top 50% 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

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

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

12 years ago

Al-Jazari

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

12 years ago

Modernizing “less”

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

12 years ago

Notes on XKCD's “Pixels”

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

12 years ago

Why I like Common Lisp

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

12 years ago

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

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

12 years ago

Moto 360 review – Beautiful outside, ugly inside

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

12 years ago

OkCupid’s Unblushing Analyst of Attraction

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

12 years ago

Correlation is usually not causation. But why not?

http://www.gwern.net/Causality

12 years ago

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

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

uiGradients – Beautiful coloured gradients

http://uigradients.com/

12 years ago

BuzzFeed: An Open Letter to Ben Horowitz

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

12 years ago

Naval Charts

http://map.openseamap.org/

12 years ago

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

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

12 years ago

The Silk Road statement: Where are the packetlogs?

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

12 years ago

Experiments with Nimrod

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

12 years ago

A new foundation for mathematics

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

12 years ago

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

CenturyLink Said to Seek to Acquire Rackspace Hosting

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-07/centurylink-said-to-seek-to-acquire-rackspace-hosting.html

12 years ago

Netflix and the Future of Television

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/03/outside-the-box-2

12 years ago

Show HN: My first app – The minimalist distance-based transit alarm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8280678

12 years ago

The Truth We Won't Admit: Drinking Is Healthy

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/truth-wont-admit-drinking-healthy-87891/#.VAuTE5vDzjI.twitter

12 years ago

Failing the Startup Game at Unbabel – Take 2

http://esoteric-code.blogspot.com/2014/09/failing-startup-game-at-unbabel-take-2.html

12 years ago

Mojang and the Bukkit Project

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/mojang-and-the-bukkit-project.309715/

12 years ago

Swift-X tool to cross compile Swift and Objective-C(++) code to Android

http://swift-x.org/?p=17

12 years ago

Linux Ftrace TCP Retransmit Tracing

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-09-06/linux-ftrace-tcp-retransmit-tracing.html

12 years ago

Reddit Just Banned the Subreddit Where People Were Posting Celebrity Nude Images

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fappening-has-been-banned-from-reddit-2014-9

12 years ago

Opposed-Piston Engine

http://www.achatespower.com/opposed-piston-engine.php

12 years ago

Town Becomes a Beer Ad, but Residents Don’t Feel Like a Party

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/us/colorado-town-prepares-to-become-beer-ad.html

12 years ago

The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization, Theory of Higher Brain Function (1978) [pdf]

http://homes.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/~mhelmsta/pdf/1978%20Mountcastle%20book.pdf

12 years ago

Why Google thinks you should drop everything you do and pick up Dart

http://video.coldfrontconf.com/video/10277729?source=share

12 years ago

Show HN: Recently started working on an open source data grid editor in JS/HTML

https://github.com/datazenit/sensei-grid/tree/master

12 years ago

★ 819 JavaScript MIT