top 50% 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

A Little Bit of the Manuals

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4783

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 4 comments

Reasons to Turn Down That Startup Job

https://deardesignstudent.com/8-reasons-to-turn-down-that-startup-job-1f82a00ade34?source=tw-e7b19f32aae8-1440703593147&gi=61a178a8bb91#1bac--share-176-724

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 46 comments

Your Body Wasn’t Built To Last: A Lesson From Human Mortality Rates (2012)

http://singularityhub.com/2012/01/09/your-body-wasn%E2%80%99t-built-to-last-a-lesson-from-human-mortality-rates/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 152 comments

Netflix Is Dumping Anti-Virus, Presages Death of an Industry

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/08/26/netflix-and-death-of-anti-virus/?ss=Security

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 72 comments

Hacked Raspberry Pi turned into artificial pancreas

http://www.businessinsider.com/hacked-raspberry-pi-artificial-pancreas-2015-8

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 43 comments

A window into ancient economics

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/magazine/the-vcs-of-bc.html?smid=tw-share

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 6 comments

The battle between Washington and Silicon Valley over encryption

http://passcode.csmonitor.com/cryptowars

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

Ethics for Freelance Programmers

http://mikecavaliere.com/ethics-for-freelance-programmers/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 60 comments

How I Built a $5k/mo Side Project in 5 Months

http://www.getsimpledata.com/blog/2015/8/28/how-i-built-a-5k-mrr-side-project-in-5-months

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 24 comments

Apps like Tinder are a symptom of gender imbalance in the dating market

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/08/26/hookup-culture-isnt-the-problem-facing-singles-today-its-math/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 85 comments

Dataflow Programming for Clojure with Pulsar

http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/pulsar/#dataflow-reactive-programming

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Forms – Easy custom database applications

https://www.sonadier.com

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 61 comments

What is a kubelet?

http://kamalmarhubi.com/blog/2015/08/27/what-even-is-a-kubelet/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Bronze Age Greek city found underwater

http://www.speroforum.com/a/TJGTRQPMJA31/76356-Bronze-Age-Greek-city-found-underwater#.VeBmtWeFMoA

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

How books help us to be better human beings

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/08/how-books-help-us-be-better-human-beings

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

Scientists Replicated 100 Psychology Studies,Fewer Than 50% Got the Same Results

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-replicated-100-psychology-studies-and-fewer-half-got-same-results-180956426/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 53 comments

Uber NYC Trip Data from April to Sept. 2014

https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/uber-tlc-foil-response

11 years ago

★ 731
73 upvotes – 26 comments

Virtual particles aren't particles (2011)

http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/virtual-particles-what-are-they/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Free Tutorials to Learn Python: PDFs, eBooks, Online

http://noeticforce.com/best-free-tutorials-to-learn-python-pdfs-ebooks-online-interactive

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 9 comments

Uber hires two security researchers to improve car technology

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/28/us-uber-tech-security-idUSKCN0QX2BQ20150828

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: What's the best ad-blocking, privacy-enhancing extension set up?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135703

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 60 comments

Quantum Computing Playground

https://qcplayground.withgoogle.com

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 7 comments

Using tame() in userland

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144070638327053&w=2

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

Labor board will let more workers bargain with their employer’s employer

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/27/labor-board-moves-to-make-businesses-accountable-for-their-subcontractors/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 30 comments

The N=2 Interview about Ph.D.s in Computer Science

http://www.pgbovine.net/PhD-interview-eugene-wu-keith-winstein.htm

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

Efficient Tabular Storage

http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2015/08/28/Storage/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Anti-Web-Design Manifesto (2013)

http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2013-03-10-Anti-web-design-Manifesto.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 83 comments

Windows Symbolic Link Mitigations

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/08/windows-10hh-symbolic-link-mitigations.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

Embeddable Common-Lisp 16.0.0 released

https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/files/ecl-16.0.0-announcement.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

Interview with Nenad Rakocevic about Red, a Rebol-inspired programming language

https://medium.com/@unbalancedparen/interview-with-nenad-rakocevic-about-red-a-rebol-inspired-programming-language-681133e3fd1c

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments

Room temperature quantum transfer in biological systems

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140109/ncomms4012/full/ncomms4012.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpqnNCx7wVY

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

Graphical Console Beta

https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=12212&p=68300#p68289

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 23 comments

Birth of the Moralizing Gods

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/918.summary

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 48 comments

Google finally responds to Europe's antitrust charges

http://www.economist.com/node/21662618/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 40 comments

How to view-source a Chrome extension

https://gist.github.com/paulirish/78d6c1406c901be02c2d

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 2 comments
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