top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-07

Unix Toolbox

http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml

11 years ago

491 upvotes – 38 comments

Firefox exploit found in the wild

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/

11 years ago

415 upvotes – 265 comments

Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/08/03/almost-everything-we-do-is-now-open

11 years ago

386 upvotes – 202 comments

Announcing Rust 1.2

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/08/06/Rust-1.2.html

11 years ago

385 upvotes – 116 comments

Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems

http://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters

11 years ago

348 upvotes – 139 comments

Using a single AWS account is a serious risk

https://cloudonaut.io/your-single-aws-account-is-a-serious-risk/

11 years ago

322 upvotes – 138 comments

WebGL Studio

http://webglstudio.org

11 years ago

320 upvotes – 88 comments

OS X sudoers exploit found in the wild

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/mac/2015/08/dyld_print_to_file-exploit-found-in-the-wild/

11 years ago

278 upvotes – 173 comments

Beyond PEP 8 – Best practices for beautiful intelligible code [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 160 comments

Project Euler Humble Return

https://projecteuler.net/news

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 119 comments

Why Rent Is So High and Pay So Low

https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/why-your-rent-is-so-high-and-your-pay-is-so-low-tom-streithorst

11 years ago

250 upvotes – 218 comments

Google’s $6B Miscalculation on the EU

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-08-06/google-s-6-billion-miscalculation-on-the-eu?cmpid=BBD080615_BIZ

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 180 comments

U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/23/call-off-the-bee-pocalypse-u-s-honeybee-colonies-hit-a-20-year-high/

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 187 comments

Monkey the Cat Hunts for Dinner

http://benjaminmillam.com/cat-geek/monkey-the-cat-hunts-for-dinner/

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Is it vulnerable? Drag-n-drop your Gemfile.lock to check

https://isitvulnerable.com/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 49 comments

How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/how-i-failed-failed-and-finally-succeeded-at-learning-how-to-code/239855/?single_page=true

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 67 comments

Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/08/04/federal-appeals-court-drug-dog-thats-barely-more-accurate-than-a-coin-flip-is-good-enough/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 149 comments

Ask HN: The Internet is getting lame. What's next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10023727

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 154 comments

Fiber Optic Bliss

http://www.loomcom.com/blog/2015/08/04/fiber-optic-bliss/?hn=repost

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 101 comments

Design Documentaries

https://rrrepo.co/repo/designDocumentaries

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 22 comments

Matrix Computations on the GPU in Clojure

http://neanderthal.uncomplicate.org/articles/tutorial_opencl.html

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 17 comments

The technology behind preview photos

https://code.facebook.com/posts/991252547593574/the-technology-behind-preview-photos/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 18 comments

PyJS: write your JavaScript-powered web applications entirely in Python

http://pyjs.org/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Where can I find “unsolved problems” for various industries?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10022691

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 68 comments

An Oakland shooting reveals how cops snoop on cell phones

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/ping-susp-phone-an-oakland-shooting-reveals-how-cops-snoop-on-cell-phones/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 48 comments

C++ concepts support merged into GCC trunk

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-08/msg00377.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 30 comments

Movfuscator: A single-instruction C compiler

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

11 years ago

★ 10.1k C
100 upvotes – 18 comments

Same origin violation and local file stealing via PDF reader

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-78/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

Community-led tooling for F# in Visual Studio

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/08/05/guest-post-visual-f-power-tools-community-led-tooling-for-f-in-visual-studio.aspx

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

Crossrail: The End of the Beginning

http://www.londonreconnections.com/2015/crossrail-end-beginning/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Gow - A lightweight alternative to Cygwin

https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow

11 years ago

★ 6.6k NSIS
79 upvotes – 60 comments

Microsoft WinObjC: Restore original licenses

https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC/issues/35

11 years ago

★ 6.2k C MIT
74 upvotes – 67 comments

The Pleasure of Practicing: A Musician’s Account of Overcoming Impostor Syndrome

http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/07/glenn-kurtz-practicing/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

The XY Problem

http://xyproblem.info/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 70 comments

Telepresence Robot Crosses Atlantic Seven Times Trying to Get Home

https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?tracknumbers=806020716375&language=en&cntry_code=uk

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Tabula: Extract Tables from PDFs

http://tabula.technology/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 26 comments

C.H.I.P. – Raspberry Pi competitor

http://nextthing.co/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 39 comments

16th Century Book Can Be Read Six Different Ways

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/16th-century-book-bound-dos-a-dos

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments
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