top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-05

US Sought Permission to Change Historical Record of a Public Court Proceeding

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/unsealed-us-sought-permission-change-historical-record-public-court-proceeding

12 years ago

437 upvotes – 71 comments

Announcing UberPool

http://blog.uber.com/uberpool

12 years ago

430 upvotes – 155 comments

Justin.tv has shut down

http://www.justin.tv/

12 years ago

396 upvotes – 137 comments

3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~om3d/

12 years ago

343 upvotes – 60 comments

Navdy: HUD for your car

https://www.navdy.com

12 years ago

337 upvotes – 215 comments

LinkedIn to pay nearly $6M in unpaid overtime wages and damages to 359 employees

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/whd/WHD20140940.htm

12 years ago

316 upvotes – 164 comments

Arrow: Better dates and times for Python

http://crsmithdev.com/arrow/

12 years ago

315 upvotes – 72 comments

Why I am leaving the best job I ever had

http://maxschireson.com/2014/08/05/1137/

12 years ago

257 upvotes – 53 comments

Harry Potter and the Cryptocurrency of Stars

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/08/05/harry-potter-and-the-cryptocurrency-of-stars?

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 122 comments

Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?

http://superuser.com/questions/792607/why-does-windows-think-that-my-wireless-keyboard-is-a-toaster

12 years ago

227 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet

https://useslate.com/blog/demo/

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 43 comments

Russian Gang Said to Amass More Than a Billion Stolen Internet Credentials

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-said-to-amass-more-than-a-billion-stolen-internet-credentials.html

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 84 comments

We Will Fight Until The End

http://zenmagnets.com/we-will-fight-until-the-end/

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 102 comments

Obama's Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/08/05/watch-commander/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 35 comments

Researcher’s death shocks Japan

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/08/researchers-death-shocks-japan.html

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 36 comments

Aspirin could dramatically cut cancer risk, according to biggest study yet

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/06/aspirin-could-dramtically-cut-cancer-risk-say-scientists-biggest-study-yet

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 105 comments

Watch the Rosetta rendezvous

http://rosetta.esa.int/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 23 comments

Recommending music on Spotify with deep learning

http://benanne.github.io/2014/08/05/spotify-cnns.html

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 23 comments

LowRISC: Open-source RISC-V SoC

http://www.lowrisc.org/

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 43 comments

Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (2011)

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if-You-Have-Nothing-to-Hide/127461/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 73 comments
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