top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-18

The Drone that Killed my Grandson

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-killed-my-grandson.html?hp&_r=0

13 years ago

708 upvotes – 357 comments

Effeckt.css

http://h5bp.github.io/Effeckt.css/dist/

13 years ago

472 upvotes – 95 comments

Trinity College experiment succeeds after 69 years

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0717/463097-trinity-college-dublin-pitch-experiment/

13 years ago

393 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: Floobits – Remote pair programming done right

https://floobits.com/

13 years ago

375 upvotes – 135 comments

Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes

http://www.winehq.org/news/2013071801

13 years ago

343 upvotes – 242 comments

MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/mit-swartz-intervene/all/1

13 years ago

297 upvotes – 67 comments

Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA

http://rt.com/usa/obama-ndaa-appeal-suit-229/

13 years ago

292 upvotes – 146 comments

‘America has no functioning democracy at this moment’ – Jimmy Carter on NSA

http://rt.com/usa/carter-comment-nsa-snowden-261/

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 125 comments

VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/07/18/vlc-for-ios-will-return-to-the-app-store-on-july-19-full-re-write-open-source-licensed-under-mplv2-and-gplv2/

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 84 comments

Hyperloop: riding sound’s density peak to exploit the drag equation?

http://charlesalexander2013.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/hyperloop-riding-sounds-density-peak-to-exploit-the-drag-equation/

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 158 comments

Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow

http://www.notconstructive.com

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 196 comments

American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning (1998)

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1998/06/22/1998_06_22_144_TNY_LIBRY_000015831?currentPage=all

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 85 comments

Twilio is erroneously over-billing and suspending accounts

http://status.twilio.com/services/account-portal

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 119 comments

Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t

http://www.wbur.org/2012/06/27/lyme-vaccine

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 81 comments

Snowden's Dead Man's Switch

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/07/snowdens_dead_m.html

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 111 comments

The San Francisco Rent Explosion

http://priceonomics.com/the-san-francisco-rent-explosion/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 183 comments

Xamarin raises $16 million to help you go mobile

http://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-raises-16-million/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 47 comments

Peek Inside Tesla's Robotic Factory [video]

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/07/tesla-plant-video/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 24 comments

Why I'm Returning Google Glass

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=1047&doc_id=265693&

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 128 comments

Ask pg: why have hellbans become so widespread on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060954

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 114 comments

TSA searches valet-parked car

http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S3101080.shtml?cat=566

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 52 comments

The PRISM letter Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft are sending Congress

http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/18/the-full-prism-letter-google-yahoo-apple-facebook-and-microsoft-are-sending-congress/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 103 comments

Physicists offer new theory on cancer

https://asunews.asu.edu/20130712_pauldavies_cancer_research

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: How do you apply for a tech job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6062835

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 82 comments

Into the Wormhole: An afternoon with Eve Online's least understood demographic

http://www.techhive.com/article/2044495/into-the-wormhole-an-afternoon-with-eve-onlines-least-understood-demographic.html

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 34 comments

Detroit files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy amid staggering debts

http://www.freep.com/article/20130718/NEWS01/307180107/City-Detroit-has-filed-Chapter-9-bankruptcy

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 129 comments

Anonymous hacks FEMA

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-grid/FEMA-hack-anonymous-retaliates-us-defense-snowden-transparency

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 45 comments

Anonymous posts usernames and passwords of US Congress staffers

http://sebsauvage.net/paste/?ffbc2662e12f6ca9#PmqIe7dqymVyxIConK1ODxgMH8Als2xW+QecE0PBvUg

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 70 comments

Apache Kills Off Its C++ Standard Library

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQxNDE

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 51 comments

The Data Behind Purchasing Behavior at UserVoice – Pricing for Conversion

http://500.co/2013/07/18/the-data-behind-purchasing-behavior-at-uservoice-pricing-for-conversion-part-i/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 11 comments

FOIA Machine by The Center for Investigative Reporting

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cir/foia-machine/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

Foundation 4.3: Paving the Road to 5

http://zurb.com/article/1226/foundation-4-3-paving-the-road-to-5

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 27 comments

How we Went from Zero Audience to Over a Thousand Beta Signups

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/63fa3e5603b

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 56 comments

UK government invests in Sabre air-breathing rocket engine

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23332592

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 57 comments

Divshot 1.0: Visual Front-End Development for Bootstrap and Beyond

http://blog.divshot.com/post/55791825061/divshot-1-0-visual-front-end-development-for-bootstrap

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behind bars

http://rt.com/news/navalny-verdict-court-guilty-234/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 47 comments

Microsoft reveals $900M write-down on Surface RT tablet

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/07/18/business-microsoft.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 98 comments

Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy

http://firstround.com/article/42-Rules-to-Lead-by-from-the-Man-Who-Defined-Googles-Product-Strategy

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

Panama detains former CIA station chief convicted in Milan kidnapping

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italy-ex-cia-chief-convicted-in-milan-in-kidnapping-of-muslim-cleric-is-detained-in-panama/2013/07/18/2501dc04-efcf-11e2-8c36-0e868255a989_story.html

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 6 comments

What Is 10 Trillion Times More Powerful Than A Heartbeat?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/07/17/202939390/what-is-ten-trillion-times-more-powerful-than-a-heartbeat

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 31 comments

Form letter response for engineering recruiting emails

http://bryanduxbury.com/2013/07/17/form-letter-response-for-engineering-recruiters/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 52 comments

OVH CEO forbids publishing patches to keep his developers

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/357585291801935872

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 45 comments

The Docker Book

http://www.dockerbook.com

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Docker 0.5: external volumes, advanced networking, self-hosted registry

http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/docker-0-5-0-external-volumes-advanced-networking-self-hosted-registry/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

Reverse-engineering the flag circuits in the 8085 processor

http://www.righto.com/2013/07/reverse-engineering-flag-circuits-in.html?m=1

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 4 comments

The Art of Getting a 3 Letter Domain Name

http://blog.lob.com/post/55544977604/the-art-of-a-3-letter-domain-name

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 60 comments

Why Doesn't Skype Include Stronger Protections Against Eavesdropping?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/why-doesnt-skype-include-stronger-protections-against-eavesdropping

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 34 comments

Study Finds Spatial Skill Is Early Sign of Creativity

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/us/study-finds-early-signs-of-creativity-in-adults.html

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments

Dear Mr. Watterson

http://www.dearmrwatterson.com/DMW/dearmrwatterson.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 43 comments

The Lost Art of Pickpocketing (2011)

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/02/the_lost_art_of_pickpocketing.html

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 43 comments
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