top 50% 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

IOS Image Tricks

http://www.dwellable.com/blog/Tech-iOS-Image-Tricks

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

Beyond Meat: Fake Meat So Good It Will Freak You Out

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/07/beyond_meat_fake_chicken_that_tastes_so_real_it_will_freak_you_out_.html

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 178 comments

PayDragon (YC S11) raises $1.35M so hungry people can skip lines

http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/27/paydragon-raises-1-35-million-so-hungry-people-can-skip-lines/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: multi-perspective StarCraft 2 web replays

http://ggreplayz.com

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 58 comments

Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy

http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-riaa-report-sopapipa-ineffective-tool-against-music-piracy-120727/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

Why Google makes the perfect ISP

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133547-why-google-makes-the-perfect-isp

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 57 comments

Patent troll says it owns GPS, sues Foursquare

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/26/patent-troll-says-it-owns-gps-sues-foursquare/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 53 comments

The Humble Music Bundle

http://www.humblebundle.com/?music-bundle

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 39 comments

GDrive finally comes to Linux thanks to insynchq.com

https://forums.insynchq.com/discussion/1363/insync-for-linux-beta

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

Transparent plug-in hybrid retrofit for any car

http://mtsunews.com/wheel-hub-retrofit-update/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 54 comments

OnLive comes to Ouya, Controller Makes Full Frontal Debut

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console/posts/275869

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 66 comments

Backbone.js: Hacker's Guide Part 2 (Backbone.Collection)

http://dailyjs.com/2012/07/26/mvstar-3

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

Official Android writing style guide

http://developer.android.com/design/style/writing.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

Command line tools for the novice

http://andymatthews.net/read/2012/07/24/Command-line-tools-for-the-novice

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 56 comments

What Caffeine Really Does to Your Brain

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/07/26/what-caffeine-really-does-to-your-brain/?ss=innovation-science

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 51 comments

Things I’m loving about derbyjs

http://micknelson.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/6-things-im-loving-about-derbyjs/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

The Linux Talent Draft is On

https://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/185-jennifer-cloer/609615-the-linux-talent-draft-is-on

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 54 comments

FundersClub: An online platform for making angel investments

https://thefundersclub.com/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

Rails version 3.2.7 has been released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/7/26/ann-rails-3-2-7-has-been-released/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Learn Meteor Fundamentals and Best Practices

http://andrewscala.com/meteor/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

UK man convicted for sending "menacing" tweet wins appeal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19009344

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 29 comments

RIAA: Online Music Piracy Pales In Comparison to Offline Swapping

http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-online-music-piracy-pales-in-comparison-to-offline-swapping-120726/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 27 comments

2 month hackathon on a remote tropical island

http://comehackwithus.com/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 81 comments

API Documentation: Where to Begin

https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/api-where-to-begin

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2012/07/27/mark-zuckerbergs-big-facebook-mistake/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 29 comments

A Day without Programming

http://blog.filepicker.io/post/28141038384/a-day-without-programming

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 20 comments

Getting out of your comfort zone with Node.js

http://blog.count.ly/post/26159130586/a-story-of-getting-out-of-the-comfort-zone-with-node-js#disqus_thread

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Learn to code in 8 weeks with Bloc, an online bootcamp for would-be developers

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/26/bloc/

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 24 comments
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