top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-14

Civet coffee: why it's time to cut the crap

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/sep/13/civet-coffee-cut-the-crap

13 years ago

575 upvotes – 194 comments

Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3017108/you-need-to-see-this-17-minute-film-set-entirely-on-a-teens-computer-screen

13 years ago

349 upvotes – 107 comments

Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong – lies typographers tell about history

http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324

13 years ago

309 upvotes – 224 comments

Securing a Linux Server

http://spenserj.com/blog/2013/07/15/securing-a-linux-server/

13 years ago

304 upvotes – 140 comments

How I sent 300k emails through Github's API in a matter of minutes

http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=3176

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 47 comments

The Boy Genius of Ulan Bator

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/the-boy-genius-of-ulan-bator.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 47 comments

SICP translated to JavaScript

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs1101s/sicp/

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 107 comments

Why Phonebloks Will Never Happen

http://www.genericmaker.com/2013/09/why-phonebloks-phone-will-never-happen.html

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 103 comments

Realtime pixel tracking with nginx, syslog-ng, and Redis

http://benwilber.net/realtime-pixel-tracking-nginx-syslog-ng-redis

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 27 comments

FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 1 now available

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-September/044522.html

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 70 comments

The Supersizing of American Colleges

http://priceonomics.com/the-supersizing-of-american-colleges/#truth

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 73 comments

Dropbox-Hosted Websites

http://brace.io/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 63 comments

Freeciv 2.4.0 released

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/NEWS-2.4.0

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 17 comments

Nokia was developing an Android phone before the Microsoft purchase

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/09/14/nokia-was-developing-an-android-phone-before-the-microsoft-purchase/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Teach kids programming – A collection of resources

https://medium.com/p/a2dc04ea9529

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

Made for iOS 7 - A directory of app designs and icons updated for iOS 7

http://madeforios7.tumblr.com/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 40 comments

PRISM-Proof Security Considerations

http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-hallambaker-prismproof-req-00.txt

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

Google unleashes Coder for Raspberry Pi as kid-friendly tool

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-google-unleashes-coder-raspberry-pi.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519241/report-suggests-nearly-half-of-us-jobs-are-vulnerable-to-computerization

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 60 comments

Creating The Perfect GPG Keypair

https://alexcabal.com/creating-the-perfect-gpg-keypair/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

PrioVR: Get your ideas moving

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yeitechnology/priovr-get-your-ideas-moving

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 38 comments

LuaJIT on Xen

http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/LuaJIT-on-Xen

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API

http://www.bls.gov/developers/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

Disrupting “Disruption” Rhetoric

http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2013/09/disrupting-disruption-rhetoric.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

13-Year-Old Makes $100K Reinventing the Scooter Wheel

http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/entrepreneurs/2013/09/13/13-year-old-makes-100k-reinventing-scooter-wheel/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

CSS Image Orientation Lands in Firefox 26

http://sethfowler.org/blog/2013/09/13/new-in-firefox-26-css-image-orientation/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Why is Google purging all search results for Syrian Arab News Agency?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6387315

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments
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