top 50% 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

HN frontpage ranked by discussion activity

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gutenberg corpus

https://bitbucket.org/c-w/gutenberg

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 13 comments

An Android app that collects Mag-Stripe data and CVC3 codes from PayPass cards

https://github.com/MatusKysel/EMVemulator

12 years ago

★ 386 Java
84 upvotes – 56 comments

Learning from Kaggle masters

http://blog.kaggle.com/2014/08/01/learning-from-the-best/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 4 comments

Facebook's Gateway Drug

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/opinion/sunday/evgeny-morozov-facebooks-gateway-drug.html

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 33 comments

The Social Laboratory: Singapore's Surveillance State

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/07/29/the_social_laboratory_singapore_surveillance_state?page=full

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 115 comments

Backtracker: Radar sixth sense for cyclists

http://www.dragoninnovation.com/projects/41-backtracker-by-ikubu/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

The Lawyer’s Apprentice: How to Learn the Law Without Law School

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/education/edlife/how-to-learn-the-law-without-law-school.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 63 comments

Pun: A small library to enable pattern matching in JavaScript and CoffeeScript

https://github.com/CRogers/pun

12 years ago

★ 345 JavaScript
73 upvotes – 16 comments

If all the ice melted

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 57 comments

India’s Toilet Race Failing as Villages Don’t Use Them

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-03/india-s-toilet-race-failing-as-villages-don-t-use-them.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 81 comments

C++React: A reactive programming library for C++11

https://github.com/schlangster/cpp.react

12 years ago

★ 1k C++ BSL-1.0
71 upvotes – 4 comments

One Click to Wrap App Screenshots in a Device Mockup

http://mockuphone.com/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

YC Hacks Submissions

http://ychacks.challengepost.com/submissions

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Prints

http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2014/08/prints.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

Estimating and Predicting Epidemic Behavior for the West African Ebola Outbreak

http://grantbrown.github.io/libspatialSEIR/doc/tutorials/Ebola2014/Ebola2014.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 18 comments

The Descent to C

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/cdescent?HN_20140803

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

Sublime Web Inspector: Debug JavaScript in Sublime

https://github.com/sokolovstas/SublimeWebInspector

12 years ago

★ 2.3k Python MIT
55 upvotes – 11 comments

Jfxr: A browser tool to create sound effects for games

http://jfxr.frozenfractal.com/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Drop-In Chat – Chatify your app

https://dropinchat.com/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 45 comments

An API wrapper to Clarifai's image recognition demo

https://api.blockspring.com/users/orliesaurus/blocks/d54a2e2c28aebab4fe079ff547cea495

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 27 comments

Theft: Property-based testing for C

https://github.com/silentbicycle/theft

12 years ago

★ 639 C ISC
46 upvotes – 0 comments

Historical figures have moved to cities in the same way for centuries

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/big-cities-beckoned-the-brainy-across-history/

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 25 comments

Messenger Bag Process: From Sketch to Finished Product

http://www.ugmonk.com/2014/07/06/messenger-bag-processfrom-sketch-to-finished-product/

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 19 comments

Creating a Web App in Erlang with Chicago Boss and Riak from Scratch

http://www.drlinux.org/creating-a-web-app-in-erlang-with-chicago-boss-and-riak-from-scratch-i/

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: Do bootstrapped businesses lose much money on free trials?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8128463

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 30 comments
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