top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-09

Hospital creates bidding war by posting pricing online

http://kfor.com/2013/07/08/okc-hospital-posting-surgery-prices-online/

13 years ago

868 upvotes – 226 comments

Prism Break

https://prism-break.org/

13 years ago

534 upvotes – 197 comments

Why mobile web apps are slow

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/

13 years ago

458 upvotes – 147 comments

HTTP 2.0

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-04

13 years ago

434 upvotes – 322 comments

Shit for Making Websites

http://shitformakingwebsites.com/

13 years ago

384 upvotes – 80 comments

Secret government: America against democracy

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/07/secret-government

13 years ago

374 upvotes – 155 comments

Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident

http://durham.io/2013/07/09/seth-vidal-creator-of-yum-open-source-software-killed-in-bike-accident-off-hillandale-rd/

13 years ago

360 upvotes – 397 comments

Firefox OS devices officially released

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/07/firefox-os-devices-officially-released/

13 years ago

327 upvotes – 140 comments

Asiana Airlines Flight 214: A Pilot’s Perspective

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/transport/2013/07/asiana_airlines_crash_stop_blaming_sfo_s_runways_and_korea_s_pilots_for.html

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 170 comments

Anatomy of a pseudorandom number generator – visualising Cryptocat's buggy PRNG

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/07/09/anatomy-of-a-pseudorandom-number-generator-visualising-cryptocats-buggy-prng/

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 118 comments

Ask PG: Will you post an update to "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6014422

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 72 comments

US court rejects state-secrets defense in NSA surveillance case

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043879/us-court-rejects-statesecrets-defense-in-nsa-surveillance-case.html

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 77 comments

Datastore API (beta)

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 84 comments

Tree.io – Open Source Business Management Software

http://tree.io/

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 55 comments

Math, Science Popular Until Students Realize They’re Hard

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/07/08/math-science-popular-until-students-realize-theyre-hard/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 243 comments

Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)

https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/http20.html?re

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 47 comments

Vi Hart on Stravinsky's Atonal Compositions [video]

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/07/09/vi-hart-explains-stravinsky/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 55 comments

Why the world needs Haskell

http://www.devalot.com/articles/2013/07/why-haskell.html

13 years ago

165 upvotes – 150 comments

US Emergency Alert System private SSH key mistakenly distributed

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/07/we-interrupt-this-program-to-warn-the-emergency-alert-system-is-hackable/

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 39 comments

The Go 1.1 scheduler

http://morsmachine.dk/go-scheduler

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 28 comments

Discovering Sketch

https://medium.com/design-ux/25545f6cb161

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 58 comments

Coffee shops look to oust 'laptop hobos'

http://money.msn.com/now/post--coffee-shops-look-to-oust-laptop-hobos?sharedfrom=scpshrjwlinkedin

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 224 comments

Web Audio API comes to Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/07/web-audio-api-comes-to-firefox/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

NSA leaker Edward Snowden 'accepts asylum in Venezuela'?

http://www.news.com.au/technology/nsa-leaker-edward-snowden-accepts-asylum-in-venezuela/story-e6frfro0-1226676844160

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 116 comments

Dropbox introduces new API features

https://blog.dropbox.com/2013/07/dbx/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 31 comments

Standard Treasury (YC S13) Aims To Make Software That Eats Commercial Banking

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/09/standard-treasury/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 37 comments

Capture the flag 2013

http://ctf365.com/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 53 comments

List of Hacker Spaces

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 46 comments

“Weird Paranoia” at Valve, Says Former Employee

http://kotaku.com/weird-paranoia-at-valve-says-former-employee-700121951

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 108 comments

A Filthy History: When New Yorkers Lived Knee-Deep in Trash

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/when-new-yorkers-lived-knee-deep-in-trash/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

Calca iOS - Mathematical text editor for engineers

http://praeclarum.org/post/55019743936/calca-the-text-editor-for-engineers

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 37 comments

Two Open-source Emails a Day for Five and a Half Years

http://moniker.net/2013/07/10/two-open-source-emails-a-day-for-five-and-a-half-years/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

Government Builds Free Cloud-Based Backup for an Ungrateful Nation

https://medium.com/surveillance-state/a6e0e5fca935

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

MyRedis acquired by Garantia Data, gives customers 3 days to move off

https://myredis.com/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 66 comments

Healthcare.gov: Code by the People, for the People, Released Back to the People

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/healthcaregov-code-developed-by-the-people-and-for-the-people-released-back-to-the-people/277295/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 40 comments

Japanese peer-to-peer (2008)

http://jmoiron.net/blog/japanese-peer-peer/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

Why public libraries should follow Chicago’s lead and build maker labs

http://gigaom.com/2013/07/08/why-public-libraries-should-follow-chicagos-lead-and-build-maker-labs/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

Pirate Bay Founder: “Future copy fights will need something better”

http://torrentfreak.com/shut-down-the-pirate-bay-founder-says-130708/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 24 comments

Masao Yoshida, Nuclear Engineer and Chief at Fukushima Plant, Dies at 58

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/world/asia/masao-yoshida-nuclear-engineer-and-chief-at-fukushima-plant-dies-at-58.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 67 comments

How ASCII lost and unicode won

http://blog.goosoftware.co.uk/2012/12/05/how-ascii-lost-and-unicode-won/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 81 comments

Germany's Solar Industry Is Imploding

http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2013/07/08/germanys-solar-industry-is-imploding/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 83 comments

Archy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 36 comments

Primecoin: The Cryptocurrency Whose Mining is Useful

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/primecoin-the-cryptocurrency-whose-mining-is-actually-useful/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 22 comments

Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life

https://immersion.media.mit.edu/viz

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 23 comments

Nginx security update

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2013/Jul/39

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

If Kerouac wrote JavaScript

http://blog.anguscroll.com/if-kerouac-wrote-javascript/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

LegoDuino: Lego + Arduino for a 9 year old

http://www.benschop-plaza.nl/wiki/doku.php?id=public:legoduino

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

SpoonRocket (YC S13) Delivers Healthy Gourmet Meals To Users For Just $6 Each

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/09/spoonrocket/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Yelp launches Yelp Platform to enter world of on-demand delivery

http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/09/yelp-launches-on-demand-local-delivery-service

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Better SQL group by date

http://ankane.github.io/groupdate.sql/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 44 comments

VoodooJS – Mix 2D and 3D content on the same page

http://www.voodoojs.com

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments
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