top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-19

Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

http://limetext.org/

12 years ago

Maps of the Roman Empire

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/19/5942585/40-maps-that-explain-the-roman-empire?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=ezraklein&utm_content=tuesday

12 years ago

Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/aug14/08-19steveb.aspx

12 years ago

Amit's Game Programming Information

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html

12 years ago

Seneca: On the Shortness of Life

http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/seneca_younger/brev_e.html

12 years ago

XKCD “Time” Wins Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story

http://www.thehugoawards.org/2014/08/2014-hugo-award-winners/

12 years ago

NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub

https://github.com/TheUpshot/Military-Surplus-Gear

12 years ago

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The 1,000-hour rule (2009)

http://www.pgbovine.net/1000-hour-rule.htm

12 years ago

WRTnode Opened for $25

http://wrtnode.com/

12 years ago

High Performance Map Interactions Using HTML5 Canvas

http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/high-performance-map-interactions-using-html5-canvas/

12 years ago

Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android

http://engineering.columbia.edu/sync-columbia-engineering-team-first-run-ios-apps-android-platform

12 years ago

The S in Rest

http://teddziuba.github.io/2014/08/18/the-s-in-rest/

12 years ago

China's Underground Wholesale Markets

http://www.youngmoneychina.com/2014/08/the-truth-behind-chinas-underground-wholesale-markets/

12 years ago

California “Kill Switch” Bill Could Be Used to Disrupt Protests

https://cdt.org/blog/california-kill-switch-bill-could-be-used-to-disrupt-protests/

12 years ago

Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load

http://gcaptain.com/watch-triple-e-leaves-port-with-world-record-load/

12 years ago

Why doesn't Sandstorm just run Docker apps?

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-19-why-not-run-docker-apps.html

12 years ago

YC Demo Day Session 1

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/yc-demo-day-session-1-gingko-bioworks-bikanta-checkr-walksource-cleartax-and-more/

12 years ago

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Raising Money at a Valuation Approaching $10B

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/spacex/

12 years ago

Intellectual Ventures cuts 140 employees from its patent-buying workforce

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/nathan-myhrvolds-intellectual-ventures-cuts-fifth-patent-buying-workforce/

12 years ago

Fixing Bad Data in Datomic

http://blog.datomic.com/2014/08/stuff-happens-fixing-bad-data-in-datomic.html

12 years ago