top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-08

The Weight of Rain

http://style.org/visualized/

12 years ago

The Egg (2009)

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

12 years ago

Show HN: JS library to make your website instant

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

12 years ago

Bitcoin Ponzi scheme

http://ponzi.io/

12 years ago

Debian committee members vote for systemd as init system

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

12 years ago

Total security in a PostgreSQL database

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

12 years ago

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

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

12 years ago

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

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

Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

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

12 years ago

OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

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

12 years ago

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

Every line of code is always documented

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

12 years ago

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

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

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

12 years ago

80s Typography in CSS

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

12 years ago

JZed.js – The functional JQuery alternative

https://github.com/zedshaw/jzed

12 years ago

★ 327 JavaScript MIT

Huge chimpanzee population thriving in remote Congo forest

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

12 years ago

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

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

German Court Says Domain Registrars Are Responsible for Content on a Website

http://www.thedomains.com/2014/02/07/german-court-says-registrars-are-responsible-for-content-on-a-website/

12 years ago

How I Optimize Myself

http://danrodriguez.me/?p=56

12 years ago

A Better Firefox Sync

https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/02/07/a-better-firefox-sync/

12 years ago

Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup

http://blog.codecombat.com/why-you-should-open-source-your-startup

12 years ago

Unsung Hero of the Nuclear Age

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_spectator/2011/02/an_unsung_hero_of_the_nuclear_age.single.html

12 years ago

FOSDEM 2014 – First videos are online

https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2014-02-06-first-videos/

12 years ago

New clue to Voynich manuscript mystery

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/07/new-clue-voynich-manuscript-mystery

12 years ago

Why Mt. Gox, the World’s First Bitcoin Exchange, is Dying

http://www.coindesk.com/mt-gox-first-bitcoin-exchange-dead/

12 years ago

Ask HN: What is REST exactly?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7201871

12 years ago

Show HN: Speedsums

http://www.speedsums.com

12 years ago

Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on Google.fr

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2452171,00.asp

12 years ago