top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-08-24

0 to 60 in One Second: Fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML

http://acko.net/blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/

13 years ago

373 upvotes – 94 comments

We're only being dishonest to get your attention. Join us!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6269845

13 years ago

350 upvotes – 68 comments

Linux 3.9 introduced a new way of writing socket servers

http://freeprogrammersblog.vhex.net/post/linux-39-introdued-new-way-of-writing-socket-servers/2

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 126 comments

Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now?

http://thestringer.com.au/google-and-the-nsa-whos-holding-the-shit-bag-now/

13 years ago

285 upvotes – 78 comments

How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction

https://medium.com/design-startups/9411fb583205

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 64 comments

Dear Prime Minister Cameron

http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Dear-Prime-Minister-Cameron--7289954.html

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 20 comments

Vasili Arkhipov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasiliy_Arkhipov

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 53 comments

Showing stored passwords – Tim Berners-Lee

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2013Aug/0020.html

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 130 comments

Loneliness Is Deadly

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/08/dangers_of_loneliness_social_isolation_is_deadlier_than_obesity.html

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 83 comments

Operating System Development Series (2008)

http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDevIndex.html

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 16 comments

Someone's stealing our identity on Apple's App Store

http://www.flipagr.am/press/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 63 comments

Wildfire threatening the power grid that supplies San Francisco

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/24/215099616/san-francisco-under-emergency-as-fire-threatens-power-water

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 61 comments

Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography

http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-biography-2013-8?op=1

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 41 comments

Servo – A parallel browser engine in Rust by Mozilla

https://github.com/mozilla/servo

13 years ago

★ 36.5k Rust MPL-2.0
124 upvotes – 39 comments

Giant Robotic Mining Trucks in the Australian Desert

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/bed4b2b5a70a

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 88 comments

You have to beat the man to be the man

http://charliecurran.com/you-have-to-beat-the-man-to-be-the-man/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 86 comments

Prototype Hardware from Lockheed Martin Surveillance Project

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Prototype-Hardware-from-Lockheed-Martin-Surveillance-Project-/221272094476?

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/24/the-ultimate-cheat-sheet-for-starting-and-running-your-business/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 36 comments

Rust on the Arduino Due

https://github.com/jensnockert/dueboot

13 years ago

★ 179 HTML
103 upvotes – 27 comments

Make No Promises

http://swannodette.github.io/2013/08/23/make-no-promises/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments
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