top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-05

Hawaii Bans Non-Compete and Non-Solicit Clauses in High-Tech Employment

https://casetext.com/posts/hawaii-bans-non-compete-and-non-solicit-clauses-in-high-tech-employment

11 years ago

533 upvotes – 173 comments

Tufte CSS

http://www.daveliepmann.com/tufte-css/

11 years ago

461 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: Image Processing for Everybody

http://imageplay.io/

11 years ago

451 upvotes – 167 comments

We're heading for AOL 2.0

http://jacquesmattheij.com/aol-20

11 years ago

319 upvotes – 141 comments

Index Funds May Work a Little Too Well

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-22/index-funds-may-work-a-little-too-well

11 years ago

307 upvotes – 198 comments

It Just Works

http://www.danielandrews.com/2015/08/05/it-just-works/

11 years ago

253 upvotes – 184 comments

In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 207 comments

10M events a month, free

https://amplitude.com/blog/2015/08/05/the-future-of-analytics/

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 77 comments

Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

https://kevin.is/committed-to-github/

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 143 comments

Hacker shows he can locate, unlock and remote start GM vehicles

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2954668/telematics/hacker-shows-he-can-locate-unlock-and-remote-start-gm-vehicles.html

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 175 comments

A little Golang way

https://www.aerofs.com/blog/a-little-golang-way/

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 186 comments

Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut

11 years ago

★ 13.7k C++ GPL-3.0
182 upvotes – 47 comments

Training a Neural Net to Generate CSS

http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#training-a-neural-net-to-generate-css

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 31 comments

Apache Kafka, Samza, and the Unix Philosophy of Distributed Data

http://www.confluent.io/blog/apache-kafka-samza-and-the-unix-philosophy-of-distributed-data

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 37 comments

I Tried VR and It Was Just OK

http://blog.codinghorror.com/i-tried-vr-and-it-was-just-ok/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 136 comments

Making Netflix.com Faster

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/08/making-netflixcom-faster.html

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 75 comments

Ask HN: How are some people exceptionally productive?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10011531

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor

https://raiseyourflag.com/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 123 comments

Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-22/thirteen-months-of-working-eating-and-sleeping-at-the-googleplex?utm_content=buffer5e673&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 116 comments

“The Dream of Internet Freedom Is Dying”

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/05/the-dream-of-internet-freedom-is-dying/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 42 comments

The Haskell user experience

http://rickdzekman.com/thoughts/the-haskell-user-experience/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 48 comments

The Chutzpah of a Police Union in Santa Ana, California

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/the-chutzpah-of-a-police-union-in-orange-county-california/400502/?single_page=true

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 58 comments

React Static Site

http://braddenver.com/blog/2015/react-static-site.html

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 39 comments

A Computational Approach for Obstruction-Free Photography [pdf]

http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/papers/ObstructionFreePhotograpy_SIGGRAPH2015.pdf

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 37 comments

Getting started with maps in Python

http://maxberggren.github.io/2015/08/04/basemap/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 15 comments

Microsoft Expands Its Parental Leave, Bolsters Paid Time Off And 401k Matching

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/05/microsoft-expands-its-parental-leave-bolsters-paid-time-off-and-401k-matching/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 102 comments

Hulbee – A Safe, Smart, Innovative Search Engine

https://hulbee.com/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 69 comments

Build a 300-Mile Wall Around SF During Burning Man

http://megagogo.co/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 17 comments

Fast Ruby – A collection of common Ruby idioms

https://github.com/JuanitoFatas/fast-ruby

11 years ago

★ 5.7k Ruby
111 upvotes – 24 comments

Google Fiber Is Coming to San Antonio

https://fiber.google.com/cities/sanantonio/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 58 comments

China to Set Up ‘Security Offices’ Inside Internet Companies

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-05/china-to-set-up-security-offices-inside-internet-companies

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 80 comments

142857

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/142857_%28number%29

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Learn Magic Tricks Online

https://www.magiccasts.com/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 41 comments

SHA-3 Standard [pdf]

http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.202.pdf

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 87 comments

TypeScript vs. Haxe

http://blog.onthewings.net/2015/08/05/typescript-vs-haxe/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 48 comments

New evidence of Japan's effort to build atom bomb at the end of WWII

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-japan-bomb-20150805-story.html#page=1

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 74 comments

The Senate is trying to ram CISA through within the next 48 hours

https://www.faxbigbrother.com/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 3 comments

PostgreSQL: A full text search engine, part 1 (2014)

http://shisaa.jp/postset/postgresql-full-text-search-part-1.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 13 comments

On Monolithic Repositories

http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2014/09/09/on-monolithic-repositories/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 72 comments

How Not to Die (2007)

http://paulgraham.com/die.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

Smart Contracts Land on Wall Street

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/08/05/bitbeat-smart-contracts-land-on-wall-street/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

How I Designed a Compact Weatherproof Raspberry Pi Camera Case

https://tinkererblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/how-i-designed-a-compact-weatherproof-raspberry-pi-case/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

MH370: Reunion debris is from missing plane

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33794012

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 76 comments

How Amazon Deleted Me and All My DRM Without a Second Thought

https://gist.github.com/softwaredoug/6f74748822bf52728545

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

MSG-4, Europe’s latest weather satellite, delivers first image

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/08/MSG-4_Europe_s_latest_weather_satellite_delivers_first_image

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 34 comments

Intel’s Skylake Core i7-6700K reviewed: Modest gains from a full Tick-Tock cycle

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/intel-skylake-core-i7-6700k-reviewed/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 52 comments

Pointer Events Now in Firefox Nightly

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/08/pointer-events-now-in-firefox-nightly/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

Mac at Work: IBM Launches Services to Deploy Macs at Scale to the Enterprise

https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47386.wss

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 75 comments

The Hacker News New Page Scroll of Death and Some Possible Solutions

http://www.almostinfinite.com/other/hacker-news-new-page-scroll-of-death.html?

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 46 comments

Hyper – Hypervisor-agnostic Docker

https://github.com/hyperhq/hyper

11 years ago

★ 2k Go Apache-2.0
56 upvotes – 17 comments

DSL Engineering [pdf]

http://voelter.de/data/books/markusvoelter-dslengineering-1.0.pdf

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

Machine Learning: Curse of Dimensionality

http://www.edupristine.com/blog/curse-dimensionality

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

Dislodged in New York

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/aug/04/dislodged-new-york-homeless-homme-less/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 38 comments

Bright (YC W15) raises $4M to bring solar to the developing world

https://medium.com/@JGreenberger/bright-raises-4m-to-bring-solar-to-the-developing-world-ae3d07abc93a

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 24 comments

Neanderthals had outsize effect on human biology

http://www.nature.com/news/neanderthals-had-outsize-effect-on-human-biology-1.18086

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 23 comments

The worst impacts of climate change are starting to happen faster than expected

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-climate-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 31 comments

1491 (2002)

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302445/?single_page=true

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

Strictly Tagged Clojure

http://arrdem.com/2015/08/03/Strictly-Tagged-Clojure-Core

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

Startup School Radio: How Optimizely Knew It Was on to Something Big

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-startup-school-radio-how-optimizely-knew-it-was-on-to-something-big

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Spyware demo shows how spooks hack mobile phones

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33772261

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Welcome Simon

http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-simon

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 12 comments

LibreOffice 5.0 released

http://lwn.net/Articles/653574/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 12 comments

Reverse Engineering PCBs with JTAG

https://drive.google.com/open?id=13p6O0C3aY-LSeqGAjfEge2XQT6ArfYnJyvu_fhAZlJI

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 9 comments

SEC adopts rules mandating disclosure of CEO-worker pay ratios

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/05/sec-rule-ceopay-idUSL1N10G1IY20150805

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 79 comments

GitHub connectivity issues

https://status.github.com/

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 19 comments

Interview with Stephen Wolfram on AI and the Future

https://gigaom.com/2015/07/27/interview-with-stephen-wolfram-on-ai-and-the-future/

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 8 comments
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