top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-09

Software will not be patentable in New Zealand

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10882569

13 years ago

592 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

http://clippingmagic.com/

13 years ago

571 upvotes – 140 comments

A bill in Congress legalizes cell phone unlocking and fixes the DMCA

http://fixthedmca.org/unlocking-technology-act.html?r=hn

13 years ago

501 upvotes – 106 comments

The Onion releases fartscroll.js

http://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/

13 years ago

490 upvotes – 126 comments

“The Tesla Model S is our top-scoring car”

http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2013/05/video-the-tesla-model-s-is-our-top-scoring-car.html

13 years ago

370 upvotes – 283 comments

LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network

http://www.interactually.com/linkedin-creepiest-social-network/

13 years ago

334 upvotes – 205 comments

Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7396/full/485041e.html

13 years ago

292 upvotes – 179 comments

PyPy 2.0 Released

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2013/05/pypy-20-einstein-sandwich.html

13 years ago

280 upvotes – 76 comments

10 years later, ‘Star Wars Kid’ speaks out

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/09/10-years-later-the-star-wars-kid-speaks-out/

13 years ago

275 upvotes – 150 comments

An Efficient Way to Extract the Main Topics from a Sentence

http://thetokenizer.com/2013/05/09/efficient-way-to-extract-the-main-topics-of-a-sentence/

13 years ago

232 upvotes – 76 comments

Plans for Vim 7.4

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/vim_announce/ZWWgK9aXQ2Y/IMObY8lBFm0J

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 83 comments

RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OSX Support, Templates and Plugins

http://blog.rubymotion.com/post/49943751398/rubymotion-goes-2-0-and-gets-osx-support-templates-and

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 74 comments

Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/executive-order-making-open-and-machine-readable-new-default-government-

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 24 comments

Children of parents classified as “tiger” have worse grades, are more depressed

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/05/_tiger_mom_study_shows_the_parenting_method_doesn_t_work.html

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 170 comments

Try Objective-C

http://tryobjectivec.codeschool.com/

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 61 comments

This Is What One Half Second of High Speed Trading Looks Like

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/05/this-is-what-one-half-second-of-high-speed-trading-looks-like/

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 117 comments

80 FFTs Per Second To Detect Whistles and Switch On Lights

http://www.limpkin.fr/index.php?post/2013/04/26/The-whistled%3A-how-to-remake-a-dozen-years-old-project-the-right-way

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 25 comments

Btcd: A Full Alternative Bitcoin Implementation, Written In Go

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/btcd-a-full-bitcoin-alternative-written-in-go/

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 56 comments

Box Acquires Crocodoc (YC W10)

http://blog.box.com/2013/05/box-is-acquiring-crocodoc-to-reimagine-documents-in-the-cloud/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 42 comments

A solution for designers who don't know Wordpress

http://bckmn.com/naked-wordpress/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 44 comments

Why I'm Furious with Silicon Valley (2011)

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=60

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: the iPhone version of News/YC, a Hacker News reader

https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone

13 years ago

★ 826 Swift
110 upvotes – 73 comments

With Rifle and Bibliography: General Mattis on Professional Reading

http://strifeblog.org/2013/05/07/with-rifle-and-bibliography-general-mattis-on-professional-reading/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 50 comments

Members of Congress finally introduce serious DMCA reform

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/members-of-congress-finally-introduce-serious-dmca-reform/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 12 comments

The Manual-First Startup

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2013/05/07/the-manual-first-startup/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

Cleaning Radar Images using Neural Nets and Computer Vision

http://blog.forecast.io/cleaning-radar-images-using-neural-nets-computer-vision/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

It's legal to download The Great Gatsby in most of the world

http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2013/05/its-legal-to-download-great-gatsby.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 42 comments

Travelling Salesman – Official Movie Site

http://www.travellingsalesmanmovie.com/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 48 comments

The Worst Room - Photos of Cheap Rooms for Rent in NYC

http://theworstroom.tumblr.com/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 109 comments

Ruchi Sanghvi, Dropbox VP, testifies on immigration reform [video]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10100789294634021

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 32 comments

Click on the "I" and the "O"

https://developers.google.com/events/io/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

NSA Google Search Tips

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/nsa-manual-on-hacking-internet/?cid=7829534

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

Don't calculate p-values without understanding them

http://www.scottbot.net/HIAL/?p=24697

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

Use Google Glass and Twilio to Send and Receive SMS Messages

http://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/05/using-google-glass-twilio-ruby-and-sinatra-to-send-and-receive-sms-messages.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 6 comments

Nokia Asha 501: Impressive Low-end Touchscreen Phone for $99

http://techpp.com/2013/05/09/nokia-asha-501/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 67 comments

The 2013 Thiel Fellows

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682017/this-years-thiel-fellows-include-a-fashion-designer-a-poet-and-a-harvard-dropout#1

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 39 comments

Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/08/microsoft-mulling-nook-media-llc-purchase-for-1-billion/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 38 comments

Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies

http://project-open-data.github.io/policy-memo/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Find profitable niche in App Store and Google Play Market

http://appsleak.com

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Facebook in talks to buy Waze for $1B

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4378086,00.html

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 58 comments

You can't detect a touchscreen

http://www.stucox.com/blog/you-cant-detect-a-touchscreen/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 32 comments

Heart Patient Risk From iPad2 Found by 14-Year-Old

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-09/heart-patient-risk-from-ipad2-found-by-14-year-old.html

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 31 comments
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