top 50% 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

663 upvotes – 148 comments

Startup lessons

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

13 years ago

551 upvotes – 163 comments

JavaScript right on the hardware

http://technical.io/

13 years ago

346 upvotes – 313 comments

Google Treks

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

13 years ago

345 upvotes – 106 comments

40 Days Without Booze

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

13 years ago

308 upvotes – 274 comments

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

276 upvotes – 129 comments

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

268 upvotes – 72 comments

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
262 upvotes – 59 comments

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

239 upvotes – 341 comments

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

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

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 54 comments

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

http://textit.in

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 62 comments

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

218 upvotes – 135 comments

Steam-powered Blender

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

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 85 comments

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

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

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 162 comments

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

173 upvotes – 94 comments

Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless

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

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 135 comments

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

171 upvotes – 114 comments

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

168 upvotes – 38 comments

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

162 upvotes – 82 comments

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

144 upvotes – 11 comments

What mercury being liquid at room temperature has to do with relativity

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2013/07/31/what-does-mercury-being-liquid-at-room-temperature-have-to-do-with-einsteins-theory-of-relativity/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 43 comments

New Features of Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 25

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/08/new-features-of-firefox-developer-tools-episode-25/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 25 comments

I rewrote my blog in Go

http://www.ironzebra.com/code/103/i-rewrote-my-blog-in-go

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 74 comments

Metaprogramming – Julia Language

http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/metaprogramming/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 52 comments

How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/agent-of-intelligence-how-a-deviant-philosopher-built-palantir-a-cia-funded-data-mining-juggernaut/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 79 comments

Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/08/14/211945779/is-there-a-giant-life-form-lurking-in-our-solar-system-possibly-say-scientists

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 56 comments

Improbable research: London to Edinburgh in five exciting minutes

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/jan/04/improbable-research-london-edinburgh-five-minutes

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 43 comments

GNU Parallel – The command line power tool

http://www.slideshare.net/fscons/gnu-parallel-ole-tange

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 28 comments

Cisco to cut 4,000 jobs

http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/14/technology/enterprise/cisco-earnings/index.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 61 comments

San Francisco split by Silicon Valley's wealth

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-silicon-valley-backlash-20130814,0,762467,full.story

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 140 comments

SoundFocus (YC S13) Launches With an App for ‘20/20 Hearing’

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/14/yc-backed-soundfocus-launches-with-an-app-for-2020-hearing-with-mysterious-hardware-on-the-way/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

No, Google did not say that there is no privacy in Gmail

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/08/14/no-google-did-not-say-that-we-cant-expect-privacy-in-gmail/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel

http://beta.icloud.com

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 77 comments

Map collection

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 52 comments

Proven practices for more effective, efficient peer code review

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/11-proven-practices-for-peer-review/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 18 comments

Humble Bundle releases EA/Origin bundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/#origin

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 77 comments

Meteor 0.6.5: namespacing, modularity, new build system, source maps

http://www.meteor.com/blog/2013/08/14/meteor-065-namespacing-modularity-new-build-system-source-maps

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

We are just getting started

http://blog.app.net/2013/08/14/we-are-just-getting-started/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

Pure Launches Sex-on-Demand App, #9 Among Fastest Growing Dating Startups

http://mattermark.com/pure-launches-sex-on-demand-app-already-9-among-fastest-growing-dating-startups/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 128 comments

Prediction 1957: Pneumatic Tube Roadways

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/future-that-never-was-pneumatic-tube-roadways#slide-38

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

A Year and a Half With a Nissan Leaf (Part 2): The Summer Drive

http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-year-and-half-with-nissan-leaf-part-2.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 56 comments

Google: Gmail users shouldn't expect email privacy

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/14/google-gmail-users-privacy-email-lawsuit

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

Optimizing C++ Code: Dead Code Elimination

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/08/09/optimizing-c-code-dead-code-elimination.aspx

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 34 comments

Ember.js 1.0 RC7 Released

http://emberjs.com/blog/2013/08/14/ember-1-0-rc7.html

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 28 comments

Identicons

https://github.com/blog/1586-identicons

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 57 comments
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