top 50% 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

Where We Came From, State by State

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/upshot/where-people-in-each-state-were-born.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LargeMediaHeadlineSum&module=photo-spot-region&region=photo-spot&WT.nav=photo-spot

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 27 comments

Thousand-robot swarm self-assembles into arbitrary shapes

http://robohub.org/thousand-robot-swarm-self-assembles-into-arbitrary-shapes/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 47 comments

Bitcoin August 14 Flash Crash

https://www.coinprices.io/articles/news/bitcoin-price-update-aug-14-flash-crash

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 63 comments

Introducing Yahoo Stores

http://yahoosmallbusiness.tumblr.com/post/94721026441/introducing-yahoo-stores-turn-your-idea-into-a

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 48 comments

Netflix Open Connect Content Delivery Network

https://www.netflix.com/openconnect

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 82 comments

The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing

http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Emulator-Backed Remakes, a new way to make classic game remakes

http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/remakes.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 51 comments

Ferguson or Iraq? Photos Unmask the Militarization of America's Police

http://mashable.com/2014/08/13/ferguson-police-protests-vs-iraq/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 94 comments

The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on Conversations

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/gyroscope-listening-hack/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

MicroPython – Python for microcontroller

https://micropython.org/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

Srclib: A polyglot code analysis library

https://srclib.org/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 32 comments

The first year of Coverity Linux kernel scans

http://codemonkey.org.uk/2014/08/13/year-coverity-linux-kernel-scans/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments

A Rust curiosity: pointers to zero-sized types

http://www.wabbo.org/blog/2014/03aug_09aug.html

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 47 comments

The Global Fossil Record

http://d2fn.com/2014/08/13/global-fossil-record.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

Why Can't the United States Build a High-Speed Rail System?

http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/08/why-cant-the-united-states-build-a-high-speed-rail-system/375980/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 124 comments

Postcards From the Edge of Consciousness

http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/postcards-from-the-edge-of-consciousness

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

CopyCat: Protocol-agnostic implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm

http://github.com/kuujo/copycat

12 years ago

★ 2.3k Go Apache-2.0
61 upvotes – 15 comments

Should holiday email be deleted?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28786117

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 71 comments

Ask HN: What's Paul Graham been up to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8176016

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demands-for-rigor/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

10k active government users on GitHub

https://github.com/blog/1874-government-opens-up-10k-active-government-users-on-github

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Play-tag, an iBeacon dog collar

http://play-tag.com

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 47 comments

Seychelles is an offshore magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers

http://www.icij.org/offshore/sun-and-shadows-how-island-paradise-became-haven-dirty-money

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 39 comments

30 US Companies Said To Be Violating EU Data Transfer Deal

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/14/safe-harbour-cdd-ftc-complaint/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

Deploy multiple ASP.NET web apps to a single AWS instance

https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Deploy-Multiple-Sites-to-single-AWS-Instance

12 years ago

★ 5.4k C#
47 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Dweet.io – Twitter for machines, now with alerts

http://buglabs.tumblr.com/post/94633748906/dweet-tm-now-with-real-time-alerts-and-notifications

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments
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