top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-27

What happens when you use a standing desk for two years

http://arshadchowdhury.com/1485-what-happens-when-you-stand-for-2-years/

13 years ago

467 upvotes – 285 comments

Flutter: $20 Wireless Arduino with 1 km range

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2021474419/flutter-20-wireless-arduino-with-half-mile-1km-ran

13 years ago

363 upvotes – 139 comments

The CODE Keyboard

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/08/the-code-keyboard.html

13 years ago

356 upvotes – 326 comments

Go After 2 Years in Production

http://blog.iron.io/2013/08/go-after-2-years-in-production.html

13 years ago

323 upvotes – 173 comments

What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate

http://lifehacker.com/what-happens-to-the-brain-when-you-meditate-and-how-it-1202533314

13 years ago

246 upvotes – 93 comments

Logstash joins Elasticsearch

http://www.elasticsearch.com/blog/welcome-jordan-logstash/

13 years ago

242 upvotes – 57 comments

Principles of Reactive Programming

https://www.coursera.org/course/reactive

13 years ago

215 upvotes – 47 comments

Introducing Brick: Minimal-markup Web Components for Faster App Development

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/08/introducing-brick-minimal-markup-web-components-for-faster-app-development/

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 86 comments

Did The TSA and JetBlue Deny Travel For Looking Muslim During Ramadan? No

http://boardingarea.com/flyingwithfish/2013/08/26/did-the-tsa-jetblue-deny-travel-for-looking-muslim-during-ramadan-nope/

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 222 comments

Stripe launches German beta

https://stripe.com/global#germany

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 161 comments

Don't Get Pwned on Public WiFi: Use Your Own VPN

https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/blog/dont-get-pwned-on-public-wifi-use-your-own-vpn-tutorial-guide-how-to

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 123 comments

Puma, a fast concurrent web server for Ruby

http://puma.io

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 83 comments

Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/08/27/twitters-whois-records-altered-syrian-electronic-army-takes-responsibility/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 99 comments

Shon Hopwood and Kopf’s terrible sentencing instincts

http://herculesandtheumpire.com/2013/08/08/shon-hopwood-and-kopfs-terrible-sentencing-instincts

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 111 comments

Lord Blair: we need laws to stop 'principled' leaking of state secrets

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/26/lord-blair-laws-principled-leaking

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 141 comments

Mozilla Servo: the road to Acid2

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.servo/WzBBITnZWMc

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 16 comments

Researchers reverse-engineer the Dropbox client: What it means

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/researchers-reverse-engineer-the-dropbox-client-what-it-means/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 45 comments

Process your first $1,000,000 of Bitcoin payments for free with Coinbase

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/59417545262/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 49 comments

Detaining David Miranda

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/detaining_david.html

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 42 comments

What is algebra?

http://profkeithdevlin.org/2011/11/20/what-is-algebra/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 85 comments

A different way of looking at responsive design: Intention.js

http://intentionjs.com/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 53 comments

F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41344.html

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 23 comments

Memories of positive associations get written onto DNA

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/08/memories-of-positive-associations-get-written-onto-dna/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 74 comments

Drivetrain Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard

http://boostedboards.posthaven.com/technical-progress-part-ii-dual-motor-drivetrain

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 48 comments

Global Government Requests Report

https://www.facebook.com/about/government_requests

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 56 comments

10gen is now MongoDB, Inc.

http://www.mongodb.com/press/10gen-announces-company-name-change-mongodb-inc

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 38 comments

Java Algorithms and Clients

http://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/code/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

An open social media network that encrypts your posts and distributes via RSS

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3016147/this-open-source-twitter-replacement-is-absolutely-brilliant

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 55 comments

NYTimes.com down for some users; paper suspects “external attack”

http://gigaom.com/2013/08/27/nytimes-com-is-down-again-at-least-for-some-users/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

Researcher controls colleague’s motions in first human brain-to-brain interface

http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/27/researcher-controls-colleagues-motions-in-1st-human-brain-to-brain-interface/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.219431.12

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 118 comments

Dishwasher Cooking: Make Your Dinner While Cleaning The Plates

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/25/214799882/dishwasher-cooking-make-your-dinner-while-cleaning-the-plates

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

What technology should your startup use?

http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2013/08/27/what-technology-should-my-startup-use/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 70 comments

Inside the Bitcoin advocates’ closed-door meeting with federal regulators

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/27/inside-the-bitcoin-advocates-closed-door-meeting-with-federal-regulators/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

Hacked Feature Phone Can Block Other People’s Calls

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518646/hacked-feature-phone-can-block-other-peoples-calls/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Protecting Against Leakers

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/protecting_agai.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 54 comments

The story of a little DNS easter egg

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-story-of-a-little-dns-easter-egg

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

The return of nftables

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/564095/93f7a34c8887a6f9/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

GNOME Developers Hate the Mouse, Remove Middle-Click Paste

http://news.softpedia.com/news/GNOME-Developers-Hate-the-Mouse-Remove-Middle-Click-Paste-378370.shtml

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 125 comments

Web Browser based control system for the RaspberryPi

https://github.com/NeonHorizon/berryio

13 years ago

★ 759 PHP GPL-3.0
65 upvotes – 8 comments

What Makes Employees Work Harder: Punishment or Pampering?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/what-makes-employees-work-harder-punishment-or-pampering/279071/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 52 comments

Be careful when going client-only (Firebase)

http://robinverton.de/blog/2013/08/27/be-careful-when-going-client-only-firebase/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Algorithmic Trading: A Practical Tale for Engineers

http://www.toptal.com/data-science/algorithmic-trading-a-practical-tale-for-engineers

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 41 comments

Diaspora celebrates one year as a community project

https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/1-diaspora-celebrates-one-year-as-a-community-project

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 58 comments

CTL-C: Re-imagined IaaS with Docker Containers

http://ctl-c.io/#hn

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

Homeless hackers head to Noisebridge for shelter

http://kalw.org/post/homeless-hackers-head-noisebridge-shelter

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 49 comments

Java 6 exploit found in the wild

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2291040/java-6-exploit-found-in-the-wild?

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 56 comments

Excel can't save to paths over 218 characters

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/213983

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 52 comments

Kickstarter is now accepting Canadian projects

http://www.kickstarter.com/canada

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments

Hobbit Risks:"The Hobbit" from an Insurance Point of View

https://www.allianz.com/en/press/news/studies/news_2013-08-16.html

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments
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