top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-09-20

Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqzpAbK9qFk

12 years ago

291 upvotes – 49 comments

FBI and Secret Service Files: Aaron Swartz

http://www.theblackvault.com/m/articles/view/Aaron-Swartz

12 years ago

268 upvotes – 127 comments

Tim Berners Lee slams Internet fast lanes: ‘It’s bribery.’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/19/world-wide-web-inventor-lashes-out-at-internet-fast-lanes-its-bribery/?tid=rssfeed

12 years ago

237 upvotes – 86 comments

sshrc – make your ssh sessions feel like home

https://github.com/Russell91/sshrc/

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 44 comments

Rust lifetimes: Getting away with things that would be reckless in C++

http://www.randomhacks.net/2014/09/19/rust-lifetimes-reckless-cxx/

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 90 comments

Entrepreneurs anonymous

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21618816-instead-romanticising-entrepreneurs-people-should-understand-how-hard-their-lives-can?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/entrepreneurs_anonymous

12 years ago

183 upvotes – 103 comments

JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75026640&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 82 comments

The Log: An Epic Software Engineering Article

http://bryanpendleton.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-log-epic-software-engineering.html

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 12 comments

Ads work by cultural imprinting, not emotional inception

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 98 comments

OhLife is shutting down

http://ohlife.com/shutdown

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 150 comments

Oculus Rift Development Kit 1

https://github.com/OculusVR/RiftDK1

12 years ago

★ 700 C
124 upvotes – 26 comments

Implementing XKCD #688

https://github.com/scottsievert/xkcd-688

12 years ago

★ 174 Python
122 upvotes – 7 comments

Sonic Pi – A Music Live Coding Environment for Schools

http://sonic-pi.net

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 28 comments

Oculus Connect 2014

http://www.oculus.com/blog/oculus-connect-2014/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 60 comments

Google Stops Forcing You to Join Google+ When Opening a New Account

http://seb.st/google-stops-forcing-you-to-join-google-when-opening-a-new-account/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 45 comments

Racket mode for GNU Emacs

https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode#racket-mode-for-gnu-emacs

12 years ago

★ 716 Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0
99 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: What's the best company to buy an SSL certificate from?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8344238

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 86 comments

The Larch Environment

http://www.larchenvironment.com/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 62 comments

RuJIT – Trace-based JIT Compiler for Ruby

https://github.com/imasahiro/rujit

12 years ago

★ 171 Ruby
88 upvotes – 14 comments

BashBooster – simple provisioning, bash only, requires nothing

http://www.bashbooster.net/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments
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