top 50% 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

The Typographic Programming Language

http://joshondesign.com/2014/08/22/typopl

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 73 comments

Layer cam

http://saladetomateoignon.com/Wordpress/layer-cam/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 70 comments

The legend of John von Neumann (1973)

http://stepanov.lk.net/mnemo/legende.html?hn

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 65 comments

Why I Left the Law (1997)

http://www.spectacle.org/797/law.html

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

DeLorean: Using Speculation to Enable Low-Latency Interaction for Cloud Gaming

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=226843

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 48 comments

Stalin: a global optimizing compiler for Scheme

https://github.com/barak/stalin

12 years ago

★ 401 C
85 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: λ Bubble Pop, an educational toy built using λ Lessons

http://chrisuehlinger.com/LambdaBubblePop/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 10 comments

International Lisp Conference 2014 Summary

http://www.cipht.net/2014/08/19/ilc2014.html

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

The Change My Son Brought, Seen Through Personal Data

http://flowingdata.com/2014/04/23/the-difference-a-data-point-makes/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

Programming Enchiladas: Sort-of gist for ClojureScript, Canvas, SVG experiments

http://programming-enchiladas.destructuring-bind.org/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 0 comments

Despite FAA Setbacks, Amazon Prime Air Makes Notable Hires

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/20/despite-faa-setbacks-amazon-prime-air-makes-notable-engineering-nasa-and-aerospace-hires/?utm_content=buffer15eaa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 51 comments

Walgreens Developer APIs

https://developer.walgreens.com/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

Kongregate founder tackles 'dark money' in political campaigns

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Tech-mogul-tackles-dark-money-in-political-5704914.php?cmpid=hp-hc-bustech#photo-6757075

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 41 comments

Downworthy: Browser plugin to tone down hyperbolic viral headlines

http://downworthy.snipe.net/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Ansiedit.js – Create ANSI art in the browser

http://andyherbert.github.io/ansiedit/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Google's Blockly Games

https://blockly-games.appspot.com

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

CUDA Pro Tip: Optimize for Pointer Aliasing

http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/cuda-pro-tip-optimize-pointer-aliasing/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Would you like to see notifications in HackerNews?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8212279

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 55 comments

Amazon Prepares Online Advertising Program

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/amazon-preps-a-challenge-to-googles-ad-business-1408747979-lMyQjAxMTA0MDIwMjEyNDIyWj

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

China's 1989 Choice: the Paradox of Seeking Wealth and Democracy

http://wilsonquarterly.com/stories/chinas-1989-choice-paradox-seeking-wealth-and-democracy/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 54 comments

MySQL: Why “My”?

http://www.vertabelo.com/blog/mysql-history

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Greenscreen, open source digital signage with Chromecast

http://greenscreen.io

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 19 comments

New Research Suggests Cancer Can't Be Eradicated

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/21/342012360/an-unstoppable-killer-new-research-suggests-cancer-cant-be-cured

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 42 comments

Software estimation considered harmful? (2011)

http://gigamonkeys.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/estimation-considered-harmful/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 55 comments

Scientists at Stanford develop water splitter that runs on ordinary AAA battery

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/august/splitter-clean-fuel-082014.html

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 61 comments
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