top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-25

Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

https://www.glasswire.com/

12 years ago

Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/25/amazon-will-officially-acquire-twitch/

12 years ago

Unknown orange-red glow over Pacific Ocean

http://www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/pacific_eruption

12 years ago

The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/08/25/icreach-nsa-cia-secret-google-crisscross-proton

12 years ago

Earthquake early-warning system gave 10-second alert before Napa quake felt

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lanow-ln-earthquake-earlywarning-system-gave-10second-alert-before-napa-quake-felt-20140824-story.html

12 years ago

Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart

http://www.hitbox.tv/notch

12 years ago

Why Working at Google Is Not My Dream Job Anymore

http://42gems.com/blog/?p=906

12 years ago

Applications for YC W15 are open

http://blog.ycombinator.com/applications-for-yc-w15-are-open

12 years ago

How the Napa Earthquake Affected Bay Area Sleepers

https://jawbone.com/blog/napa-earthquake-effect-on-sleep/

12 years ago

Judge Sentenced to 28 Years for Selling Kids to the Prison System (2013)

http://blog.blacknews.com/2013/05/judge-mark-ciavarella-sentenced-selling-kids-prison-system101.html?m=1#.U_tBa_mwIZ7

12 years ago

Dylan: the harsh realities of the market

http://logicaltypes.blogspot.com/2014/08/dylan-harsh-realities-of-market.html

12 years ago

Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C

http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~maplant2/gc.html

12 years ago

Three Congressmen Are Using Red Tape to Bind SpaceX to Earth

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/08/12/congress_and_spacex_red_tape_ties_up_private_space.html

12 years ago

Are Courses Outdated? MIT Considers Offering ‘Modules’ Instead

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/are-courses-outdated-mit-considers-offering-modules-instead

12 years ago

Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=167719

12 years ago

Show HN: I lose things constantly, so I built this service

http://GoReturnMe.com

12 years ago

Chaos Computer Club Supports Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden

http://ccc.de/en/updates/2014/snowden-manning

12 years ago

On the foolishness of “natural language programming”

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html

12 years ago

News Feed FYI: Click-baiting

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/08/news-feed-fyi-click-baiting/

12 years ago

What Should a 4 Year Old Know? (2010)

http://magicalchildhood.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/what-should-a-4-year-old-know/

12 years ago