top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-18

We have C++14

http://isocpp.org/blog/2014/08/we-have-cpp14

12 years ago

Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~stevenha/visualization/index.html

12 years ago

Java 9 features announced

http://jaxenter.com/java-9-features-announced-50896.html

12 years ago

Mitch Hedberg and GIS

http://njgeo.org/2014/01/30/mitch-hedberg-and-gis/

12 years ago

The Anti-Facebook

http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/18/6030393/nextdoor-private-social-network-40000-neighborhoods

12 years ago

Show HN: Satellizer – Authentication for AngularJS

http://github.com/sahat/satellizer

12 years ago

★ 7.8k TypeScript MIT

Introducing Rec Room

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/08/time-to-get-hacking-introducing-rec-room/

12 years ago

Show HN: Scraperjs – A versatile web scraper

https://github.com/ruipgil/scraperjs

12 years ago

★ 3.7k JavaScript MIT

Why Do We Say “Big Red Barn,” But “Red Big Barn” Sounds Wrong?

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_good_word/2014/08/the_study_of_adjective_order_and_gsssacpm.single.html

12 years ago

UPower (YC S14) Is Building Nuclear Batteries

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/18/yc-backed-upower-is-building-nuclear-batteries/

12 years ago

TripIt insecurely broadcasts sensitive travel details in calendar feeds

http://httpshaming.tumblr.com/post/94950343491/tripit-insecurely-broadcasts-sensitive-travel-details

12 years ago

The Great Chinese Exodus

http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-great-chinese-exodus-1408120906

12 years ago

The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Adam Carolla’s Settlement with Podcasting Troll

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/good-bad-and-ugly-adam-carollas-settlement-podcasting-troll

12 years ago

KDE Plasma 5

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/kde-plasma-5-for-those-linux-users-undecided-on-the-kernels-future/

12 years ago

Lorem Ipsum: Of Good and Evil, Google and China

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/lorem-ipsum-of-good-evil-google-china/

12 years ago

For ‘Big Data’ Scientists, Hurdle to Insights Is ‘Janitor Work’

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/technology/for-big-data-scientists-hurdle-to-insights-is-janitor-work.html?hpw&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

12 years ago

The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/the-spy-who-loved-me-2

12 years ago

A Unified Mathematical Language for Physics and Engineering (1996) [pdf]

http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~clifford/publications/ps/dll_millen.pdf

12 years ago

Deconstructing Finnish

http://borealexpat.blogspot.com/2014/08/deconstructing-finnish.html

12 years ago

A surge of p-values between 0.040 and 0.049 in recent decades [pdf]

https://peerj.com/preprints/447v3.pdf

12 years ago