top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-23

Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

12 years ago

749 upvotes – 93 comments

On bananas and string matching algorithms

http://www.wabbo.org/blog/2014/22aug_on_bananas.html

12 years ago

260 upvotes – 62 comments

USBCondom

https://www.crowdsupply.com/xipiter/usbcondom

12 years ago

247 upvotes – 92 comments

Deep Learning: An MIT Press book in preparation

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/dlbook/

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 39 comments

Chromecast Rooted

http://forum.xda-developers.com/hardware-hacking/chromecast/root-hubcap-chromecast-root-release-t2855893

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 101 comments

Julia 0.3 released

http://julialang.org/blog/2014/08/julia-0.3-release/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 50 comments

Project Gitenberg

http://gitenberg.github.io/

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 72 comments

There’s a simple alternative to the current web

http://hapgood.us/2014/08/14/the-web-is-broken-and-we-should-fix-it/

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 143 comments

SpaceX rocket explodes during testing over Texas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28910812

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: Terra, a JS framework for cellular automata and biological simulations

http://rileyjshaw.com/terra/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

Why do all code editors look the same?

https://medium.com/@jviereck/43de0df2daed

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 54 comments

What is a Hacker? (1985)

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 29 comments

How I work as a digital nomad

http://typicalprogrammer.com/how-i-work-as-a-digital-nomad/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 111 comments

NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies (2013)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 40 comments

Dark net drug markets kept alive by great customer service

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-08/21/buying-drugs-on-the-dark-net

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 66 comments

The state of Android updates: Who’s fast, who’s slow, and why

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/the-state-of-android-updates-whos-fast-whos-slow-and-why/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 30 comments

Lessons from the Novena laptop project

http://lwn.net/Articles/608426/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Cupertino.js – A JavaScript to Cocoa compiler and runtime

https://github.com/jerrymarino/cupertinojs

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 23 comments

The Look of Funny: How the Onion's Art Department Works

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3033865/the-look-of-funny-how-the-onions-art-department-work

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 4 comments

Student’s six-foot water and solar-powered lens purifies polluted water

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2014/08/015.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 45 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments