HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1141.

The New Heroku Postgres Database Experience (blog.heroku.com)

62 points by mattsoldo on Aug 12, 2014 | 12 comments

1142.

Firejail – Simple Linux sandbox with seccomp (l3net.wordpress.com)

62 points by antocv on Aug 16, 2014 | 10 comments

1143.

The Distance brings you stories of people who have stuck it out for decades (thedistance.com)

62 points by 8ig8 on Aug 8, 2014 | 9 comments

1144.

Ansiedit.js – Create ANSI art in the browser (andyherbert.github.io)

62 points by andy_herbert on Aug 22, 2014 | 9 comments

1145.

Vikram Chandra Is a Novelist Who’s Obsessed with Writing Computer Code (thedailybeast.com)

62 points by luu on Aug 29, 2014 | 8 comments

1146.

YC-Backed VizeraLabs Projects New Materials onto Any Surface (techcrunch.com)

62 points by CSDude on Aug 13, 2014 | 7 comments

1147.

The Global Fossil Record (d2fn.com)

62 points by d2fn on Aug 14, 2014 | 7 comments

1148.

GCR decoding on the fly (linusakesson.net)

62 points by silentbicycle on Aug 30, 2014 | 5 comments

1149.

Inside the Military's Secretive Smartphone Program (gizmodo.com)

62 points by jonbaer on Aug 7, 2014 | 4 comments

1150.

Hybrid Logical Clocks (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

62 points by leef on Aug 2, 2014 | 3 comments

1151.

Racket v6.1 released. Undefined values from uninitialized variables eliminated (blog.racket-lang.org)

62 points by racketlang on Aug 2, 2014 | 2 comments

1152.

Why Can't the United States Build a High-Speed Rail System? (citylab.com)

61 points by nkurz on Aug 14, 2014 | 124 comments

1153.

Age Discrimination in Silicon Valley (world-startups.com)

61 points by robmarkg on Aug 12, 2014 | 70 comments

1154.

Apple releases diversity numbers (apple.com)

61 points by aroman on Aug 12, 2014 | 65 comments

1155.

SWAT Team Detains Popular Gamer Who Was Live-Streaming ‘Counter-Strike’ (techcrunch.com)

61 points by ColinWright on Aug 28, 2014 | 53 comments

1156.

Patents that kill (economist.com)

61 points by graeham on Aug 8, 2014 | 52 comments

1157.

Isobuild: why Meteor created a new package system (meteor.com)

61 points by Mandar on Aug 28, 2014 | 51 comments

1158.

New Heroku Dashboard and Metrics now in Beta (blog.heroku.com)

61 points by mchiang on Aug 5, 2014 | 28 comments

1159.

Computer Eyesight Gets a Lot More Accurate (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

61 points by dumitrue on Aug 19, 2014 | 18 comments

1160.

Google's Blockly Games (blockly-games.appspot.com)

61 points by antichaos on Aug 22, 2014 | 18 comments

1161.

CUDA Pro Tip: Optimize for Pointer Aliasing (devblogs.nvidia.com)

61 points by luckysahaf on Aug 22, 2014 | 17 comments

1162.

VC Pavel Curda Admits He Pestered Woman Entrepreneur For Sex In “Deal” Email (techcrunch.com)

61 points by berkeleyjess on Aug 20, 2014 | 16 comments

1163.

CopyCat: Protocol-agnostic implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm (github.com)

61 points by kuujo on Aug 14, 2014 | 15 comments

1164.

Telehash protocol (github.com)

61 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Aug 2, 2014 | 13 comments

1165.

CD Baby, a Company for the Niche Musician (nytimes.com)

61 points by hudibras on Aug 13, 2014 | 11 comments

1166.

Postcards From the Edge of Consciousness (nautil.us)

61 points by dnetesn on Aug 14, 2014 | 10 comments

1167.

Octo: CHIP-8 retro game programming in the browser (johnearnest.github.io)

61 points by mr_golyadkin on Aug 16, 2014 | 4 comments

1168.

Secret Sharing and Erasure Coding: Guide for the Aspiring Dropbox Decentralizer (blog.ethereum.org)

61 points by MichaelAO on Aug 19, 2014 | 1 comments

1169.

Twitter's User Problem: Fastest Gains Are People That Don't See Ads (online.wsj.com)

60 points by prostoalex on Aug 2, 2014 | 49 comments

1170.

Half of a Coin: Negative Probabilities [pdf] (wilmott.com)

60 points by jmount on Aug 16, 2014 | 38 comments