top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-24

I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-to-code-by-building-180-websites-in-180

13 years ago

1542 upvotes – 344 comments

A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/07/the-pixel-painter-a-97-year-old-man-who-paints-using-microsoft-paint-from-windows-95/

13 years ago

596 upvotes – 136 comments

Google Chromecast

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromecast/#netflix

13 years ago

578 upvotes – 315 comments

Why I cancelled my TechEd talks

http://goodenoughsoftware.net/2013/07/18/the-charlie-foxtrot-aka-teched/

13 years ago

495 upvotes – 178 comments

Practical Typography

http://practicaltypography.com

13 years ago

472 upvotes – 159 comments

Snowden asylum still under review, stays in airport for now

http://rt.com/news/snowden-entry-airport-asylum-521/

13 years ago

413 upvotes – 221 comments

LLVM Intermediate Representation is better than assembly

https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-24-ir-is-better-than-assembly/

13 years ago

312 upvotes – 220 comments

Amash’s Amendment To Defund NSA Program Fails 205-217

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/24/rep-amashs-amendment-to-defund-the-nsas-domestic-phone-metadata-program-fails-205-217/

13 years ago

291 upvotes – 159 comments

How Emacs changed my life

http://www.slideshare.net/yukihiro_matz/how-emacs-changed-my-life?

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 89 comments

Ractive.js

http://www.ractivejs.org/

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 112 comments

Essential Math for Games Programmers

http://www.essentialmath.com/tutorial.htm

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 38 comments

Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys

http://m.cnet.com/news/feds-put-heat-on-web-firms-for-master-encryption-keys/57595202

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 130 comments

Google Unveils The New Nexus 7 Android Tablet

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/24/google-unveils-the-new-nexus-7-android-powered-tablet/

13 years ago

244 upvotes – 167 comments

What's new in Android 4.3

http://developer.android.com/about/versions/jelly-bean.html

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 122 comments

Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge?c=activity#

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 148 comments

Cameron ‘Porn’ Advisor’s website ‘hacked’ – Threatens/Libels Blogger

http://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2013/07/24/cameron-porn-advisors-website-hacked-threatenslibels-blogger/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 150 comments

Twilio incident and Redis

http://antirez.com/news/60

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 73 comments

White House Seems Afraid NSA Defunding Law Could Actually Pass Today

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/24/white-house-seems-afraid-nsa-defunding-law-could-actually-pass-today/

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 84 comments

Google Launches The Chromecast To Bring Chrome To The Living Room

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/24/google-chromecast/

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 166 comments

Embrace the desire to make money

http://swombat.com/2013/7/24/embrace-desire-money

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 114 comments

NSA - The Price of Hypocrisy

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ueberwachung/information-consumerism-the-price-of-hypocrisy-12292374.html

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 30 comments

Ubuntu Edge lowers prices on IndieGogo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6095416

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 39 comments

Lean Startups fail for these 3 reasons, but they didn’t tell you in the book

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/16f6de3b7512

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 39 comments

Twitter caught faking users’ tweets

http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/24/oops-twitter-caught-faking-users-tweets-to-promo-new-ad-product/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 53 comments

How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010)

http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 79 comments

This tiny, wearable patch makes you invisible to mosquitos

http://io9.com/this-tiny-wearable-patch-makes-you-invisible-to-mosqui-894656159

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 62 comments

Apple Developer System Status

https://developer.apple.com/support/system-status/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 67 comments

Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell – online beta

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929/index.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 6 comments

Major upgrades to Xamarin’s platform: Async is here

http://blog.xamarin.com/major-upgrades-to-xamarin%E2%80%99s-platform-async-is-here/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 47 comments

Billing Incident Post-Mortem: Breakdown, Analysis and Root Cause

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

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

Pluralsight acquires PeepCode

https://peepcode.com/blog/2013/leveling-up?utm_content=bufferfb58e&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 21 comments

The Art of Lisp and Writing (2003)

http://dreamsongs.com/ArtOfLisp.html

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 34 comments

Ibrahim Balic breaks silence on hacking Apple developer site

http://www.news.com.au/technology/ibrahim-balic-breaks-silence-on-hacking-apple-developer-site/story-e6frfro0-1226684484916?from=public_rss

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 49 comments

House Defeats Effort to Rein In N.S.A. Data Gathering

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/us/politics/house-defeats-effort-to-rein-in-nsa-data-gathering.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 28 comments
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