top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-22

Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp

https://bellingcat.com/resources/case-studies/2014/08/22/gun-safety-self-defense-and-road-marches-finding-an-isis-training-camp/

12 years ago

547 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL

https://github.com/fastmonkeys/stellar

12 years ago

★ 3.8k Python MIT
325 upvotes – 77 comments

Announcing Calibre 2.0

http://blog.calibre-ebook.com/2014/08/announcing-calibre-20.html

12 years ago

275 upvotes – 98 comments

Why I'll Never Tell My Son He's Smart

https://www.khanacademy.org/about/blog/post/95208400815/the-learning-myth-why-ill-never-tell-my-son-hes

12 years ago

266 upvotes – 64 comments

Hard Science About Diet

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/what-makes-us-fat

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 229 comments

Lego Calendar

http://www.lego-calendar.com/long-description/

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 36 comments

Docker 1.2.0, with restart policies

https://blog.docker.com/2014/08/announcing-docker-1-2-0/

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 72 comments

Next-Gen Lighting Is Pushing the Limits of Realism

http://kotaku.com/next-gen-lighting-is-pushing-the-limits-of-realism-1625324795?

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 69 comments

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 43 comments

We are being sued for refusing to take down a website

http://blog.easydns.org/2014/08/22/we-are-being-sued-for-refusing-to-takedown-a-website/

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 26 comments

Silent Teacher – A game to learn how to code

http://silentteacher.toxicode.fr/

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: ZipLocate, a free API for zip code geolocation

http://ziplocate.us/

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 55 comments

Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All

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

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 93 comments

Google's fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329832.700-googles-factchecking-bots-build-vast-knowledge-bank.html?full=true

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 83 comments

The Evolution of Roller Coaster Tycoon (1999)

http://www.nicscorner.com/evo_of_rct.htm

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 16 comments

D for the Win

http://tomerfiliba.com/blog/dlang/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 102 comments

What China wants

http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21609649-china-becomes-again-worlds-largest-economy-it-wants-respect-it-enjoyed-centuries-past-it-does-not

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 42 comments

Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms

http://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/2014/08/pakistan-is-a-finfisher-customer-leak-confirms/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 25 comments

PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer

https://dalibo.github.io/powa/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 14 comments

Oregon sues Oracle, claiming fraud over failed Obamacare website

http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-sues-oracle-claiming-fraud-over-failed-obamacare-213323763--finance.html

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 57 comments
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