top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-07-05

Ideas on how to improve customer conversion and ease of use

http://goodui.org/

13 years ago

555 upvotes – 146 comments

Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.horizont.at%2Fhome%2Fdetail%2Fgoogle-ist-geldgeber-von-adblock-plus.html&act=url

13 years ago

426 upvotes – 233 comments

Thorium nuclear reactor trial begins in Norway

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/160131-thorium-nuclear-reactor-trial-begins-could-provide-cleaner-safer-almost-waste-free-energy

13 years ago

419 upvotes – 137 comments

EU Parliament supports the possible suspension of U.S. data sharing agreements

http://www.zdnet.com/eu-votes-to-support-suspending-u-s-data-sharing-agreements-including-passenger-flight-data-7000017677/

13 years ago

387 upvotes – 103 comments

Hikikomori: Why are so many Japanese men refusing to leave their rooms?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23182523

13 years ago

299 upvotes – 181 comments

Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NSA’s surveillance state?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/05/did-you-know-john-roberts-is-also-chief-justice-of-the-nsas-surveillance-state/

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 132 comments

The Revel Web Framework for Go

http://robfig.github.io/revel/

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 68 comments

If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?

http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/if-prism-is-good-policy-why-stop-with-terrorism/277531/?

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 128 comments

What is A/B Testing?

https://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/what-is-ab-testing/

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 109 comments

Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals (1981)

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/us/rare-cancer-seen-in-41-homosexuals.html

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 145 comments

A Disease Without a Cure Spreads Quietly in the West

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/health/a-disease-without-a-cure-spreads-quietly-in-the-west.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 59 comments

Basic Neural Network on Python

http://danielfrg.github.io/blog/2013/07/03/basic-neural-network-python/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 28 comments

Iceland proposes citizenship for Snowden

http://www.newsday.com/news/world/iceland-proposes-citizenship-for-snowden-1.5628482

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 14 comments

CppCMS – High Performance C++ Web Framework

http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/main

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 128 comments

Response to NSA scandal: German Government moves away from data retention

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/nsa-skandal-cdu-und-csu-geben-vorratsdatenspeicherung-auf-a-909560.html#submit

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 21 comments

Kuler without Flash

https://kuler.adobe.com/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 30 comments

KORE – A fast SPDY-capable webserver for web development in C

https://kore.io/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 58 comments

The state of democratic control over surveillance in France

http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2013/07/05/ce-nest-pas-illegal-cest-a-legal

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 67 comments

No Patents on Seeds

http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 20 comments

Politician: Call Snowden to Germany as witness

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130704-50697.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 17 comments
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