top 50% 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

Jankyscroll – a JavaScript library that doesn't need to exist

http://zweig.co/jankyscroll/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 19 comments

The TTY demystified (2008)

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 31 comments

Snake Oil Crypto Competition

http://snakeoil.cr.yp.to/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 20 comments

A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2011)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/71x/a_crash_course_in_the_neuroscience_of_human/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 8 comments

SES: Simple Emacs Spreadsheet

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/ses/index.html#Top

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 26 comments

ACM Classic Computer Science Books Series

https://dl.acm.org/classics.cfm

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

A simpler web architecture using React, Flux, CSP, and FRP concepts

http://codrspace.com/allenkim67/a-simpler-web-architecture-using-flux-csp-and-frp-concepts/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments

OpenBSD Foundation Announces New Silver Donor: Yandex

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150815113053

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 14 comments

NSA announces plans for transitioning to quantum resistant algorithms

https://www.nsa.gov/ia/programs/suiteb_cryptography/index.shtml

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 76 comments

Big Ideas That Don't Work in Education

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/08/13/430050765/five-big-ideas-that-don-t-work-in-education/#

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 73 comments

As You Sow Files Notice Of Legal Action Against Soylent Super Food

http://news.yahoo.com/sow-files-notice-legal-action-against-soylent-super-200000801.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 51 comments

Reverse-engineered Linux driver for the Broadcom 1570 PCIe webcam

https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie

11 years ago

★ 1.4k C GPL-2.0
73 upvotes – 23 comments

Why is Bitcoin forking?

https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-is-bitcoin-forking-d647312d22c1

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 4 comments

The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware Housing for the World

http://hexayurt.com/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Codestarter is winding down

http://blog.codestarter.org/after-crowdfunding-more-than-500-laptops-codestarter-is-winding-down-opperations/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: CurioDB – A distributed/persistent Redis clone built with Scala/Akka

https://github.com/stephenmcd/curiodb?new

11 years ago

★ 513 Scala BSD-2-Clause
62 upvotes – 9 comments

Bitcoin XT 0.11A

http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-August/010235.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Fortune.js – High-level I/O for web applications

http://fortunejs.com

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

How to Become as Rich as Bill Gates (1999)

http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 48 comments

OO languages spend most effort addressing a minority use case

http://250bpm.com/blog:59

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 66 comments

Memory Efficient Hard Real-Time Garbage Collection (2003) [pdf]

http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:20899/FULLTEXT01.pdf

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

Bayesian Financial Models

http://toddmoses.com/articles/read/bayesian_financial_models

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments
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