top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-06-04

Show HN: Card – An interactive CSS3 credit card form

http://jessepollak.github.io/card/

12 years ago

376 upvotes – 112 comments

U.S. Marshals Seize Cops’ Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/feds-seize-stingray-documents/

12 years ago

346 upvotes – 102 comments

Contiki: The Little-Known Open Source OS That Rules the Internet of Things

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/contiki

12 years ago

328 upvotes – 79 comments

Gittip, Year Two

https://medium.com/building-gittip/gittip-year-two-a220308d4ec9

12 years ago

263 upvotes – 211 comments

Judge Releases Information about Police Use of Stingray Cell Phone Trackers

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/victory-judge-releases-information-about-police-use

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 99 comments

UK government's password checker sends plaintext password in the URL over HTTP

http://www.getsafeonline.org/themes/passwrdcheck/index.html

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 114 comments

NFL players: height and weight over time

http://noahveltman.com/nflplayers/

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 127 comments

"We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday."

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/06/we-need-a-pony-and-the-moon-on.html

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 196 comments

Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM

http://blog.definedcode.com/osx-qemu-kvm

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 106 comments

Why Using .* in Regular Expressions Is Almost Never What You Actually Want

http://blog.mariusschulz.com/2014/06/03/why-using-in-regular-expressions-is-almost-never-what-you-actually-want

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 66 comments

Sprint and T-Mobile Agree on Terms of $32B Deal

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/sprint-and-t-mobile-agree-on-terms-of-32-billion-deal/

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 116 comments

Peek Inside a Professional Carding Shop

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/peek-inside-a-professional-carding-shop/

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 54 comments

Untapped opportunities in AI

http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/06/untapped-opportunities-in-ai.html

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: zzzz.io, a free DynDNS replacement I created on the weekend

https://zzzz.io

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 70 comments

The Decline and Fall of IBM

http://www.cringely.com/2014/06/04/decline-fall-ibm/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 110 comments

We Need Hardware Traps for Integer Overflow

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1154

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 109 comments

Which English?

http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 136 comments

PostgreSQL columnar store benchmarks on SSDs

http://citusdata.com/blog/78-postgresql-columnar-store-benchmarks-on-ssds

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 36 comments

Last Of The Navajo 'Code Talkers' Dies At 93

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/06/04/318873830/last-of-the-navajo-code-talkers-dies-at-93

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 19 comments

Product Hunt is the social news of tech products by influential people

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/04/product-hunt-is-the-social-news-site-of-tech-products-read-by-influential-people/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 49 comments

The day I left my son in the car

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/03/the_day_i_left_my_son_in_the_car/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 218 comments

WebGL on iOS8 Safari and WebView

http://blog.ludei.com/webgl-ios-8-safari-webview/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 51 comments

Sunsets in Google Calendar using R

http://hilaryparker.com/2014/05/27/sunsets-in-google-calendar-using-r/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 10 comments

Astronomers discover first Thorne-Żytkow object, a bizarre type of hybrid star

http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2014/06/04/astronomers-discover-first-thorne-%C5%BCytkow-object-bizarre-type-hybrid-star

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 11 comments

Swift is not

http://www.splasmata.com/?p=2798

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 96 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications: LLVM

http://aosabook.org/en/llvm.html

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 8 comments

A Formula for Bayesian A/B Testing

http://www.evanmiller.org/bayesian-ab-testing.html

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: 2048 in Swift

https://github.com/austinzheng/swift-2048

12 years ago

★ 3.1k Swift MIT
92 upvotes – 34 comments

Bitcoin is back: Price quietly jumps 80%

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101728070

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 95 comments

Computational Neuroscience in Python

https://github.com/robclewley/compneuro

12 years ago

★ 223 Python BSD-3-Clause
88 upvotes – 7 comments

Striking Back At Recruiter Spam

http://blog.42floors.com/striking-back-recruiter-spam/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

Amazon Launch Event

https://www.amazon.com/oc/launchevent/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 62 comments

Russian hacker engineered worldwide crime spree

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/03/fbi-busts-russian-hacked-created-zeus-cryptolocker/9919985/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

Electric car with massive range in demo by Phinergy, Alcoa

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/electric-car-with-massive-range-in-demo-by-phinergy-alcoa-1.2664653

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 82 comments

Say Hello to Cocos2D-Swift

http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/blog/say-hello-to-cocos2dswift

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

A symbol of British democracy, "The Queen shows us who isn't boss"

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-27693589

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 115 comments

Misconceptions that IT professionals seem to have about CS education

http://codeboom.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/wholikesphp/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 88 comments

Timelock: time-release encryption incentivised by Bitcoins

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05547.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Why did it take so long for Windows to support multi-monitor taskbars?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/06/04/10530714.aspx

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 94 comments

CloudFlare is PCI certified

http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-is-pci-certified

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Growth Has Been Good for Decades. So Why Hasn’t Poverty Declined?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/upshot/growth-has-been-good-for-decades-so-why-hasnt-poverty-declined.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 89 comments

Leo editor – “a revolutionary step in the right direction for programming”

http://leoeditor.com/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 48 comments

PlayCanvas goes open source

http://blog.playcanvas.com/playcanvas-goes-open-source/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

In Escape Rooms, Video Games Meet Real Life

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/arts/video-games/in-escape-rooms-video-games-meet-real-life.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: I built an Android live wallpaper with Scala – now it's free

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.spifftastic.ascension2

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: A pure Python implemention of Apache Thrift

https://thriftpy.readthedocs.org/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

How We Use Docker To Continuously Deliver MicroServices

http://contino.co.uk/use-docker-continuously-deliver-microservices-part-1/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

PatentHackers – A new platform to help companies kill patent trolls

http://www.mobiusbobs.com/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 34 comments

[video] Build a working web application using 3 docker containers in 2 minutes

http://marmelab.com/blog/2014/06/04/demo-symfony-with-docker-and-gaudi.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

The Supreme Court is struggling to rein in America's rogue patent court

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/4/5776642/the-supreme-court-is-struggling-to-rein-in-americas-rogue-patent-court

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 49 comments

Bitbookie: Parimutuel Bitcoin Sports Betting

http://bitbook.ie

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 42 comments

Compressing Scrabble Dictionaries

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/87682811573/compressing-scrabble-dictionaries

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

Data Science Toolbox

http://datasciencetoolbox.org/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Origins of Venmo

http://kortina.net/essays/origins-of-venmo/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

ProtonMail: End-to-end encrypted email

https://protonmail.ch/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 48 comments

World's first fanless Core i5 mini-PC

http://www.fanlesstech.com/2014/06/historic-moment-zotacs-fanless-zbox.html

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 14 comments

Google Drive is down (502. That’s an error.)

https://drive.google.com/?tab=mo&authuser=0

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 33 comments

Go error handling

https://code.ohloh.net/search?s=%22if%20err%20!%3D%20nil%22&pp=0&fe=go&mp=1&ml=0&me=1&md=1&ff=1&filterChecked=true

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 98 comments

The Intelligent Plant

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_pollan?currentPage=all

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

Why I asked to be removed from the Techweek 100

http://www.sean-johnson.com/asked-removed-techweek-100/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 81 comments
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