top 50% 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

A Raytracer Implemented in LOLCODE

https://github.com/LoganKelly/LOLTracer

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

Need Postgresql HTTP API Extension

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HTTP_API

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 63 comments

New York City's Most Accessible Ruins

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ghosts-of-new-york-eleven-of-new-york-city-s-most-intriguing-ruins

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Drowning in Light

http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/drowning-in-light

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/biggest-mistakes-in-web-design-1995-2015.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 55 comments

Ex-Employees Say Home Depot Left Data Vulnerable

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/business/ex-employees-say-home-depot-left-data-vulnerable.html

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 46 comments

Why Is Our Sci-Fi So Glum About A.I.?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/magazine/why-is-our-sci-fi-so-glum-about-ai.html?_r=0

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 83 comments

Thank you Apple for rejecting my app

http://nbodyphysics.com/blog/2014/09/20/thank-you-apple-for-rejecting-my-app/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 56 comments

Testing Distributed Systems with Deterministic Simulation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments

The Case for Delayed Adulthood

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/opinion/sunday/the-case-for-delayed-adulthood.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 21 comments

A new app allows blind people to listen to an audio readback of printed text

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/09/20/apple-blind-app-idINKBN0HF08S20140920

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 27 comments

Andrew Ng predicts half of web searches will soon be speech and images

http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/20/ai-expert-predicts-half-of-web-searches-will-soon-be-speech-and-images/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 46 comments

‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Is All but Gone from New York

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/19/nyregion/stop-and-frisk-is-all-but-gone-from-new-york.html

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

Startup School acceptances are out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8343487

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Battleboat.js – A robot that plays Battleship

http://kortaggio.github.io/battleboat/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments

A proof of Löb's theorem in Haskell

http://lesswrong.com/lw/l0d/a_proof_of_l%C3%B6bs_theorem_in_haskell/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

The 8-Byte Two-Step

http://zinascii.com/2014/the-8-byte-two-step.html

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 31 comments

Defining Powerhouse Fruits and Vegetables: A Nutrient Density Approach

http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2014/13_0390.htm

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 25 comments
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