top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-03

Remy – Computer-generated TCP congestion algorithm

http://web.mit.edu/remy/

12 years ago

274 upvotes – 40 comments

A new set of Firefox Developer Tools features

http://mzl.la/1pBoskZ

12 years ago

256 upvotes – 40 comments

EtherCalc: Open-source web spreadsheet

https://ethercalc.org/

12 years ago

245 upvotes – 26 comments

Localizing Papers, Please

http://dukope.tumblr.com/post/83177288060/localizing-papers-please-papers-please-was

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 58 comments

My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling itself Synolocker

https://twitter.com/MikeEvangelist/status/495970097497128960

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 150 comments

Textract, a Python package for extracting text from any document

http://datascopeanalytics.com/what-we-think/2014/07/27/extract-text-from-any-document-no-muss-no-fuss

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 27 comments

Macintel: The End Is Nigh

http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/08/03/macintel-the-end-is-nigh

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 152 comments

Introduction to Moose, Perl’s OO system

http://www.houseabsolute.com/presentations/intro-moose-class/

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 52 comments

$1,000 Hepatitis Pill Shows Why Fixing Health Costs Is So Hard

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/upshot/is-a-1000-pill-really-too-much.html

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 283 comments

Input: Fonts for Code

http://input.fontbureau.com

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 41 comments

Replacing 32-bit loop variable with 64-bit introduces performance deviations

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25078285/replacing-32bit-loop-count-variable-with-64bit-introduces-crazy-performance-devi

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 22 comments

HTML5 mockups of popular devices

https://github.com/pixelsign/html5-device-mockups

12 years ago

★ 3.7k CSS MIT
132 upvotes – 15 comments

Cheap FPGA Development Boards: What to look for

http://www.joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 53 comments

“Theater” vs. “Theatre”: The Great New York Times Language Swap

http://meta.bitfilter.net/theater-vs-theatre-the-great-new-york-times-language-swap/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 84 comments

Attacked By Thugs (2004)

http://idlewords.com/2004/05/attacked_by_thugs.htm

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: Workfrom – The best coffee shops and cafes to work from

https://workfrom.co/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 74 comments

A Contrarian View of MITx: What Are We Doing?

http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/243/flowers.html

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 40 comments

FCC asked six more ISPs, content providers to reveal paid peering deals

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/fcc-asked-six-more-isps-and-content-providers-to-reveal-paid-peering-deals/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 8 comments

Lightbot: Kids learn programming concepts

http://www.light-bot.com/hocflash.html

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 24 comments

Designing game narrative

http://hitboxteam.com/designing-game-narrative

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 26 comments
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