top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-07-27

Gnome: Staring into the abyss

http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2012/07/27/staring-into-the-abyss/

14 years ago

292 upvotes – 180 comments

Sal Khan responds to critic

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/sal-khan-responds-to-critic/2012/07/25/gJQA83rW9W_blog.html

14 years ago

292 upvotes – 154 comments

1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012

http://www.writersofthefuture.com/time-capsule-predictions

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 141 comments

How to add a new syntactic feature to PHP

http://nikic.github.com/2012/07/27/How-to-add-new-syntactic-features-to-PHP.html

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 36 comments

A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community

http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/x7wah/dae_just_totally_ignore_the_startup_community_and/c5k7534

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 62 comments

A Different Road To Work, Bypassing College Dreams

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/26/157033600/bypassing-college-dreams-a-different-road-to-work

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 144 comments

Government: we can freeze Mega assets even if case is dismissed

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/government-we-can-freeze-mega-assets-even-if-case-is-dismissed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 109 comments

Dave Winer: An open Twitter-like ecosystem

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/25/anOpenTwitterlikeEcosystem.html#theresBeenALotOfDiscussionLatelyAboutWhetherAForpayOrAdsupportedModelWorksBetterWhatsBeenOverlookedIsThatTheresAThirdOptionUseTheWeb

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 80 comments

Economics of Google Fiber and what it means for U.S. broadband

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/26/the-economics-of-google-fiber-and-what-it-means-for-u-s-broadband/

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 64 comments

How well does Khan Academy teach?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/how-well-does-khan-academy-teach/2012/07/25/gJQA9bWEAX_blog.html

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 111 comments

Go is boring

http://aeronotix.pl/blog/go-is-boring

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 130 comments

Two More Patients HIV-Free After Bone Marrow Transplants

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/07/26/two-more-patients-hiv-free-after-bone-marrow-transplants/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 29 comments

Why isn't iTunes shuffle random?

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/23194/why-isnt-itunes-shuffle-random

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 74 comments

Sparrow made downloadable to conform to LGPL

http://sprw.me/lgpl.php

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 65 comments

NBCOlympics’ Opening Ceremony Tape Delay: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/27/nbc-olympic-opening-ceremony/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 86 comments

BinaryJS, Streaming realtime binary data to your web browser

http://binaryjs.com

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 26 comments

Bezos pledges $2.6M to support same sex marriage

https://mashable.com/2012/07/27/bezos-same-sex-marriage/

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 142 comments

Move Over Meteor: Derby Is The Other High Speed Node.js Framework In Town

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/27/move-over-meteor-derby-is-the-other-high-speed-node-js-framework-in-town/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 47 comments

Virtual Incubator to All

http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/27/virtual-incubator-to-all-nreduce-adds-mentors-and-demo-days-is-it-the-pre-angellist/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

Fogus leaves Relevance and Clojure/core

http://blog.fogus.me/2012/07/27/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-queue-fish/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 10 comments
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