top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-12

Hyperloop

http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

13 years ago

2666 upvotes – 954 comments

Hyperloop Alpha [pdf]

http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-20130812.pdf

13 years ago

513 upvotes – 193 comments

The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery

http://www.crispymtn.com/stories/the-algorithm-for-a-perfectly-balanced-photo-gallery

13 years ago

512 upvotes – 99 comments

Every important person in BitCoin just got subpoenaed by NY financial regulators

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/12/every-important-person-in-bitcoin-just-got-subpoenaed-by-new-yorks-financial-regulator/

13 years ago

324 upvotes – 189 comments

You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up

http://www.groovypost.com/news/facebook-shadow-accounts-non-users/

13 years ago

269 upvotes – 178 comments

Papers, Please - A Dystopian Document Thriller

http://papersplea.se/

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 73 comments

Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Servers”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/google-fiber-continues-awful-isp-tradition-banning-servers

13 years ago

241 upvotes – 240 comments

The NSA is turning the Internet into a total surveillance system

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/11/nsa-internet-surveillance-email

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 114 comments

Do things, write about it

http://mdswanson.com/blog/2013/08/11/write-things-tell-people.html

13 years ago

232 upvotes – 88 comments

Mio: A High-Performance Multicore IO Manager for GHC [pdf]

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hask035-voellmy.pdf?haskellworkshop

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 78 comments

Investor Herd Dynamics

http://paulgraham.com/herd.html

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 52 comments

Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App

http://kvz.io/blog/2013/08/12/yesterday-i-wrote-my-first-firefox-os-app/

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 122 comments

The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/the-nsa-is-commandeering-the-internet/278572/

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 202 comments

Kickstart the GNUstep Project

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/203272607/gnustep-project

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 84 comments

Go for System Administrators

http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2013/08/11/go-for-system-administrators/

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 61 comments

Things in Haskell which don't exist elsewhere at all

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1k3fq7/what_are_some_killer_libraries_and_frameworks/cbldpgy

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 87 comments

Turning the Apple //e into a lisp machine, part 1

http://blog.nullspace.io/apple-2-lisp-part-1.html

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 62 comments

PS1 generator

http://xta.github.io/HalloweenBash/

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 28 comments

Git commit allegedly from Satoshi embedded inside a Bitcoin transaction

https://blockchain.info/tx/77822fd6663c665104119cb7635352756dfc50da76a92d417ec1a12c518fad69

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 68 comments

Public speaking for introverts

http://danshipper.com/public-speaking-for-introverts?utm_source=Dan%27s+Blog+List&utm_campaign=718f71be14-Newsletter_nice_design_17_8_11_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c18fe7384e-718f71be14-40620601

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 51 comments

Listen to AOL’s CEO Fire Employee in Conference Call With 1,000 people

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/08/11/audio_recording_aol_ceo_fires_employee_during_conference_call.html

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 125 comments

Ruby hacking guide

http://ruby-hacking-guide.github.io/

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 22 comments

Git blame has never been so much fun

http://mroth.github.io/lolcommits/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 32 comments

Babylon.js: JS framework for building 3D games with HTML5 and WebGL

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2013/06/27/babylon-js-a-complete-javascript-framework-for-building-3d-games-with-html-5-and-webgl.aspx

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 69 comments

How to get meetings with people too busy to see you

http://steveblank.com/2013/08/12/how-to-get-meetings-with-people-too-busy-to-see-you/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 31 comments

Elixir Design Goals

http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2013/08/08/elixir-design-goals/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 30 comments

When Einstein Met Tagore

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/27/when-einstein-met-tagore/?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer8fa5f&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 27 comments

LavaBit's Architecture (2009)

http://possibility.com/LavabitArchitecture.html

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 57 comments

DIY Cellphone

http://web.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/index.html

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 35 comments

CIA Director Brennan Confirmed as Reporter Michael Hastings' Next Target

http://www.sandiego6.com/story/cia-director-brennan-confirmed-as-reporter-michael-hastings-next-target-20130812

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

How Athletes Get Great

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/media/books/How-Athletes-Get-Great.html?page=all

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 29 comments

Technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the air

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2013/july/world-changing-technology-enables-crops-to-take-nitrogen-from-the-air-.aspx

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 67 comments

Android is better

http://paulstamatiou.com/android-is-better

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 40 comments

The NSA-DEA police state tango

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/10/the_nsa_dea_police_state_tango/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 29 comments

BlackBerry puts itself up for sale

http://theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/blackberry-says-it-is-exploring-strategic-alternatives/article13708618/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 110 comments

Spy access to NZ used as bargaining tool

http://nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10910701

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 31 comments

City of London calls halt to smartphone tracking bins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23665490

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 38 comments

No HTML needed

http://kojika17.com/demo/4lines/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 45 comments

Messaging as a programming model

http://eventuallyconsistent.net/2013/08/12/messaging-as-a-programming-model-part-1/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 22 comments

Windows 8.1 Bing passes local PC searches to advertisers

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241524/Steven_J._Vaughan_Nichols_Microsoft_Bing_bang_bungles_local_search

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: My new domain search tool

http://shortdomainsearch.net/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 57 comments

Cap'n Proto v0.2: Compiler rewritten from Haskell to C++11

http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/news/2013-08-12-capnproto-0.2-no-more-haskell.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

Etcd v0.1.0 release

http://coreos.com/blog/etcd-v0.1.0-release/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

Rust's new documentation generator: 95% done

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-August/005219.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools

http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 102 comments

Stop Thinking That Tech Hacks Are the Solution to Our Surveillance Woes

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/08/yah-surveillance-sucks-but-technology-isnt-the-only-solution/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

APL in JavaScript

http://ngn.github.io/apl/web/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

Code documentation written as code

https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs

13 years ago

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76 upvotes – 12 comments

Elon Musk to outline 'Hyperloop' idea

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23666173

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 40 comments

NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access): An Overview

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2513149

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments
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