top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-08-28

Phoenix 1.0

http://www.phoenixframework.org/blog

11 years ago

792 upvotes – 223 comments

Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on September 1

https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAds/posts/2PmwKinJ7nj

11 years ago

462 upvotes – 172 comments

Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice

http://paulgraham.com/safe.html

11 years ago

400 upvotes – 170 comments

Linux workstation security checklist

https://github.com/lfit/itpol/blob/master/linux-workstation-security.md

11 years ago

★ 4.8k
376 upvotes – 160 comments

Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]

11 years ago

290 upvotes – 130 comments

LSD – Line Square Dot Game

http://lalo.li/lsd/?ultra-hard-version

11 years ago

239 upvotes – 70 comments

On doing things other people can't

http://pathsensitive.blogspot.com/2015/08/sources-of-power.html

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 76 comments

​Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-linux-continues-to-rule-the-cloud/

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 144 comments

Applications for YC Winter 2016 are now open

http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/?batch=w2016

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 62 comments

DC appeals court lifts injunction against NSA phone records program

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/national/read-the-dc-circuit-court-ruling-against-the-nsa-bulk-collection-program/1719/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 117 comments

OpenWRT vs. FCC – Forced Firmware Lockdown? [video]

http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/08/07/openwrt-vs-fcc-forced-firmware-lockdown-presentation-video-and-slides/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 119 comments

Ashley Madison founder steps down

http://www.bbc.com/news/34090372

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 151 comments

The Virtual Reality of John Carmack

http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-ceo/2015/september/virtual-reality-of-john-carmack

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 93 comments

How fixed-gear bikes can confuse Google’s self-driving cars

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/08/26/how-fixed-gear-bikes-can-confuse-googles-self-driving-cars/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 193 comments

Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away from 4Chan

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/4chans-overlord-christopher-poole-reveals-why-he-walked-away-20150313

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 133 comments

Simplicity Matters – Rich Hickey (2012) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 69 comments

Programming in D – Tutorial and Reference

http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 67 comments

A Look at HP's “The Machine”

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/655437/9a48cd3e7a8cbe8a/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 20 comments

With no DEA in sight, Bolivia keeps reducing coca fields

http://en.institutomanquehue.org/countries/bolivia/with-no-dea-in-sight,-bolivia-keeps-reducing-coca-crops.html

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 40 comments

Remembering When Driverless Elevators Drew Skepticism

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/31/427990392/remembering-when-driverless-elevators-drew-skepticism

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 129 comments
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