top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-15

Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC

http://pangoly.com

12 years ago

778 upvotes – 213 comments

ITerm2 2.0

http://iterm2.com/news.html

12 years ago

584 upvotes – 230 comments

Tech Blogger Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/15/tech-blogger-tries-to-cancel-comcast-service-hilarity-ensues/

12 years ago

501 upvotes – 339 comments

Google+ now lets you use any name you want

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+googleplus/posts/V5XkYQYYJqy

12 years ago

407 upvotes – 250 comments

An FBI Counterterrorism Agent Tracked Me Down Because I Took a Picture of This

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/fbi-counterterrorism-agent-tracked-me-down-because-i-took-picture

12 years ago

382 upvotes – 144 comments

Announcing Project Zero

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/07/announcing-project-zero.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoogleOnlineSecurityBlog+%28Google+Online+Security+Blog%29

12 years ago

360 upvotes – 81 comments

Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trade secret”

http://easycount.mjec.net/

12 years ago

341 upvotes – 99 comments

Apple Teams Up With IBM for Enterprise Push

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/15/apple-teams-up-with-ibm-for-huge-expansive-enterprise-push/

12 years ago

323 upvotes – 180 comments

Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0

https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/07/15/mozilla-advances-jpeg-encoding-with-mozjpeg-2-0/

12 years ago

309 upvotes – 113 comments

Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/07/15/10542285.aspx

12 years ago

296 upvotes – 201 comments

PDFy – Instant PDF Host

https://pdf.yt/

12 years ago

244 upvotes – 98 comments

Floppy Bird: A Flappy Bird clone in 16-bit x86 assembly

https://github.com/icebreaker/floppybird

12 years ago

★ 935 Assembly MIT
234 upvotes – 70 comments

Patent trolls now account for 67 percent of all new patent lawsuits

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/15/patent-trolls-now-account-for-67-percent-of-all-new-patent-lawsuits/

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 69 comments

The FCC is so swamped with net neutrality comments, it’s extending the deadline

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/15/the-fcc-is-so-swamped-with-net-neutrality-comments-its-extending-the-deadline/

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Realm (YC S11), a mobile database

http://realm.io

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 96 comments

Inverter

http://gorried.github.io/inverter/game.html

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 53 comments

Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

http://www.darrinhenein.com/prototyping-side-tabs/

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 103 comments

The Tao of Programming

http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 43 comments

Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/google-project-zero/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 41 comments

Zinc – Rust’s safety features applied to embedded development

http://zinc.rs/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 40 comments

Thread is a mesh network to connect products around the home

http://www.threadgroup.org/Home.aspx

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 95 comments

PHP 5.7 now nearly twice as fast as PHP 5.6

http://ckon.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/php-5-7-twice-as-fast/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 37 comments

Farnborough Airshow: The Scorpion in search of a customer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28260781

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 95 comments

Kotlin: Statically typed programming language targeting the JVM and JS

http://kotlinlang.org/?

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 85 comments

Earth's Magnetic Field Flip Could Happen Sooner Than Expected

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-s-magnetic-field-flip-could-happen-sooner-than-expected/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 63 comments

Why Probabilistic Programming Matters

https://plus.google.com/+BeauCronin/posts/KpeRdJKR6Z1

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 51 comments

Germany is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship

http://neocities.org/blog/german-censorship

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 61 comments

World’s First Thorium Reactor Designed

http://www.itheo.org/articles/world%E2%80%99s-first-thorium-reactor-designed

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 54 comments

Google Shopping Express

https://www.google.com/shopping/express/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 64 comments

Squink Lets You Print a Circuit Board for the Price of a Cup of Coffee

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/14/squink-lets-you-print-a-circuit-board-for-the-price-of-a-cup-of-coffee/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings

https://medium.com/comedy-corner/10-tricks-to-appear-smart-during-meetings-27b489a39d1a

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 33 comments

Microsoft Challenges Google’s Artificial Brain With ‘Project Adam’

http://wired.com/2014/07/microsoft-adam/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 33 comments

Steven Colbert On Vessyl Digital Cup [video]

http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/9nzwjt/vessyl-digital-cup

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 79 comments

Even faster integer multiplication

http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3360

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 25 comments

DigitalOcean: Introducing Our London Region

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-our-london-region/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Faceless – Open-source version of Secret

https://github.com/delight-im/Faceless

12 years ago

★ 487 Java GPL-3.0
91 upvotes – 59 comments

MedXT (YC W13) Announces FDA-Cleared Medical Image Platform

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/15/medxts-platform-brings-medical-imaging-in-line-with-todays-cloud-technology/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 21 comments

Nodemailer v1.0

http://www.andrisreinman.com/nodemailer-v1-0/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 10 comments

Xplain – Explaining X11 with an interactive X11 browser implementation

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

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Download organizer for Mac

http://downloadorganizerapp.com

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 48 comments

The Case for Why Marketing Should Have Its Own Engineers

http://firstround.com/article/The-Case-for-Why-Marketing-Should-Have-Its-Own-Engineers

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 49 comments

Curiosity Finds Iron Meteorite on Mars

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/?ImageID=6433

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

Hidden From Google

http://hiddenfromgoogle.com/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Artistic Maps of Over 4,000 U.S. Cities

https://www.projectjefferson.com/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 40 comments

Apple II Game – Flapple Bird

http://www.dagenbrock.com/blog/?q=node/17

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

The Java Origins of Angular JS: Angular vs. JSF vs. GWT

http://blog.jhades.org/the-java-origins-of-angular-js-angular-vs-jsf-vs-gwt/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 45 comments

Kara Swisher: Tech's Most Powerful Snoop

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/kara-swisher-silicon-valleys-most-powerful-snoop.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 32 comments

FundersClub’s New “Partnerships” Let You Start a Venture Capital Fund

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/15/fundersclub-partnerships

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 1 comments

Finding the World's Economic Center of Gravity

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/djv/world_economic_center/blob/master/map.ipynb

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

X-Rays of Toys

http://www.brendanfitzpatrick.com/41864/3810418/gallery/x-rays-of-toys-01

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Harnessing Big Data for Social Good, YC-Backed Nonprofit Bayes Impact Launches

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/15/harnessing-big-data-for-social-good-yc-backed-nonprofit-bayes-impact-launches/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Mutable Algorithms in Immutable Languages, Part 3

http://tel.github.io/2014/07/15/mutable_algorithms_in_immutable_languages_part_3/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments
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