top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-09-26

Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock

http://www.hellorhei.com

11 years ago

681 upvotes – 103 comments

Terence Tao solves the Erdős Discrepancy Problem

http://www.nature.com/news/maths-whiz-solves-a-master-s-riddle-1.18441

11 years ago

285 upvotes – 27 comments

The real anti-Facebook is good old email

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/sorry-ello-real-anti-facebook-good-old-email/

11 years ago

255 upvotes – 155 comments

The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)

http://www.rexegg.com/regex-best-trick.html

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 131 comments

Lazy Redis is better Redis

http://antirez.com/news/93

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 22 comments

Utron: Go MVC framework for fast, scalable and robust database-driven web apps

https://github.com/gernest/utron

11 years ago

★ 2.2k Go MIT
205 upvotes – 19 comments

Clarifications about Redis and Memcached

http://antirez.com/news/94

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 38 comments

“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves

http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/tsundoku-should-enter-the-english-language.html

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 83 comments

Always bet on text (2014)

http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html?HN2

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 69 comments

I mine for 100-year-old jeans

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/25/experience-i-mine-for-denim

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 25 comments

Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock

http://prebake.eu/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 77 comments

Phone video clears man charged with assaulting cop, even after phone disappears

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2015/09/23/phone-video-clears-man-charged-with-assaulting-cop-even-after-phone-disappears.html?referrer=

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 52 comments

The Inside Story Behind MS08-067

http://blogs.technet.com/b/johnla/archive/2015/09/26/the-inside-story-behind-ms08-067.aspx

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 12 comments

Twitter's Tips for Making Software Engineers More Efficient

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/twitters-tips-for-making-software-engineers-more-efficient

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 38 comments

List of security links

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/09/troys-ultimate-list-of-security-links.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 9 comments

Jello Biafra's 1979 campaign for Mayor of San Francisco

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/jello_biafra_for_mayor_of_san_francisco_1979_if_he_doesnt_win_ill_kill_myse

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

The United Nations has a radical, dangerous vision for the future of the Web

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09/24/the-united-nations-has-a-radical-dangerous-vision-for-the-future-of-the-web/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 93 comments

Atlassian Planning U.S. IPO

http://www.wsj.com/articles/australian-software-tools-maker-atlassian-planning-u-s-ipo-1443213301

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 55 comments

Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear?

http://www.glamenv-septzen.net/en/view/6

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 26 comments

OVH plans massive cloud expansion

http://enterprisetimes.co.uk/2015/09/24/ovh-plans-massive-cloud-expansion/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 40 comments

U.S.-China Deal to Ban Ivory Trade Is Good News for Elephants

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150925-ivory-elephants-us-china-obama-xi-poaching/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 40 comments

The Secret Structure of the S-Box of [GOST] Streebog, Kuznechik and Stribob

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/812

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

Sid – Static Intrusion Detection for NetBSD

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2015/09/24/msg069028.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 7 comments

Procedural Island Generation

http://shanee.io/blog/2015/09/25/procedural-island-generation/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

Zero-Bullshit Method for Recruiting a Sales Force

http://a16z.com/2015/09/16/the-zero-b-s-method-to-recruiting-a-killer-sales-force/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

50 years later, is it time to retract a retraction by a Nobel prize winner?

http://retractionwatch.com/2015/09/25/five-decades-later-is-it-time-to-retract-a-nobelists-retraction/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

Too often, the government uses its information machinery to try to persuade

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/24/the-new-propaganda-how-the-american-government-is-trying-to-control-what-you-think/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 22 comments

American Innovation Lies on Weak Foundation?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/business/economy/american-innovation-rests-on-weak-foundation.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 61 comments

Gryffin: a large scale web security scanning platform from Yahoo

https://github.com/yahoo/gryffin

11 years ago

★ 2k Go BSD-3-Clause
55 upvotes – 4 comments

Memory layout of multi-dimensional arrays

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2015/memory-layout-of-multi-dimensional-arrays/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 14 comments

Saudi Arabia travel guide

http://wikitravel.org/en/Saudi_Arabia

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 52 comments

Qualcomm Snapdragon, DragonBoard 410c Fire Up at World Maker Faire

http://makezine.com/2015/09/25/qualcomm-snapdragon-dragonboard-410c-fire-up-at-world-maker-faire-new-york/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 39 comments

Nix Build of GHC to Run Haskell on Android

https://github.com/wavewave/nix-build-ghc-android

11 years ago

★ 68 Nix
48 upvotes – 5 comments

Microsoft Leads Movement to Offset Emissions with Internal Carbon Tax

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/business/energy-environment/microsoft-leads-movement-to-offset-emissions-with-internal-carbon-tax.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 5 comments

I'm Obsessed with San Francisco's Bunk-Bed Craigslist Ads

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/09/im-obsessed-with-san-franciscos-bunk-bed-craigslist-ads/407281/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 74 comments

Did Dropbox and Evernote Heed the Lessons of Flip?

https://medium.com/@dhh/making-money-along-the-way-did-dropbox-and-evernote-heed-the-lessons-of-flip-f5a133fe00d4

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 11 comments

Total lunar eclipse to meet 'supermoon'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34352504

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 37 comments
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