top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-14

MathBox 2

http://acko.net/files/pres/siggraph-2014-bof/online.html

12 years ago

657 upvotes – 88 comments

Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/why-email-will-never-die/375973/

12 years ago

435 upvotes – 198 comments

Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/14/y-combinator-and-mithril-invest-in-helion-a-nuclear-fusion-startup/

12 years ago

380 upvotes – 192 comments

An Unreal Decision

http://martiancraft.com/blog/2014/08/an-unreal-decision/

12 years ago

316 upvotes – 100 comments

I'm 25 years old and I am lost

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177259

12 years ago

309 upvotes – 264 comments

How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

https://gist.github.com/wkjagt/814b3f62ea03c7b1a765

12 years ago

287 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: I'm building a game for the Nintendo GameBoy

http://bonsaiden.github.io/Tuff.gb/

12 years ago

260 upvotes – 102 comments

Print this file, your printer will jam (2008)

http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/print_this_file_your_printer_will_jam.html

12 years ago

248 upvotes – 66 comments

How to Be Polite

https://medium.com/message/9bf1e69e888c

12 years ago

219 upvotes – 65 comments

In Ferguson, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery gives account of his arrest

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-washington-post-reporter-wesley-lowery-gives-account-of-his-arrest/2014/08/13/0fe25c0e-2359-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 101 comments

It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041/

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 118 comments

Show HN: Detect articles with corporate sponsors

http://www.ianww.com/ad-detector/

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 78 comments

Why We Procrastinate

http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/why-we-procrastinate

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Way.js – Simple, persistent, framework-agnostic two-way databinding

http://gwendall.github.io/way/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 60 comments

Hello, this is an extortion email

http://dejanseo.com.au/hello-extortion-email/

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 42 comments

Haskell on Android

http://keera.co.uk/blog/2014/08/13/most-inspiring-green-screen-you-will-ever-see/

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 11 comments

Let's build a browser engine Part 3: CSS

http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2014/08/13/toy-layout-engine-3-css.html

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 17 comments

What I Saw in Ferguson

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/saw-ferguson

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 26 comments

Scheduling Technology Leaves Low-Income Parents With Hours of Chaos

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us/starbucks-workers-scheduling-hours.html?_r=0

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 145 comments

Formula 1: The super-fast net driving teams to the podium

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28416855

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 59 comments
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