top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-24

Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

12 years ago

★ 21.9k Python MIT

Pulling the Curtain on Airport Security [pdf]

http://xs-sniper.com/blackhat2014/BH2014-Billy-Rios.pdf

12 years ago

Gogs: a self-hosted Git Service written in Go

https://github.com/gogits/gogs

12 years ago

★ 47.4k Go MIT

Revenge of the Types

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/8/24/revenge-of-the-types/

12 years ago

6.0 Northern California earthquake

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72282711

12 years ago

Advanced objects in JavaScript

http://bjorn.tipling.com/advanced-objects-in-javascript

12 years ago

SHRDLU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU

12 years ago

Show HN: C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs

http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html

12 years ago

The Beauty of Roots (2011)

http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/roots/

12 years ago

Hyperlocal Mesh Networks

http://avc.com/2014/08/hyperlocal-mesh-networks/

12 years ago

The State of Oregon vs. Oracle [pdf]

http://www.oregon.gov/docs/082214_filing.pdf

12 years ago

Show HN: Play music by typing

http://benzguo.com/bayan

12 years ago

Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports

http://lwn.net/Articles/607091/

12 years ago

An Example of Forensic Science at Its Worst: US v. Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair

http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=3717

12 years ago

Inside the world of legalised prostitution in Germany

http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/projects/welcome-to-paradise/

12 years ago

OCaml on iOS 7 Released

http://psellos.com/2014/08/2014.08.ocamlxarm-402.html

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Show HN: Codeanywhere

https://codeanywhere.com

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On Machine Learning

http://bugra.github.io/work/notes/2014-08-23/on-machine-learning/

12 years ago

Whole organ 'grown' in world first

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28887087

12 years ago

DNS server that lets you look up EC2 instances by instance name

https://github.com/ConradIrwin/aws-name-server

12 years ago

★ 561 Go

The Beautiful Simplicity of ColorForth (2013)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashleyf/archive/2013/11/02/colorforth.aspx

12 years ago

Show HN: Macdown

https://github.com/uranusjr/macdown

12 years ago

★ 9.7k Rich Text Format

Using Emacs for Haskell development

https://github.com/serras/emacs-haskell-tutorial/blob/master/tutorial.md

12 years ago

★ 690 Emacs Lisp

Ageism in the Game Industry

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidMullich/20140822/223945/No_Consoles_For_Old_Men_Ageism_In_The_Game_Industry.php

12 years ago

Komanda: IRC Client For Developers

https://github.com/mephux/komanda

12 years ago

★ 1.7k JavaScript MIT

Native Responsive Images

http://dev.opera.com/articles/native-responsive-images/

12 years ago

Methane Is Discovered Seeping from Seafloor Off East Coast, Scientists Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/science/methane-is-seeping-from-seafloor-off-east-coast-scientists-say.html?ref=science

12 years ago

A Driving School in France Hits a Wall of Regulations

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/world/europe/a-driving-school-in-france-hits-a-wall-of-regulations.html

12 years ago

Pygal – A Python SVG Charts Creator

http://pygal.org/

12 years ago

Ask HN: How many HNers strongly prefer silence at home?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8218751

12 years ago

The U.S. government tried to rank colleges in 1911

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/6/5973653/the-federal-government-tried-to-rank-colleges-in-1911

12 years ago

Swift is a lot like Scala

https://leverich.github.io/swiftislikescala/

12 years ago

MIT study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/want-happy-worker-let-robots-take-control

12 years ago

Richard Attenborough dies aged 90

http://bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28923074

12 years ago

Obama orders review of US police use of military hardware

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/23/us-usa-missouri-shooting-militarization-idUSKBN0GN0O920140823

12 years ago

Show HN: Scratch – Share scratch-off photos

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scratching/id908000841?ls=1&mt=8

12 years ago

Behind the App: The Story of Alfred

http://lifehacker.com/behind-the-app-the-story-of-alfred-1624424125

12 years ago

The Parable of the Perfect Connection

https://blogs.janestreet.com/clearly-failing/

12 years ago

Exploring Racket for Computational Science

http://khinsen.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/exploring-racket/

12 years ago

Two Countries, Two Vastly Different Phone Bills

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/business/two-countries-two-vastly-different-phone-bills.html?emc=edit_th_20140824&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=67837012&_r=0

12 years ago

Shifts in Algorithm Design

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/shifts-in-algorithm-design/

12 years ago

Doom3 in Ada

https://plus.google.com/104228556547212920341/posts/CthXvwFKax7

12 years ago

Fields Medals 2014: the maths of Avila, Bhargava, Hairer, and Mirzakhani

http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2014/aug/13/fields-medals-2014-maths-avila-bhargava-hairer-mirzakhani?CMP=twt_gu

12 years ago

Japanese companies seek international graduates

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/world/asia/japanese-companies-seek-international-graduates.html?_r=0

12 years ago