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Top of Month - Aug 2014

1. First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos
   (10 Aug 2014 | 1470 points | Comments)

2. Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft
   (26 Aug 2014 | 1224 points | Comments)

3. Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
   (25 Aug 2014 | 1013 points | Comments)

4. Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft
   (20 Aug 2014 | 831 points | Comments)

5. fork() can fail
   (20 Aug 2014 | 760 points | Comments)

6. Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online
   (23 Aug 2014 | 749 points | Comments)

7. Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
   (13 Aug 2014 | 717 points | Comments)

8. X to close
   (13 Aug 2014 | 704 points | Comments)

9. MathBox 2
   (14 Aug 2014 | 657 points | Comments)

10. Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK
    (26 Aug 2014 | 653 points | Comments)

11. A Single Div
    (26 Aug 2014 | 649 points | Comments)

12. Hextris
    (17 Aug 2014 | 589 points | Comments)

13. Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
    (16 Aug 2014 | 577 points | Comments)

14. Polaroid Cube
    (11 Aug 2014 | 575 points | Comments)

15. Extracting audio from visual information
    (4 Aug 2014 | 573 points | Comments)

16. They're Made out of Meat
    (8 Aug 2014 | 558 points | Comments)

17. Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp
    (22 Aug 2014 | 547 points | Comments)

18. The Road Ahead
    (30 Aug 2014 | 537 points | Comments)

19. How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machines for kids
    (6 Aug 2014 | 492 points | Comments)

20. Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
    (24 Aug 2014 | 486 points | Comments)

21. Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
    (26 Aug 2014 | 479 points | Comments)

22. Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official
    (25 Aug 2014 | 475 points | Comments)

23. Project Euler Returns
    (15 Aug 2014 | 471 points | Comments)

24. Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
    (28 Aug 2014 | 470 points | Comments)

25. US cable giants calls on FCC to block cities' expansion of high-speed internet
    (30 Aug 2014 | 460 points | Comments)

26. Show HN: Stressed and burned out, so I created my first app – Remember Win
    (13 Aug 2014 | 455 points | Comments)

27. Yahoo stopping all new development of YUI
    (29 Aug 2014 | 450 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)
    (1 Aug 2014 | 449 points | Comments)

29. Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
    (19 Aug 2014 | 442 points | Comments)

30. Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess
    (8 Aug 2014 | 438 points | Comments)

31. Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app
    (26 Aug 2014 | 438 points | Comments)

32. US Sought Permission to Change Historical Record of a Public Court Proceeding
    (5 Aug 2014 | 437 points | Comments)

33. Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
    (14 Aug 2014 | 435 points | Comments)

34. Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years
    (11 Aug 2014 | 434 points | Comments)

35. Announcing UberPool
    (5 Aug 2014 | 430 points | Comments)

36. We have C++14
    (18 Aug 2014 | 426 points | Comments)

37. Why Racket? Why Lisp?
    (21 Aug 2014 | 418 points | Comments)

38. What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?
    (12 Aug 2014 | 408 points | Comments)

39. OpenStreetMap Then and Now
    (11 Aug 2014 | 406 points | Comments)

40. The Matasano Crypto Challenges
    (12 Aug 2014 | 404 points | Comments)

41. Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code published
    (6 Aug 2014 | 402 points | Comments)

42. Justin.tv has shut down
    (5 Aug 2014 | 396 points | Comments)

43. Open Source Email Templates
    (8 Aug 2014 | 390 points | Comments)

44. Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
    (16 Aug 2014 | 390 points | Comments)

45. Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll
    (12 Aug 2014 | 385 points | Comments)

46. Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails to US Government
    (30 Aug 2014 | 385 points | Comments)

47. Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop
    (12 Aug 2014 | 383 points | Comments)

48. The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit
    (21 Aug 2014 | 383 points | Comments)

49. P5.js: Processing for today’s web
    (6 Aug 2014 | 381 points | Comments)

50. Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup
    (14 Aug 2014 | 380 points | Comments)

51. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL
    (4 Aug 2014 | 372 points | Comments)

52. Fish vs. Fish in Street Fighter II
    (20 Aug 2014 | 372 points | Comments)

53. Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason
    (8 Aug 2014 | 368 points | Comments)

54. Unknown orange-red glow over Pacific Ocean
    (25 Aug 2014 | 366 points | Comments)

55. The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World
    (26 Aug 2014 | 366 points | Comments)

56. Pulling the Curtain on Airport Security [pdf]
    (24 Aug 2014 | 363 points | Comments)

57. The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
    (25 Aug 2014 | 356 points | Comments)

58. Hate Your ISP? Maybe You Need Community Fiber
    (1 Aug 2014 | 355 points | Comments)

59. Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment
    (8 Aug 2014 | 355 points | Comments)

60. Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
    (28 Aug 2014 | 355 points | Comments)

61. Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides
    (11 Aug 2014 | 353 points | Comments)

62. C3.js: D3-based reusable chart library
    (27 Aug 2014 | 350 points | Comments)

63. YouTab: Automatically get chords for music
    (20 Aug 2014 | 349 points | Comments)

64. Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V
    (1 Aug 2014 | 345 points | Comments)

65. Maps of the Roman Empire
    (19 Aug 2014 | 345 points | Comments)

66. Hotel fines $500 for every bad review posted online
    (4 Aug 2014 | 344 points | Comments)

67. Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion
    (27 Aug 2014 | 344 points | Comments)

68. 3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models
    (5 Aug 2014 | 343 points | Comments)

69. Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft
    (19 Aug 2014 | 343 points | Comments)

70. Useful Unix commands for exploring data
    (27 Aug 2014 | 343 points | Comments)

71. FTP Server at LSUHealth New Orleans
    (31 Aug 2014 | 342 points | Comments)

72. Navdy: HUD for your car
    (5 Aug 2014 | 337 points | Comments)

73. Building 3D with Ikea
    (27 Aug 2014 | 337 points | Comments)

74. Don't be a jerk
    (7 Aug 2014 | 333 points | Comments)

75. Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast
    (1 Aug 2014 | 332 points | Comments)

76. I found a bug in the .NET framework and fixed it by hand-altering the DLL
    (1 Aug 2014 | 332 points | Comments)

77. The Python I Would Like To See
    (16 Aug 2014 | 327 points | Comments)

78. Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL
    (22 Aug 2014 | 325 points | Comments)

79. Rails 4.2.0 beta1: Active Job, Deliver Later, Adequate Record, Web Console
    (20 Aug 2014 | 322 points | Comments)

80. Amazon Local Register
    (13 Aug 2014 | 321 points | Comments)

81. Neglected machine learning ideas
    (1 Aug 2014 | 319 points | Comments)

82. Transducers are coming to Clojure
    (6 Aug 2014 | 319 points | Comments)

83. Inside the Dark, Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection
    (15 Aug 2014 | 317 points | Comments)

84. Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
    (18 Aug 2014 | 317 points | Comments)

85. Amit's Game Programming Information
    (19 Aug 2014 | 317 points | Comments)

86. LinkedIn to pay nearly $6M in unpaid overtime wages and damages to 359 employees
    (5 Aug 2014 | 316 points | Comments)

87. An Unreal Decision
    (14 Aug 2014 | 316 points | Comments)

88. Seneca: On the Shortness of Life
    (19 Aug 2014 | 316 points | Comments)

89. Arrow: Better dates and times for Python
    (5 Aug 2014 | 315 points | Comments)

90. Compile like it's 1992
    (11 Aug 2014 | 315 points | Comments)

91. I'm 25 years old and I am lost
    (14 Aug 2014 | 309 points | Comments)

92. Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
    (21 Aug 2014 | 309 points | Comments)

93. 2014 Fields Medals announced
    (12 Aug 2014 | 308 points | Comments)

94. George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940)
    (16 Aug 2014 | 305 points | Comments)

95. I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
    (11 Aug 2014 | 304 points | Comments)

96. What Do Blind People Actually See?
    (13 Aug 2014 | 304 points | Comments)

97. JavaScript: Servo’s only garbage collector
    (26 Aug 2014 | 304 points | Comments)

98. DocumentDB
    (21 Aug 2014 | 300 points | Comments)

99. Hal Finney being cryopreserved now
    (28 Aug 2014 | 300 points | Comments)

100. Java 9 features announced
     (18 Aug 2014 | 298 points | Comments)