top 50% 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

Kuler without Flash

https://kuler.adobe.com/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 30 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

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

Doug Engelbart was unable to find funding for his work

http://www.zdnet.com/the-shocking-truth-about-silicon-valley-genius-doug-engelbart-7000017660/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

As Competition Wanes, Amazon Cuts Back Discounts

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/business/as-competition-wanes-amazon-cuts-back-its-discounts.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 59 comments

The programming languages behind "the mother of all demos"

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3122

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 2 comments

Just a new name: Germany does Not move away form data retention at all

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnetzpolitik.org%2F2013%2Fspiegel-online-ente-union-gibt-vorratsdatenspeicherung-nicht-auf-benennt-sie-nur-um%2F

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

ClojureScript: Things That Might Worry You, but Shouldn't (2012)

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2012/09/11/clojurescript-4-things-that-might-worry-you-but-should-not/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

US sends pre-emptive warrant to Ireland to stop Snowden flight refuelling there

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/us-sends-government-arrest-warrant-for-snowden-1.1453364

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

Snowden is more distraction than traitor

http://blogs.aljazeera.com/blog/americas/snowden-more-distraction-traitor

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 15 comments

Using D3.js to Brute Force the Pirate Puzzle

http://azundo.github.io/blog/using-d3-dot-js-to-brute-force-the-pirate-puzzle/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 10 comments

What really happened to the software on the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft?

http://www.rapitasystems.com/blog/what-really-happened-to-the-software-on-the-mars-pathfinder-spacecraft?reposting

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

Wt, C++ Web Toolkit

http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 50 comments

This MIT Website Tracks Your Digital Footprint Through Gmail

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/07/05/this-mit-website-tracks-your-digital-footprint-through-gmail/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

How to Opt Out of AT&T's Plan to Sell Data About You and Your Smartphone Use

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/07/03/how-to-opt-out-of-atts-plan-to-sell-everything-it-knows-about-you-and-your-smartphone-use/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Who Makes Below Minimum Wage in the Mechanical Turk Sweatshop?

http://priceonomics.com/who-makes-below-minimum-wage-in-the-mechanical/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 91 comments

Saltstack: Changing RSA public exponent from 1 to 65537

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5dd304276ba5745ec21fc1e6686a0b28da29e6fc

13 years ago

★ 15.3k Python Apache-2.0
77 upvotes – 53 comments

Here’s who spent their Fourth of July protesting the NSA

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/05/heres-who-spent-their-fourth-of-july-protesting-the-nsa/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

KLM is celebrating Comic Sans day today (NL only)

http://www.klm.com/travel/nl_nl/index.htm

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)

http://countryaday.org/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 34 comments

Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer's Biggest Hit

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-27/daft-punks-get-lucky-how-to-build-the-song-of-the-summer#r=hp-sf

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 82 comments

Why a more transparent NSA would be good for Barack Obama

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/03/why-a-more-transparent-nsa-would-be-good-for-barack-obama/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

Gesture Control in JS using Webcam

http://revealjs.herokuapp.com/#/4

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication for Dropbox

http://www.qcert.org/alerts/bypassing-2-factor-authentication-dropbox

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

The Mother of All Demos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

Why Green Architecture Hardly Ever Deserves the Name

http://www.archdaily.com/396263/why-green-architecture-hardly-ever-deserves-the-name

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 43 comments

Programming Trends on StackOverflow

http://www.dodgycoder.net/p/programming-trends.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 58 comments

Fast Radio Bursts – a new class of astronomical phenomena

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/chancellery/mediacentre/media-centre/news/2013/07/intergalactic-messenger-found

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Applying Dan Ariely's TED talk to software development

http://softwareleadweekly.com/issues/33/4

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

Battery technology: A pile of wood

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21580441-old-material-may-find-new-use-batteries-pile-wood

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 14 comments

Minimal ECG using an Arduino and Xoscillo

http://codinglab.blogspot.be/2013/07/my-heartbeat.html

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 21 comments
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