top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-17

Eve Version 0

http://www.chris-granger.com/2015/08/17/version-0/

11 years ago

590 upvotes – 190 comments

Gotty – Share your terminal as a web application

http://github.com/yudai/gotty

11 years ago

★ 19.4k Go MIT
442 upvotes – 62 comments

Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/08/falcor-developer-preview.html

11 years ago

438 upvotes – 50 comments

Intel open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cdndevs/archive/2015/08/14/intel-just-open-sourced-stephen-hawking-s-speech-system-and-it-s-a-net-4-5-winforms-app.aspx

11 years ago

432 upvotes – 64 comments

Project Sunroof

https://www.google.com/get/sunroof#

11 years ago

389 upvotes – 223 comments

Intermediate Python

http://book.pythontips.com

11 years ago

335 upvotes – 78 comments

How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button

https://medium.com/@edwardbenson/how-i-hacked-amazon-s-5-wifi-button-to-track-baby-data-794214b0bdd8

11 years ago

298 upvotes – 118 comments

React Color – Color Pickers from Sketch, Photoshop, Chrome and More

http://casesandberg.github.io/react-color/

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 90 comments

What does it take to make Google work at scale?

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OvJStE8aohGeI3y5BcYX8bBHwoHYCPu99A3KTTZElr0/

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 130 comments

Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Distributed Web

http://brewster.kahle.org/2015/08/11/locking-the-web-open-a-call-for-a-distributed-web-2/

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Find your competitors that Google can't

https://rivalseek.com

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 61 comments

Using Principal Component Analysis on Images

http://blog.thehackerati.com/post/126701202241/eigenstyle

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 28 comments

IBM launches Linux-only mainframe system

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/17/us-ibm-linuxone-idUSKCN0QM09P20150817

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 122 comments

Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Won’t Tolerate ‘Callous’ Management Practices

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/technology/amazon-bezos-workplace-management-practices.html

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 216 comments

WordPress base configuration files on GitHub

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Awp-config.php+&type=Code&ref=searchresults

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 84 comments

Official Android 6.0 SDK and Final M Preview

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/08/m-developer-preview-3-final-sdk.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 88 comments

Explaining the browser's event loop, tasks, and microtasks

https://jakearchibald.com/2015/tasks-microtasks-queues-and-schedules/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 21 comments

State of the Haskell ecosystem

https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md

11 years ago

★ 2.2k CC-BY-4.0
148 upvotes – 71 comments

Canada's Quiet Weakening of Communications Encryption

https://citizenlab.org/2015/08/canadas-quiet-history-of-weakening-communications-encryption/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 13 comments

Typeset.js – A ty­po­graphic pre-proces­sor for HTML

http://blot.im/typeset

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 14 comments

My Internship Experiences at Pixar, Google, and Two Sigma

http://evjang.com/articles/internships

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 67 comments

New TPP Leaked Text Reveals Weakening Resistance to Copyright Proposals

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/new-tpp-leaked-text-reveals-weakening-resistance-maximalist-proposals

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 47 comments

What is going on with SoundCloud?

http://www.factmag.com/2015/08/14/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-soundcloud/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 69 comments

Webmaker for Android

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/08/17/mozilla-webmaker-meet-the-world-2/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 30 comments

Vietnam's startup queen

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33828010

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10071744

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 241 comments

My experiences of working remote for a year

http://modess.io/2015/08/16/one-year-of-working-remote/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 63 comments

TTIP Secret trade deal can only be read in secure 'reading room' in Brussels

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ttip-controversy-secret-trade-deal-can-only-be-read-secure-in-reading-room-in-brussels-10456206.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 51 comments

Jeff Bezos Responds to the Amazon NYT Article

http://www.geekwire.com/2015/full-memo-jeff-bezos-responds-to-cutting-nyt-expose-says-tolerance-for-lack-of-empathy-needs-to-be-zero/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 54 comments

Assembly 2015 demo party winning entry

http://archive.assembly.org/2015/demo/monolith-by-andromeda-software-development

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 23 comments

Containers: Docker, Windows and Trends

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/17/containers-docker-windows-and-trends/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

Nietzsche on Solitude

http://www.hermitary.com/solitude/nietzsche.html#

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 37 comments

14 Police Officers Take Down a One-Legged Homeless Black Man Outside Twitter HQ

https://medium.com/matter/i-watched-14-police-officers-take-down-a-one-legged-homeless-black-man-outside-twitter-hq-1b3a9bf10e0f

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 44 comments

Immortal ZX Spectrum games

http://zxds.raxoft.cz/games.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

Why is Smalltalk Dead?

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyIsSmalltalkDead

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 61 comments

Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) [pdf]

https://math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/self/self.pdf

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

Is Nefertiti in Tut’s Tomb?

http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/is-nefertiti-in-tuts-tomb?intcid=mod-latest

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

Are “Better” Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Analysis of Startup Evaluation [pdf]

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/16-013_201e071c-9dd8-4838-b5aa-492f4f202822.pdf

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

How we know what lies at Earth's core

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150814-what-is-at-the-centre-of-earth

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Jeff Bezos' email to Amazonians

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10072331

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 51 comments

Alienable Rights (1992)

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Alienable%20Rights.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 6 comments

A Scripting Language for HTTP

https://github.com/Max00355/HTTPLang

11 years ago

★ 496 Python MIT
75 upvotes – 20 comments

The Neuroscience of Drumming

http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-neuroscience-of-drumming.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

How DuckDuckGo Rode a Wave of Post-Snowden Anxiety to Massive Growth

http://www.fastcompany.com/3046943/how-duckduckgo-rode-a-wave-of-post-snowden-anxiety-to-massive-growth

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 55 comments

Non-Compete Can Be Imposed Mid-Employment with No New Consideration

https://casetext.com/posts/continued-employment-adequate-consideration-for-non-compete-imposed-mid-employment-hawaii-federal-judge-rules

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 93 comments

COBOL bridge for Node.js

https://github.com/IonicaBizau/node-cobol

11 years ago

★ 721 COBOL MIT
70 upvotes – 16 comments

Loglan – The Language of Logic

http://www.loglan.org/#beginners

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

Futures of text

http://whoo.ps/2015/02/23/futures-of-text

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Google Hangouts

https://hangouts.google.com/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 71 comments

CSTUY: Saturday CS classes for middle- and high-school students

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/262929085/saturday-hacking-sessions

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 3 comments

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data (2013)

http://blog.alinelerner.com/lessons-from-a-years-worth-of-hiring-data/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 42 comments

Morphdom – fast and lightweight DOM diffing/patching (without the virtual part)

https://github.com/patrick-steele-idem/morphdom/

11 years ago

★ 3.5k JavaScript MIT
60 upvotes – 15 comments

Barcelona: The most wired city in the world

http://fortune.com/2015/07/29/barcelona-wired-city/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

256b.htm Competition (2002)

http://wildmag.de/compo/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Tell HN: Now is the perfect time to roll out a new freelance platform

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10074245

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 40 comments

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos defends company's workplace culture

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33957484

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 73 comments
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