top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-28

Terraform

http://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform.html

12 years ago

600 upvotes – 110 comments

NPR One

http://www.npr.org/about/products/npr-one/

12 years ago

446 upvotes – 177 comments

How to take over the computer of a Maven Central user

http://blog.ontoillogical.com/blog/2014/07/28/how-to-take-over-any-java-developer/

12 years ago

405 upvotes – 127 comments

We Experiment On Human Beings

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-experiment-on-human-beings

12 years ago

367 upvotes – 103 comments

Dear Instagram

https://blog.bolt.co/2014/07/28/dear-instagram

12 years ago

347 upvotes – 125 comments

How to find your Uber passenger rating

https://medium.com/@aaln/4aa1d9cc927f

12 years ago

323 upvotes – 189 comments

Banned for Life

https://medium.com/@sgehrman/banned-for-life-c62f2404f66

12 years ago

316 upvotes – 285 comments

Zillow to Acquire Trulia for $3.5B

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/zillow-to-buy-trulia-for-3-5-billion/

12 years ago

270 upvotes – 166 comments

Mojolicious – Perl real-time web framework

http://mojolicio.us/

12 years ago

268 upvotes – 87 comments

Facebook Flux – Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces

https://github.com/facebook/flux

12 years ago

★ 17.4k JavaScript
255 upvotes – 57 comments

Black Swan Seed Rounds

http://blog.samaltman.com/black-swan-seed-rounds

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 98 comments

Why cans of soup are shaped the way they are

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/august12014/index.html

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 103 comments

3D Printing Store

http://www.amazon.com/3dp

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 92 comments

The Financial Side of Building Mac Apps

http://tyler.io/2014/07/a-candid-look-at-the-financial-side-of-building-mac-apps-on-your-own/

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 41 comments

Atlantropa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 55 comments

Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/07/28/chris-beard-named-ceo-of-mozilla/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 141 comments

The New GitHub Issues

https://github.com/blog/1866-the-new-github-issues

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 47 comments

Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/07/msg01010.html

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 48 comments

Russia offers $110,000 to crack Tor anonymous network

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28526021

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 79 comments

BitcoinJS

http://bitcoinjs.org/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 33 comments

Tracking.js － A modern approach for computer vision on the web

http://trackingjs.com/

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 19 comments

Can Reddit Grow Up?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/technology/can-reddit-grow-up.html?_r=0

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 163 comments

Nginx Tutorial: Developing Modules

http://www.airpair.com/nginx/extending-nginx-tutorial

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 12 comments

Now Then – the hidden systems that've frozen time and stop us changing the world

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/NO-FUTURE

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 46 comments

Tesla's Model 3

http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2014/07/teslas-model-3

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 113 comments

Instagram iOS session hijack

https://gist.github.com/stevegraham/9a98627eebd6b09d4483?hn

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 49 comments

YoAuth

http://yoauth.herokuapp.com/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 46 comments

HTML minifier revisited

http://perfectionkills.com/html-minifier-revisited/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 41 comments

Scala: Next Steps

http://scala-lang.org/news/roadmap-next

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 112 comments

What Paris looks like with an echo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/07/23/what-paris-looks-like-with-an-echo/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services (2013) [pdf]

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/formal-methods-amazon.pdf

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Sandstorm Personal Cloud Platform Demo

https://sandstorm.io/demo

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

A Candid Look at Unread’s First Year

http://blog.jaredsinclair.com/post/93118460565/a-candid-look-at-unreads-first-year

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

AltBeacon

http://altbeacon.org/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 31 comments

FastAPI – Easily create robust, standardized API endpoints in Rails and Postgres

https://github.com/thestorefront/FastAPI

12 years ago

★ 559 Ruby
74 upvotes – 25 comments

The Danger of Financial Jargon

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/money-talks-6

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms that Built ‘Iron Dome’ Missile Defense

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/07/hackers-plundered-israeli-defense-firms-that-built-iron-dome-missile-defense-system/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles

http://developer.contactive.com/?hackernews

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 50 comments

Xibalba – A WebGL Shooter and Making-Of Screencast

http://phoboslab.org/xibalba/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

OpenJK

https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK

12 years ago

★ 2.1k C++ GPL-2.0
66 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Real-time collaborative editing plugin for IntelliJ

https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-intellij/

12 years ago

★ 228 Java Apache-2.0
65 upvotes – 6 comments

Digital-age detective work can’t crack Brooklyn Bridge caper

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/digital-age-detective-work-cant-crack-brooklyn-bridge-caper/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: How to find co-founders

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8096461

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: Lesser-known open source projects that need contributors?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8096395

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 54 comments

Emms 4.0

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2014-07/msg00010.html

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments
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