top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-16

Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

https://www.gifyoutube.com/watch?v=ZlOsu870j8E

12 years ago

Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html?showComment=1408137721125

12 years ago

The Python I Would Like To See

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/8/16/the-python-i-would-like-to-see/

12 years ago

George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940)

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmBhYakPbYtT3k5cDd4Sm1SRUE/edit

12 years ago

Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (2012)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/12/18/10378851.aspx

12 years ago

Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse

http://www.forharriet.com/2014/08/georgia-teens-develop-app-to-document.html

12 years ago

The secret life of SIM cards (2013)

http://simhacks.github.io/defcon-21/

12 years ago

Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/cell-phone-guide-protesters-updated-2014-edition

12 years ago

VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

http://vimr.org/

12 years ago

A Leica T Review

http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/leica-t

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U.S. firm helped the spyware industry build a digital weapon for sale overseas

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/spyware-tools-allow-buyers-to-slip-malicious-code-into-youtube-videos-microsoft-pages/2014/08/15/31c5696c-249c-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html

12 years ago

Yubari, Japan: a city learns how to die

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/aug/15/yubari-japan-city-learns-die-lost-population-detroit

12 years ago

3D Printed Sugar

http://the-sugar-lab.com

12 years ago

Python-ftfy: Given Unicode text, make its representation possibly less broken

https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/python-ftfy

12 years ago

★ 4k Python

A Chinese Man, a $50 Billion Plan and a Canal to Reshape Nicaragua

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/08/14/340402716/nicaragua-banks-on-its-own-canal-to-boost-economy

12 years ago

Senator Wyden: Your data’s yours no matter on whose server it lives

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/15/sen-wyden-your-datas-yours-no-matter-on-whose-server-it-lives/

12 years ago

Photos of the Commodore production line in Hong Kong

http://dustlayer.com/blog/2014/8/16/lost-treasures-the-commodore-production-line-in-hong-kong

12 years ago

Ask HN: Experienced dev having career lull

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8185503

12 years ago

Option Monads in Rust

http://www.hoverbear.org/2014/08/12/Option-Monads-in-Rust/

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DataRobot raises $21M Series A

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/08/15/datarobot-run-by-worlds-top-data-scientists-raises-21m-series-a/

12 years ago