577
181
Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
https://www.gifyoutube.com/watch?v=ZlOsu870j8E
12 years ago
390
309
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
327
82
The Python I Would Like To See
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/8/16/the-python-i-would-like-to-see/
305
240
George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940)
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmBhYakPbYtT3k5cDd4Sm1SRUE/edit
230
67
Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (2012)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/12/18/10378851.aspx
229
50
Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse
http://www.forharriet.com/2014/08/georgia-teens-develop-app-to-document.html
225
43
The secret life of SIM cards (2013)
http://simhacks.github.io/defcon-21/
170
61
Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/cell-phone-guide-protesters-updated-2014-edition
164
63
VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X
http://vimr.org/
122
102
A Leica T Review
http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/leica-t
110
18
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
109
53
Yubari, Japan: a city learns how to die
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/aug/15/yubari-japan-city-learns-die-lost-population-detroit
105
35
3D Printed Sugar
http://the-sugar-lab.com
101
40
Python-ftfy: Given Unicode text, make its representation possibly less broken
https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/python-ftfy
★ 4k Python – 12 years ago
97
56
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
96
22
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/
9
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
85
72
Ask HN: Experienced dev having career lull
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8185503
83
57
Option Monads in Rust
http://www.hoverbear.org/2014/08/12/Option-Monads-in-Rust/
81
8
DataRobot raises $21M Series A
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/08/15/datarobot-run-by-worlds-top-data-scientists-raises-21m-series-a/
78
55
Ask HN: Ways to increase mental sharpness or intelligence?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8186633
75
7
Faster Python calls in Cython 0.21
http://blog.behnel.de/posts/faster-python-calls-in-cython-021.html
73
Codeworld: An open-source educational programming environment using Haskell
https://github.com/google/codeworld
★ 1.2k Haskell Apache-2.0– 12 years ago
65
12
NSA Observer
https://www.nsa-observer.net/
62
10
Firejail – Simple Linux sandbox with seccomp
http://l3net.wordpress.com/projects/firejail/
4
Octo: CHIP-8 retro game programming in the browser
http://johnearnest.github.io/Octo/
60
38
Half of a Coin: Negative Probabilities [pdf]
http://www.wilmott.com/pdfs/100609_gjs.pdf
59
23
How my startup got to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News
https://levels.io/product-hunt-hacker-news-number-one/
Inside The Making Of The New “Dungeons and Dragons”
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034062/designing-the-new-dungeons-dragons
33
ColorRun – Simple browser game about colors
http://colorrun.pl
37
Show HN: EmailPK – Instant encrypted email
https://diafygi.github.io/emailpk/
49
48
The Happiest Regions in the U.S.
http://priceonomics.com/the-happiest-regions-in-america/
1
OCaml: Polymorphism
https://haifengl.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/ocaml-polymorphism/
47
44
18 and hopeless
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8186090
46
0
Electron spin changes as a mechanism for general anesthesia?
http://phys.org/news/2014-08-electron-mechanism-anesthesia.html
17
Washington Post adds Amazon buy-it-now links inside articles
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/what-divisive-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-cover-says-about-books-and-readers/2014/08/15/23163b8a-219a-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html
32
Missed Approach: FAA Says Flytenow Go-around (YC S14)
http://blog.flytenow.com/missed-approach-faa-says-flytenow-go-around
15
Body Cameras on Police Can Reduce Use of Force Citizen Complaints
http://online.wsj.com/articles/body-cameras-on-police-can-reduce-use-of-force-citizen-complaints-1408134549
42
5
Classy: Expressive, flexible, and powerful stylesheets for native iOS apps
http://classy.as/
31
It Takes a New Kind of Worker to Make “Instant” Happen
http://recode.net/2014/08/05/it-takes-a-new-kind-of-worker-to-make-instant-happen/
41
Fundamental RPGology
http://rpgmaker.net/events/rpgology/
