top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-08-14

Grasshopper 100m Lateral Divert Test

http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/08/14/grasshopper-100m-lateral-divert-test

13 years ago

Startup lessons

http://www.defmacro.org/2013/07/23/startup-lessons.html

13 years ago

JavaScript right on the hardware

http://technical.io/

13 years ago

Google Treks

http://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/

13 years ago

40 Days Without Booze

http://jdmoyer.com/2013/08/14/40-days-without-booze/

13 years ago

Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-the-dread-pirate-roberts-the-man-behind-booming-black-market-drug-website-silk-road/

13 years ago

Encryption is less secure than we thought

http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/encryption-is-less-secure-than-we-thought-0814.html

13 years ago

Google Open-Sources Gumbo: C Library for Parsing HTML5

https://github.com/google/gumbo-parser#gumbo---a-pure-c-html5-parser

13 years ago

★ 5.1k HTML Apache-2.0

How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/5c95d45f86a5

13 years ago

From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months

https://medium.com/who-what-why/c744d79a6e76

13 years ago

Show HN: TextIt – Visually build SMS applications anywhere in the world

http://textit.in

13 years ago

Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities Beyond Normal Limits

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?v=1&id=your-thoughts-can-release-abilities-beyond-normal-limits

13 years ago

Steam-powered Blender

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2013-August/041483.html?august

13 years ago

Go as an alternative to Node.js for very fast servers

http://bbs.studygolang.com/thread-278-1-1.html

13 years ago

Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/LeapMotionAmazingRevolutionaryUseless.aspx

13 years ago

What I learned from others' shell scripts

http://www.fizerkhan.com/blog/posts/What-I-learned-from-other-s-shell-scripts.html

13 years ago

A skeptical response to Musk's hyperloop

http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/loopy-ideas-are-fine-if-youre-an-entrepreneur/

13 years ago

Google Maps easter egg: street view inside the Tardis

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=51.492159,-0.19092&spn=0.005291,0.013937&sll=51.492140,-0.193028&layer=c&cid=12502927659667388442&panoid=c9UMhWP_MWm9U0L48xEjYw&cbp=13,291.8,,0,18.86&gl=US&t=m&cbll=51.492132,-0.192862&z=17

13 years ago

Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/08/ask-the-headhunter-is-linkedin.html

13 years ago

Deceptions, Misinformation, and Word Games Used to Mislead About Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/guide-deceptions-word-games-obfuscations-officials-use-mislead-public-about-nsa

13 years ago