top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-02-08

The Weight of Rain

http://style.org/visualized/

12 years ago

458 upvotes – 28 comments

The Egg (2009)

http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

12 years ago

450 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: JS library to make your website instant

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7201353

12 years ago

426 upvotes – 174 comments

Bitcoin Ponzi scheme

http://ponzi.io/

12 years ago

326 upvotes – 286 comments

Debian committee members vote for systemd as init system

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00294.html

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 146 comments

Total security in a PostgreSQL database

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-postgresecurity/

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 58 comments

Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"

https://twitter.com/dongatory/status/432227971173068800

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 180 comments

Your Progress As A Programmer Is All Up To You

http://thecodist.com/article/your_progress_as_a_programmer_is_all_up_to_you

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 65 comments

Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/neither-microsoft-nokia-nor-anyone-else-should-fork-android-its-unforkable/

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 207 comments

Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/02/07/introducing-mozilla-firefox-accounts/

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 59 comments

OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cheat_Sheets

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 27 comments

ICE/ISEE-3 to return to an Earth no longer capable of speaking to it

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/02070836-isee-3.html

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 65 comments

Every line of code is always documented

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2014/02/hidden-documentation/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 101 comments

Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle (1986)

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/Appendix-F.txt

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Automatic VPN Generator – Protect Yourself at Sochi and Starbucks

https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn/new

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 70 comments

80s Typography in CSS

http://codepen.io/boldfacedesign/details/EoGgD

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 25 comments

JZed.js – The functional JQuery alternative

https://github.com/zedshaw/jzed

12 years ago

★ 327 JavaScript MIT
100 upvotes – 97 comments

Huge chimpanzee population thriving in remote Congo forest

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/07/chimpanzees-congo-forest

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 11 comments

Gitbucket – The easily installable Github clone powered by Scala

https://github.com/takezoe/gitbucket/blob/master/README.md

12 years ago

★ 9.3k Scala Apache-2.0
98 upvotes – 43 comments

Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best N.S.A

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/snowden-used-low-cost-tool-to-best-nsa.html

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 48 comments
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