top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-25

CVE-2014-7169: Bash Fix Incomplete, Still Exploitable

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/685

12 years ago

557 upvotes – 210 comments

Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug

http://www.troyhunt.com/2014/09/everything-you-need-to-know-about.html

12 years ago

517 upvotes – 287 comments

Show HN: Javelin Browser

http://javelinbrowser.com?material-design

12 years ago

373 upvotes – 132 comments

Lecture 2: How to Start a Startup

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec02/

12 years ago

362 upvotes – 138 comments

Shellshock DHCP Remote Code Execution – Proof of Concept

https://www.trustedsec.com/september-2014/shellshock-dhcp-rce-proof-concept/

12 years ago

355 upvotes – 155 comments

Bash 'shellshock' bug is wormable

http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/09/bash-shellshock-bug-is-wormable.html

12 years ago

299 upvotes – 147 comments

Clasp – A Common Lisp with LLVM back end and interoperation with C++

http://drmeister.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/announcing-clasp/

12 years ago

278 upvotes – 74 comments

Terror laws clear Australian Senate, enabling entire web to be monitored

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/terror-laws-clear-senate-enabling-entire-australian-web-to-be-monitored-and-whistleblowers-to-be-jailed-20140925-10m8ih.html

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 112 comments

From Vim to Emacs

http://juanjoalvarez.net/es/detail/2014/sep/19/vim-emacsevil-chaotic-migration-guide/

12 years ago

214 upvotes – 116 comments

Make in India

http://makeinindia.com/sectors/

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 43 comments

The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy/

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 164 comments

Australian Government Scrambles to Authorize Mass Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/australian-government-scrambles-authorize-mass-surveillance

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 84 comments

Americans abroad are giving up their citizenship as banks shut down accounts

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/sep/24/americans-chased-by-irs-give-up-citizenship-after-being-forced-out-of-bank-accounts

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 175 comments

Earth’s Water Is Older Than the Sun

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/09/25/earths-water-is-older-than-the-sun/#.VCSWtSldUnR

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 82 comments

Quick notes about the bash bug, its impact, and the fixes so far

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/09/quick-notes-about-bash-bug-its-impact.html

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 25 comments

ShellShock exploited in the wild: kernel exploit with CnC component

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/929d622f3b36b00c0be1

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 71 comments

Top 10% of American adults consume, on average, 74 alcoholic drinks per week

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/25/think-you-drink-a-lot-this-chart-will-tell-you/

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 169 comments

RethinkDB 1.15: Geospatial queries

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/1.15-release/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 56 comments

Art project: Train rats to trade markets

http://www.artmarcovici.com/rat-traders

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: What DB to use for huge time series?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8368509

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 130 comments

The Uncatchable

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8700/index.html

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 27 comments

Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes

http://smethur.st/posts/176135860

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 28 comments

Billionaire must let public access Martins Beach, judge rules

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Billionaire-must-allow-public-to-access-Martins-5778533.php

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 107 comments

Dear Rupert

http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2014/09/dear-rupert_25.html

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 53 comments

Generational Garbage Collection in Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/generational-garbage-collection-in-firefox/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 16 comments

The anatomy of a door-to-door Taobao delivery

http://theanthill.org/taobao-delivery

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 25 comments

FBI blasts Apple, Google for locking police out of phones

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/fbi-blasts-apple-google-for-locking-police-out-of-phones/2014/09/25/68c4e08e-4344-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 120 comments

Alamofire: HTTP Networking in Swift

https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire#readme

12 years ago

★ 42.3k Swift MIT
99 upvotes – 28 comments

Micro Python store is now open and taking pre-orders

https://micropython.org/store/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Managing a Nightmare: CIA Reveals How It Watched Over Destruction of Gary Webb

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

Taking advantage of TCP loopback fast path in Windows

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2014-September/008685.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

Shill: A Secure Shell Scripting Language

http://shill-lang.org

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments

My Swift Dilemma

http://owensd.io/2014/09/24/swift-experiences.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 126 comments

3D Print with Sand (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptUj8JRAYu8

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

Facebook Is Partnering With Stripe to Power “Buy” Button

http://recode.net/2014/09/25/facebook-is-partnering-with-stripe-to-power-buy-button/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 33 comments

PM at Microsoft (2005)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/techtalk/archive/2005/12/16/504872.aspx

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 44 comments

Landing Page in a Day – Get a custom landing page that converts

http://landingpageinaday.com

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 50 comments

NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi

http://www.cambus.net/netbsd-on-the-raspberry-pi/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments

Faster Unsigned Division by Constants (2011)

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/labor-of-division-episode-iii.html

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 26 comments

Andreessen Goes on Tweet Storm About Burn Rates, Says to Worry

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/25/andreessen-goes-on-tweet-storm-about-burn-rates-and-says-worry/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 42 comments

Pixar Vets Reinvent Speech Recognition So It Works for Kids

https://www.wired.com/2014/09/toytalk/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

Miss a Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/miss-a-payment-good-luck-moving-that-car

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 80 comments

I Forgot to Remember

http://nymag.com/news/features/su-meck-amnesia-2014-9

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 2 comments

Airlines crack down on ‘mileage runs’

http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2024565123_airlinemileagerunstravelwisexml.html

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 90 comments

Billionaire ordered to unlock Martin's Beach but won't be fined $20M

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-surfers-billionaire-court-victory-beach-access-20140925-story.html

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Keyboards Club

http://keyboards.club

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 50 comments

Watching Larry Ellison Become Larry Ellison – The DNA of a Winner

http://steveblank.com/2014/09/25/watching-larry-ellison-become-larry-ellison-the-dna-of-a-winner/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 80 comments

Has LinkedIn lost control of its user email database?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8366988

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 36 comments

Sendwithus (YC W14) Announces $2.3M to Humanize Transactional Email

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/25/sendwithus-seed-funding/

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 16 comments

Why We Keep Playing the Lottery

http://nautil.us/issue/17/big-bangs/why-we-keep-playing-the-lottery-2

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 81 comments

Building a better and more diverse community

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/43-building-a-better-and-more-diverse-community

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 116 comments

An Analysis of the CAs trusted by iOS 8.0

http://karl.kornel.us/2014/09/an-analysis-of-the-cas-trusted-by-ios-8-0/?

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Takana – SCSS Live Editor

http://usetakana.com/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

From Ruby to Go: a rewrite for the future

http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2014/09/25/from-ruby-to-go-a-rewrite-for-the-future

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 35 comments

RSA Signature Forgery in NSS

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2014/09/24/rsa-signature-forgery-in-nss/

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 6 comments
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