top 50% 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

Drone-based businesses soar in Canada, as FAA grounds US entrepreneurs

https://gigaom.com/2014/09/12/drone-based-businesses-soar-in-canada-as-faa-grounds-us-entrepreneurs/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

Full Draft of the Rails Tutorial 3rd Ed

http://news.railstutorial.org/rails_tutorial_full_draft/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 13 comments

Lift Labs joins Google X

https://plus.google.com/u/0/100524715026356408787/posts/7BrxcW4ovua

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

Brain 'can classify words during sleep'

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29166466#

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Hypermasher – Live streaming of Hyperlapse videos

http://www.hypermasher.com

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 32 comments

Morte: an intermediate language for super-optimizing functional programs

http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/09/morte-intermediate-language-for-super.html

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

How Matt's Machine Works

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3035463/how-matts-machine-works

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments

ComcastifyJS – Sometimes images just load too damned fast

https://theonion.github.io/comcastifyjs/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: How to Annoy Your Coworkers for $42 Using ClojureScript and Rust

https://wit.ai/blog/2014/09/12/office-automation-with-raspberry-pi

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

Is Borges the 20th Century’s most important writer?

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140902-the-20th-centurys-best-writer

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 51 comments

Elixir Users' Survey 2014

http://blog.elixirsips.com/2014/09/12/elixir-users-survey-2014/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Hacker Experience – Online hacking simulation game

https://hackerexperience.com/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

Last day to apply for Startup School

http://blog.ycombinator.com/last-day-to-apply-for-startup-school

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 13 comments

What does randomness look like? (2012)

http://www.wired.com/2012/12/what-does-randomness-look-like/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

How a determined scientist taught an ancient species to migrate again (2013)

http://nautil.us/issue/3/in-transit/the-new-flight-of-the-ibis?utm_source=tss&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=linkfrom

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 1 comments

At the Uber for home cleaning, workers pay a price for convenience

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/10/at-the-uber-for-home-cleaning-workers-pay-a-price-for-convenience/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 94 comments

Announcing Apache Spark 1.1

http://databricks.com/blog/2014/09/11/announcing-spark-1-1.html

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: What are you building?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8306896

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 123 comments

Don’t Take Your Vitamins

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dont-take-your-vitamins/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 66 comments

German court requires Google to stop ignoring customer emails

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2605999/legal/german-court-requires-google-to-stop-ignoring-customer-emails.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 71 comments

What did Windows 3.1 do when you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/09/12/10557431.aspx

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

SanDisk SD memory card 'largest ever'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29175093

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 72 comments
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