top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-08

Gravity Simulator

http://www.nowykurier.com/toys/gravity/gravity.html

12 years ago

467 upvotes – 131 comments

JSON Web Tokens

http://jwt.io/?

12 years ago

467 upvotes – 74 comments

All About Circuits

http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/

12 years ago

447 upvotes – 42 comments

Why Google is Hurrying the Web to Kill SHA-1

https://konklone.com/post/why-google-is-hurrying-the-web-to-kill-sha-1

12 years ago

423 upvotes – 131 comments

Exploding Offers Suck

http://blog.ycombinator.com/exploding-offers-suck

12 years ago

414 upvotes – 169 comments

Show HN: CloudTunes

https://github.com/jakubroztocil/cloudtunes

12 years ago

★ 2.5k CoffeeScript
307 upvotes – 91 comments

The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/

12 years ago

293 upvotes – 178 comments

CLion, the new C/C++ IDE from JetBrains

http://www.jetbrains.com/clion/

12 years ago

289 upvotes – 146 comments

Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (2010)

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/a-new-type-of-phishing-attack/

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Creddle – Paper-friendly web resumes

http://creddle.io

12 years ago

225 upvotes – 111 comments

Writing Extensions for Firefox Is Barely Worth the Trouble

http://omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/09/08/writing-extensions-for-firefox-is-barely-worth-the-trouble/

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 79 comments

Emscripten and asm.js: C++'s role in the modern web

http://kripken.github.io/mloc_emscripten_talk/cppcon.html#/

12 years ago

183 upvotes – 96 comments

Shout – A web IRC client

https://github.com/erming/shout

12 years ago

★ 3.5k JavaScript MIT
177 upvotes – 103 comments

Stories from our first two years

http://exposure.watsi.org/watsi-turns-two

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 34 comments

Building Pulse and Bloom, an interactive biofeedback installation at Burning Man

http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2014/09/6/building-pulse-bloom-biofeedback-burning-man-2014/

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 24 comments

Taming the Asynchronous Beast with CSP in JavaScript

http://jlongster.com/Taming-the-Asynchronous-Beast-with-CSP-in-JavaScript

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 29 comments

A shallow survey of formal methods for C code

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/09/07/provers.html

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 16 comments

Testing a way for you to make purchases on Twitter

https://blog.twitter.com/2014/testing-a-way-for-you-to-make-purchases-on-twitter

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 118 comments

Build a browser engine part 5: Box model and layout tree

http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2014/09/08/toy-layout-engine-5-boxes.html

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 0 comments

HTML5 Gravity/Galaxy Simulator

http://mobile.sheridanc.on.ca/~claassen/Gravity/Gravity.html

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 20 comments

PayPal’s Braintree Embraces Bitcoin, One-Touch Payments

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/08/paypal-braintree/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 128 comments

Pricenoia shuts down

http://pricenoia.tumblr.com/post/96524879555

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 45 comments

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

http://www.ctlab.org/documents/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fail.pdf

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 16 comments

Intel Xeon E5 v3: Up to 18 Haswell EP Cores

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8423/intel-xeon-e5-version-3-up-to-18-haswell-ep-cores-

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 60 comments

Koinify: The Future of Crypto Crowd Funding

http://koinify.com/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 13 comments

A Story about Losing

http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/2014/09/07/a-story-about-losing/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

The Home Depot confirms payment systems breach

http://ir.homedepot.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=63646&p=irol-SECText&TEXT=aHR0cDovL2FwaS50ZW5rd2l6YXJkLmNvbS9maWxpbmcueG1sP2lwYWdlPTk3OTYwNDImRFNFUT0wJlNFUT0wJlNRREVTQz1TRUNUSU9OX0VOVElSRSZzdWJzaWQ9NTc%3d

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 108 comments

Scots, What the Heck?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/opinion/paul-krugman-scots-what-the-heck.html?_r=1

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 126 comments

Breaking up with America

http://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2014/09/breaking-up-with-america.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 82 comments

Xen and Docker: Made for Each Other

http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2014/09/08/xen-docker-made-for-each-other/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=xen-docker-made-for-each-other&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

SICL – A fresh implementation of Common Lisp

https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL

12 years ago

★ 1.1k TeX
77 upvotes – 49 comments

We Owe It All to the Hippies (1995)

http://members.aye.net/~hippie/hippie/special_.htm

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 63 comments

Snowden could be granted asylum in Switzerland in order to testify against NSA

http://www.rferl.org/content/snowden-switzerland-asylum-russia/26572192.html

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 49 comments

Enigmail did not encrypt email to recipients

http://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/forum/support/thread/3e7268a4/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 32 comments

The GNU C Library version 2.20

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2014-09/msg00003.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

GNUzilla and IceCat

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 41 comments

Why You Shouldn't Ask Us to Sign Your NDA

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/09/08/nda-stifle-creativity/#.VA2z0dDm4CI.hackernews

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 54 comments

Java Optimizations and the JMM

http://playingwithpointers.com/optimizations-and-the-jmm.html

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 5 comments

How to Succeed in Silicon Valley Without Really Trying (YC S12)

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119350/amicus-app-how-tech-investors-are-failing-due-diligence

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 2 comments

Google Driverless Car – The Obstacle Detection Unit

http://greybmusings.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/google-driverless-car-the-obstacle-detection-unit/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 87 comments

Map Your Google Location History

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/chrisalbon/code_py/blob/master/matplotlib_map_your_google_data.ipynb

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

TRS-80 Emulator in Go

http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/projects/trs80_emulator/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Cotopaxi – Gear for Good

http://www.cotopaxi.com

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

Mobile trends, web and native

http://www.slideshare.net/robnyman/mobile-trends-web-native

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 25 comments

Amicus (YC S12) Cofounder's Thoughts on New Republic Article

http://blog.toppingdesign.com/2014/09/08/new-republic-article-on-amicus/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

On the Scottish independence referendum and the post-Westphalian settlement

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/09/the-referendum-question.html

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 95 comments

The Good, the Bad and the GUI

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2014-August/115586.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 46 comments

PullClean: Door handles as sanitizers

http://www.pullclean.com/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 56 comments
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