top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-13

Edward Snowden: The Untold Story

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/

12 years ago

717 upvotes – 223 comments

X to close

https://medium.com/solve-for-x/x-to-close-417936dfc0dc

12 years ago

704 upvotes – 195 comments

Show HN: Stressed and burned out, so I created my first app – Remember Win

http://rememberwinapp.com/

12 years ago

455 upvotes – 97 comments

Amazon Local Register

http://localregister.amazon.com

12 years ago

321 upvotes – 216 comments

What Do Blind People Actually See?

http://nautil.us/blog/what-do-blind-people-actually-see

12 years ago

304 upvotes – 118 comments

What's the matter with PGP?

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/whats-matter-with-pgp.html

12 years ago

271 upvotes – 163 comments

Transactional HTML Email Templates

http://blog.mailgun.com/transactional-html-email-templates/

12 years ago

271 upvotes – 32 comments

Salmon Cannon Fires 40 Fish a Minute

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/salmon-cannon-fires-40-fish-a-minute-up-to-22mph/

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 88 comments

Ubuntu Bug 255161: Openoffice can’t print on Tuesdays

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28

12 years ago

244 upvotes – 37 comments

Screenshot URL tracking and niki-bot

https://mig5.net/content/awesome-screenshot-and-niki-bot

12 years ago

200 upvotes – 57 comments

Satoshi's Hashrate

http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2014/08/167-satoshis-hashrate.html

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 61 comments

What caused today's Internet hiccup

http://www.bgpmon.net/what-caused-todays-internet-hiccup/

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 27 comments

Google Web Fundamentals: Monetization

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/monetization/

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 58 comments

A Google Adwords Bug That Cost Us

http://blog.lawnstarter.com/post/94504758458/the-google-adwords-bug-that-cost-us-1000s

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 48 comments

A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-brazilian-wunderkind-who-calms-chaos/

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 28 comments

Flynn Beta (YC S14)

https://flynn.io/blog/flynn-beta

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 70 comments

Microservices and the First Law of Distributed Objects

http://martinfowler.com/articles/distributed-objects-microservices.html

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: Self-hosted project management application

http://92fiveapp.com

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Opp.io – Meeting Minutes Made Useful

http://www.opp.io/

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 64 comments

Know How To Roll Your SSL Certificates

https://www.petekeen.net/know-how-to-roll-your-ssl-certificates

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 35 comments

Implementations of various type systems in OCaml

https://github.com/tomprimozic/type-systems

12 years ago

★ 1.6k OCaml Unlicense
113 upvotes – 6 comments

Twitter Bot Finds Anagrams of Twitter Statuses

http://anagramatron.tumblr.com/#

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 22 comments

Making of the FF Franziska font

http://www.fffranziska.com

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

CoreOS Acquires Quay.io to Launch Its Private Docker Repository

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/13/coreos-acquires-quay-io-to-launch-its-private-docker-repository/?ncid=rss

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Startuplister – A startup directory listing service

http://startuplister.com/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 50 comments

A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-tenacious-explorer-of-abstract-surfaces/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

Startup School 2014 applications are open

http://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-2014-applications-are-open

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

Reverse engineering a fake Tor browser bundle

http://dustri.org/b/torbrowserbundleorg.html

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

Using a Tactic Unseen in a Century, Countries Cordon Off Ebola-Racked Areas

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/science/using-a-tactic-unseen-in-a-century-countries-cordon-off-ebola-racked-areas.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 76 comments

First Images of a Heart Injected with Liquid Metal

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/first-images-of-a-heart-injected-with-liquid-metal-8b41e1d318c6

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Hearing Music in Noise, Martin Hairer Wins the Fields Medal

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140808-in-mathematical-noise-one-who-heard-music/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 6 comments

How extreme isolation warps the mind

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140514-how-extreme-isolation-warps-minds?src=hn

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

Humans Need Not Apply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

Was Localizing Defender's Quest Worth It?

http://www.fortressofdoors.com/was-localizing-defenders-quest-worth-it/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments

JPG Internet

http://www.jpginternet.org/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

Our ancestor’s ‘leaky’ membrane answers big questions in biology

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=144348&CultureCode=en

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

Movie rental page on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/user/movies

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 54 comments

What is reactive programming?

http://paulstovell.com/blog/reactive-programming

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 52 comments

The San Francisco Rent Explosion: Part II

http://priceonomics.com/the-san-francisco-rent-explosion-part-ii/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 67 comments

YC-Backed VizeraLabs Projects New Materials onto Any Surface

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/13/yc-backed-vizeralabs-projects-new-materials-onto-any-surface/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

CD Baby, a Company for the Niche Musician

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/arts/music/cd-baby-a-company-for-the-niche-musician.html?src=dayp

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia for Spinnable Objects

http://www.disneyresearch.com/project/spin-it/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

TicketLabs (YC S14) Helps Small Music Venues Get More Fans Through the Door

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/12/yc-backed-ticket-labs-helps-small-music-venues-get-more-fans-through-the-door/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

Data-focused Docker clustering – ClusterHQ

https://clusterhq.com/blog/data-focused-docker-clustering/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Why don't more apps use peer to peer networking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8175453

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 43 comments

An American doctor experiences an NHS emergency room

http://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/an-american-doctor-experiences-an-nhs-emergency-room/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: InvoiceAtOnce – Easy Invoice Creation

http://invoiceatonce.com

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 50 comments

Hangouts Now Works With Google Apps Account

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/30/hangouts-now-works-without-google-account-becomes-part-of-google-apps-for-business-and-gets-sla/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Advice on pitching

http://www.aaronkharris.com/advice-on-pitching

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments

What’s 250M Light-Years Big, Almost Empty, and Full of Answers?

http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/whats-250-million-light_years-big-almost-empty-and-full-of-answers

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments

TiLDA MKe, the EMF 2014 camp badge

http://blog.emfcamp.org/post/94157161753/announcing-tilda-mke-the-incredible-emf-2014-camp

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006 (2007) [pdf]

http://www.stroustrup.com/hopl-almost-final.pdf

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 25 comments

Interactive Design and Optimization of Free-formed Free-flight Model Airplanes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KJUVJAUY8o

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Tyk – Open Source API Gateway written in Golang

http://tyk.io

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 29 comments

STARTTLS Considered Harmful

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/starttls_considered_harmful

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 39 comments
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