Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2014-07-11

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157

Amazon Cognito

https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/

12 years ago

425 upvotes – 157 comments

360

Videos about JavaScript

https://github.com/bolshchikov/js-must-watch

★ 13.5k CC0-1.0 12 years ago

★ 13.5k CC0-1.0

360 upvotes – 59 comments

329

129

William Binney: 80% of audio calls are recorded and stored in the US

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/the-ultimate-goal-of-the-nsa-is-total-population-control/

12 years ago

329 upvotes – 129 comments

329

XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us

http://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/index.html

12 years ago

329 upvotes – 65 comments

311

Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book

http://online.wsj.com/articles/bill-gatess-favorite-business-book-1405088228

12 years ago

311 upvotes – 61 comments

310

File system that stores location of file in Pi

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

★ 6.8k C GPL-3.0 12 years ago

★ 6.8k C GPL-3.0

310 upvotes – 98 comments

277

208

This is a blog post that’s incredibly confusing and painful for me to write

http://blog.maxistentialism.com/post/91476212698/this-is-a-blog-post-thats-incredibly-confusing

12 years ago

277 upvotes – 208 comments

259

Women's underwear gets an upgrade

http://www.artinfactmag.com/culture-dish/thinx-underwear-period-panties/

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 70 comments

259

CISPA is back with a new name

http://www.cispaisback.org/?t=dXNlcmlkPTUyMjM4MjE3LGVtYWlsaWQ9ODgzNw==

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 41 comments

213

White House nixes Patent Office pick after tech-sector outcry

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/white-house-nixes-patent-office-pick-after-tech-sector-outcry/

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 20 comments

201

Emails, court docs show how Sony stood up to Steve Jobs’ and Pixar’s wage-fixing

http://pando.com/2014/07/10/revealed-emails-court-docs-show-how-sony-stood-up-to-steve-jobs-and-pixars-wage-fixing-cartel/

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 90 comments

201

150

EXACTO demonstrates first-ever guided .50-caliber bullets

http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/07/10a.aspx

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 150 comments

177

Swift Blog

https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 64 comments

177

107

Rap Genius Raises $40M, Changes Name To Genius

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/11/just-genius/

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 107 comments

152

AMD HSA kernel driver

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1407.1/02923.html

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 22 comments

151

Neural networks in JavaScript

https://github.com/harthur/brain

★ 7.9k JavaScript MIT 12 years ago

★ 7.9k JavaScript MIT

151 upvotes – 36 comments

151

Ultima IV

http://www.filfre.net/2014/07/ultima-iv/

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 73 comments

148

Visualising the Go garbage collector

http://dave.cheney.net/2014/07/11/visualising-the-go-garbage-collector

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 7 comments

145

What Is a Bitcoin, Really?

http://preshing.com/20140127/what-is-a-bitcoin-really/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 50 comments

136

You Are a Rogue Device (2013)

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/you-are-a-rogue-device/Content?oid=18143845

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 58 comments

133

First release of LibreSSL portable is available

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=140510291304119&w=2

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 69 comments

128

Twitter bot that tweets Wikipedia edits made from IP addresses of Congress

https://twitter.com/congressedits

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 20 comments

117

Show HN: The Markdown Resume

http://mszep.github.io/pandoc_resume/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 81 comments

115

Show HN: HearthSim, an AI and game simulator for Hearthstone Heroes of Warcraft

https://github.com/oyachai/HearthSim

★ 318 Java MIT 12 years ago

★ 318 Java MIT

115 upvotes – 76 comments

112

Emergency phone and internet data storage law to be brought in

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28237108

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 75 comments

108

Java Memory Model Pragmatics

http://shipilev.net/blog/2014/jmm-pragmatics/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 21 comments

107

Putting the "Tor" back in "Torrent" with Hidden Services and Popcorn Time

https://gist.github.com/obvio171/addb26214a8c159f84a8#file-putting-the-tor-back-in-torrent-md

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

106

Deterministic, bit-identical and/or verifiable Linux builds

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885777

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 51 comments

101

Zero-downtime database migrations

https://blog.rainforestqa.com/2014-06-27-zero-downtime-database-migrations/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

People's happiness at work usually dips mid career

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2014/07/peoples-happiness-at-work-usually-dips.html

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

Scripting Nginx with Lua (2012)

http://www.londonlua.org/scripting_nginx_with_lua/slides.html

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

Inside Genius’s $40M Fundraise

http://news.genius.com/Nicholas-carlson-inside-geniuss-s40-million-fundraise-annotated

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 57 comments

OCaml-TLS: ASN.1 and notation embedding

http://openmirage.org/blog/introducing-asn1

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

114

Ask HN: Life advice for 25yo Web Dev, single, no debt, $30k/£20k savings

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8019558

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 114 comments

Introduction to Julia – Part 1

http://pyvideo.org/video/2754/introduction-to-julia-part-1

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 5 comments

An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

http://abovethecrowd.com/2014/07/11/how-to-miss-by-a-mile-an-alternative-look-at-ubers-potential-market-size/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 62 comments

SciPy 2014 conference videos

http://pyvideo.org/category/51/scipy-2014

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 0 comments

The hack that saved the astronauts of the Apollo XIII

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-is-the-actual-hack-that-saved-the-astronauts-of-th-1598385593

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

Telehash

http://telehash.org/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

Salesforce.com Acquires Startup RelateIQ

http://recode.net/2014/07/11/salesforce-com-acquires-startup-relateiq/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

The Language Construction Kit

http://www.zompist.com/kit.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

Emails Contradict Administration Claims on Guardian Laptop Destruction

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/11/newly-obtained-emails-contradict-administration-claims-guardian-laptop-destruction/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

Correlation behind adblock growth surge and AdSense revenue doldrums

http://blog.pagefair.com/2014/adsense-smoking-gun/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 68 comments

The Invention of Wireless Cryptography

http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/the-invention-of-wireless-cryptography/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

Market Size and Demand for Marijuana in Colorado [pdf]

http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheadername1=Content-Disposition&blobheadername2=Content-Type&blobheadervalue1=inline%3B+filename%3D%22Market+Size+and+Demand+Study%2C+July+9%2C+2014.pdf%22&blobheadervalue2=application%2Fpdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1252008574534&ssbinary=true

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: My mom called me, but I got someone else. How can I report this bug?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8021925

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 34 comments

Popcorntime-desktop repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown

https://github.com/time4popcorn/popcorntime-desktop

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 81 comments

Two Girls, a Golden Balloon, and Fate