top 10 hacker news stories for 2014-08-12

What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?

http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/08/12/what-happens-if-you-write-a-tcp-stack-in-python/

12 years ago

408 upvotes – 120 comments

The Matasano Crypto Challenges

http://cryptopals.com/

12 years ago

404 upvotes – 71 comments

Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll

https://medium.com/patents-technology-law/law-students-fend-off-a-patent-troll-2b8a708277fc

12 years ago

385 upvotes – 81 comments

Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

http://guac-dev.org/

12 years ago

383 upvotes – 78 comments

2014 Fields Medals announced

http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/2014

12 years ago

308 upvotes – 74 comments

Hack Back – A DIY guide to those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers

http://data.langly.fr/blackhat

12 years ago

293 upvotes – 59 comments

A Reminder To Investors

http://blog.ycombinator.com/a-reminder-to-investors

12 years ago

275 upvotes – 272 comments

Sweden Solar System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 40 comments

Errata prompt Intel to disable TSX in Haswell, early Broadwell CPUs

http://techreport.com/news/26911/errata-prompts-intel-to-disable-tsx-in-haswell-early-broadwell-cpus

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 83 comments

Set Up to Fail: How Bosses Create Their Own Poor Performers (1998) [pdf]

http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/research/doc.cfm?did=46698

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 60 comments
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