top 50% 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

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

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

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

Computer can read letters directly from the brain

http://www.ru.nl/english/general/news_agenda/news/@910991/computer-can-read/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

Police Crack Down on Burning Man

http://intellihub.com/2013/08/23/state-and-federal-police-crack-down-on-burning-man-in-unprecedented-show-of-force/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

ModMyPi: how one student turned over £867,000 selling Raspberry Pi cases

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-08/23/jacob-marsh-modmypi

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua

http://terralang.org/index.html

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

HTML5 Piano

http://mrcoles.com/piano/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 63 comments

The $80 web development workstation

http://skofo.github.io/blog/the-80-dollar-web-development-workstation/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 165 comments

OpenGL 101: Matrices – projection, view, model

http://solarianprogrammer.com/2013/05/22/opengl-101-matrices-projection-view-model/?

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

In many ways PHP is just now starting to come into its own

https://gist.github.com/Blackshawk/5327505

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 132 comments

Math without beauty or truth

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/a-few-words-about-math.html?m=1

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

Tesla California sales beat Chrysler, Volvo, Cadillac, other big names

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/tesla-california-sales-beat-chrysler-volvo-cadillac-other-big-names/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 76 comments

The demise of the DSLR

http://blog.mingthein.com/2013/08/24/the-demise-of-the-dslr/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 109 comments

NASA, ESA capture comet collision with Sun

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/nasa-esa-capture-comet-collision-with-sun/11518/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 26 comments

Tiny video cameras protect cops, suspects

http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Tiny-video-cameras-protect-cops-suspects-4754265.php

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments
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