top 10 hacker news stories for 2015-08-15

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html

11 years ago

708 upvotes – 424 comments

AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

568 upvotes – 117 comments

Saving 25,000 Manuals

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4683

11 years ago

314 upvotes – 68 comments

We should host the Olympics in the same place every time

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/28/we-should-host-the-olympics-in-the-same-place-every-time/?postshare=1821439596233823

11 years ago

288 upvotes – 122 comments

Phaser – A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework

http://phaser.io/

11 years ago

232 upvotes – 55 comments

“Big data” features coming in PostgreSQL 9.5

http://lwn.net/Articles/653411/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 33 comments

Miller is like sed, awk, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV

http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 76 comments

Oliver Sacks: Sabbath

http://nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/oliver-sacks-sabbath.html

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 51 comments

Google’s S2, geometry on the sphere, cells and Hilbert curve

http://blog.christianperone.com/?p=2840&a=2

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 29 comments

Why NASA Switched from Unity to Blend4Web

http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/apis-and-tools/why-nasa-switched-from-unity-to-blend4web-r4150

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 46 comments
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