lessnews.dev

Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs

30 Dec 2014

Quake on an oscilloscope

http://lofibucket.com/articles/oscilloscope_quake.html

http://looknohands.me/

698

140

28 Dec 2014

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/182428-ironic-iframes-adblock-plus-is-probably-the-reason-firefox-and-chrome-are-such-memory-hogs

748

400

27 Dec 2014

Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In

http://paulgraham.com/95.html

434

632

26 Dec 2014

Merry Christmas to HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8795524

502

110

25 Dec 2014

Mozilla Research Projects

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/research/projects/

440

92

24 Dec 2014

Principles of Distributed Computing

http://dcg.ethz.ch/lectures/podc_allstars/

268

22

23 Dec 2014

Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/opinion/prosecute-torturers-and-their-bosses.html

521

323

22 Dec 2014

“Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation”

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.tor.user/34619

883

157

21 Dec 2014

Scans of North Korean IP Space

http://nknetobserver.github.io

Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network

111

20 Dec 2014

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/possible-upcoming-attempts-disable-tor-network

516

121

19 Dec 2014

Git client vulnerability announced

https://github.com/blog/1938-git-client-vulnerability-announced

818

177

18 Dec 2014

Linus Torvalds on semaphores (1999)

http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/semaphores.html

http://www.drdobbs.com/240169421

http://paulgraham.com/know.html

686

257

15 Dec 2014

“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”

http://imgur.com/gallery/hRf2trV

1284

265

14 Dec 2014

Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)

http://www.onbeing.org/program/albert-einstein-the-negro-question-1946

441

291

13 Dec 2014

Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/12/yahoo-starts-prompting-chrome-users-to-upgrade-to-firefox/

460

231

12 Dec 2014

Streem – a new programming language from Matz

http://github.com/matz/streem

547

Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy

11 Dec 2014

http://www.paperplanes.de/2014/12/10/from-open-to-minimum-vacation-policy.html

675

329

10 Dec 2014

US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program

http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/12/android-studio-10.html

725

227

08 Dec 2014

Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711284

698

110

07 Dec 2014

The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value [pdf]

https://www.gmo.com/America/CMSAttachmentDownload.aspx?target=JUBRxi51IIBoe1yul9uERnfCmQoglFl9k5qwJSfHx8w%2fWCnFLmEb2MC9GoFnZVlslR5NzCRY1ajgn503icBv67VQg%2fNVUMWsYvi3A2%2fL%2bS28A7Pthjp7LmOfLYQfHMJc

http://bellard.org/bpg/

843

328

05 Dec 2014

Introducing .NET Core

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx

458

218

04 Dec 2014

Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-robot-introducing-no-captcha.html

694

420

03 Dec 2014

NASA: We're sending humans to Mars

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/539814651404754944

1424

586

02 Dec 2014

CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket

https://coreos.com/blog/rocket/

902

277

01 Dec 2014

Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

http://vimeo.com/108650530

http://paulgraham.com/mean.html

489

479

29 Nov 2014

3D.City – Game built with three.js and sea3d

http://lo-th.github.io/3d.city/index.html

434

81

28 Nov 2014

Python idioms I wish I'd learned earlier

http://prooffreaderplus.blogspot.com/2014/11/top-10-python-idioms-i-wished-id.html

418

169

27 Nov 2014

How We Did It: SNL Title Sequence

http://www.alex-buono.com/how-we-did-it-snl-titles-sequence/

470

56

26 Nov 2014

God's Lonely Programmer

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer

883

320

25 Nov 2014

Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles

http://news.sciencemag.org/funding/2014/11/gates-foundation-require-immediate-free-access-journal-articles?utm_content=buffer26432&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

597

169

23 Nov 2014

How to reward skilled coders with something other than people management

http://lizthedeveloper.com/how-to-reward-skilled-coders-with-something-other-than-people-management

414

153

22 Nov 2014

Let's Encrypt: How It Works

https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/

408

121

21 Nov 2014

Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2

https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/7-rules-for-creating-gorgeous-ui-part-2-430de537ba96

551

111

20 Nov 2014

Unicode Text Converter

http://www.panix.com/~eli/unicode/convert.cgi?text=The+secret+is+out.+

908

229

19 Nov 2014

Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web

2019

461

18 Nov 2014

WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation

http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/11/freebsd-foundation-announces-generous.html?HN

http://emacsrocks.com

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/15/our-landers-asleep/

392

160

15 Nov 2014

Go is moving to GitHub

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/sckirqOWepg

686

Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec

14 Nov 2014

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/245561031/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-UEZdQ4D9zd883gw8tn3D&show_recommendations=true

1257

558

13 Nov 2014

Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform-adds-new-development-capabilities-with-visual-studio-2015-net-2015-and-visual-studio-online/

2376

894

12 Nov 2014

Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon

https://www.gnome.org/groupon/

722

208

11 Nov 2014

President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet

http://www.whitehouse.gov/net-neutrality

https://medium.com/message/against-productivity-b19f56b67da6

329

104

09 Nov 2014

Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/computer-scientists-ask-supreme-court-rule-apis-cant-be-copyrighted

517

164

08 Nov 2014

Doing Business in Japan

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/

http://www.amazon.com/oc/echo

http://reverseocr.tumblr.com/

745

89

05 Nov 2014

The Other Side of Diversity

https://medium.com/@ericajoy/the-other-side-of-diversity-1bb3de2f053e

704

447

04 Nov 2014

Tom Magliozzi, Co-Host of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies at 77

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77

https://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash.html#event20141102:01

412

130

02 Nov 2014

Please remove mitsuhiko/*

https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127

634

433

01 Nov 2014

I’m Terrified of My New TV

http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/im-terrified-my-new-tv-why-im-scared-turn-thing

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-im-proud-to-be-gay

http://sprout.hp.com/

617

162

29 Oct 2014

Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/10/are-we-fast-yet-yes-we-are.html

https://blog.gregbrockman.com/define-cto

650

107

27 Oct 2014

Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sr96TFQQE

http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

411

79

25 Oct 2014

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

816

“Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby

24 Oct 2014

http://www.yukinishijima.net/2014/10/21/did-you-mean-experience-in-ruby.html

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-inbox-that-works-for-you.html

1069

451

22 Oct 2014

Firebase is Joining Google

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2014-10-21-firebase-joins-google.html

879

227

21 Oct 2014

China collecting Apple iCloud data

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-apple-icloud-data-attack-coincides-launch-new-iphone

http://cursors.io

http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320

http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/10/17/ffs-ssl

447

152

17 Oct 2014

iMac with Retina 5K display

http://www.apple.com/imac-with-retina/

http://www.google.com/nexus/6/

1005

684

15 Oct 2014

Humble Mozilla Bundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/

517

117

14 Oct 2014

My Philosophy on Alerting: Observations of a Site Reliability Engineer at Google

https://docs.google.com/a/gravitant.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa8eMWi8zzAn0YfcApr8Q/preview?sle=true

http://jasmcole.com/2014/10/12/rolling-shutters/

http://www.manyland.com

421

108

11 Oct 2014

Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

http://brutalhonesty.io

370

217

10 Oct 2014

Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf

635

177

09 Oct 2014

The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'

https://keybase.io/blog/2014-10-08/the-horror-of-a-secure-golden-key

http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I8s8KmZhwXMJ:www.futuresouth.us/yahoo_hacked.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a

722

Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video]

06 Oct 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-7J5OaSag

719

126

05 Oct 2014

Ask HN: How to price yourself?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8409020

329

165

04 Oct 2014

Marriott Hotels fined $600,000 by FCC for jamming Wi-Fi hotspots [pdf]

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db1003/DA-14-1444A1.pdf

http://paulgraham.com/before.html

703

163

02 Oct 2014

Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/feature-germanys-great-tuition-fees-u-turn/2011168.fullarticle

599

521

01 Oct 2014

http://blog.samaltman.com/reddit

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/

712

240

29 Sept 2014

Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html

http://paste.lisp.org/display/143864

348

185

27 Sept 2014

John Carmack on Inlined Code

http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html

456

260

26 Sept 2014

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

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

557

210

25 Sept 2014

ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit

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

1015

154

24 Sept 2014

Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video]

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec01/

520

185

23 Sept 2014

MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/mit-students-face-aggressive-subpoena-demanding-source-code-bitcoin-mining-tool/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/xtinehlee/i-had-a-stroke-at-33

603

151

21 Sept 2014

Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqzpAbK9qFk

291

49

20 Sept 2014

Chromeos-apk – Run Android APKs on Chrome OS, OS X, Linux and Windows

https://github.com/vladikoff/chromeos-apk/blob/master/README.md

http://who.is/dns/jamiehankins.co.uk

998

228

18 Sept 2014

I was asked to crack a program in a job interview

http://erenyagdiran.github.io/I-was-just-asked-to-crack-a-program-Part-1/

http://www.minix3.org/330.html

http://notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-mojang/

1252

418

15 Sept 2014

I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral

https://medium.com/@renatomassaro/99e525f99f65

384

165

14 Sept 2014

Gravit – Open-source design tool

http://hub.gravit.io/browser/

437

73

13 Sept 2014

Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/feds-yahoo-fine-prism/

784

237

12 Sept 2014

My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB)

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-08/msg00012.html

http://jackf.net/bezier-clock/

http://www.apple.com/watch/apple-watch/

http://www.nowykurier.com/toys/gravity/gravity.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize/?hpid=z2

323

205

07 Sept 2014

Lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr

https://medium.com/@michalbohanes/seven-lessons-i-learned-from-the-failure-of-my-first-startup-dinnr-c166d1cfb8b8

356

169

06 Sept 2014

Why Amazon Has No Profits and Why It Works

https://a16z.com/2014/09/05/why-amazon-has-no-profits-and-why-it-works/

633

260

05 Sept 2014

Twitpic is shutting down

http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/

http://standardmarkdown.com/

1167

366

03 Sept 2014

Failing the startup game at Unbabel

http://esoteric-code.blogspot.com/2014/09/failing-startup-game-unbabel-yc2014.html

536

235

02 Sept 2014

Mosh: A replacement for SSH

https://mosh.mit.edu/

402

122

01 Sept 2014

FTP Server at LSUHealth New Orleans

http://samsclass.info/125/proj11/conway.htm

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8456/the-road-ahead

537

60

30 Aug 2014

Yahoo stopping all new development of YUI

http://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/96098168666/important-announcement-regarding-yui

450

223

29 Aug 2014

Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6074177/coffee-naps-caffeine-science

470

161

28 Aug 2014

C3.js: D3-based reusable chart library

http://c3js.org/

350

80

27 Aug 2014

Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft

http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6067663/this-is-ubers-playbook-for-sabotaging-lyft

1224

391

26 Aug 2014

Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

https://www.glasswire.com/

1013

331

25 Aug 2014

Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

486

74

24 Aug 2014

Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

749

93

23 Aug 2014

Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp

https://bellingcat.com/resources/case-studies/2014/08/22/gun-safety-self-defense-and-road-marches-finding-an-isis-training-camp/

547

106

22 Aug 2014

Why Racket? Why Lisp?

http://practicaltypography.com/why-racket-why-lisp.html

418

280

21 Aug 2014

Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft

http://imgur.com/a/NJBuH

831

109

20 Aug 2014

Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone

http://limetext.org/

http://isocpp.org/blog/2014/08/we-have-cpp14

http://hextris.github.io/hextris/

589

92

17 Aug 2014

Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

https://www.gifyoutube.com/watch?v=ZlOsu870j8E

577

181

16 Aug 2014

Project Euler Returns

http://projecteuler.net/news

http://acko.net/files/pres/siggraph-2014-bof/online.html

657

88

14 Aug 2014

Edward Snowden: The Untold Story

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/

717

223

13 Aug 2014

What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?

http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/08/12/what-happens-if-you-write-a-tcp-stack-in-python/

http://www.polaroid.com/cube

575

181

11 Aug 2014

First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/

1470

172

10 Aug 2014

Prostitution and the internet

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21611074-how-new-technology-shaking-up-oldest-business-more-bang-your-buck

208

73

09 Aug 2014

They're Made out of Meat

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8148068

333

130

07 Aug 2014

How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machines for kids

http://blog.codestarter.org/post/93985346780/how-we-turn-199-chromebooks-into-ubuntu-based-code

492

215

06 Aug 2014

US Sought Permission to Change Historical Record of a Public Court Proceeding

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/unsealed-us-sought-permission-change-historical-record-public-court-proceeding

437

71

05 Aug 2014

Extracting audio from visual information

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804

573

127

04 Aug 2014

Remy – Computer-generated TCP congestion algorithm

http://web.mit.edu/remy/

274

40

03 Aug 2014

Vision-Correcting Displays [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdapCs6vR8

172

48

02 Aug 2014

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120070

https://stripe.com/blog/stellar

943

454

31 Jul 2014

Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in

http://nomadlist.io/?hn

639

298

30 Jul 2014

Show HN: Markov chains explained visually

http://setosa.io/blog/2014/07/26/markov-chains/index.html

http://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform.html

http://gameaboutsquares.com/

910

194

27 Jul 2014

The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-marijuana-legalization.html

349

Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

26 Jul 2014

https://github.com/churchio/onebody

1020

304

25 Jul 2014

Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

http://www.hotelwifitest.com/

671

237

24 Jul 2014

The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi

http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2014-07-23-12-28_the_sad_state_of_linux_wi-fi.html

432

266

23 Jul 2014

SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage

http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/07/22/spacex-soft-lands-falcon-9-rocket-first-stage

561

Count to ten when a plane goes down

22 Jul 2014

http://johncbeck.tumblr.com/post/92074597917/count-to-ten-when-a-plane-goes-down

1112

273

21 Jul 2014

Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/building-open-wireless-router

850

138

20 Jul 2014

Ask HN Mods: Why Do You Completely Change What Users Submit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8057287

386

163

19 Jul 2014

Now Accepting Bitcoin on Dell.com

http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2014/07/18/we-re-now-accepting-bitcoin-on-dell-com.aspx

400

199

18 Jul 2014

Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/07/21/140721fa_fact_mnookin?currentPage=all

http://www.google.com/get/noto/

589

132

16 Jul 2014

Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC

http://pangoly.com

778

213

15 Jul 2014

Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC

http://blog.ycombinator.com/y-combinator-has-filed-an-official-comment-with-the-fcc

841

120

14 Jul 2014

Show HN: A mostly complete 2014 "Tools of the Trade"

https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade

321

96

13 Jul 2014

I've been tracking everything about myself

http://aprilzero.com/#

https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/

https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/07/pinboard_turns_five/

491

116

10 Jul 2014

A Server Naming Scheme

http://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/

465

199

09 Jul 2014

Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8006869

875

127

08 Jul 2014

Python is now the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-the-most-popular-introductory-teaching-language-at-top-us-universities/fulltext

743

359

07 Jul 2014

Ask HN: 16-hour work week jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7994673

662

261

06 Jul 2014

PyPy-STM: first “interesting” release

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2014/07/pypy-stm-first-interesting-release.html

https://medium.com/code-adventures/4ba9e7f3e52b

https://news.ycombinator.com/show

1302

166

03 Jul 2014

Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

http://interviewing.io

604

215

02 Jul 2014

New Y Combinator Website

http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-y-combinator-website

432

133

01 Jul 2014

Sleep as a Competitive Advantage

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/sleep-as-a-competitive-advantage/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

http://yager.io/programming/go.html

http://www.howistart.org/posts/erlang/1

221

31

28 Jun 2014

Commencement address by Bill and Melinda Gates

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/june/gates-commencement-remarks-061514.html

376

116

27 Jun 2014

Visualizing Algorithms

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/

1557

88

26 Jun 2014

Supreme court: Warrantless cell phone searches illegal [pdf]

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-132_8l9c.pdf

854

145

25 Jun 2014

A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a_hole_in_my_2_year_old_son/

706

447

24 Jun 2014

My startup failed, and this is what it feels like

https://medium.com/@nikkidurkin99/my-startup-failed-and-this-is-what-it-feels-like-c5d64b3ae96b

1084

252

23 Jun 2014

Employees That Stay In Companies Longer Get Paid Less

http://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2014/06/22/employees-that-stay-in-companies-longer-than-2-years-get-paid-50-less/

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1820&re=1

439

78

21 Jun 2014

The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/empzeal-superhydrophobic-leaf/

https://developers.google.com/web/starter-kit/

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EOE0WKQ

598

403

18 Jun 2014

Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

http://wavepot.com

625

132

17 Jun 2014

How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TI4hjfb5cbEMTaY2vMsG--nlhQkH5N_aKWVGBGGmOuA/edit?usp=sharing

556

435

16 Jun 2014

Zelda: The Wind Waker – Tech and Texture Analysis

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104415

332

77

15 Jun 2014

Kingston and PNY using cheaper components after good reviews

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184253-ssd-shadiness-kingston-and-pny-caught-bait-and-switching-cheaper-components-after-good-reviews

http://blog.samaltman.com/founder-depression

493

198

13 Jun 2014

All Our Patent Are Belong To You

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

1999

314

12 Jun 2014

With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/206401-with-the-machine-hp-may-have-invented-a-new-kind-of-computer

595

292

11 Jun 2014

Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs

http://boingboing.net/2014/06/10/vermeers-paintings-might-be.html

http://blog.docker.com/2014/06/its-here-docker-1-0/

709

130

09 Jun 2014

iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi networks

https://twitter.com/fredericjacobs/status/475601665836744704

442

260

08 Jun 2014

Ever Wished Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? He Just Did

http://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did/

426

77

07 Jun 2014

I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/06/i_sold_my_startup_for_25_5_million_here_s_how_i_did_it.html

578

Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)

06 Jun 2014

http://tinsnail.neocities.org/

583

168

05 Jun 2014

Show HN: Card – An interactive CSS3 credit card form

http://jessepollak.github.io/card/

376

112

04 Jun 2014

Alexander Shulgin has died

http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/shulgin_alexander/

590

135

03 Jun 2014

The Swift Programming Language

https://developer.apple.com/swift/

1216

926

02 Jun 2014

Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi

https://medium.com/programming-ideas-tutorial-and-experience/433852f4b4d1

475

199

01 Jun 2014

Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18983493.ab

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

608

235

30 May 2014

We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft

http://spacecollege.org/isee3/we-are-now-in-command-of-the-isee-3-spacecraft.html

466

62

29 May 2014

TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/

797

382

28 May 2014

A Hacker’s Guide to Git

http://wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git

Python 3 can revive Python

117

27 May 2014

https://medium.com/p/2a7af4788b10

379

234

26 May 2014

Fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox

http://willyreport.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-willy-report-proof-of-massive-fraudulent-trading-activity-at-mt-gox-and-how-it-has-affected-the-price-of-bitcoin/

648

131

25 May 2014

Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla

http://www.donotlick.com/2014/05/23/try-out-fira-sans-a-free-open-source-typeface-commissioned-by-mozilla/

338

134

24 May 2014

Don't mess with Newegg

http://blog.newegg.com/patent-trolls-learn-mess-newegg/?cm_mmc=SNC-Facebook-_-SS-_-Blog-_-NA

1469

190

23 May 2014

PDFium: Chrome’s PDF rendering engine is now open-source

https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/

421

100

22 May 2014

The greatest bug I never fixed (2010)

http://blog.makandra.com/2010/04/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed/

389

61

21 May 2014

Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/23245/State-of-MetaFilter

400

176

19 May 2014

Google is Breaking the Internet

http://jeremypalmer.com/post/86123982870/google-is-breaking-the-internet

503

297

18 May 2014

How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn

http://shubh.am/how-i-bypassed-2-factor-authentication-on-google-yahoo-linkedin-and-many-others/

392

143

17 May 2014

I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee

http://ergoemacs.org/misc/xah_as_good_as_dead.html

363

301

16 May 2014

The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)

https://plus.google.com/+IanHickson/posts/iPmatxBYuj2

782

234

15 May 2014

AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/

492

258

14 May 2014

Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome

http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-Why-React-is-Awesome

632

219

13 May 2014

Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement

http://syncthing.net/

623

184

12 May 2014

Tell HN: Call your mom

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728411

https://medium.com/matter/f4a5d98a4f51/?attempt=2

http://allofbach.com/en/

607

148

09 May 2014

The future of Unreal Tournament begins today

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/the-future-of-unreal-tournament-begins-today

803

141

08 May 2014

The Day I Started Lying to Ruth

http://nymag.com/news/features/cancer-peter-bach-2014-5/

http://gabrielecirulli.com/articles/2048-success-and-me

925

222

06 May 2014

The next version of DuckDuckGo

https://next.duckduckgo.com

738

322

05 May 2014

Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary

http://rappers.mdaniels.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

600

267

04 May 2014

Programming Is a Dead End Job

http://thecodist.com/article/programming_is_a_dead_end_job

299

183

03 May 2014

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170

559

365

02 May 2014

An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/01/modern-java/

553

396

01 May 2014

The Absurdity of LinkedIn

http://blog.42floors.com/absurdity-linkedin/

http://www.firefox.com

603

503

29 Apr 2014

Follow up to the investigation results

https://github.com/blog/1826-follow-up-to-the-investigation-results

620

330

28 Apr 2014

Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656154

http://game.notch.net/drowning/#

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/no-exit/?hn

445

171

25 Apr 2014

Stripe Open-Source Retreat

https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-open-source-retreat

572

84

24 Apr 2014

“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/?completed

988

74

23 Apr 2014

Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

http://projectnaptha.com/

1055

134

22 Apr 2014

Results of the GitHub Investigation

https://github.com/blog/1823-results-of-the-github-investigation

739

479

21 Apr 2014

SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docked With The Space Station

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/04/20/spacex-dragon-successfully-docked-with-the-space-station/

445

71

20 Apr 2014

Stock Photos That Don’t Suck

https://medium.com/design-ux/62ae4bcbe01b

568

67

19 Apr 2014

New axe design uses lever action to make splitting wood easier

http://www.vipukirves.fi/english/description.htm

579

155

18 Apr 2014

The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

635

227

17 Apr 2014

Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/04/lens-blur-in-new-google-camera-app.html

644

239

16 Apr 2014

SF’s Housing Crisis Explained

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/

683

465

15 Apr 2014

Huginn: Like Yahoo Pipes plus IFTTT on your server

https://github.com/cantino/huginn/blob/master/README.md

524

94

14 Apr 2014

Ask HN: CTO wants me to leave

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7579845

403

274

13 Apr 2014

CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked

https://twitter.com/indutny/status/454773820822679552

562

142

12 Apr 2014

How we got read access on Google’s production servers

http://blog.detectify.com/post/82370846588/how-we-got-read-access-on-googles-production-servers

http://www.drop-dropbox.com/

1990

1008

10 Apr 2014

"OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make sure it's exploitable"

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/211963

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/4/8/Rails-4-1/

http://heartbleed.com/

1768

528

07 Apr 2014

Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/733754/visually-stunning-math-concepts-which-are-easy-to-explain

560

78

06 Apr 2014

How I Hacked a Router

http://disconnected.io/2014/03/18/how-i-hacked-your-router/

348

89

05 Apr 2014

Learn C and build your own Lisp

http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

641

145

04 Apr 2014

Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler

http://roslyn.codeplex.com/

1374

446

03 Apr 2014

0^0

http://www.askamathematician.com/2010/12/q-what-does-00-zero-raised-to-the-zeroth-power-equal-why-do-mathematicians-and-high-school-teachers-disagree/

506

248

02 Apr 2014

The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507297

490

170

01 Apr 2014

NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought: Study

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/uk-usa-security-nsa-rsa-idUKBREA2U0U620140331

425

97

31 Mar 2014

Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire [video]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-and-spacex-elon-musks-industrial-empire/

363

141

30 Mar 2014

Meet the People Taking over Hacker News

http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news

614

286

29 Mar 2014

Tesla Adds Titanium Underbody Shield and Aluminum Deflector Plates to Model S

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-adds-titanium-underbody-shield-and-aluminum-deflector-plates-model-s

631

399

28 Mar 2014

Whatever goes up, that’s what we do

http://dcurt.is/facebooks-predicament

609

222

27 Mar 2014

ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text

https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/

695

280

26 Mar 2014

Facebook acquires Oculus VR

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=1

http://flukeout.github.io/

560

120

24 Mar 2014

Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not To Hire Apple Workers

http://www.businessinsider.com/emails-eric-schmidt-sergey-brin-hiring-apple-2014-3?utm_content=buffer7d246&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

581

321

23 Mar 2014

What I Learned Negotiating With Steve Jobs

http://heidiroizen.tumblr.com/post/80368150370/what-i-learned-negotiating-with-steve-jobs

373

146

22 Mar 2014

Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761

661

805

21 Mar 2014

Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/03/20/google_ceo_larry_page_elon_musk_would_get_my_inheritance_over_charity.html

640

430

20 Mar 2014

Welcome to Unreal Engine 4

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/welcome-to-unreal-engine-4

http://moto360.motorola.com/

669

414

18 Mar 2014

Gravity waves from Big Bang detected

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gravity-waves-cmb-b-mode-polarization/

892

171

17 Mar 2014

Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes-sexism-and-intimidation-behind-her-github-exit/

1188

1057

16 Mar 2014

Worse

http://www.marco.org/2014/03/15/worse

674

280

15 Mar 2014

Elon Musk: To the People of New Jersey

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/people-new-jersey

https://d4l3.com/dreams

789

382

13 Mar 2014

Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading

http://www.squirt.io

http://ov3y.github.io/2048-AI/

1040

Python Language Features and Tricks

11 Mar 2014

2048

http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/

2903

410

10 Mar 2014

How not to write an API

http://ghost.teario.com/how-not-to-write-an-api/

407

157

09 Mar 2014

http://sahandsaba.com/thirty-python-language-features-and-tricks-you-may-not-know.html

404

85

08 Mar 2014

LHC Physics Center bans Powerpoint, switches to whiteboard-only forums

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/march-2014/physics-by-hand

341

156

07 Mar 2014

The Face Behind Bitcoin?

http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html

https://stripe.com/checkout

559

208

05 Mar 2014

The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26260978

http://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/

503

364

03 Mar 2014

What Did Not Happen At Mt. Gox

http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/03/01/what-did-not-happen-at-mtgox/

291

92

02 Mar 2014

"Free-to-play" misleading advertising in Europe

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-02-27-free-to-play-misleading-advertising-in-europe

410

222

01 Mar 2014

A birthday present from Broadcom

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/6299

625

161

28 Feb 2014

GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

1122

304

27 Feb 2014

Atom

http://atom.io/

1475

641

26 Feb 2014

Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

http://zachholman.com/posts/only-90s-developers/

710

394

25 Feb 2014

The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS

https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-new-textsecure/

478

200

24 Feb 2014

One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001076.html

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html

https://github.com/neovim/neovim

http://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/

815

339

20 Feb 2014

Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/facebook-buying-whatsapp-for-16b-in-cash-and-stock-plus-3b-in-rsus/

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-engineer-crunch

452

426

18 Feb 2014

By The Time You Give Them a Raise, They’re Already Out The Door

http://saastr.quora.com/By-The-Time-You-Give-Them-a-Raise-They%E2%80%99re-Already-Out-The-Door

412