top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-06

How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machines for kids

http://blog.codestarter.org/post/93985346780/how-we-turn-199-chromebooks-into-ubuntu-based-code

12 years ago

492 upvotes – 215 comments

Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code published

https://netzpolitik.org/2014/gamma-finfisher-hacked-40-gb-of-internal-documents-and-source-code-of-government-malware-published/

12 years ago

402 upvotes – 102 comments

P5.js: Processing for today’s web

http://p5js.org

12 years ago

381 upvotes – 93 comments

Transducers are coming to Clojure

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2014/8/6/transducers-are-coming

12 years ago

319 upvotes – 100 comments

Goodbye to Sasha Shulgin, Godfather of Psychedelics

http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2014-08-04/goodbye-godfather-psychedelics-sasha-shulgin-now-tripping

12 years ago

263 upvotes – 63 comments

Bizarro World: World Record Tetris (2007)

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/?page=full

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 75 comments

Europe's Rosetta probe goes into orbit around comet 67P

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28659783

12 years ago

234 upvotes – 73 comments

Mapbox GL for the Web

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-gl-js/

12 years ago

232 upvotes – 39 comments

With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/06/lyft-line/

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 103 comments

Chrome Experiments: “3d city”

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/3d-city/

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 36 comments

Wikipedia refuses to delete photo taken by monkey

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11015672/Wikipedia-refuses-to-delete-photo-as-monkey-owns-it.html

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 203 comments

CERN Particle Clicker

http://particle-clicker.web.cern.ch/#

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 48 comments

CloudFlare Now Supports WebSockets

http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-now-supports-websockets

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 32 comments

How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-microsoft-dragged-its-development-practices-into-the-21st-century/

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 128 comments

Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/08/whats-the-best-device-for-interactive-learning/375567/

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 214 comments

How to Make the Best Pourover Coffee

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/06/make-better-pourover-coffee-how-pourover-works-temperature-timing.html

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 102 comments

Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem

http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/08/06/defragmenting-qt-and-uniting-our-ecosystem/

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 91 comments

Ethereum pre-sale hits 12.7M$, still 27 days to go

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/08/05/bitbeat-ethereum-presale-hits-12-7-million-tally/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 105 comments

Wikipedia reveals Google 'forgotten' search links

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28672121

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 54 comments

How the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010)

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 65 comments
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