top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-30

Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM

http://www.branded3.com/blogs/the-antisocial-network-path-texts-my-entire-phonebook-at-6am/

13 years ago

1223 upvotes – 409 comments

Light Table 0.4 released

http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/04/28/light-table-040/

13 years ago

544 upvotes – 189 comments

What a stupid idea

http://dcurt.is/what-a-stupid-idea

13 years ago

517 upvotes – 220 comments

The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/9216e1c9da7d

13 years ago

442 upvotes – 135 comments

Avoiding Burnout

http://andrewdumont.me/avoiding-burnout

13 years ago

401 upvotes – 105 comments

Why SICP Matters

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/sicp.html

13 years ago

312 upvotes – 127 comments

Introducing Heka

http://blog.mozilla.org/services/2013/04/30/introducing-heka/

13 years ago

299 upvotes – 57 comments

Stay away from rebase

http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2013/04/30/please-stay-away-from-rebase

13 years ago

295 upvotes – 111 comments

How to Choose a Profitable Niche

http://www.trevormckendrick.com/how-to-choose-a-profitable-niche/

13 years ago

260 upvotes – 36 comments

We Need A Standard Layered Image Format

http://shapeof.com/archives/2013/4/we_need_a_standard_layered_image_format.html

13 years ago

246 upvotes – 142 comments

Introducing Trello Business Class

http://blog.trello.com/introducing-business-class/

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 69 comments

Path fined $800,000 by FTC

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/02/path.shtm

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 50 comments

Exploiting a Bug in Google's Glass

http://www.saurik.com/id/16

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 31 comments

Simplify

http://paulstamatiou.com/simplify

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 36 comments

Git pull --rebase until it hurts

http://jrb.tumblr.com/post/49248876242/git-pull-rebase-until-it-hurts

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 67 comments

Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

http://blog.banyan.co/banyan-is-now-in-public-beta/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 102 comments

An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD

http://clay.io/blog/an-appeal-to-google-make-io-a-gcctld/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 121 comments

Peter Norvig and eight others are Hacker School residents

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/17-peter-norvig-and-eight-others-are-hacker-school-residents

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 81 comments

Google's self-driving car gathers almost 1 GB/sec

https://twitter.com/Bill_Gross/status/329069954911580160

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 73 comments

French President announces pro-business measures

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2013/04/30/10-pro-startup-measures-francois-hollande-announced-this-week/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 152 comments

An open-source fully homomorphic encryption library

https://github.com/shaih/HElib

13 years ago

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127 upvotes – 69 comments

‘Time Crystals’ Could Upend Physicists’ Theory of Time

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/time-crystals/all/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 48 comments

Restoring the first website

http://first-website.web.cern.ch/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 23 comments

Dwolla Raises $16.5M from Andreessen Horowitz

http://blog.dwolla.com/coast-to-coast-with-andreessen-horowitz/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 50 comments

How we failed our YC interview

http://mr-mariusz.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-we-failed-our-yc-interview.html

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 68 comments

TCP/IP in Lego

http://righteousit.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/practical-visual-three-dimensional-pedagogy-for-internet-protocol-packet-header-control-fields/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Illinois moves to legalise employer access to workers' social media accounts

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201304302238-0022716

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 60 comments

Richer countries are happier than poorer ones. Richer families are happier too

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/money-buys-happiness-and-you-can-never-have-too-much-new-research-says/275380/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 49 comments

Making a game on the C64

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/04/29/ponkmortem/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

Turn a light bulb on with every new user or download

http://rigoneri.com/post/49229364680

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 39 comments

Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens

http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

AMD’s “heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access” coming this year in Kaveri

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/amds-heterogeneous-uniform-memory-access-coming-this-year-in-kaveri/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: How did you make your first $10,000?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5631747

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 89 comments

The Flaw that May Bring Down Bitcoin or Change it Forever

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2013/04/the-flaw-that-may-bring-down-bitcoin-or-change-it-forever.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

Heroku Postgres - GIS Support Now Available

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/4/30/heroku_postgres_geospatial_support_now_available

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Human rights record of the United States in 2012 (Chinese viewpoint)

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-04/22/content_16430019.htm

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 84 comments

How A 17-Year-Old Girl Won a Hackathon

http://evolver.fm/2013/04/30/how-a-17-year-old-girl-won-a-hackathon-and-what-it-means-for-women-in-tech/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 80 comments

Reasoning About the Heap in Rust

http://johnbender.us/2013/04/30/reasoning-about-the-heap-in-rust

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

Data Hacking and Coffee

http://heypodo.com/blog/2013/04/29/data_hacking_and_coffee.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/a-skeptics-guide-to-the-mind/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

Robot Finds Mysterious Spheres in Ancient Temple

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/mysterious-spheres-emerge-from-ancient-temple-130429.htm

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 42 comments

How to Accept and Decline Job Offers

http://livingformonday.com/business-and-careers/accept-decline-job-offers/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 56 comments

African Bus Routes Redrawn Using Cell-Phone Data

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514211/african-bus-routes-redrawn-using-cell-phone-data/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

Year Five

http://blog.jayfields.com/2013/04/year-five.html

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

Wii U has been hacked

http://www.wiikey.com/news/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 49 comments

OVH acknowledges back office security issue

http://pastebin.com/skGagP0X

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Herschel space telescope goes blind, ends mission

http://earthsky.org/space/herschel-telescope-goes-blind-ends-mission

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

PHP Commandments

http://biasedphp.com/php-commandments

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 110 comments
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