top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-25

Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free

https://konklone.com/post/switch-to-https-now-for-free?hn

13 years ago

622 upvotes – 251 comments

SteamMachines

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/

13 years ago

514 upvotes – 287 comments

The shittiest project I ever worked on

http://blog.plover.com/tech/prudential.html

13 years ago

501 upvotes – 181 comments

Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup

http://blog.natbat.net/post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to-exit-the-story-of-our-startup

13 years ago

324 upvotes – 32 comments

VLC 2.1.0

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.1.0.html

13 years ago

282 upvotes – 142 comments

Solved By Flexbox – Cleaner, hack-free CSS

http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox

13 years ago

259 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Drawingboard.js

http://leimi.github.io/drawingboard.js/

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 64 comments

Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/revealed-qatars-world-cup-slaves

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 140 comments

EasyJet refuses to let columnist on board for sending critical tweet

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/09/25/easyjet-under-fire-after-claims-it-refused-let-drum-columnist-mark-leiser-board

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 145 comments

One-electron universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 99 comments

Myst Online: Uru Live Again

http://mystonline.com

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 80 comments

World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-world-solar-cell-efficiency.html

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 123 comments

What's the Most Concave State in the U.S.? Using R to Solve a Geography Puzzle

http://news.rapgenius.com/Atodd-whats-the-most-concave-state-in-the-us-using-r-to-solve-a-geography-puzzle-lyrics

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 57 comments

SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices v1.3

https://www.ssllabs.com/projects/best-practices/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 37 comments

What happened to Google Alerts?

http://www.gwern.net/Google%20Alerts

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 39 comments

There's a coffeeshop called java.update() in GTA V

http://orcz.com/GTA_V:_Java_Update_Coffeeshop

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 77 comments

Large patent holders hate this reform proposal. That’s a good sign

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/24/large-patent-holders-hate-this-reform-proposal-thats-a-good-sign/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 41 comments

Create an algorithm to distinguish dogs from cats

https://www.kaggle.com/c/dogs-vs-cats

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 73 comments

Surface Blades – true innovation from Microsoft

http://betanews.com/2013/09/24/surface-blades-true-innovation-from-microsoft/

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 107 comments

Say Hello to Rick Ross

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/rick-ross-drug-dealer-interview-1013?page=all

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 69 comments

It's time to take into account the dates on the Android app average rating

https://medium.com/p/96ab0957e87e

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 33 comments

FBI vexsome filer list

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/fbi-vexsome-filer-list-175/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 56 comments

Move over Bootstrap and Foundation, welcome Semantic UI

https://coderwall.com/p/ham3gg

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 55 comments

Gnome 3.10 Release Notes

https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 100 comments

Amazon unveils a trio of new Kindle Fire tablets

http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/amazon-kindle-fire-hdx/4505-3126_7-35828167.html

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 61 comments

iOS 7 Tech Talks

https://developer.apple.com/tech-talks/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, Part 1

http://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-pt-1

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 23 comments

Vim PDF Documentation

http://nathangrigg.net/vimhelp/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 53 comments

Webhooks Are Magic

http://blog.iron.io/2013/09/7-reasons-webhooks-are-magic.html

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

AMD Introduces "Mantle" API Initiative

http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tech-news-amd-introduces-mantle-api-initiative-unleash-amd-gpus-full-potential

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 47 comments

Working hours: Get a life

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/working-hours

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 160 comments

In 2016, Paris to be home to the biggest startup incubator in the world

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2013/09/25/in-2016-paris-to-be-home-to-the-biggest-digital-incubator-in-the-world/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 92 comments

Pakistan quake island off Gwadar 'emits flammable gas'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24272552

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Multiparty WebRTC video chat

https://opentokrtc.com/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 48 comments

Lucasfilm will use video game engines in movie post-production process

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2295956/lucasfilm-will-combine-video-games-and-movies-to-axe-post-production-process

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

Netflix CEO says torrent piracy in Canada down 50 per cent since Netflix

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/09/17/netflix-ceo-says-torrent-piracy-in-canada-down-50-per-cent/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 62 comments

The Surface 2

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/09/24/the-surface-2?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pa-mainsite+%28Penny+Arcade%29

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 70 comments

Stop Using Digital Ocean Now: The Aftermath

http://serdardogruyol.com/?p=137

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 96 comments

Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/09/data-broker-giants-hacked-by-id-theft-service

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 5 comments

Solar pond

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

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

Cloudup acquired by Automattic

https://cloudup.com/blog/cloudup-automattic

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant Delivers Power for the First Time

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519596/worlds-largest-solar-thermal-power-plant-delivers-power-for-the-first-time/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 77 comments

ngrok tunnels: better, faster, stronger

http://inconshreveable.com/09-25-2013/ngrok-tunnels-better-faster-stronger/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Diagrams That Changed the World

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/21/100-diagrams-that-changed-the-world/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Stanford engineers build computer using carbon nanotube technology

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-stanford-carbon-nanotube-technology.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Nightcode, the Clojure IDE, just hit 0.1.0

https://nightcode.info/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 41 comments

The Second Coming of Java

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/the-second-coming-of-java/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 83 comments

Motorbike helmet with navigation

http://livemap.info/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 51 comments

The weird, counter-intuitive science of traffic jams

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/24/heres-how-self-driving-cars-could-clear-up-traffic-jams/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 68 comments

LASIK 6 months later

http://www.bemmu.com/lasik-6-months-later

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 94 comments
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