top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-21

Count to ten when a plane goes down

http://johncbeck.tumblr.com/post/92074597917/count-to-ten-when-a-plane-goes-down

12 years ago

Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective

https://stripe.com/blog/bitcoin-the-stripe-perspective

12 years ago

StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-update-560m-pageviews-a-month-25-servers-and-i.html

12 years ago

Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections, to telecoms' dismay

http://www.salon.com/2014/07/18/comcasts_worst_nightmare_how_tennessee_could_save_americas_internet_partner/

12 years ago

Source code for the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Comanche055/

12 years ago

Virtual DOM in Elm

http://elm-lang.org/blog/Blazing-Fast-Html.elm

12 years ago

State Laws That Stop Cities From Installing Fast Internet

http://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadblocks/

12 years ago

July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013)

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11_40th.html

12 years ago

Be aware of phishing at airbnb

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8063035

12 years ago

TypeScript: New Compiler and Moving to GitHub

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2014/07/21/new-compiler-and-moving-to-github.aspx

12 years ago

The talk about de-anonymizing Tor at the BlackHat conference has been removed

http://tux.so/journal:2014:07:21:the_talk_about_de-anonymizing_tor_at_the_blackhat_conference_has_been_removed

12 years ago

Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy

http://www.richsoil.com/lawn-care.jsp

12 years ago

Slimmer and faster JavaScript strings in Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2014/07/21/slimmer-and-faster-javascript-strings-in-firefox/

12 years ago

The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28367198

12 years ago

Show HN: LanceList – A directory of ways for freelancers to find work

http://www.lancelist.com/

12 years ago

Stripe launches in Australia

https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-in-australia

12 years ago

Interview with Demoscener “kb” of Farbrausch

http://6octaves.blogspot.com/2014/07/interview-with-demoscener-kb-farbrausch.html

12 years ago

2013 Tesla Model S Long-Term Road Test

http://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/2013/long-term-road-test/2013-tesla-model-s-drive-unit-iv-the-milling.html

12 years ago

Underscore.go

http://tobyhede.github.io/underscore.go/

12 years ago

Discovering private APIs with Charles.app

http://timrogers.uk/2014/07/12/discovering-private-apis-with-charles-app/

12 years ago

The Web Never Forgets: Persistent Tracking Mechanisms In The Wild

https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index.html

12 years ago

Show HN: Star Trek DS9 Episodes Worth Watching

http://tessalt.github.io/ds9-episodeguide/

12 years ago

No Russian

http://skibinsky.com/no-russian/

12 years ago

Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android

https://whispersystems.org/blog/flock/

12 years ago

New phones aboard Air Force One

http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/07/new-phones-aboard-air-force-one.html

12 years ago

Dutch court: selling e-books second hand is legal

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnos.nl%2Fartikel%2F677640-verkoop-tweedehands-eboek-mag.html&edit-text=

12 years ago

Riak 2.0.0 RC1

http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2014-July/015556.html

12 years ago

Show HN: Pagekit – A new, modern CMS built with Symfony components

http://pagekit.com/blog/2014/07/21/pagekit-public-alpha-launch

12 years ago

Yahoo Is Buying Mobile Analytics Firm Flurry For North Of 300M

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/21/yahoo-is-buying-mobile-analytics-firm-flurry-for-north-of-300m/

12 years ago

Announcing The Fog Creek Fellowship

http://blog.fogcreek.com/announcing-the-fog-creek-fellowship/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FogCreekBlog+%28Fog+Creek+Blog%29

12 years ago

Progress Bar Badge for GitHub README Files

https://github.com/fehmicansaglam/progressed.io

12 years ago

★ 774 Scala

Stealing unencrypted SSH-agent keys from memory

https://www.netspi.com/blog/entryid/235/stealing-unencrypted-ssh-agent-keys-from-memory

12 years ago

What is memory safety?

http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2014/07/21/memory-safety/

12 years ago

Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8063856

12 years ago

Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing

https://github.com/numenta/nupic

12 years ago

★ 6.3k Python MIT

Alan Turing Biopic Trailer Released

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi969255961/

12 years ago

Seoul Moves to Ban Uber, Plans Own App

http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2014/07/21/seoul-moves-to-ban-uber-plans-own-app/

12 years ago

New York to Bitcoin Startups: Get Permission

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/21/new-york-to-bitcoin-startups-get-permission-or-get-out/

12 years ago

Which is faster? while(1) {} or while(2) {}

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24848359/which-is-faster-while1-or-while2

12 years ago

High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace (2008)

http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys?currentPage=all

12 years ago

MiniMagAsm – a minimalistic but powerful CMS in assembly language

http://asm32.hopto.org/index.cgi?page=content/0_MiniMagAsm/index.txt

12 years ago

Magic Tools – A list of game development resources

https://github.com/ellisonleao/magictools

12 years ago

★ 16.5k Markdown MIT

California's job growth defies predictions after tax increases

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/20/6564879/states-job-growth-defies-predictions.html

12 years ago

Prince of Persia Code Review: Part 1 (2013)

http://fabiensanglard.net/prince_of_persia/

12 years ago

Oakland's Sudo Mesh Looks to Counter the Digital Divide With a Mesh Network

http://techpresident.com/news/25200/oakland-sudo-mesh-counter-censorship-digital-divide-mesh-net

12 years ago

Duckie: Rubber Ducking as a service

http://duckie.me/

12 years ago