top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-18

We have C++14

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

12 years ago

426 upvotes – 342 comments

Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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

12 years ago

317 upvotes – 23 comments

Java 9 features announced

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

12 years ago

298 upvotes – 220 comments

Mitch Hedberg and GIS

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

12 years ago

265 upvotes – 55 comments

The Anti-Facebook

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

12 years ago

258 upvotes – 164 comments

Show HN: Satellizer – Authentication for AngularJS

http://github.com/sahat/satellizer

12 years ago

★ 7.8k TypeScript MIT
221 upvotes – 34 comments

Introducing Rec Room

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

12 years ago

200 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Scraperjs – A versatile web scraper

https://github.com/ruipgil/scraperjs

12 years ago

★ 3.7k JavaScript MIT
192 upvotes – 36 comments

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

188 upvotes – 117 comments

UPower (YC S14) Is Building Nuclear Batteries

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

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 121 comments

TripIt insecurely broadcasts sensitive travel details in calendar feeds

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

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 68 comments

The Great Chinese Exodus

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

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 119 comments

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

150 upvotes – 60 comments

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

144 upvotes – 74 comments

Lorem Ipsum: Of Good and Evil, Google and China

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

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 28 comments

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

141 upvotes – 60 comments

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

140 upvotes – 68 comments

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

138 upvotes – 29 comments

Deconstructing Finnish

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

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 69 comments

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

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

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 21 comments

New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/learntomod/

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 49 comments

AAAS Blocking Access to the Scientific Literature When They Say It Is “Free”

http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2014/08/aaas-blocking-access-to-scientific.html?spref=tw

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 48 comments

Defcon Badge Walkthrough

http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/94565729529/defcon-22-badge-challenge-walkthrough

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 23 comments

Why does Numbers hide a huge PNG file in exported Excel sheets?

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/142356/why-does-numbers-hide-a-huge-png-file-in-exported-excel-sheets

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 25 comments

The new land of opportunity for immigrants is Germany

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-new-land-of-opportunity-for-immigrants-is-germany/2014/07/27/93464262-7eff-4931-817c-786db6d21ec8_story.html

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 87 comments

In Silicon Valley, Mergers Must Meet the Toothbrush Test

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/in-silicon-valley-mergers-must-meet-the-toothbrush-test/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 11 comments

Tomahawk – A meta source music player

http://www.tomahawk-player.org/index.html?1

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 45 comments

Who Made That Paintball?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/magazine/who-made-that-paintball.html

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 56 comments

PDP-11 Booting

http://trmm.net/PDP-11/Booting

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

The physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793346/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 22 comments

How to Define New Intrinsics in SBCL

http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2014/08/16/how-to-define-new-intrinsics-in-sbcl/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

Monk: The High Priest of Jazz (1964)

http://reprints.longform.org/monk-lapham#chapter-117307

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android

http://blog.madhukaraphatak.com/scala-for-android/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 145 comments

Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources

https://github.com/LewisJEllis/awesome-lua

12 years ago

★ 4.4k
86 upvotes – 38 comments

Assange 'to leave' Ecuador embassy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28834849

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 114 comments

Windows 8 Kernel Memory Protections Bypass

https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/2014/08/15/windows-8-kernel-memory-protections-bypass/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: A marketplace for client-side apps

https://eager.io/developer/features?n

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

US plans to require inter-vehicle communication technology in new cars

http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/NHTSA-issues-advanced-notice-of-proposed-rulemaking-on-V2V-communications

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 76 comments

Mypy – static type checking for Python 3

https://github.com/JukkaL/mypy

12 years ago

★ 20.3k Python
70 upvotes – 29 comments

Tech Talks

http://phatak-dev.github.io/techtalks/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 14 comments

C++11/14 Idioms I Use Every Day

http://seshbot.com/blog/2014/08/16/modern-c-plus-plus-idioms-i-use-every-day/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 59 comments

U.S. Army Techniques Publication 3-39.33: Civil Disturbances

https://publicintelligence.net/usarmy-civil-disturbances/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 38 comments

The Engineer of the Original Apple Mouse Talks About His Career

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-engineer-of-the-original-apple-mouse-talks-about-his-remarkable-career/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 13 comments

Deep Learning for NLP without Magic (2013)

http://www.socher.org/index.php/DeepLearningTutorial/DeepLearningTutorial

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

Craft Coffee’s Coffee DNA Project (YC S14)

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/18/craft-coffee/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Yeah, a Ruby video game framework

http://github.com/yeahrb/yeah/#readme

12 years ago

★ 479 Python
54 upvotes – 19 comments

Mature Optimization: An Introduction

http://carlos.bueno.org/optimization/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 14 comments

In-Line Images in Messages – Facebook Patent Application

https://www.google.com/patents/US20140101266

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 40 comments

Way.js – Simple two-way databinding

https://github.com/gwendall/way.js

12 years ago

★ 2.8k JavaScript
48 upvotes – 19 comments

Quandl – Find, Use and Share Numerical Data

http://www.quandl.com/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

JavaScript regular expressions

http://bjorn.tipling.com/state-and-regular-expressions-in-javascript

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

Low-Salt Diets May Pose Health Risks, Study Finds

http://online.wsj.com/articles/recommended-salt-levels-could-do-more-harm-than-good-study-suggests-1407964274?mod=WSJ_article_EditorsPicks

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 45 comments

A Primer on the Doomsday Argument

http://www.anthropic-principle.com/?q=anthropic_principle/doomsday_argument

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 56 comments

Scan the Internet and Screenshot All the Things

http://w00tsec.blogspot.com/2014/08/scan-internet-screenshot-all-things.html

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments

The Anti-Uber Way of Disrupting Transportation, Politely

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-15/the-anti-uber-way-of-disrupting-transportation-politely.html

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 62 comments
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