top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-19

Bootstrap 4 alpha

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2015/08/19/bootstrap-4-alpha/

11 years ago

655 upvotes – 208 comments

Go 1.5 is released

https://blog.golang.org/go1.5

11 years ago

559 upvotes – 103 comments

My husband needed therapy after working for Amazon

http://qz.com/482080/dear-jeff-bezos-i-wish-you-had-asked-for-my-feedback-sooner/

11 years ago

437 upvotes – 330 comments

Shutdownify is shutting down

http://www.shutdownify.com

11 years ago

423 upvotes – 95 comments

Things to commit just before leaving your job

https://gist.github.com/aras-p/6224951

11 years ago

379 upvotes – 158 comments

How does a relational database work?

http://coding-geek.com/how-databases-work/

11 years ago

377 upvotes – 60 comments

The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/was-the-ashley-madison-database-leaked/

11 years ago

363 upvotes – 506 comments

Google loses data as lightning strikes

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33989384

11 years ago

307 upvotes – 135 comments

CSS Modules

http://glenmaddern.com/articles/css-modules

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 90 comments

Mozilla's Servo Engine Now Capable of Rendering GitHub

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mozilla-Servo-GitHub

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 82 comments

Cameron's World

http://www.cameronsworld.net/

11 years ago

249 upvotes – 63 comments

A Course on Automata Theory

https://www.coursera.org/course/automata

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 30 comments

Gravity's Oldest Puzzles

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/gravity-s-oldest-puzzles-68c40889cac4

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 31 comments

MIT discovers batteries with indefinite lifetimes using solid-state-electrolytes

http://www.koreatimesus.com/samsung-mit-find-way-to-make-batteries-with-indefinite-lifetime/

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Git-remote-dropbox – use Dropbox as a true Git server

http://www.anishathalye.com/2015/08/19/git-remote-dropbox/

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 60 comments

Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox (2013)

http://www.bhorowitz.com/why_founders_fail_the_product_ceo_paradox

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 62 comments

Alibi Routing

https://alibi.cs.umd.edu/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 15 comments

The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-strange-appeal-of-watching-coders-code-5c677b2c34ec

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 83 comments

Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (2006)

http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 60 comments

Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet

https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/sharding-pinterest-how-we-scaled-our-mysql-fleet/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 85 comments

My Amazon Burnout Experience

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/c1f6419d54d80af6c079

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 101 comments

Facebook Should Pay All of Us

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/facebook-should-pay-all-of-us

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 109 comments

Sorting out graph processing

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-08-15.md

11 years ago

★ 2.1k JavaScript
107 upvotes – 11 comments

Material Design Lite

http://www.getmdl.io/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 37 comments

The Changing Face of Shenzhen, the World's Gadget Factory

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/beyond-foxconn-inside-shenzhen-the-worlds-gadget-factory

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 45 comments

Startups That Launched at YC S15 Demo Day 1

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/18/hardware-demo-day/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 38 comments

Ionic Marketplace

http://market.ionic.io/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

Language Trends on GitHub

https://github.com/blog/2047-language-trends-on-github

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 59 comments

The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/the-creative-apocalypse-that-wasnt.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 49 comments

Sublime Text's Plugin API: It's Python, Sort Of

https://news.floobits.com/2015/08/17/sublime-text-plugin-api-its-python-sort-of/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

Do you have 30k CHF pocket money?

https://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2015/28/News%20Articles/2030047?ln=en

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 209 comments

Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Containers

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/quick_start/container_setup

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

Pedants' Favorite Grammar Rules are Probably Fake

http://daily.jstor.org/grammar-rule-is-probably-fake/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 77 comments

Rethinking Forms in the Age of Tablets and Amazon S3

http://www.bricklin.com/tabletforms.htm

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

Chimpanzees and monkeys use stone tools

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150818-chimps-living-in-the-stone-age

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

Why You’re Biased About Being Biased

http://nautil.us/blog/why-youre-biased-about-being-biased

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 12 comments

The Weird Abandoned Spaces of Virtual Worlds

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/weird-abandoned-spaces-virtual-worlds/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

Crowdfunding Is Driving a Board Game Renaissance

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/crowdfunding-is-driving-a-196-million-board-game-renaissance/?

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 39 comments

Pumping the Primes

http://bit-player.org/2015/pumping-the-primes

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 3 comments

IBM has built a digital rat brain that could power tomorrow’s smartphones

http://qz.com/481164/ibm-has-built-a-digital-rat-brain-that-could-power-tomorrows-smartphones/?utm_source=sft

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Polygonal Map Generation for Games

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 3 comments

Science Isn’t Broken

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 58 comments

Lesser-Known Google Projects

http://www.diygenius.com/12-lesser-known-google-projects-that-are-absolutely-amazing/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 8 comments

Is ketamine the best hope for curing major depression?

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-ketamine-depression-treatment/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 52 comments

Most complete human brain model to date is a ‘brain changer’

https://news.osu.edu/news/2015/08/18/human-brain-model/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

CefSharp – Embedded Chromium for .NET

https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp

11 years ago

★ 10.2k C#
69 upvotes – 25 comments

How do we know if a crypto function is correctly implemented?

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/cryptography-and-quicksand/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Intel and TBS Announce America’s Greatest Makers Reality Show, $1M Prize

http://makezine.com/2015/08/19/intel-americas-greatest-makers/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments

San Francisco’s Newest Fast Food: Healthy, Cheap and Served by Robots

http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2015/08/18/san-franciscos-newest-fast-food-healthy-cheap-and-served-by-robots/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 53 comments

Is Angular 2.0 ready?

http://splintercode.github.io/is-angular-2-ready/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 43 comments

Town residents pooled together their money to provide scholarships for everyone

http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/08/the-town-that-decided-to-send-all-its-kids-to-college/401618/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 45 comments

How I ended up working illegally in the UK

https://medium.com/@lilula/how-i-ended-up-working-illegally-in-the-uk-fcdfa964be51

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 64 comments

Cross-Platform UI in GitHub Desktop

http://githubengineering.com/cross-platform-ui-in-github-desktop/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 55 comments

Upstarts raid giants for talent in Silicon Valley

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/technology/unicorns-hunt-for-talent-among-silicon-valleys-giants.html?_r=0

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 41 comments
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