top 50% 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

471 upvotes – 138 comments

Rubygems.org compromised

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

13 years ago

405 upvotes – 158 comments

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

395 upvotes – 213 comments

Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe

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

13 years ago

369 upvotes – 242 comments

The sound of the dialup, pictured

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

13 years ago

363 upvotes – 46 comments

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

224 upvotes – 61 comments

High Performance Networking in Google Chrome

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

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 42 comments

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

188 upvotes – 61 comments

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

187 upvotes – 35 comments

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

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

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 55 comments

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

180 upvotes – 115 comments

Ruby deploys temporarily disabled

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

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 93 comments

A Parable

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

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 77 comments

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

157 upvotes – 54 comments

ZenPen

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

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 62 comments

RIM Changes Company Name to BlackBerry

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

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 77 comments

Who Does Skype Let Spy?

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

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 65 comments

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

109 upvotes – 99 comments

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

109 upvotes – 27 comments

Computer Scientists Find New Shortcuts for Traveling Salesman Problem

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

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 5 comments

Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-brick-Samsung-laptops-1793958.html

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 54 comments

The BlackBerry, Rebuilt, Lives to Fight Another Day

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/the-blackberry-refreshed-lives-to-fight-another-day.html?pagewanted=1&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 85 comments

US Senator says games are a bigger problem than guns

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/01/yes-a-us-senator-just-said-games-are-a-bigger-problem-than-guns/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 107 comments

The 787's Problems Run Deeper Than Outsourcing

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/the_787s_problems_run_deeper_t.html

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 53 comments

Do What You Love? Screw That

http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/worst-career-advice-do-what-you-love.html

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Launch your own hosted SelfStarter without writing a line of code

http://www.crowdhoster.com/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 31 comments

First mega.co.nz indexer and search engine

http://mega-search.me

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 72 comments

WebGL 3D Globe to visualize real-time site traffic

https://www.gosquared.com/labs/globe/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

Erlang/OTP R16A has been released

http://www.erlang.org/news/41

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Online video editor for mashing Vine with SoundCloud, YouTube and GIFs

http://weavly.com

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

The Factory Floor: Picking (and Maintaining) a Partner

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2794

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Is C++ context-free or context-sensitive?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14589346/is-c-context-free-or-context-sensitive

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

Boeing Knew of Problems With 787 Batteries Before Fires

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/business/boeing-aware-of-battery-ills-before-the-fires.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 6 comments

We Work in Philly – Startup Map

http://technicallyphilly.com/2013/01/28/weworkinphilly-startup-map

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Submittable (YC S12): How To Find The Pain That Creates Paying Customers

http://mixergy.com/michael-fitzgerald-submittable-interview/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

Analytics Lessons Learned

http://leananalyticsbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Analytics-Lessons-Learned.pdf

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 5 comments

It’s a bad time to be a hacker in the United States

http://pandodaily.com/2013/01/17/its-a-bad-time-to-be-a-hacker-in-the-united-states/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

Visual Studio Tools for Git

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2013/01/30/getting-started-with-git-in-visual-studio-and-team-foundation-service.aspx

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: We open sourced One-Time Secret today

http://blog.onetimesecret.com/2013/01/30/onetimesecret-is-now-opensource/?via=h

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 29 comments

A string processing rant

http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/a-string-processing-rant/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: PlayCLI: Play Iteratees + UNIX pipe

http://blog.greweb.fr/?p=2060

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

Zynga’s chief game designer, Brian Reynolds, resigns

http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/29/zyngas-chief-game-designer-brian-reynolds-resigns/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 43 comments

OpenTable Acquires FoodSpotting for $10 Million

http://allthingsd.com/20130129/opentable-devours-foodspotting-for-10-million-in-cash/?mod=tweet

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 29 comments

BlackBerry 10 Live Webcast

http://tremolo.edgesuite.net/blackberry_experience_launch/desktop_dvr/index.html

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 59 comments

Designers Will Code

https://medium.com/design-startups/6c423fc5ccef

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 41 comments

List of Machine Learning and Data Science Resources - Part 2

http://conductrics.com/data-science-resources-2

13 years ago

46 upvotes – 1 comments

Mailbox and the Todo Protocol

http://www.harlanlewis.com/writing/2013/01/30/mailbox-and-the-todo-protocol/

13 years ago

45 upvotes – 17 comments
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