top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-01

Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture

https://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/living-in-switzerland-ruined-me-for-america-and-its-lousy-work-culture/

11 years ago

427 upvotes – 432 comments

Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

https://convox.com/

11 years ago

298 upvotes – 115 comments

Breaking Smart

http://breakingsmart.com/season-1/

11 years ago

235 upvotes – 62 comments

India and Bangladesh have begun the exchange of over 160 enclaves

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/01/say-goodbye-to-the-weirdest-border-dispute-in-the-world/?tid=HP_more?tid=HP_more

11 years ago

225 upvotes – 49 comments

I am Mt. Gox's first employee – AMA

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_barr_aka_adam_turner_the_first_mtgox/

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 73 comments

Ask HN: What are your best “soft skill” resources?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987495

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 66 comments

Haruki Murakami: The Moment I Became a Novelist

http://lithub.com/haruki-murakami-the-moment-i-became-a-novelist/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: What was Usenet's ultimate demise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987679

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 140 comments

Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frLwRLS_ZR0

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 38 comments

What is Ethereum?

http://etherscripter.com/what_is_ethereum.html

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 99 comments

A Pakistani Teen Gets Rich in E-Sports

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-pakistani-teens-esport-dream/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 54 comments

Visualizing Rust's type-system

http://jadpole.github.io/rust/type-system/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: I'm looking for the self-proclaimed “last private web hosting” site

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9988817

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

Former Apple rival IBM could become the biggest buyer of MacBooks

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/former-apple-rival-ibm-could-become-the-biggest-buyer-of-macbooks/articleshow/48307677.cms

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 101 comments

Tell HN: The next “Who Is Hiring” thread will be on Monday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987226

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 39 comments

History's Worst Software Bugs (2005)

http://archive.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2005/11/69355?currentPage=all

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Rockets – Reddit and websockets

http://github.com/rtheunissen/rockets

11 years ago

★ 354 CoffeeScript
98 upvotes – 28 comments

High School Student Proves “No Irish Need Apply” Signs Existed

http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/high_school_student_proves_professor_wrong_when_he_denied_no_irish_need_app

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 82 comments

Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001116.html

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 75 comments

U.S. Decides to Retaliate Against China’s Hacking

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/01/world/asia/us-decides-to-retaliate-against-chinas-hacking.html

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 81 comments

The Magic of RPython

http://kirbyfan64.github.io/posts/the-magic-of-rpython.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

How TCP backlog works in Linux

http://veithen.github.io/2014/01/01/how-tcp-backlog-works-in-linux.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 8 comments

The Birth of Standard Error (2013)

http://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20131211/index.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

Facebook shuts down swedish pro kurdish page

http://www.rojavakommitteerna.com/uncategorized/uttalande-fran-rojavakommitteerna-1-aug-2015-kl-14-00/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

Let's stop kidding ourselves about APIs

http://250bpm.com/blog:55#

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments

Should I Use Signed or Unsigned Ints?

http://blog.robertelder.org/signed-or-unsigned/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 68 comments

US spied on Japan government, companies: WikiLeaks

http://news.yahoo.com/us-spied-japan-government-companies-wikileaks-082720026.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Mark Karpeles arrested in Japan for “inflating assets”

http://www.wsj.com/articles/japanese-police-arrest-mark-karpeles-of-collapsed-bitcoin-exchange-mt-gox-1438393669

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

Gtkmm now uses C++11

http://www.murrayc.com/permalink/2015/07/31/gtkmm-now-uses-c11/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 7 comments

Dolphin Progress Report: July 2015

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2015/08/01/dolphin-progress-report-july-2015/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 3 comments

My Slow Internet vs. Docker

https://medium.com/google-cloud-platform-developer-advocates/my-slow-internet-vs-docker-7678ae1cae72

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

Not the retiring type: people still working in their 70s, 80s and 90s

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/01/still-working-aged-in-70s-80s-90s

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 61 comments

Forty Minutes with a Fields Medallist

http://www.t5eiitm.org/2015/07/forty-minutes-with-a-fields-medallist/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

Advanced metaprogramming in C

http://250bpm.com/blog:56

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 17 comments

Why Homejoy Failed and the Future of the On-Demand Economy

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/31/why-homejoy-failed-and-the-future-of-the-on-demand-economy/?ncid=rss

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 70 comments

Silicon Valley is perhaps the most productive and innovative place in the world

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/07/silicon-valleys-fortunes

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 51 comments

Windows 10 now wants you to pay for Solitaire

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/30/windows-10-now-wants-you-to-pay-for-solitaire.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 40 comments

The Value of Content

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/the-value-of-content-a30bbe8b54a5

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 31 comments

The 'No True Programmer' Fallacy

http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-no-true-programmer-fallacy

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 58 comments

The $1-a-week school

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21660113-private-schools-are-booming-poor-countries-governments-should-either-help-them-or-get-out

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 9 comments

Pilot aims to fly super glider to the edge of space

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/travel/oshkosh-airshow-perlan-super-glider/index.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

Timing data comparing CClasp to C++, SBCL and Python

https://drmeister.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/timing-data-comparing-cclasp-to-c-sbcl-and-python/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 22 comments
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