top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-09-07

Stop and Seize

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize/?hpid=z2

12 years ago

323 upvotes – 205 comments

Analyzing the FBI’s Explanation of How They Located Silk Road

https://www.nikcub.com/posts/analyzing-fbi-explanation-silk-road/

12 years ago

319 upvotes – 121 comments

Al-Jazari

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jazari

12 years ago

286 upvotes – 122 comments

Modernizing “less”

http://garrett.damore.org/2014/09/modernizing-less.html

12 years ago

271 upvotes – 89 comments

Notes on XKCD's “Pixels”

http://chromakode.com/post/notes-on-xkcd-pixels

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 56 comments

Why I like Common Lisp

http://p-cos.blogspot.com/2014/09/why-i-like-common-lisp.html

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 178 comments

The Man Behind the World's Smallest V-12 Engine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1pJIVqCC1E

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 38 comments

Moto 360 review – Beautiful outside, ugly inside

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/moto-360-review-beautiful-outside-ugly-inside/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 121 comments

OkCupid’s Unblushing Analyst of Attraction

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/technology/okcupids-unblushing-analyst-of-attraction.html

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 84 comments

Correlation is usually not causation. But why not?

http://www.gwern.net/Causality

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 71 comments

Civil Forfeiture: How prosecutors seize the assets of the innocent (2013)

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21588915-how-prosecutors-seize-assets-innocent-grabbing-hand-law

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

Bypassing a Python sandbox by abusing code objects

http://pbiernat.blogspot.com/2014/09/bypassing-python-sandbox-by-abusing.html?m=1

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

uiGradients – Beautiful coloured gradients

http://uigradients.com/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 9 comments

BuzzFeed: An Open Letter to Ben Horowitz

http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/09/07/buzzfeed-an-open-letter-to-ben-horowitz/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 33 comments

Naval Charts

http://map.openseamap.org/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

Malawi app 'teaches UK pupils 18 months of maths in six weeks'

http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-29063614

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 56 comments

The Silk Road statement: Where are the packetlogs?

https://weev.livejournal.com/407404.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 98 comments

Experiments with Nimrod

http://ziotom78.blogspot.com/2014/01/experiments-with-nimrod.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

A new foundation for mathematics

https://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/09/new-foundation-mathematics

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Measuring the Impact of the .NET Garbage Collector

http://mattwarren.org/2014/06/18/measuring-the-impact-of-the-net-garbage-collector/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments
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