top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-14

John Resig: Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science at Khan Academy

http://ejohn.org/blog/introducing-khan-cs/

14 years ago

480 upvotes – 119 comments

Khan Academy: Computer Science

http://www.khanacademy.org/cs

14 years ago

336 upvotes – 54 comments

United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And Didn't Care

http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/08/united-airlines-lost-my-friends-10-year-old-daughter-and-didnt-care.html

14 years ago

242 upvotes – 188 comments

Thoughts on being a programmer

http://www.yelsew.com/thoughts.html

14 years ago

235 upvotes – 190 comments

Anic - Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh

http://code.google.com/p/anic?utm_source=HN

14 years ago

223 upvotes – 145 comments

What My Son's Disabilities Taught Me About 'Having It All'

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/07/what-my-sons-disabilities-taught-me-about-having-it-all/260479/#

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 85 comments

Rich Hickey: The Value of Values

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 42 comments

Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2

http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 81 comments

Uber Boston Has Been Served

http://blog.uber.com/2012/08/14/uber-boston-has-been-served/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 133 comments

The Mystery of the Encrypted Gauss Payload

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193781/The_Mystery_of_the_Encrypted_Gauss_Payload

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 44 comments

Samwers Clone Stripe

https://www.paymill.de/index.html

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 163 comments

The money part of App.net is a red herring

http://alexhillman.com/the-money-is-a-red-herring

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 98 comments

Pixel Perfect

http://daringfireball.net/2012/08/pixel_perfect

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 135 comments

Saylor Foundation: Computer Science

http://www.saylor.org/majors/computer-science/

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 44 comments

GNU Emacs ported to Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zielm.emacs

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 44 comments

1and1 ask for passwords over the phone

http://blog.tim-rogers.co.uk/posts/1and1-ask-for-passwords-over-the-phone

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 86 comments

DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/13/doublerobotics-telepresence-gets-sexy-and-made-in-the-usa/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 49 comments

ARM Goes 64-bit

http://www.realworldtech.com/arm64

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 60 comments

The Obvious Corp's preview of Medium

https://medium.com/p/9e53ca408c48

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 63 comments

Arch Linux to migrate to Systemd

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-August/023389.html

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 125 comments

Science Exchange Reproducibility Initiative

http://reproducibilityinitiative.org

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 35 comments

Authors destroy legal e-book lending site thanks to Authors Guild, publisher FUD

http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/134388-authors-destroy-legal-e-book-lending-site-thanks-to-authors-guild-publisher-fud

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 87 comments

CloudFlare helps save Wikileaks' bacon

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/13/cloudflare-helps-save-wikileaks-bacon/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

Improving HTTPS Performance with Early SSL Termination

http://blog.filepicker.io/post/29422604907/improved-https-performance-with-early-ssl-termination

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 59 comments

JRE & JDK now available to OS X developers

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1735645

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 32 comments

Plivo makes it to 50 countries in 30 days, outstrips competition

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/13/plivo-makes-it-to-50-countries-in-30-days-outstrips-competition/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 45 comments

Haskell Is Exceptionally Unsafe

https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/haskell-is-exceptionally-unsafe/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 50 comments

Coco Controller (YC S12) Will Turn Your iPhone Into A Gaming Powerhouse

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/14/the-yc-backed-coco-controller-will-turn-your-iphone-into-a-gaming-powerhouse/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 45 comments

Mozilla removes -moz-opacity; man threatens to sue for $18,000

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765645

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Deadman.io - a digital dead man's switch

http://www.deadman.io

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 51 comments

The Science of Serif vs Sans Serif Type

http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-sans-serif-typefaces/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

Tastemaker (YC S12) is an online interior decorating service for everyone

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/14/tastemaker-wants-to-make-interior-design-more-affordable-and-accessible/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

Hack a Standing Desk from IKEA

http://priceonomics.com/desks/ikea/#standing-desk

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 50 comments

How to Be a Better Procrastinator

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443537404577579033271214626.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade temperatures ever

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/08/hot-stuff-cern-physicists-create-record-breaking-subatomic-soup.html

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

A Scheme Story (1992)

http://www.trollope.org/scheme.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

Prosthetic retina restores sight in mice after brain's visual code is cracked

http://www.nature.com/news/prosthetic-retina-helps-to-restore-sight-in-mice-1.11164

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Lorenz Attractor in 101 bytes of JS

https://gist.github.com/1320178

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 21 comments

Why I Use Perl: Testing

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2012/08/why-i-use-perl-testing.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 21 comments

FundersClub: getting Crowdfunding right

http://alexeymk.com/2012/08/12/fundersclub---getting-crowdfunding-right.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Go Tutorial: Object Orientation and Go's Special Data Types

http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/go-tutorial-object-orientation-and-gos-s/240005402

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

Internet Freedom in Malaysia #stop114a

http://stop114a.wordpress.com/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

UpStart.com: The Startup is you. A new approach to funding and mentorship.

http://www.upstart.com/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 37 comments

WePay Drops Prices, Rolls Out White Label Payments API

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/14/paypal-competitor-wepay-adds-white-label-api-drops-prices

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 24 comments

Riak at Braintree

http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/08/14/riak-at-braintree/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Lisp Did Not and Never Will Gain Enough Traction

http://kresimirbojcic.com/2012/08/14/why-lisp-did-not-and-never-will-gain-enough-traction.html

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 82 comments

The Gang of Four is Wrong and You Don't Understand Delegation

http://www.saturnflyer.com/blog/jim/2012/07/06/the-gang-of-four-is-wrong-and-you-dont-understand-delegation

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 41 comments

BERG Little Printer available to pre-order

http://uk-shop.bergcloud.com/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 52 comments

Flying car closes in on FAA OK

http://www.bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/technology/view/20220812flying_car_closes_in_on_faa_ok_terrafugia_already_has_more_than_100_orders_for_its_279000_aircraft

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 61 comments

How the NYT paywall is working

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/08/12/how-the-nyt-paywall-is-working/

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 24 comments
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