top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-14

AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/

12 years ago

Maze Tree

http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/061b3929ba0f3964d335

12 years ago

Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/mozilla-and-drm

12 years ago

Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z

http://help.jetblue.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/webisapi.dll?New,Kb=askBlue,case=obj(403864)

12 years ago

Articles Every Programmer Should Read

http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2014/05/10-articles-every-programmer-must-read.html

12 years ago

An Introduction to Programming in Go

http://www.golang-book.com

12 years ago

What 4chan thinks of HN

https://rbt.asia/g/thread/41920845

12 years ago

Network Neutrality

https://stripe.com/blog/network-neutrality

12 years ago

Introducing Moto E and Moto G with 4G LTE: Smart phones priced for all

http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2014/05/introducing-moto-e-and-moto-g-with-4g-lte.html

12 years ago

AT&T’s GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that few would choose

http://gigaom.com/2014/05/13/atts-gigapower-plans-turn-privacy-into-a-luxury-that-few-would-choose/?

12 years ago

Dropbox Webhooks

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/90/announcing-dropbox-webhooks

12 years ago

Superhot game

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/375798653/superhot

12 years ago

Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME

http://andreasgal.com/2014/05/14/eme/

12 years ago

Improving GitHub for science

https://github.com/blog/1840-improving-github-for-science

12 years ago

Jest – Painless JavaScript Testing

http://facebook.github.io/jest/index.html

12 years ago

Lapis – A Lua, Moonscript Framework built on OpenResty

http://leafo.net/lapis/?

12 years ago

Show HN: Wesnoth – Free, turn-based strategy game

https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth

12 years ago

★ 6.6k C++ GPL-2.0

The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits

http://grantland.com/features/the-rise-of-nintendo-video-games-history/

12 years ago

Noise: Box and pipe cryptographic core

https://github.com/trevp/noise/wiki

12 years ago

★ 464 HTML

Rat Park drug experiment cartoon

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/#page-1

12 years ago

Stop the Slow Lane

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2014/05/stop-slow-lane.html

12 years ago

Sift Science (YC S11) raise $18M to stop credit card fraud with machine learning

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/14/sift-science-raises-18m/

12 years ago

Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming

http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/#

12 years ago

Cider: Native Execution of iOS Apps on Android

http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/projects/cider/

12 years ago

Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal He’s “Happy To Help” Fund Tesla Museum

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/14/electric-cruisebeast-creator-elon-musk-tells-the-oatmeal-hes-happy-to-help-fund-tesla-museum/

12 years ago

100,000 e2e selenium tests? Sounds like a nightmare

http://watirmelon.com/2014/05/14/100000-e2e-selenium-tests-sounds-like-a-nightmare/

12 years ago

Drop the distinction between mutable and immutable local variables in Rust

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/05/13/focusing-on-ownership/

12 years ago

Learning Modern OpenGL

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/771225/Learning-Modern-OpenGL

12 years ago

Cue, the home lab for quantified self

https://cue.me/

12 years ago

Enhancing the AVIC-5000NEX

https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2014/enhancing-the-avic-5000nex.html

12 years ago

Framer: Prototyping Toolkit

http://framerjs.com

12 years ago

Google ruling 'astonishing', says Wikipedia founder Wales

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407017

12 years ago

In-browser RAW Processing: How We Did It

http://blog.pics.io/sneak-peeks/in-browser-raw-processing-how-we-did-it

12 years ago

Panda: a tool for hackers and designers

http://usepanda.com

12 years ago

Coda 2.5 and the Mac App Store

http://www.panic.com/blog/coda-2-5-and-the-mac-app-store/

12 years ago

Show HN: Quaderno.io – Invoicing for Stripe

http://quaderno.io

12 years ago

The Decline and Fall of BIND 10 [pdf]

https://ripe68.ripe.net/presentations/208-The_Decline_and_Fall_of_BIND_10.pdf

12 years ago

Review of the First Three Johns Hopkins Coursera Data Science Courses

http://www.jeffheaton.com/2014/05/review-of-the-first-three-johns-hopkins-coursera-data-science-courses/

12 years ago

Filtrex: A simple JavaScript filter expression compiler

https://github.com/joewalnes/filtrex

12 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript MIT

Emulating a BBC Microcomputer in Javascript

http://xania.org/201405/jsbeeb-emulating-a-bbc-micro-in-javascript

12 years ago

KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace

http://dot.kde.org/2014/05/13/plasma-next-beta-ready-testing

12 years ago

U.S. Students from Educated Families Lag in International Tests

http://educationnext.org/us-students-educated-families-lag-international-tests/

12 years ago

Game of Thrones author George RR Martin: 'Why I still use DOS'

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502

12 years ago

Creating a Planet Lisp mobile app in 15 minutes with mocl [video]

https://wukix.com/pl-screencast

12 years ago

Why is NaN not equal to NaN?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1565164/what-is-the-rationale-for-all-comparisons-returning-false-for-ieee754-nan-values/1573715#1573715

12 years ago

Papers – Desktop app for finding, organizing, citing academic research

http://www.papersapp.com

12 years ago

Espionage vs. Surveillance

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/espionage_vs_su.html

12 years ago

Russia is Turning Elon Musk into Tony Stark

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-14/russia-is-turning-elon-musk-into-tony-stark

12 years ago

SHA-256 Certificates Are Coming

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/05/14/sha256.html

12 years ago

DRM and the Challenge of Serving Users

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users/

12 years ago

Many sites reusing Heartbleed-compromised private keys

http://www.zdnet.com/many-sites-reusing-heartbleed-compromised-private-keys-7000029282/

12 years ago

SaaS Builders: Beware The Free Trial

http://derickbailey.com/2014/05/14/saas-builders-beware-the-free-trial/

12 years ago

HelloSign launches API for eSignatures

http://blog.hellosign.com/hellosign-launches-new-and-improved-esignature-api/

12 years ago

Are You Really Gluten-Intolerant? Maybe Not

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/05/are_you_really_gluten-sensitive.html

12 years ago