top 50% 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

PrismJS

http://prismjs.com/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 24 comments

Yuri Milner's Fundamental Physics Prize

http://www.economist.com/node/21559827/email

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 31 comments

Google buys Wildfire

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/sparking-better-conversation-with.html.html

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 46 comments

Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19061032

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 56 comments

The New Digg Arrives Ahead Of Schedule

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/31/the-new-digg-arrives-ahead-of-schedule/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 90 comments

The Incredible Click Rate of Nothing

http://adage.com/article/digital/incredible-click-rate/236233/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

Hiptype (YC S12) Launches A Google Analytics-Style Service For E-Books

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/31/hiptype-launch/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

How to Write

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/colson-whiteheads-rules-for-writing.html?src=me&ref=general&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

NBC Retracts Complaint, Guy Adams Is Back On Twitter

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/31/nbc-retracts-complaint-guy-adams-is-back-on-twitter/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Recycled a piano into a work desk

http://mrsamberapple.com/piano-desk

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

The Art of Lisp & Writing

http://www.dreamsongs.com/ArtOfLisp.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 4 comments

Human Workers, Managed by an Algorithm

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428440/when-crowdsourcing-gets-outsourced/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

Having fun with Redis Replication between Amazon and Rackspace

http://3scale.github.com/2012/07/25/fun-with-redis-replication/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 38 comments

UBS sues Nasdaq over $357 million IPO loss

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ubs-profits-disappoint-amid-loss-on-facebook-ipo-2012-07-31-14854710

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

Hbro: Haskell based browser

https://github.com/k0ral/hbro

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments

Rare Photos of the Soviet Bomb Project

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2012/07/27/rare-photos-of-the-soviet-bomb-project/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Richard M Stallman: Steam Is Good For GNU/Linux

http://www.muktware.com/4042/richard-m-stallman-steam-good-gnulinux

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 52 comments

Final Fantasy comes to Ouya

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console/posts/278237

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 68 comments

HTML5Rocks now on Github

https://github.com/html5rocks/www.html5rocks.com

14 years ago

★ 2.2k HTML
64 upvotes – 11 comments

Hulu Plus Arrives on Apple TV

http://blog.hulu.com/2012/07/31/hulu-plus-arrives-on-apple-tv/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 54 comments

Another power failure in India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/liveblog/15291183.cms

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

9 Scientists Receive a New Physics Prize

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/science/9-scientists-win-yuri-milners-fundamental-physics-prize.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Mars rover "Curiosity" set for touchdown next week

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

Play blackjack in Excel

http://ironspread.com/blackjack.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

New book Measurement by author of Lockhart's Lament

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674057555

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace

http://archive.org/details/AdamCurtis-AllWatchedOverByMachinesOfLovingGrace/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

Think Relevance podcast with Rich Hickey

http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2012/07/31/rich-hickey-podcast-episode-014

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Some Fresh Twitter Stats (as of July 2012, Dataset Included)

http://diegobasch.com/some-fresh-twitter-stats-as-of-july-2012

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

StockTwits founder “disappointed” that Twitter is “hijacking” his idea

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/07/31/stocktwits-founder-disappointed-that-twitter-is-hijacking-his-idea-with-cashtags/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 42 comments

Fedora 18 to feature the GNOME2 fork MATE

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

http://attrition.org/errata/plagiarism/rahul_tyagi/emails.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 49 comments

Facebook: There must have been miscommunication with Limited Run

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-limited-run-response-20120730,0,5059899.story

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 23 comments

John Doerr: Coursera 'Could Be Big The Way Google Was'

http://chronicle.com/article/Coursera-Throws-a-Massive/133227/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 21 comments

MixPanel tracking API down

http://status.mixpanel.com/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 38 comments

One Thing Outlook.com Mail Needs To Fix Immediately

http://digitizor.com/2012/08/01/one-thing-outlook-com-mail-needs-to-fix-immediately/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 32 comments
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