top 50% 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

Draft spec for records and pattern-matching in C#

https://roslyn.codeplex.com/discussions/560339

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 38 comments

If I ever design a first course in compilers, I'll do it backwards

http://pozorvlak.dreamwidth.org/176246.html

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 39 comments

A game engine for building online adaptations of board and card games

http://news.dice.com/2014/08/06/sourceforge-interview-new-game-engine/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 33 comments

Making of April Zero: Part 2

http://aprilzero.com/journal/making-of-aprilzero-part-2/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 19 comments

How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb Into a Billion Dollar Business

http://firstround.com/article/How-design-thinking-transformed-Airbnb-from-failing-startup-to-billion-dollar-business?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=Anuj+Adhiya&utm_campaign=@anujadhiya

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 45 comments

One mystery less, or how to get the “undumpable” ROM content dumped

http://e4aws.silverdr.com/hacks/6500_1/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 12 comments

Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011)

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer?HN_20140807

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 44 comments

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

The future of MIT education looks more global, modular, and flexible

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/future-of-mit-education-0804

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

How I won a domain at auction and now it's been stolen back from me

https://medium.com/@jm/877a4053106

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

McSema: A native code to LLVM IR translation framework

http://blog.trailofbits.com/2014/08/07/mcsema-is-officially-open-source/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 12 comments

An old Macintosh IIci 25Mhz running Apache under NetBSD

http://littledork.err0neous.org

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 74 comments

Pinhole: a falling ball demo

http://rsnous.com/posts/2014-08-07-pinhole-a-falling-ball-demo.html

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 3 comments

Stupid Apps and Changing the World

http://blog.samaltman.com/stupid-apps-and-changing-the-world

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: BemTV – Hybrid CDN/P2P Architecture for HLS Broadcasts

http://blog.flavioribeiro.com/bemtv-hls-p2p-webrtc/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

How to run a state-of-the-art image classifier on an iPhone

http://libccv.org/post/how-to-run-a-state-of-the-art-image-classifier-on-a-iphone/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

Stewart Butterfield and Slack

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-most-fascinating-profile-youll-ever-read-about-a-guy-and-his-boring-startup/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

Codius: A system for running smart contracts

http://codius.org/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Silicon Valley Tech Entrepreneurs: Behind the Stereotype

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-07/silicon-valley-tech-entrepreneurs-behind-the-stereotype

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 33 comments

The hidden perils of cookie syncing

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/englehardt/the-hidden-perils-of-cookie-syncing/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Inside the Military's Secretive Smartphone Program

http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-militarys-secretive-smartphone-program-1603143142

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

Google to prioritise secure websites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28687513

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 40 comments

We Heart It, a social network with 30M users

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/05/07/30-million-people-use-this-social-network-and-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

The Puzzle Mastermind Who Designs Def Con's Hackable Badges

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/defcon-2014-badges-revealed/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: Did you go to a 3 month coding school? Did it work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8148345

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 55 comments

A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs (2008)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/15/atomic-john

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Wu.js – Higher order functions for ES6 iterators

http://fitzgen.github.io/wu.js/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

The Past, Present, and Future of the CPU, According to Intel and AMD

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-past-present-and-future-of-the-cpu-according-t/1100-6421514/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 49 comments

Bletchley Park – Google Search

https://www.google.com/search?q=Bletchley+Park&oq=Bletchley+Park&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 27 comments

RISC-V: An Open Standard for SoCs

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1323406&print=yes

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing [pdf]

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/42851.pdf

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 3 comments

What it's like raising money as a woman in Silicon Valley

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2014/08/07/what-its-like-raising-money-as-a-woman-in-tech/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 2 comments

20 years old: Microsofts first website recreated

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments

An Empire of Stars: Forgotten history of the the British Space Programme

http://lapsedhistorian.com/an-empire-of-stars/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

Top 10 One-person Startups

http://blog.onlineclock.net/top-10-one-person-startups/

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Open source hardware platform for Bluetooth hacking

http://nordicsemiconductor.github.io/puck/

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

The New Luddites: What if technological innovation is a job-killer after all?

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/08/the_new_luddites_what_if_automation_is_a_job_killer_after_all.html/print/

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 102 comments

Startups Seize Marijuana Opportunities as Big Companies Hold Back

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/07/business/smallbusiness/start-ups-seize-marijuana-opportunities-as-big-companies-hold-back.html

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 8 comments

Announcing Transcriptic Platform

https://www.transcriptic.com/blog/2014/07/15/transcriptic-platform.html

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 6 comments

Glove: Global vectors for word representation

http://www.socher.org/index.php/Main/GloveGlobalVectorsForWordRepresentation

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 5 comments

Facebook Buys Secure Server Technology Provider PrivateCore

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/07/facebook-buys-secure-server-technology-provider-privatecore/

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 3 comments

$11B Later, High-Speed Rail Is Inching Along

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/07/us/delays-persist-for-us-high-speed-rail.html

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 47 comments

The Case Against Adverbs

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/teachersatwork/the-case-against-adverbs/

12 years ago

40 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: The Inbox Checkup – Compare your inbox mastery with everyone else

https://frontapp.com/checkup

12 years ago

39 upvotes – 16 comments
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