top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-10

Should I use a carousel?

http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/

13 years ago

483 upvotes – 155 comments

Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours

http://alexstechthoughts.com/post/55085393173/stop-glorifying-hard-work-and-long-hours

13 years ago

477 upvotes – 239 comments

The NSA slide you haven’t seen

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-nsa-slide-you-havent-seen/2013/07/10/32801426-e8e6-11e2-aa9f-c03a72e2d342_story.html

13 years ago

440 upvotes – 188 comments

Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. How Did We Get Here?

http://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-free-speech-technology-and-liberty/too-many-cops-are-told-theyre-soldiers

13 years ago

429 upvotes – 247 comments

DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

13 years ago

353 upvotes – 164 comments

Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux

http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=96878

13 years ago

306 upvotes – 206 comments

Amazon Drops Price Of EC2 Dedicated Instances By Up To 80%

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/10/amazon-drops-price-of-ec2-dedicated-instances-by-up-to-80/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

13 years ago

290 upvotes – 174 comments

Storage for Photographers

http://paulstamatiou.com/storage-for-photographers

13 years ago

263 upvotes – 182 comments

Dance in a Year

http://danceinayear.com/

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 73 comments

1987: Kid submits 7 Robotron bugfixes using only the machine code from the ROMs

http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/technical/christiangingras/

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 65 comments

The SEC Just Voted To Lift The Ban On General Solicitation

https://wefunder.com/post/36-the-sec-just-voted-to-lift-the-ban-on-general-solicitation

13 years ago

229 upvotes – 99 comments

The 7-bit Internet

http://blog.tabini.ca/the-7-bit-internet/

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 160 comments

Movie Subtitle Fansite Raided By Copyright Industry And Police

http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/10/fan-subtitle-site-raided-by-copyright-industry-aided-by-police/

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 132 comments

Valve's flat management structure 'like high school'

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/09/valve-management-jeri-ellsworth

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 132 comments

Judge rules Apple conspired to raise prices on e-books

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/10/us-apple-ebooks-idUSBRE9690GE20130710

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 150 comments

San Francisco to L.A. in 30 Mins. With Proposed New Transportation System

http://news.yahoo.com/san-francisco-l-30-mins-proposed-transportation-system-180600043.html

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 102 comments

Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states

http://www.guardiannews.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 67 comments

Desert Bus: The Worst Video Game

http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/07/the-worst-video-game-ever-created.html

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 65 comments

The Laws you can't see

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/opinion/the-laws-you-cant-see.html

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 40 comments

Windows Timer Resolution: Megawatts Wasted

http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/windows-timer-resolution-megawatts-wasted/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 41 comments

Militarized police overreach — a second excerpt from Radley Balko's book

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/10/militarized_police_overreach_oh_god_i_thought_they_were_going_to_shoot_me_next”/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 74 comments

NeoCities can now handle two million web sites

https://neocities.org/blog/neocities-can-now-handle-two-million-web-sites

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 98 comments

Useful GitHub patterns

http://blog.quickpeople.co.uk/2013/07/10/useful-github-patterns/

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 19 comments

VLC threatens to sue Secunia over full disclosure

https://secunia.com/blog/372/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 63 comments

Git for the masses

http://kivo.com/blog/git-for-the-masses/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 59 comments

Rogue employee fired for turning game into Bitcoin mining colony

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/10/esea-bitcoin-mining-lawsuit

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 58 comments

The Unfinished PDE Coffee Table Book

http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/pdectb.html

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 5 comments

Google Chromebook Under $300 Defies PC Market With Growth

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-10/google-chromebook-under-300-defies-pc-market-with-growth.html

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 127 comments

Pirate Bay co-founder aims to launch surveillance-proof messaging app Hemlis

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/07/10/hemlis/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 64 comments

Introducing HipHip (Array): Fast and flexible numerical computation in Clojure

http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2013/7/10/introducing-hiphip-array-fast-and-flexible-numerical-computation-in-clojure

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

Chrome 28 arrives with Blink, rich notifications for apps

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/07/09/chrome-28-arrives-with-rich-notifications-for-apps-and-extensions-on-windows-mac-and-linux-coming-soon/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 116 comments

Akka 2.2.0 released – distributed, concurrent applications on the JVM

http://letitcrash.com/post/54995640292/akka-2-2-0-released

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 13 comments

Instacart: Crowdsourcing Your Grocery Shopping

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-10/instacart-crowdsourcing-your-grocery-shopping

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 48 comments

js-sequence-diagrams - Turns text into UML sequence diagrams

http://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

Riak 1.4 Released

http://basho.com/basho-announces-availability-of-riak-1-4

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 13 comments

A refresher course in empathy

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3567-a-refresher-course-in-empathy

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 44 comments

Watch Out For The Balkans

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/10/watch-out-for-the-balkans/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Linux developer Seth Vidal killed in Hit and Run accident on his bike.

http://www.wral.com/bicyclist-killed-in-durham-hit-and-run/12639104/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Trello for GitHub Issues

http://waffle.io

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Man charged in Durham hit-and-run that killed Seth Vidal

http://www.wral.com/man-charged-in-durham-hit-and-run-that-killed-bicyclist/12644209/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 49 comments

Eve-Online player loses a $9000 digital spaceship

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2013/07/09/eve-online-player-loses-a-spaceship-worth-approximately-9000/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 76 comments

Venezuela: My experience in the surveillance state

http://boingboing.net/2013/07/08/snowden-and-venezuela-my-biza.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 60 comments

Programming languages influence network

http://exploringdata.github.io/vis/programming-languages-influence-network/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 41 comments

Merging lock elision into glibc

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/557222/f7db853fdfb3bc11/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub

https://github.com/WhatCD/Gazelle

13 years ago

★ 1.8k PHP
69 upvotes – 59 comments

Australian local council intercepted phone, email data to hunt litterbugs

http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/349643,vic-council-intercepted-phone-emails-to-hunt-litterbugs.aspx

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

How the Pentagon’s payroll quagmire traps soldiers

http://preview.reuters.com/2013/7/2/wounded-in-battle-stiffed-by-the-pentagon

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 42 comments

The Search Engine that Vows Not to Track You [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/the-search-engine-that-vows-not-to-track-you-CdViZ6lIRZCWVorS~G40Wg.html#blink

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 34 comments

Google Maps for Android lose offline Maps - seriously?

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/09/new-google-maps-7-0-0-goes-live-in-google-play-here-is-the-new-ui-we-saw-at-google-io/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 58 comments

Google Latitude will be retired

https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3001634?p=maps_android_latitude

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 59 comments

From 0 to Skype in 9 Months

http://bloggeek.me/skype-in-9-months/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

Why Ruby rocks

http://skofo.github.io/blog/why-ruby-rocks/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 67 comments

Federal agency destroyed computers, keyboards, mice over virus fear

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/10/us-agency-destroys-computers/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 40 comments

Why switching from Stripe to Balanced has helped LaunchTrack scale

http://support.launchtrack.com/why-choosing-balanced-has-helped-us-scale-our-business/

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments

The 'Sink-Urinal' Saves Water, Encourages Men To Wash Hands

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/09/200367795/the-sink-urinal-saves-water-encourages-men-to-wash-hands

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 45 comments

Google is retiring its Latitude location-sharing service on August 9th

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/07/10/google-is-retiring-its-latitude-location-sharing-service-on-august-9th/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheNextWeb+(The+Next+Web+All+Stories)

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 58 comments
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