top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-10-24

Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/science/alan-eustace-jumps-from-stratosphere-breaking-felix-baumgartners-world-record.html

12 years ago

816 upvotes – 236 comments

The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/01/the-fourier-transform-explained-in-one-sentence.html

12 years ago

364 upvotes – 82 comments

Autumn

http://oos.moxiecode.com/js_webgl/autumn/

12 years ago

338 upvotes – 89 comments

Porsche: The Hedge Fund That Also Made Cars

http://priceonomics.com/porsche-the-hedge-fund-that-also-made-cars/

12 years ago

296 upvotes – 66 comments

Laura Poitras: ‘Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/23/snowden-filmmaker-laura-poitras-facebook-is-a-gift-to-intelligence-agencies/

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 84 comments

The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/projects/workouts/

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 144 comments

How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well

http://okepi.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/how-to-become-a-programmer-or-the-art-of-googling-well/

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 152 comments

The Case of the Modified Binaries

http://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/the-case-of-the-modified-binaries/

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 72 comments

Why Samsung Knox Isn't Really a Fort Knox

http://mobilesecurityares.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-samsung-knox-isnt-really-fort-knox.html?m=1

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 43 comments

Calories in, calories out

http://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/calories-in-calories-out/

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 210 comments

HTML5 Fluid Simulation in WebGL

https://haxiomic.github.io/GPU-Fluid-Experiments/html5/?q=UltraHigh

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 49 comments

Uselessd

http://uselessd.darknedgy.net

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 59 comments

MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/mit-computer-scientists-can-predict-price-bitcoin#.VEadQI474jk

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 81 comments

Larry Page Reorgs Staff, Anoints Sundar Pichai as New Product Czar

http://recode.net/2014/10/24/google-ceo-larry-page-reorgs-staff-anoints-sundar-pichai-as-new-product-czar/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 72 comments

How Verizon's Advertising Header Works

http://webpolicy.org/2014/10/24/how-verizons-advertising-header-works/

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 65 comments

Amazon.com redesign

http://www.amazon.com

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 104 comments

FTDI removes counterfeit-bricking driver from Windows Update

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232/msg536298/#msg536298

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 128 comments

Hey Paypal, why do you need access to my microphone, camera and photos?

http://thepcspy.com/read/paypal-permissions-microphone-camera-photos/

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: A midterm test on basic SQL for my journalism class

http://www.padjo.org/2014-10-23/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 24 comments

Google j2objc, a Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime

http://j2objc.org/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 53 comments
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