558
170
They're Made out of Meat
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
12 years ago
438
116
Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess
http://www.chesscademy.com/
390
60
Open Source Email Templates
https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/templates
368
281
Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152933
355
179
Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment
https://blog.mozilla.org/verdi/463/lightspeed-a-browser-experiment/
278
172
Judge rejects $324.5M settlement over Apple, Google hiring
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/08/us-apple-google-ruling-idUSKBN0G822T20140808
267
69
War in the womb
http://aeon.co/magazine/nature-and-cosmos/pregnancy-is-a-battleground-between-mother-father-and-baby/
215
135
Plot Thickens as 900 Writers Battle Amazon
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/business/media/plot-thickens-as-900-writers-battle-amazon.html?ref=business
212
14
Painting in Clojure
http://tombooth.co.uk/painting-in-clojure/
204
36
Python Practice Book
http://anandology.com/python-practice-book/index.html
200
138
Corporate America Hasn’t Been Disrupted
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/corporate-america-hasnt-been-disrupted/
176
42
The Lie Behind 1.2B Stolen Passwords
http://www.youarenotpayingattention.com/2014/08/08/the-lie-behind-1-2-billion-stolen-passwords/
175
126
Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html
157
190
Ask HN: Who isn't in the software industry/not a hacker?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8154625
155
81
What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5?
https://medium.com/@sachagreif/in-the-past-couple-years-startups-have-started-realizing-that-good-design-can-make-the-difference-2fdeb90d390a
149
Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit
http://pybee.org/toga/
35
Live attacks against the Norse honeypot infrastructure
http://map.ipviking.com/
127
19
λ Lessons
https://stevekrouse.github.io/hs.js/
123
23
An Internet-Ready OS From Scratch in a Week – Rump Kernels on Bare Metal
http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/an_internet_ready_os_from
120
45
Yann LeCun on the IBM neural net chip
https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10152184295832143
113
76
How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-use-your-cat-to-hack-your-neighbors-wi-fi/?mbid=social_fb
109
6
Anthropology of Mid-Sized Startups
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/10/29/anthropology-of-mid-sized-startups/
107
51
Remote code execution on Android devices
http://labs.bromium.com/2014/07/31/remote-code-execution-on-android-devices/
106
Roda – A new Ruby web framework
http://roda.jeremyevans.net/index.html
104
38
Fortheon – A multi-language cloud application platform
https://www.fortheon.com/
64
That WoW server blade
http://augustl.com/blog/2014/that_wow_server_blade/
34
Perceptual Image Hashing
http://bertolami.com/index.php?engine=blog&content=posts&detail=perceptual-hashing
100
16
Physical Side-Channel Key-Extraction Attacks On PCs
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/handsoff/
18
The Brazilian Bus Magnate Who’s Buying Up Vinyl Records
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-vinyl-records.html
99
93
How casinos get you to spend more money
http://www.vox.com/2014/8/7/5976927/slot-machines-casinos-addiction-by-design
97
21
Really Good Emails
http://reallygoodemails.com
91
49
Show HN: HN-beautify – a stylesheet for the HN frontpage
https://github.com/guicoelho/hn-beautify
★ 65 CSS – 12 years ago
89
One Year Review of Lob.com
https://www.lob.com/blog/one-year-review#
85
Libtins v3.0: A fast C++ packet sniffing and crafting library
http://libtins.github.io/
83
40
Earl Grey tea intoxication [pdf]
http://www.docente.unicas.it/useruploads/000811/files/earl_grey_tea_intoxication.pdf
82
13
You can't hide from yourself
http://danieltenner.com/2014/07/31/you-cant-hide-from-yourself/
Show HN: Dumbphone – Turn your smartphone into a dumbphone
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bg.bozho.dumbphone
80
44
Azul3D – A 3D game engine written in Go
http://azul3d.org/
79
25
A Software Architect's View of the Design of Double Entry Accounting (2012)
http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-software-architects-view-of-design-of.html
Domoticz – Open source Home Automation System
http://www.domoticz.com/
73
Understanding Clojure Transducers Through Types
http://conscientiousprogrammer.com/blog/2014/08/07/understanding-cloure-transducers-through-types
72
47
The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate (1992)
http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/appa.html
43
Ask HN: How much should a bootstrapped startup ask for an acquihire?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8154213
67
32
A Room Where Executives Go to Get Help from IBM’s Watson
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/529606/a-room-where-executives-go-to-get-help-from-ibms-watson
62
9
The Distance brings you stories of people who have stuck it out for decades
https://thedistance.com/about
61
52
Patents that kill
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/08/innovation
11
Synthesizing thunder using JavaScript
http://blog.kaistale.com/?p=1340
15
Gif.js – JavaScript GIF encoding library
https://github.com/jnordberg/gif.js
★ 4.9k JavaScript MIT– 12 years ago
58
PicnicHealth (YC S14) Stores Your Medical Records In One Place
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/08/picnichealth-stores-your-medical-records-in-one-place-and-delivers-it-to-your-doctor/
56
The Wyvern Programming Language
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/wyvern/
55
26
Making Facebook’s software infrastructure more energy efficient with Autoscale
https://code.facebook.com/posts/816473015039157/making-facebook-s-software-infrastructure-more-energy-efficient-with-autoscale/
10
Show HN: Stochastic – JavaScript library for simulating stochastic processes
https://github.com/NathanEpstein/stochastic
★ 235 JavaScript – 12 years ago
Checking PVS-Studio with Clang
http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0270/
50
SemVer has failed us
http://www.jongleberry.com/semver-has-failed-us.html
22
Bus-only shoulders move you past congestion
http://www.metrotransit.org/transit-advantages.aspx
