top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-30

Ubuntu's Bug #1 is fixed

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834

13 years ago

690 upvotes – 191 comments

Glass

http://dcurt.is/glass

13 years ago

401 upvotes – 174 comments

Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

http://unsplash.com/

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 137 comments

Letter from Loretto - A Prison Letter from a CIA Whistleblower

https://openwatch.net/i/74/letter-from-loretto-a-prison-letter-from-a-cia-w

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 48 comments

How Google Authorship decreased our traffic by 90%

http://www.jitbit.com/news/183-how-google-authorship-decreased-our-traffic-by-90/

13 years ago

229 upvotes – 109 comments

The secret button at pedestrian crossings

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-22706881

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 111 comments

Good Old Games: gog.com and the DRM-Free Revolution

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/05/30/good-old-games-gog-com-and-the-drm-free-revolution/

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 99 comments

Let’s help Airbnb rebuild the bridge it just burned

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2013/05/28/lets-help-airbnb-rebuild-the-bridge-it-just-burned/

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 129 comments

The Central Limit Theorem Visualized with D3

http://blog.vctr.me/posts/central-limit-theorem.html

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 72 comments

Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS

https://medium.com/make-your-own-apps/e71bcedc36b

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 54 comments

Google’s Go has some coders raving

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/my-favorite-programming-language-googles-go-has-some-coders-raving/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 185 comments

3D Printer for less than $400

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pirate3d/the-buccaneer-the-3d-printer-that-everyone-can-use

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 76 comments

Why DIY fecal transplants are a thing

http://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/2013/05/29/why-diy-fecal-transplants-are-a-thing-and-the-fda-is-only-part-of-the-reason/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 125 comments

Tesla to triple supercharger network by the end of June

http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-dramatically-expands-supercharger-network-delivering-convenient-free-long

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 100 comments

Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses

http://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 128 comments

Let's build an entire programming environment around Brainfuck

http://malone.cc/posts/lhbs_1.html

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 85 comments

The making of Medium.com

http://www.teehanlax.com/story/medium/index.html

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 62 comments

Why high fructose corn syrup replaced sugar in US

http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/411007.html

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 157 comments

Disclosure timeline for vulnerabilities under active attack

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/05/disclosure-timeline-for-vulnerabilities.html

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 30 comments

Are HN comments broken for everyone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796002

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments

Elon Musk: Tesla network to triple by July, cross country travel by year’s end

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/05/30/elon-musk-says-a-roughly-30k-tesla-in-3-4-years/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 64 comments

The Effects of Computer Programming on the Brain (2012)

http://virtuecenter.com/blog/the_effects_of_computer_programming_on_the_brain.html

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 37 comments

SSH uses four TCP segments for each character you type

http://blog.hyfather.com/blog/2013/04/18/ssh-uses-four-tcp-segments-for-each-character/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 41 comments

Man Sticks His Camera Out Storm Shelter Hole, Captures View of Tornado [video]

http://petapixel.com/2013/05/22/man-sticks-his-camera-out-storm-shelter-hole-captures-view-of-tornado-up-close/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: The Choice – An online programming puzzle RPG

http://thechoice.amos.me/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 111 comments

Double Fine launched a new game on Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fines-massive-chalice

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 81 comments

Machine Learning as a Service

http://about.wise.io/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 41 comments

Why so many people are moving to Texas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22649624

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 142 comments

Running Lua in a browser via Emscripten

http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2013/05/lua-in-javascript-running-vm-in-vm.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 41 comments

Optimizing your JavaScript game for Firefox OS

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/optimizing-your-javascript-game-for-firefox-os/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

The trick Max Levchin used to hire the best engineers at PayPal

http://firstround.com/article/the-trick-max-levchin-used-to-hire-the-best-engineers-at-PayPal

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 50 comments

A Collection of PostgreSQL Indexing Tips

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/05/30/a-collection-of-indexing-tips/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Google Finds NUMA Up to 20% Slower for Gmail and Websearch

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/30/google-finds-numa-up-to-20-slower-for-gmail-and-websearch.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: btproof - trusted timestamping on the Bitcoin blockchain

https://www.btproof.com/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 29 comments

OpenPGP JavaScript implementation

https://github.com/openpgpjs/openpgpjs

13 years ago

★ 5.9k JavaScript LGPL-3.0
74 upvotes – 43 comments

New Rackspace Developer Center

http://developer.rackspace.com/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

Who killed the futurist in you? School or you?

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/7d8210000eaf

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 57 comments

Microsoft U-turn sees Start button back on Windows 8

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22714048

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 81 comments

DMD 2.063 released with 260 bugfixes and enhancements

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 6 comments

Wait, What?

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-java-driver/blob/master/src/main/com/mongodb/ConnectionStatus.java#L213

13 years ago

★ 2.6k Java Apache-2.0
66 upvotes – 15 comments

Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/imgix-graphics-card-internet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: a Node.js personal cloud you can hack, host and delete

http://cozy.io/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Mac OS Screenshot does not Allow DVD Player to Appear in Captured Region

http://jacobirw.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/mac-os-screenshot-does-not-allow-dvd-player-to-appear-in-captured-region/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 76 comments

Continuing the Windows 8 vision with Windows 8.1

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2013/05/30/continuing-the-windows-8-vision-with-windows-8-1.aspx

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 78 comments

The Linux kernel trumps the moonshot by a few orders of magnitude

http://discursive.com/2013/05/30/dont-give-me-this-we-used-to-do-big-things-crap-we-do/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 42 comments

Heroku Platform API, Now Available in Public Beta

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/5/30/heroku-platform-api-beta

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

Another Silly Startup Analogy

http://diegobasch.com/another-silly-startup-analogy

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 21 comments

Watchman: Faster builds with large source trees

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/watchman-faster-builds-with-large-source-trees/10151457195103920

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments
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