top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-01-30

Are Placebos Really Sugar Pills?

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/are-placebos-really-sugar-pills.html

13 years ago

Rubygems.org compromised

http://rubygems.org/gems/exploit/versions/22.31.31

13 years ago

Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/01/30/git-init-vs.aspx

13 years ago

Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/elon-musk-boeing-787-battery-fundamentally-unsafe-381627/

13 years ago

The sound of the dialup, pictured

http://windytan.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html

13 years ago

Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server

http://nerds.airbnb.com/weve-launched-our-first-nodejs-app-to-product

13 years ago

High Performance Networking in Google Chrome

http://www.igvita.com/posa/high-performance-networking-in-google-chrome/

13 years ago

How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2011/06/how-i-failed-failed-and-finally-succeeded-at-learning-how-to-code/239855#

13 years ago

Aaron Swartz

http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21569674-aaron-swartz-computer-programmer-and-activist-committed-suicide-january-11th-aged-26-aaron?frsc=dg%7Ca

13 years ago

I give permission for IBM [...] to use JSLint for evil.

http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502

13 years ago

Julian Assange to run for Australian Senate

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/julian-assange-to-run-for-senate-20130130-2dl92.html

13 years ago

Ruby deploys temporarily disabled

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/489

13 years ago

A Parable

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs655/readings/ewd594.html

13 years ago

A student's grandmother is far more likely to die just before an exam

http://pike.psu.edu/dongwon/pro/grannies.pdf

13 years ago

ZenPen

http://www.zenpen.io/index.html#4+IEgvDUnOT83FSFknyFqNS8gNQ8AA==#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

13 years ago

RIM Changes Company Name to BlackBerry

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-30/rim-changes-company-name-to-blackberry.html

13 years ago

Who Does Skype Let Spy?

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/who_does_skype.html

13 years ago

Howler.js - Lightweight Javascript library for Web Audio and HTML5 Audio

http://goldfirestudios.com/blog/104/howler.js-Modern-Web-Audio-Javascript-Library

13 years ago

Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been doing?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/office-2013-just-what-on-earth-has-the-office-team-been-doing/

13 years ago

Computer Scientists Find New Shortcuts for Traveling Salesman Problem

https://simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/computer-scientists-take-road-less-traveled/

13 years ago