top 50% 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

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

156 upvotes – 50 comments

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

150 upvotes – 58 comments

BlueRobotics – T100 Underwater Thruster

http://www.bluerobotics.com/

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 58 comments

Mono 3.6.0 is out

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

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 130 comments

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

126 upvotes – 24 comments

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

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

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 82 comments

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

116 upvotes – 95 comments

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

115 upvotes – 81 comments

An FPGA sprite graphics accelerator

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

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 21 comments

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

100 upvotes – 31 comments

Backblaze is building a 270 TB storage pod

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/why-now-is-the-time-for-backblaze-to-build-a-270-tb-storage-pod/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: Is it just me or why does Docker suck so much?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8167928

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 84 comments

Traffic Signal Timing Manual: Chapter 4 – Traffic Signal Design

http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop08024/chapter4.htm

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

The PlayStation2 vs. the PC (2000)

http://arstechnica.com/features/2000/04/ps2vspc/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 41 comments

Debugging file corruption on iOS

https://code.facebook.com/posts/313033472212144/debugging-file-corruption-on-ios/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

Siri’s Inventors Are Building a New AI

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/viv/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 44 comments

Tegra K1 “Denver” Will Be First 64-bit ARM Processor for Android

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/08/11/tegra-k1-denver-64-bit-for-android/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 59 comments

Why Stealing Cars Went Out of Fashion

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/upshot/heres-why-stealing-cars-went-out-of-fashion.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 114 comments

Panamax: Docker Management for Humans

http://panamax.io

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Internet hiccups today? You're not alone. Here's why

http://www.zdnet.com/internet-hiccups-today-youre-not-alone-heres-why-7000032566/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

USB 3.0 Promoter Group Announces USB Type-C Connector Ready for Production [pdf]

http://www.usb.org/press/USB_Type-C_Specification_Announcement_Final.pdf

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 82 comments

Write Gmail in Emacs the Easy Way: gmail-message-mode

http://endlessparentheses.com/write-gmail-in-emacs-the-easy-way-gmail-message-mode.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 38 comments

First female winner for Fields maths medal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28739373

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

The New Heroku Postgres Database Experience

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/8/12/the_new_database_experience_with_heroku_postgres

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Age Discrimination in Silicon Valley

http://world-startups.com/report/the-cover-up-age-discrimination-in-silicon-valley/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 70 comments

Apple releases diversity numbers

http://www.apple.com/diversity/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 65 comments

Building Dropbox’s New User Experience for Mobile

https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/08/building-dropboxs-new-user-experience-for-mobile-part-1/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

Cheerp – A C/C++ compiler for web applications

http://leaningtech.com/cheerp/blog/2014/08/11/Cheerp-1.0/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 49 comments

Dispositional mindfulness is associated with reduced implicit learning

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810014001019

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Stellar Jackpot

http://www.stellarjackpot.com

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 30 comments

Vacuum airship

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

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 59 comments

The Future of College

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Education/The-Future-of-College-NACUBO-Remarks

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 69 comments

OpenGL SIGGRAPH 2014 Update: OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES 3.1, and More

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8361/opengl-siggraph-2014-update-opengl-45-opengl-es-31-more

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 0 comments

Shift's (YC S14) Debit Card Spends Digital Currency, Loyalty Points, and Fiat

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/12/shift-is-developing-a-debit-card-that-lets-you-spend-digital-currency-loyalty-points-and-regular-money/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 3 comments

Arq backs up to Google Drive storage

http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2014/08/arq-backs-up-to-google-drive-storage/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

S3Proxy allows applications using the S3 API to access other object stores

https://github.com/andrewgaul/s3proxy

12 years ago

★ 2.2k Java Apache-2.0
47 upvotes – 16 comments

Samaras expects 'exceptionally important find' at Ancient Amphipolis

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_12/08/2014_542093

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments

How Tesla-Toyota Project Led to Culture Clash by Opposites

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-07/how-tesla-toyota-project-led-to-culture-clash-by-opposites-cars.html

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 44 comments

‘Beep,’ Says the Bellhop

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/technology/hotel-to-begin-testing-botlr-a-robotic-bellhop.html

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 7 comments

Is Sunscreen a Lifesaver or a Poison?

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-sunscreen-a-lifesaver-or-a-poison/

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 61 comments

Subhash Khot and the Unique Games Conjecture

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-grand-vision-for-the-impossible/

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't your team ship?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8169102

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 48 comments

PersistIQ (YC S14) Hopes to Remove Excel From the Outbound Sales Process

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/12/with-yc-backing-persistiq-hopes-to-remove-excel-from-the-outbound-sales-process/

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 8 comments

IBM Simon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 4 comments
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