top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-06-25

Supreme court: Warrantless cell phone searches illegal [pdf]

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-132_8l9c.pdf

12 years ago

854 upvotes – 145 comments

Google Cardboard

https://developers.google.com/cardboard/

12 years ago

712 upvotes – 127 comments

Gmail API

https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/

12 years ago

528 upvotes – 143 comments

Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

https://www.andrewmunsell.com/blog/captchas-are-becoming-ridiculous

12 years ago

330 upvotes – 194 comments

The Death of the Urdu Script

https://medium.com/@eteraz/the-death-of-the-urdu-script-9ce935435d90

12 years ago

316 upvotes – 137 comments

Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf]

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-461_l537.pdf

12 years ago

301 upvotes – 386 comments

Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

http://blog.getpaint.net/2014/06/24/paint-net-4-0-is-now-available/

12 years ago

295 upvotes – 169 comments

Google I/O 2014

https://www.google.com/events/io?gclid=CjkKEQjw5qmdBRCn--70gPSo074BEiQAJCe7zf8EY8JMUkoqTKWUpWgCoxLkDCZCCf0IDAcajQT_jeLw_wcB

12 years ago

294 upvotes – 284 comments

Best of Vim Tips

http://zzapper.co.uk/vimtips.html

12 years ago

290 upvotes – 126 comments

Cayley – An open-source graph database

http://cayley.io

12 years ago

289 upvotes – 89 comments

Google Design

http://www.google.com/design/

12 years ago

272 upvotes – 62 comments

V8 Optimization Killers

https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-killers

12 years ago

★ 20.5k JavaScript MIT
244 upvotes – 80 comments

Houston, We Have A Public Domain Problem

http://medium.com/@xor/houston-we-have-a-public-domain-problem-bd971c57dfdc

12 years ago

234 upvotes – 98 comments

Everything Is Bullshit: A Book by Priceonomics

http://priceonomics.com/everything-is-bullshit-a-book-by-priceonomics/

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 96 comments

But why can't I send people their passwords?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7943365

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 174 comments

Bash [ -z hello ]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bash+%5B+-z+hello+%5D

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 61 comments

MacDown: Open-source Markdown editor for OS X

http://macdown.uranusjr.com/

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 64 comments

A Cover Letter in Brainfuck

http://myownfortune.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/cover-letter/

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 45 comments

Swift Toolbox – community-supported catalog of iOS and OS X libraries

http://www.swifttoolbox.io

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 35 comments

Recovering deleted files using only grep

http://blog.nullspace.io/recovering-deleted-files-using-only-grep.html

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 45 comments

Golang 1.4 Internal Packages

http://golang.org/s/go14internal

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 47 comments

Searchcode: A source code search engine

http://searchcode.com/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 60 comments

Charles Stross YAPCA keynote: The world in 2034

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/06/yapcna-2014-keynote-programmin.html

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 28 comments

The 'Fly' Has Been Swatted

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/the-fly-has-been-swatted/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 16 comments

Cloud Platform at Google I/O – new Big Data, Mobile and Monitoring products

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2014/06/cloud-platform-at-google-io-new-big.html

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 31 comments

Background to Programming Erlang

http://joearms.github.io/2014/06/26/Background-to-programming-erlang.html

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 10 comments

Coderwall open-sources codebase and business model

http://hackernoons.com/all-our-coderwall-are-belong-to-you

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

Bypass PayPal's Two-Factor Authentication

https://www.duosecurity.com/blog/duo-security-researchers-uncover-bypass-of-paypal-s-two-factor-authentication

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 28 comments

Why Being an Australian Startup Sucks

http://blog.gleam.io/australia/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: Replace CAPTCHA with Proof-of-Work

https://hashcash.io/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 92 comments

CPU Cache Essentials

http://meta-x86.blogspot.com/2014/06/cpu-cache-essentials.html

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 18 comments

Eclipse 4.4, Luna, released

http://eclipse.org/org/press-release/20140625_luna_release_train.php

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 49 comments

What D3.js is Not

http://ruoyusun.com/2014/05/26/what-d3js-is-not.html

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 25 comments

Kaplan to Buy Software-Development School Dev Bootcamp

http://online.wsj.com/articles/kaplan-to-buy-software-development-school-dev-bootcamp-1403660869

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

The US economy shrank at an annualized rate of 2.9 percent in Q1

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/25/economy-shrank-almost-3-percent-in-q1-holy-guacamole/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 94 comments

C++ patterns using plain C

http://blog.noctua-software.com/cpp-patterns-using-plain-c.html

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 94 comments

Aereo Loses In Supreme Court, Deemed Illegal

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/25/aereo-loses-in-supreme-court-deemed-illegal/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Material design with Polymer

http://www.polymer-project.org/docs/elements/material.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 46 comments

Freelance as a Service

http://letsworkshop.com/freelance-as-a-service/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

Toronto startup's booking app attracts barbershops from around the world

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-growth/day-to-day/hamilton-startups-booking-app-attracts-barbershops-from-around-the-world/article19291529/#dashboard/follows/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

Cryptome Attacked and Censored by Webcom and Network Solutions

http://cryptomeorg.siteprotect.net/webcom-netsol-attack.htm

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

Standings in 38th Annual World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate

http://icpc.baylor.edu/scoreboard/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

Go vs. Erlang for distribution

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/erlang-programming/nFWfmwK64RU

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 47 comments

Postmortem of Heroku's June 23 Downtime

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/642?postmortem

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

From Idea to App Store: My Adventure in App Development (2012)

http://www.yeahus.net/from-idea-to-app-store-my-adventure-in-app-development/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

The significance of Riley

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/06/25/the-significance-of-riley/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments

Wonga chased debt with fake lawyers, says FCA

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28015456

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 59 comments
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