top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-24

ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit

http://isro.gov.in/mars/updates.aspx

12 years ago

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/649

12 years ago

The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255

12 years ago

Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29341850

12 years ago

IBM Watson API

https://developer.ibm.com/watson/docs/developing-watson-apis/examples-qapi/1207-2/

12 years ago

AWS issues unavoidable reboot schedules with short notice on many EC2 instances

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=161544&tstart=0

12 years ago

Datamining a Flat in Munich

http://funnybretzel.svbtle.com/datamining-a-flat-in-munich

12 years ago

Rethinking the origins of the universe

http://unc.edu/spotlight/rethinking-the-origins-of-the-universe/

12 years ago

SlackTextViewController: A new growing text input for iOS

https://github.com/slackhq/SlackTextViewController

12 years ago

★ 8.2k Objective-C MIT

San Diego Researcher Crowdfunding Patent-Free Cancer Drug

http://timesofsandiego.com/tech/2014/09/20/san-diego-researcher-crowdfunding-patent-free-cancer-drug/

12 years ago

Relativistic hash tables

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/612021/92c8ccb5b82d4d90/

12 years ago

How to tell when a robot has written you a letter

https://medium.com/message/how-to-tell-when-a-robot-has-written-you-a-letter-701562705d59

12 years ago

Cling: an interactive C++ interpreter, built on top of Clang and LLVM

https://github.com/vgvassilev/cling/

12 years ago

★ 1.8k C++

Libsodium 1.0.0 released

http://www.libsodium.org/doc/

12 years ago

Introducing Elm Reactor

http://elm-lang.org/blog/Introducing-Elm-Reactor.elm

12 years ago

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Up, Up, Up, Up

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/8552

12 years ago

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/kevin-mitnick-selling-zero-day-exploits/

12 years ago

Mobile Web App Checklist

http://www.luster.io/blog/9-29-14-mobile-web-checklist.html

12 years ago

iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn

http://sixcolors.com/post/2014/09/ios-801-released/

12 years ago

How to Start a Startup Lecture 1: Full Transcript

http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-how-to-start-a-startup-lecture-1-annotated

12 years ago

Daala: Painting Images for Fun (and Profit?)

https://people.xiph.org/~jm/daala/paint_demo/

12 years ago

Was jquery.com compromised?

http://blog.jquery.com/2014/09/23/was-jquery-com-compromised/

12 years ago

Docker Hub Official Repos: Announcing Language Stacks

https://blog.docker.com/2014/09/docker-hub-official-repos-announcing-language-stacks/

12 years ago

How to Squeeze a Huge Ship Down a Tiny River

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/conveyance-quantum-of-the-seas/

12 years ago

Bash 'shellshock' scan of the Internet

http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/09/bash-shellshock-scan-of-internet.html

12 years ago

What “technical” concerns do I have with systemd?

http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/09/23/end-of-linux/

12 years ago

The Surprising Path to a Faster NYTimes.com

https://speakerdeck.com/nytdevs/the-surprising-path-to-a-faster-nytimes-dot-com

12 years ago

NGA releases high-resolution elevation data to public

https://www1.nga.mil/MediaRoom/LeadingStories/Pages/NGAreleaseshigh-resolutionelevationdatatopublic.aspx

12 years ago

When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Rulebook

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/24/when-it-comes-to-facebook-scale-you-can-throw-out-the-rulebook/

12 years ago

Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops in Europe

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/laptop/3573470/samsung-exits-laptop-market-including-chromebooks/

12 years ago

Man receives constant pain signals from his brain

http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2014/09/23/ambler_gazette/news/doc5421ece83a718387735601.txt?viewmode=fullstory

12 years ago

The Ghost of Invention: A Visit to Bell Labs

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/coupland-bell-labs/

12 years ago

The Craft of Text Editing: Emacs for the Modern World (1999)

http://www.finseth.com/craft/index.html

12 years ago

Migrations and Future Proofing

https://github.com/Prismatic/eng-practices/blob/master/swe/Migrations_and_future_proofing.md

12 years ago

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OpenGov, a startup intended to transform the way governments manage tax dollars

http://a16z.com/2014/09/24/opengov/

12 years ago

Recovering Evidence from SSD Drives in 2014

http://articles.forensicfocus.com/2014/09/23/recovering-evidence-from-ssd-drives-in-2014-understanding-trim-garbage-collection-and-exclusions/

12 years ago

Should I sign this agreement?

http://blog.neilni.com/should-i-sign-this-agreement/

12 years ago

I Had to Develop an iPhone App to Understand Swing Trading

http://chartingninja.com/2014/09/12/app-understand-swing-trading.html

12 years ago

Adding strlcpy() to glibc

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/612244/8a95e0fc58bf17f6/

12 years ago

Shen – A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcRBdSdO_U&list=UU_QIfHvN9auy2CoOdSfMWDw

12 years ago

How to Migrate 50M Records from Mongo to PostgreSQL in Less Than a Day

http://tech.plug.dj/2014/09/24/how-to-migrate-50mm-records-from-mongo-to-postgresql-in-less-than-a-day/

12 years ago

iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/23/the-iphone-6-plus-gets-bent/

12 years ago

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/23/gobble-launch

12 years ago

Show HN: Beyondpad – New kind of note taking and data management solution

http://www.beyondpad.com/

12 years ago

Full email validation regex (RFC 2822)

http://code.iamcal.com/php/rfc822/full_regexp.txt

12 years ago

Bent iPhone claims put Apple under pressure to respond

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29331349

12 years ago

Hacking the Breast Pump

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/hacking-breast-pump

12 years ago

Alexey Chervonenkis found dead

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Chervonenkis

12 years ago

Soft Robotics Toolkit

http://softroboticstoolkit.com/

12 years ago

Make Dinner: A Home Cooking Manifesto

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/dining/just-make-dinner-a-manifesto-for-home-cooking.html

12 years ago

Show HN: Off-grid web server for the developing world

http://challengepost.com/software/project-seed/

12 years ago