top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-06-24

A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a_hole_in_my_2_year_old_son/

12 years ago

706 upvotes – 447 comments

Show HN: Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native JavaScript functions

https://github.com/codemix/fast.js

12 years ago

★ 3.3k JavaScript MIT
323 upvotes – 162 comments

Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/24/us-usa-noflylist-idUSKBN0EZ2EU20140624

12 years ago

287 upvotes – 83 comments

I Can’t Afford a Bachelor’s Degree, So I’m Making My Own

http://blog.alyxandria.org/post/89703880248/i-cant-afford-a-bachelors-degree-so-im-making-my

12 years ago

250 upvotes – 139 comments

The YouTube Contract for Indies

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/06/23/fk-heres-entire-youtube-contract-indies

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 114 comments

Workaholism in America Is Hurting the Economy

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118285/workaholism-america-hurting-economy

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 263 comments

Cargo, Rust's Package Manager

http://crates.io

12 years ago

229 upvotes – 120 comments

Programming on a Piano Keyboard

http://elekslabs.com/2014/06/programming-on-a-keyboard-a-piano-keyboard.html

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 36 comments

Works With Nest

https://nest.com/works-with-nest/

12 years ago

211 upvotes – 160 comments

Stripe: Alipay support

https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-alipay

12 years ago

200 upvotes – 72 comments

FAA bans the use of drones to deliver packages

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/24/faa-bans-the-use-of-drones-to-deliver-packages/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 134 comments

Sel4: We’re going open source

http://sel4.systems/

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7937002

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 81 comments

Lisp CPU

http://www.frank-buss.de/lispcpu/

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 67 comments

Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27992439

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 149 comments

Jrnl – A simple command line journal application

http://maebert.github.io/jrnl/index.html

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 57 comments

Simpsons in CSS

https://pattle.github.io/simpsons-in-css/

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 30 comments

Improved default settings for Linux machines

http://tobert.github.io/post/2014-06-24-linux-defaults.html

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 95 comments

Every C99.php shell is backdoored

http://thehackerblog.com/every-c99-php-shell-is-backdoored-aka-free-shells/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 91 comments

Linux dominates supercomputers as never before

http://www.zdnet.com/linux-dominates-supercomputers-as-never-before-7000030890/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 81 comments

Arthritis drug spurs hair growth in man with alopecia universalis

http://news.yale.edu/2014/06/19/hairless-man-arthritis-drug-spurs-hair-growth-lots-it

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 45 comments

War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing

https://www.aclu.org/war-comes-home-excessive-militarization-american-policing

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 15 comments

History theft with CSS Boolean algebra

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/css_calc/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 34 comments

Introducing the Revert Button

https://github.com/blog/1857-introducing-the-revert-button

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 18 comments

RainLoop Webmail: Simple, modern and fast web-based email client

http://rainloop.net/?

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 68 comments

Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team

http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/oculus-agrees-to-acquire-carbon-design-team/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 49 comments

Edward Snowden being interviewed by the Council of Europe

http://webtv.coe.int/index.php?EventID=19&language=EN

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 23 comments

The Entrepreneur Who Captivated Me

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/the-entrepreneur-who-captivated-me.html

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 12 comments

Physicists Should Stop Saying Silly Things about Philosophy

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/06/23/physicists-should-stop-saying-silly-things-about-philosophy/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: $4.4B in Startup Funding Rounds Visualized

http://www.machete.io/board/view/seed_db_funding_rounds/157a518b-cbf2-4bde-84b4-98cfa0bc15ba

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 36 comments

OWASP Top Ten Web Vulnerabilities

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

A texture-mapped raycaster in 128 bytes

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63518

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

Google Web Designer

http://www.google.com/webdesigner/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

Visualization of age, height and weight of players in the 2014 FIFA World Cup

http://ejoh.se/worldcup2014/weight

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Checkr.io – API for background checks

https://checkr.io/free-background-check

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 62 comments

Silicon Valley and the Edtech Revolution

http://www.imaginek12.com/blog/silicon-valley-and-the-ed-tech-revolution

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 56 comments

Inside the Network18 takeover

http://www.livemint.com/Companies/rqT2Oi8fwv4XVjJcHzlcVN/Inside-the-Network18-takeover.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

Wealth Levels, Wealth Inequality, and the Great Recession [pdf]

http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/working_papers/pfeffer-danziger-schoeni_wealth-levels.pdf

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 55 comments

Why I left Pivotal

http://jeremiahshackelford.com/post/89785894621/pivotallabsrip

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: How Do I Become A 'Good' Programmer... Like Everyone Else Here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940143

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 60 comments

How Google I/O impacts Airbnb Availability

https://beyondpricing.com/learn/google-io

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 29 comments

DigitalOcean API v2.0 Enters Public Beta

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/api-v2-enters-public-beta/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

Living Under Drones

http://www.livingunderdrones.org/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 35 comments

It Takes Guts To Do Research (2013)

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/it-takes-guts-to-do-research/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Peer-to-peer sports betting inside the Bitcoin blockchain

https://xbet.io

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 27 comments

Babel – Nimrod's package manager

http://picheta.me/articles/2014/06/babel--nimrods-package-manager.html

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 34 comments
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