top 20 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

The Matasano Crypto Challenges

http://cryptopals.com/

12 years ago

Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll

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

12 years ago

Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

http://guac-dev.org/

12 years ago

2014 Fields Medals announced

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

12 years ago

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

http://data.langly.fr/blackhat

12 years ago

A Reminder To Investors

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

12 years ago

Sweden Solar System

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

12 years ago

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

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

Something is amiss with the Interwebs: BGP is a flapping

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Something+is+amiss+with+the+Interwebs+BGP+is+a+flapping+/18523

12 years ago

How To Validate Your Business Idea By Testing A Hypothesis

http://hatchery.io/how-to-validate-your-business-idea-by-testing-a-hypothesis.html

12 years ago

BlueRobotics – T100 Underwater Thruster

http://www.bluerobotics.com/

12 years ago

Mono 3.6.0 is out

http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_3.6

12 years ago

Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2014/08/computational-knowledge-and-the-future-of-pure-mathematics/

12 years ago

We got our first Delaware tax bill: $74,018.74

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8167576

12 years ago

BPA-Free Plastic Containers May Be Just as Hazardous

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bpa-free-plastic-containers-may-be-just-as-hazardous/

12 years ago

German Artists Say They Put White Flags on Brooklyn Bridge

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/arts/design/german-artists-say-they-put-white-flags-on-brooklyn-bridge.html

12 years ago

An FPGA sprite graphics accelerator

http://andybrown.me.uk/wk/2014/06/01/ase/

12 years ago

Proof confirmed of 400-year-old fruit-stacking problem

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26041-proof-confirmed-of-400yearold-fruitstacking-problem.html#.U-pszCddXR0

12 years ago