top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-18

TXT Record XSS

http://who.is/dns/jamiehankins.co.uk

12 years ago

998 upvotes – 228 comments

Announcing Keyless SSL

http://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-keyless-ssl-all-the-benefits-of-cloudflare-without-having-to-turn-over-your-private-ssl-keys/

12 years ago

509 upvotes – 184 comments

Apple’s “warrant canary” disappears

https://gigaom.com/2014/09/18/apples-warrant-canary-disappears-suggesting-new-patriot-act-demands/

12 years ago

406 upvotes – 93 comments

Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests

http://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-requests/

12 years ago

278 upvotes – 204 comments

Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO

http://recode.net/2014/09/18/larry-ellison-will-step-down-as-ceo-of-oracle/

12 years ago

271 upvotes – 89 comments

Amazon releases new Kindle products

http://www.amazon.com/

12 years ago

238 upvotes – 194 comments

No, You Can’t Manufacture That Like Apple Does

https://medium.com/@bolt/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple-does-93bea02a3bbf

12 years ago

225 upvotes – 101 comments

Bad Notes on Venture Capital

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/09/17/bad-notes-on-venture-capital/

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 84 comments

Alibaba Raises $21.8B in Initial Public Offering

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/business/dealbook/alibaba-raises-218-billion-in-initial-public-offering.html

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 106 comments

Elixir v1.0.0 released

http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2014/09/18/elixir-v1-0-0-released/

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 54 comments

Ruby 2.2.0-preview1 Released

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/09/18/ruby-2.2.0-preview1-released/

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 33 comments

Sinquefield Cup: One of the most amazing feats in chess history

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2014/09/sinquefield_cup_one_of_the_most_amazing_feats_in_chess_history_just_happened.single.html

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 56 comments

Fake name generator for social media

https://fakena.me

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 83 comments

The Namibia desert is decorated by thousands of mysterious circles

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20140916-mystery-fairy-circles-defy-explanation

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 44 comments

Introducing Tweet-a-Program

http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/09/18/introducing-tweet-a-program/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 54 comments

Richmond Italian restaurant waging war on Yelp

http://richmondstandard.com/2014/09/richmond-italian-restaurant-waging-awesome-war-yelp/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 117 comments

How to Get into Y Combinator

https://www.aptible.com/blog/y_combinator.html

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 37 comments

Read Slowly to Benefit Your Brain and Cut Stress

http://online.wsj.com/articles/read-slowly-to-benefit-your-brain-and-cut-stress-1410823086?

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 42 comments

Why Is Peter Thiel Pessimistic About Technological Innovation?

http://danwang.co/why-is-peter-thiel-pessimistic-about-technological-innovation/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 145 comments

Transducers.js: A JavaScript Library for Transformation of Data

http://jlongster.com/Transducers.js--A-JavaScript-Library-for-Transformation-of-Data

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 20 comments

A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your privacy

http://www.apple.com/privacy/

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 131 comments

Microsoft to Close Microsoft Research Lab in Silicon Valley

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-close-microsoft-research-lab-in-silicon-valley-7000033838/

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 84 comments

Twilio Adds Low-Cost, Two-Way MMS Picture Messaging to Its API Cloud

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/18/twilio-adds-low-cost-two-way-mms-picture-messaging-to-its-api-cloud/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 49 comments

Programming without objects

http://www.falkoriemenschneider.de/a__2014-09-17__Programming-without-objects.html

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 131 comments

“We've been acquired and Twitpic will live on”

https://twitter.com/TwitPic/status/512705809696837632

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 59 comments

Your brain makes decisions while you sleep

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/17/your-brain-actually-makes-decisions-while-you-sleep/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 66 comments

Let's build a browser engine, Part 6: Block layout

http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2014/09/17/toy-layout-engine-6-block.html

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 22 comments

Security for the people

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/09/security-for-people.html

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 53 comments

Servo: Parallelizing the Browser

http://www.joshmatthews.net/fosdemservo/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 12 comments

Terry Gilliam on His Epic New Dystopian Film the Zero Theorem

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/zero-theorem/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

Django UI in 2005 vs. Django UI in 2014

http://nerdy.dj.uninen.net/2014/09/django-2005-2014/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Paths.js – Generate SVG paths for geometric shapes

https://github.com/andreaferretti/paths-js

12 years ago

★ 1.7k JavaScript Apache-2.0
86 upvotes – 27 comments

Deep Learning Bibliography

http://memkite.com/deep-learning-bibliography/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

Refraction Simulation

http://www.hexahedria.com/experiments/refract/index.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

France ditches the name ISIS, replacing it with a label the group hates

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/17/france-is-ditching-the-islamic-state-name-and-replacing-it-with-a-label-the-group-hates/?tid=pm_pop

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 50 comments

NPM registry in numbers

http://blog.futurice.com/npm-registry-in-numbers

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

Inside the Go playground

http://talks.golang.org/2014/playground.slide

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

C++ Quiz

http://q.viva64.com/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 47 comments

Scottish Independence Referendum Data Map

http://vis.oobrien.com/indyref/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 49 comments

Woman Receives the World's First 3D-Printed Skull

http://www.lernabit.com/blog/post/woman-receives-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-skull

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 31 comments

Unavoidable patterns in strings

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12pfvhxqvqhdd4h004cfhdxklvyydaikgk

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 2 comments

Zero-downtime Clojure deployments

http://www.uswitch.com/tech/zero-downtime-clojure-deployments/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

Robot writers collect and analyze data and turn them into readable narratives

http://contently.com/strategist/2014/09/17/does-your-brand-newsroom-need-a-robot-writer/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 7 comments

Placemeter Raises a $6M Series A

http://blog.placemeter.com/2014/09/18/placemeter-raises-a-series-a/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 40 comments

iPG

http://ipaulgraham.herokuapp.com/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

The Last Survivors of Meridian 59

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-last-survivors-of-meridian-59

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 19 comments

Girls Get Better Grades Than Boys

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/why-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-do/380318/?single_page=true

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 68 comments

PNNL Smartphone Microscope

http://availabletechnologies.pnnl.gov/technology.asp?id=393

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments
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