top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-08-09

Change Your Name

http://paulgraham.com/name.html

11 years ago

355 upvotes – 336 comments

VPaint: An experimental vector graphics editor

http://www.vpaint.org/

11 years ago

321 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030516

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 122 comments

Parallels Between Math and Software Engineering

https://beta.oreilly.com/ideas/striking-parallels-between-mathematics-and-software-engineering

11 years ago

228 upvotes – 90 comments

Nvidia Digits DevBox

https://developer.nvidia.com/devbox

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 150 comments

Exploiting Android Users

http://www.codeword.xyz/2015/08/09/exploiting-android-users-for-fun-and-profit/

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 63 comments

Liu Cixin, China’s hottest science-fiction writer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/08/08/why-you-should-be-reading-liu-cixin-chinas-hottest-science-fiction-writer

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 81 comments

The World's Finest Panama Hat

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/08/08/340682706/hes-just-woven-the-worlds-finest-panama-hat-but-who-will-buy-it

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 60 comments

Deleting your browser history could land you in prison

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/staff-editorials/13910/sox-browser-history-obstruction-justice/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 61 comments

I’m Too Old for This

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/fashion/im-too-old-for-this.html?_r=0

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 33 comments

Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Bad Diets

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-scientists-who-shift-blame-for-obesity-away-from-bad-diets/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 136 comments

Hidden Injustice: County Counsel Works to Keep OC's Snitch Scandal Under Wraps

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2015/07/orange_county_sheriff_department_district_attorney_snitch_court_scandal.php

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 14 comments

A Hacker's Guide to Risk [pdf]

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/Speaker%20&%20Workshop%20Materials/Bruce%20Potter/DEFCON-23-Bruce-Potter-Hackers-Guide-to-Risk.pdf

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

The economics of a web-based book, year two

http://practicaltypography.com/effluents-influence-affluence.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Best Linux sandbox?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030868

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 44 comments

Scientists have synthesized a new compound that ‘mimics’ exercise

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/07/27/scientists-have-synthesized-new-compound-that-mimics-exercise-could-a-workout-pill-be-far-behind/?wprss=rss_homepage

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 77 comments

Agda Tutorial

http://people.inf.elte.hu/divip/AgdaTutorial/Index.html#

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: A toy ray tracer in Rust

https://github.com/Twinklebear/tray_rust

11 years ago

★ 521 Rust MIT
77 upvotes – 5 comments

Linux-insides: Introduction to deferred interrupts

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/interrupts/interrupts-9.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
75 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Tmux plugin manager

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm

11 years ago

★ 14.5k Shell MIT
73 upvotes – 21 comments
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