top 50% 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

Announcing UberPool

http://blog.uber.com/uberpool

12 years ago

Justin.tv has shut down

http://www.justin.tv/

12 years ago

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

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

12 years ago

Navdy: HUD for your car

https://www.navdy.com

12 years ago

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

Arrow: Better dates and times for Python

http://crsmithdev.com/arrow/

12 years ago

Why I am leaving the best job I ever had

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

12 years ago

Harry Potter and the Cryptocurrency of Stars

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

12 years ago

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

Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet

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

12 years ago

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

We Will Fight Until The End

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

12 years ago

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

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

12 years ago

Researcher’s death shocks Japan

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

12 years ago

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

Watch the Rosetta rendezvous

http://rosetta.esa.int/

12 years ago

Recommending music on Spotify with deep learning

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

12 years ago

LowRISC: Open-source RISC-V SoC

http://www.lowrisc.org/

12 years ago

A spambot became the second most powerful member of an Italian social network

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/529696/how-a-simple-spambot-became-the-second-most-powerful-member-of-an-italian-social-network/

12 years ago

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

Academic Urban Legends

http://sss.sagepub.com/content/44/4/638.long

12 years ago

Experimental Drug Likely Saved Ebola Patients

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/health/experimental-ebola-serum/

12 years ago

A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm

http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2294

12 years ago

Entitlement issues (2009)

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html

12 years ago

Anthropology: The sad truth about uncontacted tribes

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140804-sad-truth-of-uncontacted-tribes

12 years ago

A Gentle Introduction to Backpropagation

http://numericinsight.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-gentle-introduction-to-backpropagation.html

12 years ago

An underrated feature in Python 3

http://blog.ionelmc.ro/2014/08/03/the-most-underrated-feature-in-python-3/

12 years ago

Irken Language – A Scheme with parametric polymorphism

http://nightmare.com/rushing/irken/irken/lang.html

12 years ago

What is type safety?

http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2014/08/05/type-safety/

12 years ago

State Incentives Bringing SpaceX Commercial Launch Facility to Texas

http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/20001/

12 years ago

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-14

12 years ago

In 'Sherlock Holmes' Rights Dispute, Conan Doyle Estate Slammed Again

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/sherlock-holmes-rights-dispute-conan-723114

12 years ago

U.S. Energy Department to make researchers' papers free

http://news.sciencemag.org/policy/2014/08/u-s-energy-department-make-researchers-papers-free

12 years ago

Om and Flux

https://justin.harmonize.fm/development/2014/08/05/om-and-flux.html

12 years ago

Examine.com has grown up: $700,000 in the past year

http://www.solorwell.com/examine-com-is-grown-up-700000-in-the-past-year/

12 years ago

Erlang Solutions acquires Inaka

http://inaka.net/blog/2014/08/05/inaka-proud-to-announce-our-new-home-with-erlang-solutions/

12 years ago

Show HN: Use email subject lines to save personal stats and chart them

http://www.statlogger.com

12 years ago

UK judge says ‘freedom of information’ means choice of digital file format

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/05/uk-judge-says-freedom-of-information-means-choice-of-digital-file-format/

12 years ago

I have a soul-crushing job and I don't know what to do

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8138556

12 years ago

A bit more about American fuzzy lop

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-bit-more-about-american-fuzzy-lop.html

12 years ago

Building a Graphics Card For the Internet: A tour of the newest Imgix datacenter

https://imgix.exposure.co/building-a-graphics-card-for-the-internet

12 years ago

A Celestial Traveler Closes on Mars

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/science/space/celestial-traveler-closing-on-mars.html

12 years ago

Planet Generation - Part I

http://www.shaneenishry.com/blog/2014/08/01/planet-generation-part-i/

12 years ago

Hacker Says He Can Break Into Airplane Systems Using In-Flight Wi-Fi

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/08/04/337794061/hacker-says-he-can-break-into-airplane-systems-using-in-flight-wi-fi

12 years ago

FBI Exploits Tor Browser Bundle to Target Child Pornographers

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/operation_torpedo/

12 years ago

Nvidia Jetson TK1 Reviewed

http://www.drdobbs.com/embedded-systems/nvidia-jetson-tk1-reviewed/240168804

12 years ago

Ask HN: How do you transfer money internationally?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8137074

12 years ago

Open Build Service by openSUSE

http://openbuildservice.org/

12 years ago

New Heroku Dashboard and Metrics now in Beta

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/8/5/new-dashboard-and-metrics-beta

12 years ago

Teal 3d dice roller

http://a.teall.info/dice/

12 years ago

Malicious SHA-1

https://malicioussha1.github.io/

12 years ago

The Pragmatic Libertarian Case for a Basic Income Guarantee

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2014/08/04/matt-zwolinski/pragmatic-libertarian-case-basic-income-guarantee

12 years ago

Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read

http://www.shalinshah.me/voice/

12 years ago

A first step toward more global email

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-first-step-toward-more-global-email.html

12 years ago