top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-07-31

Blind man shocks researchers with what he sees.

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/seeing_in_the_dark/

14 years ago

429 upvotes – 144 comments

Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2012/07/31/introducing-outlook-com-modern-email-for-the-next-billion-mailboxes.aspx

14 years ago

426 upvotes – 321 comments

Let my Wi-Fi go: FCC rules Verizon can't charge for Wi-Fi tethering

http://www.zdnet.com/let-my-wi-fi-go-fcc-rules-verizon-cant-charge-for-wi-fi-tethering-7000001916/

14 years ago

410 upvotes – 136 comments

A global decentralized encrypted datastore with anonymous publishing

https://github.com/tarcieri/cryptosphere

14 years ago

329 upvotes – 206 comments

How I made $10k in one day with Facebook Ads

http://irvinebroque.tumblr.com/post/28415393877/how-i-made-10k-in-one-day-with-facebook-ads-re-bots

14 years ago

273 upvotes – 113 comments

Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen devices

http://www.osnews.com/story/26230/Samsung_reveals_its_pre-iPhone_concepts_10_touchscreen

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 91 comments

The year 2000 illustrated in 1900

http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/30/france-in-the-year-2000-1899-1910/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 84 comments

New straighforward approach to teaching quantum mechanics

http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 55 comments

10-year-old problem in theoretical computer science falls

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/interactive-proofs-work-even-if-quantum-information-is-used-0731.html

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 14 comments

Mechanics of a Small Acquisition

http://quotidianventures.com/post/28411675934/mechanics-of-a-small-acquisition

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: Recommendations for learning and improving UX/UI skills?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4316967

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 50 comments

How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1

http://www.raywenderlich.com/14793/how-to-make-a-game-like-cut-the-rope-part-1

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask PG: What caused the downtime?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4315457

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 84 comments

Haskell Live: A Live Coding Adventure

http://haskelllive.com

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 39 comments

How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code

http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/building-quickbooks-how-intuit-manages-1/240003694

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 57 comments

Do Not Advertise On Facebook Until You Read This

http://wahanegi.com/do-not-advertise-on-facebook-until-you-read-this/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 47 comments

The future of GNOME

http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2012/07/31/the-future-of-gnome/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 105 comments

Getting your heart rate using R and Ruby.

http://blog.airbrake.io/guest-post/exploring-everything/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 17 comments

For More Pianos, Last Note Is Thud in the Dump

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/arts/music/for-more-pianos-last-note-is-thud-in-the-dump.html?_r=2&ref=arts

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 78 comments

Installing Linux on Windows 8 PCs: No easy answers

http://www.itworld.com/software/287946/there-will-be-no-easy-way-install-linux-windows-8-pcs

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 73 comments
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