top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-07

Don't be a jerk

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8148068

12 years ago

333 upvotes – 130 comments

Questions about Nasa's space drive answered

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-08/07/10-qs-about-nasa-impossible-drive

12 years ago

285 upvotes – 196 comments

Go 1.4+ Garbage Collection Plan and Roadmap

http://golang.org/s/go14gc

12 years ago

281 upvotes – 178 comments

New Site Recovers Files Locked by Cryptolocker Ransomware

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/new-site-recovers-files-locked-by-cryptolocker-ransomware/

12 years ago

278 upvotes – 41 comments

Introducing Heroku Button

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/8/7/heroku-button

12 years ago

247 upvotes – 44 comments

Oak Island Money Pit: Unsolved Mystery

http://www.oakislandmoneypit.com/

12 years ago

243 upvotes – 116 comments

Russia extends Snowden residency by three years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28689231

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 184 comments

The US Intelligence Community has a Third Leaker

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/08/the_us_intellig.html

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 63 comments

A Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire

http://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/

12 years ago

203 upvotes – 28 comments

HTTPS as a ranking signal

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal_6.html

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 206 comments

The Worst API Ever Made?

http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0029.html

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 80 comments

Rich Kid, Poor Kid: For 30 Years, Baltimore Study Tracked Who Gets Ahead

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/08/07/335285098/rich-kid-poor-kid-for-30-years-baltimore-study-tracked-who-gets-ahead

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 181 comments

Bikanta’s (YC S14) Tiny Diamonds Find Cancer Before It Spreads

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/07/bikantas-tiny-diamonds-find-cancer-before-it-spreads?v=2

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 66 comments

GCC and LLVM collaboration

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-July/075144.html

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 4 comments

Hacker Redirects Traffic From 19 Internet Providers to Steal Bitcoins

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/isp-bitcoin-theft/

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 64 comments

IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/529691/ibm-chip-processes-data-similar-to-the-way-your-brain-does/

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 57 comments

An Updated Performance Comparison of Virtual Machines and Linux Containers [pdf]

http://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/papers/0929052195DD819C85257D2300681E7B/$File/rc25482.pdf

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 18 comments

CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October

https://blog.cloudflare.com/google-now-factoring-https-support-into-ranking-cloudflare-on-track-to-make-it-free-and-easy

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 61 comments

Building the Firefox browser for Firefox OS

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/08/building-the-firefox-browser-for-firefox-os/

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 47 comments

Japanese Retrofuturism and Chrono Trigger

http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/party-like-its-1999-japanese-retrofuturism-and-chrono-trigger

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 70 comments
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