top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-04

Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/dont-build-a-billion-dollar-business-really/

11 years ago

476 upvotes – 267 comments

How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Few Hours

http://bytecrafter.blogspot.com/2015/09/how-jetbrains-lost-years-of-customer.html

11 years ago

430 upvotes – 490 comments

CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer

http://csunplugged.org/activities/

11 years ago

403 upvotes – 87 comments

Call Me Maybe: MariaDB Galera Cluster

https://aphyr.com/posts/327-call-me-maybe-mariadb-galera-cluster

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 97 comments

Happy Birthday Monkey Island

http://grumpygamer.com/monkey25

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 119 comments

How Secure Channels Attempted to Intimidate a Critic and Failed Spectacularly

http://popehat.com/2015/09/04/how-secure-channels-attempted-to-intimidate-a-critic-and-failed-spectacularly/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Popehat+%28Popehat%29

11 years ago

253 upvotes – 26 comments

Procedural Dungeon Generation Algorithm

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AAdonaac/20150903/252889/Procedural_Dungeon_Generation_Algorithm.php

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 47 comments

Lost C64 Games: Daffy Duck – 1992 Hi-Tec

http://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/daffy-duck/

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 46 comments

The Mystery of Devil's Kettle Falls

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/eco-tourism/stories/the-mystery-of-devils-kettle-falls

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 89 comments

Responsive CSS grid, reordered with native HTML5 drag and drop

https://clippings.github.io/layout-grid/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 32 comments

AirConsole – Your browser is the game console, your smartphone is the gamepad

http://www.airconsole.com

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 63 comments

The Weight

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/mardy-fish-us-open

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 16 comments

St. Petersburg paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 74 comments

Tarsnap email confirmation bypass

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-09-04-tarsnap-email-confirmation-bypass.html

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Libsoundio 1.0.0 – cross-platform audio input and output

http://libsound.io/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 41 comments

Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch – An Introduction

http://www.wildml.com/2015/09/implementing-a-neural-network-from-scratch/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 9 comments

The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-alternate-universe-of-soviet-arcade-games

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 30 comments

Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big language [pdf]

http://jnthn.net/papers/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 94 comments

W^X policy violation affects Windows drivers compiled in VS 2013 and previous

https://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/wx-policy-violation-affecting-all-windows-drivers-compiled-in-visual-studio-2013-and-previous/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 26 comments

Citi's Chief Economist Recommends a Universal Basic Income

http://futurism.com/links/citis-chief-economist-recommends-a-universal-basic-income/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 194 comments

The Cheap Phones Quietly Winning the U.S

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-03/zte-s-cheap-phones-quietly-winning-the-u-s-

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 126 comments

Really Random Number Generator

http://makezine.com/projects/really-really-random-number-generator/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 67 comments

Monads in Scheme

http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/monad-in-Scheme.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 15 comments

Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal

http://vene.ro/betrayal/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 13 comments

An Analysis of China’s “Great Cannon”

https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci15/workshop-program/presentation/marczak

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 4 comments

Detecting an asymmetric Curve25519 backdoor in RSA key generation algorithms

http://samvartaka.github.io/backdoors/2015/09/03/rsa-curve25519-backdoor/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 11 comments

Ceaser – CSS easing animation tool

http://matthewlein.com/ceaser/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 15 comments

Under the Hood of the Amazon EC2 Container Service

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/07/under-the-hood-of-the-amazon-ec2-container-service.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

How a Boeing Sales Flop Became the World's Hottest Secondhand Jetliner

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-04/how-boeing-sales-flop-became-world-s-hottest-secondhand-jetliner

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 69 comments

Picoc: A very small C interpreter for scripting

https://github.com/zsaleeba/picoc

11 years ago

★ 1.4k
80 upvotes – 28 comments

Who Will Suffer Most from Climate Change? (Hint: Not You)

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/Who-Will-Suffer-Most-From-Climate-Change

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 89 comments

No One to Rescue Me from My Drinking

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/fashion/alcoholism-no-one-to-rescue-me-from-my-drinking.html?WT.mc_id=2015-SEPTEMBER-FB-INT-LIVING_PROP-AUD_DEV-0901-0930&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&_r=0

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 95 comments

How Google's new Logo is just 305 bytes

http://www.quora.com/How-could-Googles-new-logo-be-only-305-bytes-while-its-old-logo-is-14-000-bytes/answers/15246728?srid=3a0v&share=1

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you get paid through Stripe

https://github.com/fitztrev/make-it-rain

11 years ago

★ 310 PHP MIT
73 upvotes – 19 comments

Let's Build dispatch_queue

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-09-04-lets-build-dispatch_queue.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

Legion of Tech Volunteers Lead a Charge for Bernie Sanders

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/us/politics/bernie-sanders-presidential-campaign-tech-supporters.html?ref=technology

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Google self-driving car pioneer wants to teach people how to face the future

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21662654-sebastian-thrun-pioneer-googles-autonomous-cars-wants-teach-people-how

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 58 comments

Friends at Work? Not So Much

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/opinion/sunday/adam-grant-friends-at-work-not-so-much.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 55 comments

The Ur Programming Language

http://www.impredicative.com/ur/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

Parkinsons-Like Neurodegenerative Disease Linked to Prion

http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i35/Another-Neurodegenerative-Disease-Linked-Prion.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

Ada Lovelace: Enchantress of abstraction

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v525/n7567/full/525030a.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

Learn by Implementation: K-Nearest Neighbor

https://depiesml.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/learn-by-implementation-k-nearest-neighbor/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

Rosalind, a platform for learning bioinformatics and programming

http://rosalind.info/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Swift Protocols and Generics

http://milen.me/writings/swift-generic-protocols/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

Improving Security for Bugzilla

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/09/04/improving-security-for-bugzilla/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: I have a mental block designing software. Time to quit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10169937

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 85 comments

Adobe CEO desperately tries to avoid answering a simple question (2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaR2jR-RpYo

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: What's your favorite CLI or ncurses program?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10169327

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 73 comments

U.S. judge approves $415M settlement in tech worker lawsuit

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/03/apple-google-ruling-idUSL1N11908520150903

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 69 comments

ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research

https://github.com/ReScience/ReScience/wiki

11 years ago

★ 705
50 upvotes – 20 comments
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