top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-21

Riding the New Silk Road

http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/07/21/silk-road/

13 years ago

486 upvotes – 153 comments

Ideas for Computing

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

13 years ago

328 upvotes – 97 comments

Existential Depression in Gifted Children

http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10269.aspx

13 years ago

325 upvotes – 177 comments

Apple Developer Website Update

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6080620

13 years ago

282 upvotes – 210 comments

'Crack baby' study ends with unexpected but clear result

http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20130721__Crack_baby__study_ends_with_unexpected_but_clear_result.html

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 255 comments

SIM Cards Have Finally Been Hacked, and the Flaw Could Affect Millions of Phones

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/07/21/sim-cards-have-finally-been-hacked-and-the-flaw-could-affect-millions-of-phones/

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 95 comments

Apple Developer Center still down

http://www.marco.org/2013/07/21/adc-downtime

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 194 comments

My Summer Reading List

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Summer-Reading-List-2013

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 36 comments

Localtunnel: instantly show localhost to the rest of the world

http://progrium.com/localtunnel/?

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 63 comments

3D printing will explode in 2014 thanks to the expiration of key patents

http://qz.com/106483/3d-printing-will-explode-in-2014-thanks-to-the-expiration-of-key-patents/

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 118 comments

Art prodigy poses 'ethical nightmare' for parents

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-23287113

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 154 comments

The Future of Programming

http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/01/the-future-of-programming.html

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 94 comments

Each socket should have two file descriptors

http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/twofd.html

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 48 comments

The anti-virus age is over

http://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/the-anti-virus-age-is-over/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 86 comments

Appeals court rules journalists can’t keep their sources secret

http://rt.com/usa/nyt-risen-leak-espionage-336/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 99 comments

Bash Configurations Demystified

http://dghubble.com/.bashprofile-.profile-and-.bashrc-conventions.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

Partially Applied Functions in C

http://tia.mat.br/blog/html/2013/07/20/partial_functions_in_c.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 34 comments

A simple GUI to set up virtual machines for PHP development

https://puphpet.com/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

Aireal: Interactive Tactile Experiences in Free Air

http://www.disneyresearch.com/project/aireal/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

Exploit (and Fix) Android "Master Key"

http://www.saurik.com/id/17

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 2 comments

The Making of Adam Savage's Admiral Ackbar Costume

http://www.tested.com/art/makers/456811-making-adam-savages-admiral-ackbar-costume/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

Against Cynicism: A philosopher's brilliant reasons for living

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113387/peter-sloterdijks-philosophy-gives-reasons-living

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

Protect your freedom and privacy

https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/surveillance

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

LXDE and Razor join forces to create one Qt-based desktop – KDE offers help

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/razor-qt/PNvkoidV2Ik/0lpz9J6RGEQJ

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

Yugoslavs Find No Paradise at McDonald's (1988)

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-05-26/business/fi-4963_1_yugoslav-television

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 84 comments

Rooting SIM cards

https://srlabs.de/rooting-sim-cards/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

Razor and LXDE-Qt Desktop Projects To Merge

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

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 2 comments

Mozilla unveils ‘aggressive’ Firefox OS schedule

http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/07/20/mozilla-unveils-aggressive-firefox-os-schedule-quarterly-feature-releases-security-updates-every-six-weeks/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments
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