top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-14

Humble Mozilla Bundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/

12 years ago

517 upvotes – 117 comments

This POODLE bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/10/this-poodle-bites-exploiting-ssl-30.html

12 years ago

391 upvotes – 103 comments

Mac App Store: The Subtle Exodus

http://blog.helftone.com/mac-app-store-the-subtle-exodus/

12 years ago

335 upvotes – 245 comments

Firefox 33

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/33.0/releasenotes/

12 years ago

333 upvotes – 240 comments

My story of applying, getting in, and being a mom in Y Combinator

https://medium.com/@susanjohnson/hi-im-a-mom-and-a-start-up-founder-my-yc-story-3b8c8650ae95

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 97 comments

Brad Fitzpatrick on the future of Go

http://dotgo.sourcegraph.com/post/99652962343/brad-fitzpatrick-on-the-future-of-the-go-programming

12 years ago

244 upvotes – 182 comments

American scientists unearth lost 1960s polar satellite images

http://barentsobserver.com/en/2014/10/american-scientists-unearth-lost-1960s-polar-satellite-images-worth-billions-14-10#.VD1bCUcp6oU.twitter

12 years ago

228 upvotes – 49 comments

Holy War on Sites That Demand Pinboard Passwords

https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/10/holy_war_on_sites_that_demand_pinboard_passwords/

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 46 comments

Startup School 2014 Recap and Videos

http://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-2014-recap-and-videos

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 10 comments

How to Start a Startup, Lecture 7: How to Build Products Users Love, Part I

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec07/

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 32 comments

FormatJS – Internationalize your web apps on the client and server

http://formatjs.io/

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 38 comments

iSIGHT discovers vulnerability used in Russian cyber-espionage campaign

http://www.isightpartners.com/2014/10/cve-2014-4114/#

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 73 comments

French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/french-soldier-room-unchanged-first-world-war

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 32 comments

GopherJS – A compiler from Go to JavaScript

https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs

12 years ago

★ 13.1k Go BSD-2-Clause
174 upvotes – 38 comments

Dropbox.com hacked?

http://pastebin.com/aRgTJzzg

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 73 comments

Swarm.js and React – Real-time, offline-ready web apps

http://swarmjs.github.io/articles/todomvc/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 44 comments

Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech

http://recode.net/2014/10/13/google-is-set-to-lead-a-huge-investment-in-magic-leap-a-company-that-says-it-can-deliver-cinematic-reality/

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 67 comments

XOS: Build your own operating system

http://xosnitc.github.io/index.html

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 38 comments

Homebrew CPU (2004)

http://www.homebrewcpu.com/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 41 comments

Dropbox wasn't hacked

https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/10/dropbox-wasnt-hacked/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 35 comments

Dorian Nakamoto Is Suing Newsweek

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/13/dorian-nakamoto-is-suing-newsweek/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do the dating

https://www.datingring.com

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 315 comments

Anti-burn: How bootstrapped Zoho survived two tech bubbles

http://pando.com/2014/10/14/anti-burn-how-bootstrapped-zoho-survived-two-tech-bubbles-and-became-a-massive-success/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 16 comments

Stop and Seize

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 35 comments

W.H.O. Forecast for Ebola Worsens as Mortality Rate Rises

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/world/africa/ebola-epidemic-who-west-africa.html

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 106 comments

When the Guy Making Your Sandwich Has a Noncompete Clause

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/upshot/when-the-guy-making-your-sandwich-has-a-noncompete-clause.html

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 94 comments

Setback: A $58,000 lesson in mid-volume manufacturing

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516846343/microview-chip-sized-arduino-with-built-in-oled-di/posts/959475

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 27 comments

An App That Lets You Converse with the Deaf, No Sign Language Necessary

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/14/an-app-that-lets-you-converse-with-the-deaf-no-sign-language-necessary/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 35 comments

How Bayes Impact is reducing fraud for microfinance nonprofit Zidisha

http://www.bayesimpact.org/blog/defending-microfinance-with-data-science.html

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 14 comments

Analysis of the Linux backdoor used in Freenode IRC network compromise

https://www.nccgroup.com/en/blog/2014/10/analysis-of-the-linux-backdoor-used-in-freenode-irc-network-compromise/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 15 comments

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Donating $25M to the CDC Foundation

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101696761533081

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 44 comments

A Module System for C++ (Revision 2) [pdf]

http://isocpp.org/files/papers/n4214.pdf

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Meadow – Medical cannabis delivered to your door

https://getmeadow.com/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 44 comments

How to Reapply to YC

https://medium.com/@msjpenn/how-to-reapply-to-yc-f5aa6713e8ea

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments

Last Time It Was This Crazy, the Stock Market Crashed

http://wolfstreet.com/2014/10/09/priming-the-startup-scene-and-ipo-market-for-burnout/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 73 comments

Ruby Objects in the deep C underworld

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.2.0.preview1/symbols/Object#annotation=4032415&line=1

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 1 comments

Unity Games in WebGL: Owlchemy Labs’ Conversion of Aaaaa to Asm.js

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/10/unity-games-in-webgl-owlchemy-labs-conversion-of-aaaaa-to-asm-js/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

The Human Factor – the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/10/air-france-flight-447-crash

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

JavaScript Performance in Windows 10 Technical Preview

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/10/09/announcing-key-advances-to-javascript-performance-in-windows-10-technical-preview.aspx

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

Lone Geniuses Are Overrated

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/lone-geniuses-are-overrated/381340/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

Unsticker Me – Get rid of Facebook stickers in comments

http://unsticker.me/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

Conkeror – Keyboard-oriented, customizable, extensible web browser

http://conkeror.org/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments

Web-Era Trade Schools, Feeding a Need for Code

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/us/web-era-trade-schools-feeding-a-need-for-code.html?_r=0

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Closing Call – Hacker News for Sales

http://www.closingcall.co/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 37 comments

The world's largest library of historical European martial arts books

http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Main_Page

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

What would happen in the ocean if we went quiet?

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/what-would-happen-in-the-ocean-if-we-went-quiet/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

The Great Tomb in Amphipolis, Greece

http://www.theamphipolistomb.com/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

A Fantasy Sports Wizard's Winning Formula

http://online.wsj.com/articles/a-fantasy-sports-wizards-winning-formula-wsj-money-june-2014-1401893587

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 39 comments

Scientific Stagnation

http://www.gwern.net/the-long-stagnation

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

SSL 3.0 Vulnerability dropping tomorrow

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/14/nasty_ssl_30_vulnerability_to_drop_tomorrow/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Me and my 'useless' gall bladder

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29594479

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 40 comments

Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes by Ada Lovelace (1842)

http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 5 comments

Photographing the Guillotine

http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/10/photographing-the-guillotine

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 30 comments

The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)

http://downlode.org/Etext/alicebob.html

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments

Hundreds of Dropbox passwords leak online in alleged hack

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/10/14/dropbox-passwords-leak-online-alleged-hack/?utm_content=Hundreds%20of%20Dropbox%20passwords%20leak%20online%20in%20alleged%20hack&utm_campaign=Twitter%20Publisher&awesm=tnw.to_q3MFV&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

Everyone knows it’s broken

http://tiltthewindmill.com/everyone-knows-its-broken/

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 24 comments

Creating an LLVM Back End for the Cpu0 Architecture

http://jonathan2251.github.io/lbd/llvmstructure.html

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments

Simple System Could Transform American Medicine

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/number-needed-to-treat/?mbid=social_fb

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 23 comments
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