top 50% 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

Pissed off about functional programming (2005)

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=450922

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 61 comments

Foursquare Now Tracks Users Even When the App Is Closed

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/06/foursquare-now-tracks-users-even-when-the-app-is-closed/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 42 comments

Kale, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts are all the same species

http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/8/6/5974989/kale-cauliflower-cabbage-broccoli-same-plant

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: EDI – An editor in Go

http://satyajit.ranjeev.in//2014/07/06/introducing-edi.html

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 48 comments

How startup founders and CEOs rate the top VCs in Silicon Valley [pdf]

http://docs.yougov.com/docs/YouGov_Entrepreneurs_Survey_2013_Participants_Summary.pdf

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 21 comments

Apples to Apples, Part II

http://www.jessesquires.com/apples-to-apples-part-two/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 13 comments

Twitch implements YouTube-like system for blocking copyrighted audio

http://www.polygon.com/2014/8/6/5976565/twitch-music-content-id-dmca

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 70 comments

Reflecting back on one year of Kaggle contests

http://mlwave.com/reflecting-back-on-one-year-of-kaggle-contests/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 6 comments

Dbignore – .gitignore for Dropbox

http://konolige.com/dbignore/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

The New Foursquare

http://avc.com/2014/08/the-new-foursquare/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 75 comments

Dropbox's Carousel: Speeding up the Data Model

https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/08/building-carousel-part-ii-speeding-up-the-data-model/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 2 comments

Computer Games Better Than Medication in Treating Elderly Depression

http://www.livescience.com/47209-computer-games-depression-older-adults.html?cmpid=514645

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

The CIA isn’t reporting any data to federal transparency site

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/06/fearing-the-mosiac-effect-the-cia-declines-to-report-its-unclassified-contracts-to-federal-transparency-site/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 3 comments

Houston City Council gives green light to Uber, Lyft

http://abc13.com/news/houston-city-council-gives-green-light-to-uber-lyft/245069/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

CircleCI launches Docker support

http://blog.circleci.com/continuous-delivery-with-docker-containers/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

BeagleBone Black GPIOs

http://kilobaser.com/blog/2014-07-15-beaglebone-black-gpios

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Garry Kasparov, the Man Who Would Be King

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/garry-kasparov.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

China Said to Exclude Apple From Procurement List

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-06/china-said-to-exclude-apple-from-procurement-list.html

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

Using Mozjpeg to Create Efficient JPEGs

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/08/using-mozjpeg-to-create-efficient-jpegs/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Duke’s Legacy: Video Game Source Disc Preservation at the Library of Congress

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/08/dukes-legacy-video-game-source-disc-preservation-at-the-library-of-congress/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

TweetNaCl.js

http://dchest.github.io/tweetnacl-js/#/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

YC Hacks Recap

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-hacks-recap

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

Czarist Russia in color (1905–1915)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.sme.sk/c/7318981/rusko-na-unikatnych-farebnych-fotografiach.html&sandbox=0&usg=ALkJrhgWKoEphtxwkiUH913u_BWIerZesw

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs

http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/06/future-of-jobs/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments

Optimal streaming histograms

http://blog.amplitude.com/2014/08/06/optimal-streaming-histograms/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 19 comments

Strengthening HTTP: A Personal View

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2014/01/04/strengthening_http_a_personal_view

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 49 comments

How the Web Became Our ‘External Brain,’ and What It Means for Our Kids

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/end-of-absence-how-technology-changes-our-brains-society-children/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 50 comments

An immigrant from Turkey turned Greek yogurt into an American snack food (2013)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/04/just-add-sugar

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 26 comments

Google Acquires Emu, an IM Client With Siri-Like Intelligence

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/06/google-acquires-emu-an-im-client-with-siri-like-intelligence/

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 9 comments

China Corporate Espionage Boom Knocks Wind Out of U.S. Companies (2012)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-15/china-corporate-espionage-boom-knocks-wind-out-of-u-s-companies.html

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 17 comments

Dress codes: Suitable disruption

http://www.economist.com/node/21610781

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 93 comments
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