top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-04

Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?

http://try.github.com/

14 years ago

510 upvotes – 171 comments

ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39

http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/04/victory-acta-suffers-final-humiliating-defeat-in-european-parliament/

14 years ago

495 upvotes – 86 comments

Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins

http://webcast.web.cern.ch/webcast/play_higgs.html

14 years ago

278 upvotes – 211 comments

Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/charles-carreon-drops-bogus-lawsuit-against-oatmeal-creator

14 years ago

269 upvotes – 61 comments

PHP is much better than what you think

http://fabien.potencier.org/article/64/php-is-much-better-than-what-you-think

14 years ago

248 upvotes – 334 comments

CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR17.12E.html

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 57 comments

Everything you need to know about Machine Learning in 30 minutes or less

http://www.hilarymason.com/presentations-2/devs-love-bacon-everything-you-need-to-know-about-machine-learning-in-30-minutes-or-less/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 15 comments

The Perfect Compliment

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/how-to-compliment-1009?page=all

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 61 comments

Tarsnap outage post-mortem

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-07-04-tarsnap-outage.html

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 52 comments

Things I like about programming in Go

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/07/things-i-like-about-programming-in-go.html

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 110 comments

Stephen Hawking lost $100 bet over Higgs boson discovery

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18708626

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 41 comments

HTC wins swipe to unlock patent dispute against Apple

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18709232

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 87 comments

4 min Emacs screencast inspired by Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle

http://emacsrocks.com/e11.html?

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 34 comments

Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham develops federated wiki

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/wiki-inventor/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 70 comments

Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

http://www.marco.org/2012/07/04/app-store-corrupt-binaries

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 49 comments

The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World in Mobile Money

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/04/the-invisible-bank-how-kenya-has-beaten-the-world-in-mobile-money/

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 68 comments

A Gentle Introduction to Algorithm Complexity Analysis

http://discrete.gr/complexity/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 23 comments

Beautiful Windows 8 concept

http://dribbble.com/shots/576250-Windows-UI-Concept/attachments/44311

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 52 comments

Google Apps Loophole, Let You Access Other’s Domain Login Details

http://jajodia-saket.sjbn.co/2012/07/google-apps-loophole-let-you-access-others-domain-login-details/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 22 comments

Steve Jobs on Average vs Best Software Developers

http://benlakey.com/2012/07/04/why-you-need-to-hire-great-developers-part-2/

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 123 comments

Godel's 2nd Incompleteness Theorem Explained in Words of One Syllable

http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Math/Milnikel/boolos-godel.pdf

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 58 comments

Treating JavaScript like a 30 year old language

http://jeremyckahn.github.com/blog/2012/07/01/treating-javascript-like-a-30-year-old-language/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 95 comments

Valve hands over its own movie-making tools to gamers

http://www.gizmag.com/valve-source-filmmaker/23180/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Autobahn - Save Time on Hacker News

http://vlad.github.com/autobahn

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 44 comments

Solve problems. Don't build ideas.

http://jmarbach.com/solve-problems-dont-build-ideas

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

Try git in your browser

https://github.com/blog/1183-try-git-in-your-browser

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

Bitmit - Buy and sell goods with Bitcoin

http://www.bitmit.net/en/recent

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

Single Dad Building Sequel To “Jetpack” Video Game He Built As A Teenager

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/03/single-dad-building-sequel-to-jetpack-video-game-he-built-as-a-teenager/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Jean-Louis Gassée: Nokia should fire Elop and the board should go too

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2188976/nokia-elop-board-jean-louis-gassee

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 78 comments

Replacing text in the DOM… solved?

http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/replacing-text-in-the-dom-solved/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

Galaxy Nexus ban remains, Apple posts $95.6M bond, Google stops selling

http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/07/galaxy-nexus-ban-remains-in-effect-for.html

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 104 comments

LHC claims new particle discovery

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18702455

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

CSS transforms unprefixed in Firefox nightly

http://paulrouget.com/e/transformsunprefixed/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 31 comments

Is personal funding viable?

http://blog.gittip.com/post/26505682007/is-personal-funding-viable

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 64 comments

PATCH Method for HTTP

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5789

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 28 comments

Adobe Flash API ported to Dart

https://github.com/bp74/dartflash

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 36 comments

You Cannot Correctly Represent Change Without Immutability

http://tapestryjava.blogspot.se/2012/07/you-cannot-correctly-represent-change.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Githtml - View Html Files from Github Repos On The Fly

https://github.com/ryt/githtml

14 years ago

★ 128 JavaScript
53 upvotes – 21 comments
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