top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-27

Pixar in a Box – Khan Academy

http://pixarinabox.org

11 years ago

753 upvotes – 65 comments

China Sells U.S. Treasuries to Support Yuan

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-27/china-said-to-sell-treasuries-as-dollars-needed-for-yuan-support

11 years ago

301 upvotes – 204 comments

Ad Blocking Extensions Tested for Performance

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-performance/view-all/

11 years ago

282 upvotes – 97 comments

Your Job as a Founder Is to Create Believers

http://josephwalla.com/your-job-as-a-founder-is-to-create-believers

11 years ago

270 upvotes – 157 comments

Chip

https://samgentle.com/posts/2015-08-24-chip

11 years ago

250 upvotes – 36 comments

Ghost: $411k Annual Revenue with a team of 6

http://blog.ghost.org/april-2015-update/

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 163 comments

Lock freedom without garbage collection in Rust

http://aturon.github.io/blog/2015/08/27/epoch/

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 90 comments

Tesla’s Model S P85D Scores 103 Out of 100 on Consumer Reports’ Ratings System

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/27/teslas-model-s-p85d-just-broke-consumer-reports-ratings-system-scoring-103-out-of-100/?ncid=rss

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 216 comments

The Best Jobs Now Require You to Be a People Person

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-best-jobs-now-require-you-to-be-a-people-person/

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 238 comments

“One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102329188394581

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 188 comments

OCamlers' critiques of Haskell

https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/3ifwe9/what_are_ocamlers_critiques_of_haskell/

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 137 comments

GitHub: Scaling on Ruby, with a nomadic tech team

https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/github-scaling-on-ruby-with-a-nomadic-tech-team-4db562b96dcd

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Flarum – Delightfully simple open-source forum software

http://flarum.org

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 78 comments

13,000 fall into homelessness every month in L.A. County

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-homeless-pathways-20150825-story.html

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 80 comments

The Gracie jiu-jitsu story

http://grantland.com/one-hundred-years-arm-bars-gracie-jiu-jitsu-mma/?ex_cid=GrantlandTW

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 112 comments

Encrypted database case #1

http://yurichev.com/blog/encrypted_DB_case_1/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 12 comments

A former Google exec on how to make tough decisions quickly

http://qz.com/465060/the-art-of-knowing-when-to-make-a-decision/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 64 comments

Toxy, a hackable HTTP proxy to simulate failure scenarios

https://github.com/h2non/toxy

11 years ago

★ 2.7k JavaScript MIT
130 upvotes – 15 comments

Handling App Transport Security in iOS 9

http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2015/08/handling-app-transport-security-in-ios-9.html

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 59 comments

Docker isn't perfect – Issue #216

https://github.com/subuser-security/subuser/issues/216

11 years ago

★ 894 Python LGPL-3.0
120 upvotes – 62 comments

Amazon Curtails Development of Consumer Devices

http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-curtails-development-of-consumer-devices-1440632203

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 129 comments

Profiling and Optimizing in Go

https://github.com/bradfitz/talk-yapc-asia-2015/blob/master/talk.md

11 years ago

★ 709 Go
116 upvotes – 8 comments

India turned off mobile internet for 63M citizens amid protests in Ahmedabad

http://thenextweb.com/in/2015/08/26/india-just-turned-off-mobile-internet-for-67-million-citizens-amid-protests-in-ahmedabad?

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 121 comments

Koka – A function-oriented programming language

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/koka/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 10 comments

Go enjoy Python3

http://blog.surgut.co.uk/2015/08/go-enjoy-python3.html

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 66 comments

The Tomb of Queen Esther in Persia

http://riowang.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-tomb-of-queen-esther-in-persia.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

How recursion got into Algol 60: a comedy of errors

https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-into-programming-a-comedy-of-errors-3/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 124 comments

The Upside of a Downturn in Silicon Valley

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/technology/the-upside-of-a-downturn-in-silicon-valley.html?hpw&rref=technology&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

ProseMirror: collaborative editing with a rigid semantic document model

http://prosemirror.net/?

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/science/many-social-science-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

Understanding LSTM networks

http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

“Spookiness” Confirmed by the First Loophole-Free Quantum Test

http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/2581

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 44 comments

San Francisco Firefighters Become Unintended Safety Net for the Homeless

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/us/san-francisco-firefighters-become-unintended-safety-net-for-the-homeless.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 87 comments

Gray Code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_code

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

Lecture from the Man Who Dropped Both Atomic Bombs

http://warisboring.com/articles/listen-to-this-lecture-from-the-man-who-dropped-both-atomic-bombs/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 138 comments

Distributed consensus reloaded: ZooKeeper and replication in Kafka

http://www.confluent.io/blog/distributed-consensus-reloaded-apache-zookeeper-and-replication-in-kafka

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

We Can’t Get Over Ourselves: Reasons we fail to understand others

http://nautil.us/issue/27/dark-matter/why-we-cant-get-over-ourselves

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

MITIE: MIT Information Extraction

https://github.com/mit-nlp/MITIE

11 years ago

★ 2.9k C++
76 upvotes – 16 comments

Embedding D3 in an IPython Notebook

http://www.christianmoscardi.com/blog/2015/08/12/embedding-d3-in-ipython-notebook.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

All evidence points to OOP being bullshit (2013)

http://blog.pivotal.io/labs/labs/all-evidence-points-to-oop-being-bullshit

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 117 comments

A Short Lesson in Perspective (2012)

http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/03/11/a-overdue-lesson-in-perspective/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for developers?

https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/7409

11 years ago

★ 36.5k Rust MPL-2.0
62 upvotes – 27 comments

London Calling: Two-Factor Authentication Phishing from Iran

https://citizenlab.org/2015/08/iran_two_factor_phishing/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 21 comments

Mail Pilot 2 for Mac

http://mindsense.co/mailpilot/mac

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 55 comments

Why FreeBSD should not adopt launchd

http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/08/26/0/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 13 comments

Where Are Chernobyl’s Children?

https://medium.com/@polarrist/where-are-chernobyl-s-children-a-photojournalist-s-honest-project-in-the-age-of-disaster-tourism-4cd333ab80c7

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 45 comments
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