top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-18

OnHub

https://on.google.com/hub/

11 years ago

984 upvotes – 615 comments

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket

https://www.gnu.gl/blog/Posts/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-pocket/

11 years ago

533 upvotes – 154 comments

We are barely halfway done

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4711

11 years ago

487 upvotes – 74 comments

How “oldschool” graphics worked [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfh0ytz8S0k&feature=youtu.be

11 years ago

434 upvotes – 72 comments

FCC Fines Smart City $750K for Blocking Wi-Fi

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-fines-smart-city-750k-blocking-wi-fi-0

11 years ago

345 upvotes – 180 comments

Show HN: Tonic – A data visualizing REPL for Node.js

https://tonicdev.com

11 years ago

342 upvotes – 79 comments

How I came to find Linux

http://ianmurdock.com/post/how-i-came-to-find-linux/

11 years ago

317 upvotes – 115 comments

How to Get Tenure

http://matt.might.net/articles/tenure/

11 years ago

308 upvotes – 50 comments

Decertifying the worst voting machine in the US

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jeremyepstein/decertifying-the-worst-voting-machine-in-the-us/

11 years ago

296 upvotes – 201 comments

Call Me Maybe: Chronos

https://aphyr.com/posts/326-call-me-maybe-chronos

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 87 comments

Working Toward Bret Victor's “Learnable Programming”

http://blog.comealive.io/Working-Toward-Bret-Victors-Learnable-Programming/

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 80 comments

Parens of the Dead

http://www.parens-of-the-dead.com/

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 7 comments

A Beginner’s Guide to Eigenvectors, Covariance, PCA and Entropy

http://deeplearning4j.org/eigenvector

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 23 comments

Ngrok – Expose any local server behind a NAT or firewall to the Internet

https://ngrok.com

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 40 comments

Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish

http://www.nature.com/news/registered-clinical-trials-make-positive-findings-vanish-1.18181

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 60 comments

The Toddler at Y Combinator

http://www.fastcompany.com/3049622/how-i-get-it-done/the-toddler-at-y-combinator

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 103 comments

GitLab Mattermost, an open source on-premises Slack alternative

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/08/18/gitlab-loves-mattermost/#

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 94 comments

Introducing Elm to a JavaScript Web App

http://noredinktech.tumblr.com/post/126978281075/walkthrough-introducing-elm-to-a-js-web-app

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 30 comments

RaspBSD – FreeBSD images for the Raspberry Pi

http://raspbsd.org

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 19 comments

Cybiko

http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Cybiko

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 39 comments

An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice Team

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2015/08/17/an-open-letter-to-apache-foundation-and-apache-openoffice-team/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 78 comments

Chairs of SFO

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mo_Dybwcsx8VARcA8Zeooqd_sCqmvA8LWxi3lLWV-Ls/edit#

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 30 comments

Mainframes connected to the Internet

http://mainframesproject.tumblr.com/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 17 comments

OpenBSD on EdgeRouter Lite

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/OpenBSD-on-ERL

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 27 comments

US Patent 9085897: Space elevator

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=9085897

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 79 comments

Atria: A toolkit for modern C++ development from Ableton

http://abletonag.github.io/atria/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

Gneiss – A spreadsheet programming tool

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~shihpinc/gneiss.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 6 comments

Brian Kernighan on C [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de2Hsvxaf8M

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 53 comments

SSH Keys on GitHub

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Aid_rsa&type=Code&ref=searchresults

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 44 comments

Corn Wars

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122441/corn-wars

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 128 comments

SubredditSimulator: Automated subreddit with posts created using Markov chains

https://github.com/Deimos/SubredditSimulator

11 years ago

★ 466 Python MIT
95 upvotes – 15 comments

Superconductivity record sparks wave of follow-up physics

http://www.nature.com/news/superconductivity-record-sparks-wave-of-follow-up-physics-1.18191

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Intuitive nutrition information

http://spe.lt/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 59 comments

CloudFlare starts discussion about LuaJIT project governance

https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/LuaJIT-project-governance

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 52 comments

Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/17/technology-created-more-jobs-than-destroyed-140-years-data-census

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 81 comments

Münster’s iconic ‘waste of space’ photo keeps on giving

http://www.bikehub.co.uk/news/sustainability/iconic-waste-of-space-photo-keeps-on-giving/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 85 comments

Assembly 2015 demo party results

http://www.assembly.org/blogs/2/posts/24/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

The Myth of Chastity Belts

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/everything-youve-heard-about-chastity-belts-is-a-lie

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Stackie – A tiny stack machine for texture generation

http://fingswotidun.com/stackie/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

More shell, less egg (2011)

http://leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

Intelligence, creativity and bipolar disorder may share underlying genetics

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/19/intelligence-creativity-and-bipolar-disorder-may-share-underlying-genetics

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/18/reddit-names-marty-weiner-founding-engineer-at-pinterest-its-first-cto/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 45 comments

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

https://poststatus.com/wordpress-4-3-billie-released/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 16 comments

A successful strategy to get college students thinking critically

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/a-successful-strategy-to-get-college-students-thinking-critically/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 38 comments

Solid Electrolyte Paves the Way for Batteries with Almost Indefinite Lifetimes

http://scitechdaily.com/solid-electrolyte-paves-the-way-for-rechargeable-batteries-with-almost-indefinite-lifetimes/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

The Startup Founder Wealth Survey

https://docs.google.com/a/hustlecon.com/forms/d/1g1-TOwUraKggXwCo0SzLrNa0dM4g_dNGUXilR3TMqUQ/viewform

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 46 comments

Tentacles that think

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21660955-studying-cephalopods-may-illuminate-evolution-brains-all-sorts-tentacles

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Our Brave New World of 4K Displays

http://blog.codinghorror.com/our-brave-new-world-of-4k-displays/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 45 comments

Blot – blogging from a Dropbox folder

https://blot.im

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

Bugged, Tracked, Hacked

http://www.9jumpin.com.au/show/60minutes/stories/2015/august/phone-hacking/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

DIY Tractor Repair Runs Afoul Of Copyright Law

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/17/432601480/diy-tractor-repair-runs-afoul-of-copyright-law

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 49 comments

A Live Programming Experience

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/smcdirm/apx/index.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

The History of Magic: The Gathering Online

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/the-complete-history-of-magic-online

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

Steve Jobs’s Interview with Red Herring (1996)

http://evgenymorozov.tumblr.com/post/15396323139/steve-jobss-interview-with-red-herring-1996

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10078294

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 69 comments

The Dataflow Model: Balancing Correctness, Latency, and Cost in Data Processing [pdf]

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/43864.pdf

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

How Google killed my startup

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/starting-out/how-google-killed-my-startup/article25989574/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 59 comments

UberEATS

http://ubereats.com/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 60 comments

No Cheating Allowed

http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/no-cheating-allowed.htm

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 48 comments

A Guide to the Apple Newton

http://www.512pixels.net/blog/2015/8/apple-newton-guide

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

Git for Windows 2.5.0

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.5.0.windows.1

11 years ago

★ 9.1k C
50 upvotes – 13 comments

Why you should let your employees fail

http://www.s-fbi.com/2015/08/18/why-you-should-let-your-employees-fail/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 42 comments
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