top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-09-12

Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/feds-yahoo-fine-prism/

12 years ago

784 upvotes – 237 comments

New Requests for Startups

http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

12 years ago

716 upvotes – 391 comments

Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

http://jiggity.com/steve.html

12 years ago

583 upvotes – 222 comments

Rust Guide

http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide.html

12 years ago

319 upvotes – 141 comments

Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/12/6138483/software-patents-are-crumbling-thanks-to-the-supreme-court

12 years ago

290 upvotes – 98 comments

Uber Drivers “Strike” and Switch to Lyft Over Fares and Conditions

http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-drivers-are-protesting?s=mobile

12 years ago

287 upvotes – 187 comments

Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups

https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/

12 years ago

280 upvotes – 174 comments

Doom

http://notch.net/2014/09/doom/

12 years ago

252 upvotes – 177 comments

A JPEG that becomes a PNG after AES encryption and a PDF after 3DES decryption

https://code.google.com/p/corkami/source/detail?r=1906

12 years ago

240 upvotes – 27 comments

Volumetric Particle Flow

http://david.li/flow/

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 35 comments

California deems carpooling via all ride-share services illegal

http://www.cnet.com/news/california-deems-all-ride-share-carpooling-services-illegal/

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 163 comments

Animated Algorithms

http://www.algomation.com/

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 34 comments

NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/september/nasa-s-mars-curiosity-rover-arrives-at-martian-mountain/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 13 comments

Awesome Node.js: Curated list of delightful Node.js packages

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs

12 years ago

★ 65.5k CC0-1.0
151 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Upmin – An Admin Framework for Ruby on Rails

https://www.upmin.com/admin-rails

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 52 comments

Peter Thiel: Competition is for losers

http://online.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStories

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 133 comments

TV monitoring service is fair use, judge rules

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/tv-monitoring-service-is-fair-use-judge-rules/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 34 comments

Does Diversity Trump Ability? An Example of the Misuse of Mathematics [pdf]

http://www.ams.org/notices/201409/rnoti-p1024.pdf

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 53 comments

A Star in a Bottle – The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bottle

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

Researchers claim hydrogen energy advance

http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_358595_en.html

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 29 comments
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