top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-22

MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/mit-students-face-aggressive-subpoena-demanding-source-code-bitcoin-mining-tool/

12 years ago

416 upvotes – 123 comments

Another Patent Troll Slain. You Are Now Free to Rotate Your Smartphone

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/another-patent-troll-slain-you-are-now-free-to-rotate-your-smartphone/

12 years ago

384 upvotes – 41 comments

New Developer Tools Features in Firefox 34

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/webide-storage-inspector-jquery-events-iframe-switcher-more-firefox-developer-tools-episode-34/

12 years ago

365 upvotes – 68 comments

TempleOS: 5 minute random code walkthrough

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/WalkThru.html

12 years ago

358 upvotes – 168 comments

Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive

http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/loyalty-nearly-killed-my-beehive?utm_source=tss&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=linkfrom

12 years ago

356 upvotes – 110 comments

PathFinding.js

http://qiao.github.io/PathFinding.js/visual/

12 years ago

337 upvotes – 25 comments

Total Moving Face Reconstruction

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/totalmoving/

12 years ago

308 upvotes – 94 comments

Why systemd?

http://blog.jorgenschaefer.de/2014/07/why-systemd.html

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 257 comments

I was asked to crack a program in a job interview, part 2

http://erenyagdiran.github.io/I-was-just-asked-to-crack-a-program-Part-2/

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 62 comments

The DEA failure that prevented a potentially major medical breakthrough

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/21/the_colossal_dea_failure_that_prevented_a_potentially_major_medical_breakthrough/

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 74 comments

Write every day

http://mlafeldt.github.io/blog/write-every-day/

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 83 comments

The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics

http://acko.net/blog/the-cargo-cult-of-game-mechanics/

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 205 comments

You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

http://youarelistening.to/newyork

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 68 comments

Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from Firefox

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 103 comments

Abstract visualization of biological neural network

http://nxxcxx.github.io/Neural-Network/

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 33 comments

If SaaS Products Sell Themselves, Why Do We Need Sales?

http://a16z.com/2014/05/30/selling-saas-products-dont-sell-themselves/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 58 comments

PureScript: a statically typed language which compiles to JavaScript

https://github.com/purescript/purescript

12 years ago

★ 8.8k Haskell
175 upvotes – 78 comments

Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/22/adobe-acquires-aviary/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 61 comments

Scientists Have an Answer to How the Pyramids Could Have Been Built

http://daily.jstor.org/scientists-have-an-answer-to-how-the-egyptian-pyramids-were-built/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 74 comments

Apple’s dangerous game

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/09/19/apples-dangerous-game/

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 103 comments

Money Is Pouring into Tech Like It’s 1999, and That's Not Good

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/money-pouring-tech-like-1999and-thats-good/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 57 comments

InfiniDB goes out of business

http://www.infinidb.co/forum/important-announcement-infinidb

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 79 comments

Apple Plans to Shut Down Beats Music?

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/22/apple-plans-to-shut-down-beats-music/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 84 comments

What are hedge funds, and what social functions do they serve?

http://danwang.co/what-are-hedge-funds-and-what-social-functions-do-they-serve/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 111 comments

Vector Animation with Python

http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/09/20/vector-animations-with-python/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 7 comments

Depression and feeling like an outsider

http://blog.jonathan.sh/depression-and-feeling-like-an-outsider

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 60 comments

Introducing Structured Snippets, now a part of Google Web Search

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/09/introducing-structured-snippets-now.html

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus: Preliminary Benchmark Results

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8559/iphone-6-and-iphone-6-plus-preliminary-results

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 105 comments

The American Middle Class Hasn't Gotten a Raise in 15 Years

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-american-middle-class-hasnt-gotten-a-raise-in-15-years/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 54 comments

An Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist

http://nautil.us/blog/the-unusual-language-that-linguists-thought-couldnt-exist

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 48 comments

Why I bet £900k on the Scottish referendum

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29314400

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 65 comments

Startup building the open-source “operating system” of the Metaverse

http://lucidscape.com

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 43 comments

Xamarin makes me sad, here is my message to them

https://gist.github.com/sadxamarinuser/2717d68996daea0e2f17

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 70 comments

Nimrod is being renamed to Nim

https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod

12 years ago

★ 17.9k Nim
79 upvotes – 62 comments

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (1966)

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ1003-OCT_SINATRA_rev_

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 16 comments

The Athens Affair – The most audacious cell-network break-in (2007)

http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 11 comments

How Not to Lie with Statistics: Avoiding Common Mistakes (1986) [pdf]

http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4455012/not%20lie%20stat.pdf

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140921-big-bang-signal-could-all-be-dust-planck-says/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 5 comments

A curated list of tools for SQLAlchemy

https://github.com/dahlia/awesome-sqlalchemy

12 years ago

★ 3k Python
74 upvotes – 7 comments

Turning a laptop into a CCTV

http://vincent.is/turning-a-laptop-into-cctv/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

Spin-in startups from Cisco

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-cisco-showered-three-men-with-billions-2014-9

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

UICloud – User interface design database

http://ui-cloud.com

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

The Centennial Light, a bulb that's reportedly been burning for 113 years

http://priceonomics.com/the-mysterious-case-of-the-113-year-old-light-bulb/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 29 comments

JamVM – A compact Java Virtual Machine

http://jamvm.sourceforge.net/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

CoreGraphics Memory Corruption

http://blog.binamuse.com/2014/09/coregraphics-memory-corruption.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

How a Libertarian Paradise in Chile Fell Apart

http://www.vice.com/read/atlas-mugged-922-v21n10

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 74 comments

China Clamps Down on Web, Pinching Companies Like Google

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/business/international/china-clamps-down-on-web-pinching-companies-like-google.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 32 comments

I am locked out of my PC because of Windows 8 Login catch-22

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8350889

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 45 comments

Larry and the “Ping of Death” (2007)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2007/10/16/larry-and-the-ping-of-death.aspx

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

The Roots of Lisp (2002) [pdf]

http://slackwise.net/files/docs/The%20Roots%20of%20Lisp.pdf

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

EBay under pressure as hacks continue

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29310042

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (1998) [pdf]

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~mkowalcz/628.pdf

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Freedivers who swim with whales

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29209139

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

Microservice Prerequisites

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MicroservicePrerequisites.html#

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: Wormhole – A smart proxy that connects docker containers

https://github.com/vishvananda/wormhole

12 years ago

★ 395 Go Apache-2.0
48 upvotes – 18 comments

Apple’s dangerous game, part 2

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/09/22/apples-dangerous-game-part-2-the-strongest-counterargument/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 53 comments

Productising a Service Business (Part 1)

http://www.theprocedurepeople.com/blog/2014/09/22/productising-a-service-business-part-one-separating-capabilities-from-products/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments

A No-Frills Introduction to Lua 5.1 VM Instructions (2006) [pdf]

http://luaforge.net/docman/83/98/ANoFrillsIntroToLua51VMInstructions.pdf

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 5 comments
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