top 50% 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

1013 upvotes – 331 comments

Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official

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

12 years ago

475 upvotes – 249 comments

Unknown orange-red glow over Pacific Ocean

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

12 years ago

366 upvotes – 115 comments

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

356 upvotes – 88 comments

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

257 upvotes – 107 comments

Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart

http://www.hitbox.tv/notch

12 years ago

229 upvotes – 143 comments

Why Working at Google Is Not My Dream Job Anymore

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

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 184 comments

Applications for YC W15 are open

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

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 89 comments

How the Napa Earthquake Affected Bay Area Sleepers

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

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 108 comments

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

184 upvotes – 102 comments

Dylan: the harsh realities of the market

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

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 118 comments

Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C

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

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 47 comments

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

154 upvotes – 70 comments

Are Courses Outdated? MIT Considers Offering ‘Modules’ Instead

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/are-courses-outdated-mit-considers-offering-modules-instead

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 52 comments

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

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

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 73 comments

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

http://GoReturnMe.com

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 88 comments

Chaos Computer Club Supports Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden

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

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 51 comments

On the foolishness of “natural language programming”

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

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 152 comments

News Feed FYI: Click-baiting

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

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 50 comments

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

130 upvotes – 130 comments

What's new in Git 2.1

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/08/whats-new-git-2-1/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 31 comments

Sony PlayStation Network and other game services attacked

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28925052

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 35 comments

Catch: A modern, C++-native, header-only, framework for unit tests

https://github.com/philsquared/Catch

12 years ago

★ 20.3k C++ BSL-1.0
95 upvotes – 30 comments

What Tesla owners are doing while you sleep

http://blog.opower.com/2014/07/this-is-what-tesla-owners-are-doing-while-you-sleep/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 78 comments

Docker and VMWare

https://blog.docker.com/2014/08/docker-vmware-1-1-3/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 73 comments

Turn Node Applications into Executables

http://jxcore.com/turn-node-applications-into-executables/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 9 comments

The Secret World of Fast Fashion

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/business-economics/secret-world-slow-road-korea-los-angeles-behind-fast-fashion-73956/?Src=longreads

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments

US to Stop Using Soyuz Spacecraft, Invest in Domestic Private Space Industry

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/US_to_Stop_Using_Soyuz_Spacecraft_Invest_in_Domestic_Private_Space_Industry_999.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments

MakeDrive: Filesystem for the web

http://blog.humphd.org/introducing-makedrive/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Find longtail keywords with low SEO competition

http://kwfinder.com/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

The Case for Buying Technical Books

http://blog.jayfields.com/2014/08/the-case-for-buying-technical-books.html

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

The Loss of Skill in the Industrial Revolution

http://growthecon.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/the-loss-of-skill-in-the-industrial-revolution/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Lessons I learned on the road as a Digital Nomad

https://medium.com/@noeltock/the-nomad-way-of-work-f638a11a02ff

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

Could You See the Curvature of the Earth in This Airport?

http://www.wired.com/2014/03/see-curvature-earth-airport/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 35 comments

For sale: Systems that can track where cellphone users go around the globe

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/for-sale-systems-that-can-secretly-track-where-cellphone-users-go-around-the-globe/2014/08/24/f0700e8a-f003-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html?hpid=z1

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments

Inside Canadian cyber-security agency’s 'target the world' strategy

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-landmark-file-inside-canadian-cyber-security-agencys-target-the-world-strategy/article20179786/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 3 comments

Twitch officially acquired by Amazon

http://www.twitch.tv/p/thankyou

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Programming with Managed Time: Essay and Videos

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/managedtime.aspx?2

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Update on the New York Attorney General’s Investigation

http://publicpolicy.airbnb.com/new-york-community-update/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 49 comments

The Kennewick Man Finally Freed to Share His Secrets

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/history/kennewick-man-finally-freed-share-his-secrets-180952462/?all

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality

http://www.theverge.com/a/virtual-reality

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Sage Math Cloud

http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2014/08/what-is-sagemathcloud-lets-clear-some.html

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

HubSpot files for $100M IPO

http://betaboston.com/news/2014/08/25/hubspot-files-paperwork-for-its-initial-public-offering-of-stock/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 30 comments

Marijuana Law Mayhem Splits U.S. In Two as Travelers Get Busted

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-22/marijuana-law-mayhem-splits-u-s-in-two-as-travelers-get-busted.html

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 75 comments

San Francisco Open Exchange (YC S14) Aims to Be the E-Trade of Bitcoin

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/23/san-francisco-open-exchange-aims-to-be-the-e-trade-of-bitcoin/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

Its Edge Intact, Vice Is Chasing Hard News

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/business/media/its-edge-intact-vice-is-chasing-hard-news-.html?ref=media

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 19 comments

Teaching machines to read between the lines

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/08/teaching-machines-to-read-between-lines.html

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 0 comments

So Long, and Thanks for All the Checkins

http://locationplay.blogspot.com/2014/08/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-checkins-or.html

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

http://www.newstatesman.com/business/2013/07/late-capitalism-and-ends-sleep-jonathan-crary-sleep-standing-affront-capitalism

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 52 comments

Scumblr and Sketchy – Search, Screenshot, and Reclaim the Internet

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/08/announcing-scumblr-and-sketchy-search.html

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

Linux Debuggers for C++ Reviewed

http://www.drdobbs.com/testing/13-linux-debuggers-for-c-reviewed/240156817?pgno=1

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments
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