top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-19

The Forbidden Island

http://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/08/The-Forbidden-Island

13 years ago

597 upvotes – 278 comments

Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS)

http://foaas.com/

13 years ago

486 upvotes – 105 comments

Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

https://twitter.com/gulliantonio/status/357975467598422016

13 years ago

358 upvotes – 261 comments

The 2005 screenwriting book that’s taken over Hollywood

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/hollywood_and_blake_snyder_s_screenwriting_book_save_the_cat.single.html

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 173 comments

NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/spygate-snooping-standing/

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 138 comments

Apple Dev Center outage

https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 137 comments

Switching from Gmail to FastMail

http://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 219 comments

Replace Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync and a Raspberry Pi

http://jack.minardi.org/raspberry_pi/replace-dropbox-with-bittorrent-sync-and-a-raspberry-pi/

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 87 comments

JavaScript Isn't Scheme

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt-scheme/

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 108 comments

Biggest Virus Yet Found, May Be Fourth Domain of Life?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/07/130718-viruses-pandoraviruses-science-biology-evolution/

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 66 comments

The Rule of Three

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/07/rule-of-three.html

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 28 comments

New NSFW content restrictions enrage Tumblr users

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/tumblr-nsfw-content-tags-search/

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 120 comments

Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems

http://nautil.us/issue/3/in-transit/unhappy-truckers-and-other-algorithmic-problems

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 38 comments

The H is closing down

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/The-H-is-closing-down-1920027.html

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 37 comments

How I Earned A Lot More on Projects by Changing My Pricing Strategy

http://sixrevisions.com/business/earn-more-on-projects/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 66 comments

How a hobbyist game dev broke into the App Store's top 25

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AdamHunt/20130715/196307/From_Idea_to_App_Store_An_Adventure_in_Game_Dev.php

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 42 comments

J.K. Rowling and the Chamber of Literary Fame

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-19/j-k-rowling-and-the-chamber-of-literary-fame.html

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 92 comments

Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Speeders

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/19/fake-signs-warn-of-drones-patrolling-bay-area-highways/

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 139 comments

Microsoft’s shares sink by more than 10%

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:MSFT

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 289 comments

White House silent on renewal of NSA court order

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/18/white-house-silent-renewal-nsa-court-order

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 24 comments

Forbidden Island, U.S.A.

http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/forbidden-island-u-s-a/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 28 comments

Tumblr responds to complaints about censorship

http://staff.tumblr.com/post/55906556378/all-weve-heard-from-a-bunch-of-you-who-are

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 62 comments

ClojureScript Core.async Todos

http://rigsomelight.com/2013/07/18/clojurescript-core-async-todos.html

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 52 comments

Books and papers every graduate student should read

http://matt.might.net/articles/books-papers-materials-for-graduate-students/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 46 comments

Billing Incident Update

http://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/07/billing-incident-update.html

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 44 comments

House of Lords debates pardon for Alan Turing

http://bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-lords-23378209

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 149 comments

Elon Musk's mission to Mars

http://m.guardiannews.com/technology/2013/jul/17/elon-musk-mission-mars-spacex

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 37 comments

Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit

http://pandodaily.com/2013/07/19/for-whom-the-bell-trolls-life-for-a-startup-on-the-receiving-end-of-a-patent-law-suit/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 98 comments

Cassini to image the Earth tonight

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/waveatsaturn/timezones/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

San Jose State suspends online courses

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/San-Jose-State-suspends-online-courses-4672870.php

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 78 comments

Rocket Engine Pulled From the Ocean Definitely Belonged to Apollo 11

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/bezos-apollo-11/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 1 comments

Flask powered CMS - Quokka

http://www.quokkaproject.org/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 29 comments

VLC for iOS Now Available (itunes link)

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id650377962

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 66 comments

Why I banned a book: How censorship can impact a learning community

http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/7/368.full

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 45 comments

Isla: a programming language for young children

https://github.com/maryrosecook/islaclj

13 years ago

★ 319 Clojure MIT
84 upvotes – 72 comments

Code Search API

https://github.com/blog/1564-code-search-api

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

What Is It Like To Have a Photographic Memory?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/07/18/what_is_it_like_to_have_a_photographic_memory.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 52 comments

How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer? (2009)

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/07/20/how-powerful-was-the-apollo-11-computer/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

Block I Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC): How to build one in your basement

http://klabs.org/history/build_agc/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

Why This Hacker Stood Up Against ‘Verbal Abuse’ in Linux Land

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/07/sarah_sharp/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 127 comments

Erlang/OTP R16B01 has been released

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R16B01.readme

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

Rackspace releases CLI for managing cloud via Ruby

http://rackerlabs.github.io/rumm/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

Microsoft Research turns Kinect into sign language reader

http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_microsoft_research/archive/2013/07/16/digital-assistance-for-sign-language-users.aspx

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 23 comments

A snapshot of your computer with dd, pv and gzip - Part 1

http://allgood38.github.io/a-snapshot-of-your-computer-with-dd-pv-and-gzip-part-1.html

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

Why I hate read receipts

http://arstechnica.com/staff/2013/07/why-i-hate-read-receipts/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 39 comments

How a Theoretical Claim About the NSA Magically Transformed Into Factual Reality

http://thedailybanter.com/2013/07/how-a-wild-theoretical-claim-about-the-nsa-transformed-into-factual-reality/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 30 comments

Your Startup’s Office Is Missing a Room

http://tomtunguz.com/usability-lab

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 26 comments

In Major Ruling, Court Orders Times Reporter to Testify

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/us/in-major-ruling-court-orders-times-reporter-to-testify.html

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 31 comments
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