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

The Genetic Algorithm Explained

http://techeffigytutorials.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-genetic-algorithm-explained.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Studying large code bases

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9060832

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

Boiling point: redesigning the kettle for the 21st century

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/08/innovators-boiling-point-redesigning-kettle-miito

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 56 comments

C++11: Implementation of list comprehension in SQL-like form

http://vitiy.info/cpp11-writing-list-comprehension-in-form-of-sql/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: Hacker Slides – Open-source presentation app on Sandstorm

https://github.com/jacksingleton/hacker-slides

11 years ago

★ 674 CSS MIT
55 upvotes – 12 comments

Anatomy of a code tracer

https://medium.com/@oleavr/anatomy-of-a-code-tracer-b081aadb0df8

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 2 comments

Introducing Neptune Duo

http://www.getneptune.com/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 25 comments

A Look at Nanomsg and Scalability Protocols

http://www.bravenewgeek.com/a-look-at-nanomsg-and-scalability-protocols/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

At Chipotle, How Many Calories Do People Really Eat?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/17/upshot/what-do-people-actually-order-at-chipotle.html?abt=0002&abg=0&_r=0

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 85 comments

Worried Sick – The Nocebo Effect (2013)

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/36126/title/Worried-Sick/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 0 comments

Show HN: Instagram viewer by latitude and longitude, hosted for free on Heroku

https://github.com/toddwschneider/coordstagram

11 years ago

★ 219 Ruby MIT
49 upvotes – 18 comments

‘Anti-petroleum’ movement a growing security threat to Canada, RCMP say

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/anti-petroleum-movement-a-growing-security-threat-to-canada-rcmp-say/article23019252/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 31 comments

How Coal Kills

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-coal-kills/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 50 comments
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