top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-31

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/solitary-confinement-shane-bauer

13 years ago

332 upvotes – 246 comments

A Personal API

http://x.naveen.com/post/51808692792/a-personal-api

13 years ago

321 upvotes – 114 comments

Why 3 MIT Grads Want to Send You an Empty Box

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/one-click-selling/

13 years ago

306 upvotes – 91 comments

My Latte is Worth It - No Fun Allowed

http://m50d.github.io/2012/08/04/My-Latte-is-Worth-It.html

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 132 comments

We Think We Know What Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-elon-musks-hyperloop-2013-5

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 159 comments

ASUS Launches Monitor with 3840 x 2160 IGZO Display

http://hexus.net/tech/items/displays/55965-asus-launches-pq321-monitor-3840-x-2160-igzo-display/

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 176 comments

A Week with Elixir

http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 86 comments

Camino browser reaches its end

http://caminobrowser.org/

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 123 comments

Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57587003-38/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 151 comments

High-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-first-ever-high-resolution-images-molecule-reforms.html

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 32 comments

Police have to return material to Dotcom

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/8742230/Police-have-to-return-material-to-Dotcom

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 65 comments

EdX Source Code Released

http://code.edx.org/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 14 comments

Pin Payments is Australia’s first all-in-one online payment API

https://pin.net.au/#

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 111 comments

Everyone Does Everything: How To Work on Teams of Generalists

https://medium.com/words-about-design/12e0882c51d1

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 71 comments

A faster way to delete millions of files in a directory

http://linuxnote.net/jianingy/en/linux/a-fast-way-to-remove-huge-number-of-files.html

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 33 comments

A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python

http://metarabbit.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/building-machine-learning-systems-with-python/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 19 comments

Google Authorship Didn't Decrease Your Traffic by 90%

http://aberrant.me/no-google-authorship-didnt-decrease-your-traffic-by-90/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Codementor – instant one-to-one mentor for programming and design

http://www.codementor.io

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 73 comments

How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.

http://rudebaguette.com/2013/05/31/why-trademarks-are-important-for-startups-how-seomoz-sent-us-a-takedown-notice/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 155 comments

User-triggerable NULL pointer dereference

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/PYTHON-532

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 78 comments

Adam Wiggins Leaving Heroku

https://gist.github.com/adamwiggins/5687917

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 33 comments

A Beginners Guide to Erlang

http://blog.equanimity.nl/blog/2013/05/29/a-beginners-guide-to-erlang/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 7 comments

Introducing Octokit

https://github.com/blog/1517-introducing-octokit

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 47 comments

Facebook paid $4.5K for disclosure of my user account exploit

http://www.yvoschaap.com/weblog/facebook_values_the_privacy_of_its_billion_users_at_4500

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 123 comments

Goodbye to Painful Image Loads on Small Devices

http://zurb.com/article/1211/say-goodbye-to-painful-image-loads-on-sma

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Run SQL on JSON files without any data loads

http://citusdata.com/blog/65-run-sql-on-json-files-without-any-data-loads

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 35 comments

The best founders are futurists

http://josephwalla.com/the-best-founders-are-futurists

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 75 comments

New Mexico's 'Atari Dump' to Be Excavated

http://westerndigs.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-mexicos-atari-dump-midden-of-video.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 61 comments

Blink, PNaCl, And Standards

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2013/05/blink-pnacl-and-standards.html

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 67 comments

Why Michael O'Hare left Babylon 5

http://www.blastr.com/2013-5-28/straczynski-reveals-moving-story-why-michael-ohare-left-babylon-5

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

BitCoin is a public ledger

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2013/05/bitcoin-is-public-ledger.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 48 comments

I Freelanced On Halo 4. It's Time For Gaming's Contractors To Strike

http://pastebin.com/sCSjhn5P

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 81 comments

Landsat 8 Data Now Available

http://landsat.usgs.gov/LDCM_Landsat8.php

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

How multi-lingual children learn languages

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/c06ef551-0127-483d-a104-cdd02b1cee31/entry/how_multi_lingual_children_learn_languages9?lang=en

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

Haskell: http-streams and Aeson

http://joshrotenberg.com/haskell/2013/05/28/http-streams-and-aeson/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

What people use their Raspberry Pi's for

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1f607z/owners_of_a_raspberry_pi_what_do_you_use_it_for

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 76 comments

Three Laws of Programming Language Design

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4754

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 47 comments

Javascript Templating Engine Chooser

http://garann.github.io/template-chooser/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

If carpenters were hired like programmers (2004)

http://dawood.in/if-carpenters-were-hired-like-programmers/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 48 comments

Global warming caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide, new study says

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-global-chlorofluorocarbons-carbon-dioxide.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 108 comments

Join Wall Street. Save the world

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/31/join-wall-street-save-the-world/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 99 comments

Real-time metric counter using Soviet-era Nixie tubes

http://tellaparteng.tumblr.com/post/51805124205/in-the-nix-of-time

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

A is for Array - ABC Book for Kids

http://www.aisforarray.com/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 48 comments

The Silent Killers Of Startup Growth In India

http://lightspeedindia.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/the-silent-killers-of-startup-growth-2/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 34 comments

Monsanto gives up fight for genetically modified plants in Europe

http://www.dw.de/monsanto-gives-up-fight-for-gm-plants-in-europe/a-16851701

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 119 comments

Tell HN: Ask Golang is my vacation project

http://askgolang.com/thread/59

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments

Can You Power a Phone With a Capacitor?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/can-you-power-a-phone-with-a-capacitor/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 52 comments
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