top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-11

Amazon Web Services in Plain English

https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english

11 years ago

1479 upvotes – 223 comments

Show HN: Make a programmable mirror

https://github.com/HannahMitt/HomeMirror

11 years ago

★ 7.8k Java Apache-2.0
1172 upvotes – 136 comments

Computer science courses that don't exist, but should

http://prog21.dadgum.com/210.html

11 years ago

415 upvotes – 247 comments

A guide to implementing 2D platformers

http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers/

11 years ago

307 upvotes – 32 comments

Elsevier, that just freaked me out

http://swaldman.dreamwidth.org/352778.html

11 years ago

284 upvotes – 139 comments

The Most Misread Poem in America

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misread-poem-in-america/

11 years ago

278 upvotes – 281 comments

PostgreSQL Magic

http://goto.project-a.com/postgresql-magic/

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 64 comments

Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34210002

11 years ago

232 upvotes – 136 comments

Dry erase board lined with IR sensors to record pen strokes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxmVtfF6pIo

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 64 comments

Destroying Apple’s Legacy

http://cheerfulsw.com/2015/destroying-apples-legacy/

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 133 comments

Informative YouTube channels

https://medium.com/@bibblio_org/60-youtube-channels-that-will-make-you-smarter-44d8315c2548

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 69 comments

State court orders Kickstarted game creator to pay $54k for failing to deliver

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/253471/State_court_orders_Kickstarted_game_creator_to_pay_54k_for_failing_to_deliver.php

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 96 comments

U.S. Drops Charges That Professor Shared Technology With China

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/us/politics/us-drops-charges-that-professor-shared-technology-with-china.html

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 105 comments

Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics Department

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/uber-would-like-to-buy-your-robotics-department.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 90 comments

“People who implement new and improved interfaces always seem to get that wrong”

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/9/602

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 122 comments

Internals of a Turbo Pascal Compiler

http://turbopascal.org/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 104 comments

Dilbert: Startup idea

http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-09-11

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 27 comments

America in flames

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21664146-future-countrys-north-west-hot-and-smoky-america-flames

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 146 comments

Moonforth

https://moonforth.github.io/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 2 comments

Etcd 2.2

https://coreos.com/blog/etcd-2.2/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 23 comments

PostgreSQL, pg_shard, and what we learned from our failures

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/19-ozgun/265-postgresql-pgshard-and-what-we-learned-our-failures

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 18 comments

When monospace fonts aren't: The Unicode character width nightmare

http://denisbider.blogspot.com/2015/09/when-monospace-fonts-arent-unicode.html

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 62 comments

Practical Emacs Lisp

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/elisp.html

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 56 comments

The original Unix init system (1972)

https://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/source/browse/trunk/src/cmd/init.s

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 36 comments

Computing 10,000x more efficiently (2010) [pdf]

http://www.gwern.net/docs/2010-bates.pdf

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 47 comments

Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent

http://www.nextbigwhat.com/microsoft-is-downloading-6gb-of-windows-10-updates-without-users-consent-297/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 97 comments

SpaceX Unveils Crew Dragon Interior

https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2015/09/10/spacex-unveils-crew-dragon-interior/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 52 comments

Redux Blog Example

https://github.com/GetExpert/redux-blog-example

11 years ago

★ 995 JavaScript MIT
80 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: A playground for in-browser interpreters

http://fatiherikli.github.io/fil

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

On Putting Things Off

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n17/robert-hanks/on-putting-things-off

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

Building a Tetris Clone in X86 Assembly, Pt. Ⅰ: Hello, World

https://cmcenroe.me/2015/09/11/tetrasm-1.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

YC at Hack the North

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-at-hack-the-north

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 35 comments

The Indie Bubble Revisited (Are We All Totally-Doomed, or Just Regular-Doomed?)

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-indie-bubble-revisited-or-are-we.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments

Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji

http://onefoottsunami.com/2015/09/10/finally/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 83 comments

Judge rules on taxi industry lawsuit: Compete with Uber or die

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150909/BLOGS04/150909863/judge-rules-on-taxi-industry-lawsuit-compete-with-uber-or-die

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 70 comments

SQL injection interactive tutorial using SQL.js

https://github.com/benjamingr/pizzahack

11 years ago

★ 115
62 upvotes – 5 comments

Two-step verification is here

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2015/09/10/two-step-verification-is-here/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments
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