top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-29

Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat

http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat

13 years ago

682 upvotes – 203 comments

Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-28/heart-surgery-in-india-for-1-583-costs-106-385-in-u-s-.html

13 years ago

391 upvotes – 265 comments

Groupcache: an alternative to memcached, written in Go

https://github.com/golang/groupcache#readme

13 years ago

★ 13.3k Go Apache-2.0
341 upvotes – 97 comments

Tox: secure messaging for everyone

http://tox.im/

13 years ago

340 upvotes – 199 comments

Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make and break online video

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/why-youtube-buffers-the-secret-deals-that-make-and-break-online-video/

13 years ago

310 upvotes – 110 comments

Identical Droplets in the DigitalOcean: Regenerate your Ubuntu SSH Host Keys now

http://missingm.co/2013/07/identical-droplets-in-the-digitalocean-regenerate-your-ubuntu-ssh-host-keys-now/

13 years ago

285 upvotes – 106 comments

US patent office rejects claims of Apple 'pinch to zoom' patent

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045461/us-patent-office-rejects-claims-of-apple-pinch-to-zoom-patent.html

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 104 comments

Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/us/politics/momentum-builds-against-nsa-surveillance.html

13 years ago

263 upvotes – 30 comments

Bitcoin ruled illegal in Thailand

https://bitcoin.co.th/trading-suspended-due-to-bank-of-thailand-advisement/?bettertitle

13 years ago

236 upvotes – 102 comments

GPS signals are surprisingly easy to disrupt

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21582288-satellite-positioning-data-are-vitalbut-signal-surprisingly-easy-disrupt-out

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 120 comments

Why I willingly handed over my credit card and PIN to a fraudster

http://www.newstatesman.com/voices/2013/07/why-i-willingly-handed-over-my-credit-card-and-pin-fraudster

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 131 comments

Ask HN: HN Political News Overload?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120201

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 149 comments

Bootstrap 3

http://getbootstrap.com

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 85 comments

Flynn 101% Funded

https://flynn.io/?funded=

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 25 comments

Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week

http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2013/07/wired_love_a_ta.php

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 14 comments

Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions

http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 52 comments

Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht

http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2013/07/texas-students-fake-gps-signals-and-take-control-of-an-80-million-yacht/?cmpid=hpfc

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 97 comments

Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23469438

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 34 comments

Desperate times call for desperate measures

http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/56798895350/desperate-times-call-for-desperate-measures

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 38 comments

A back-projection algorithm to extract 3D volume from shadows

http://jack.minardi.org/software/whats-in-a-shadow/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 25 comments

Phil Fish and the Internet’s war against creatives

http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/article/swimming-in-a-sea-of-shit-the-internets-war-against-creatives

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 129 comments

Ink – Interface Kit

http://ink.sapo.pt/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 69 comments

Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 55 comments

GameBoy Programming Manual

http://www.scribd.com/doc/39999184/GameBoy-Programming-Manual

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 53 comments

Straws And Cups That Detect Date Rape Drugs

http://www.wgbhnews.org/post/boston-man-invents-straws-and-cups-detect-date-rape-drugs

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 121 comments

Microsoft Accuses Microsoft of Copyright Infringement

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045486/microsoft-accuses-microsoft-of-copyright-infringement-asks-google-to-scrub-search-links.html

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 34 comments

The Slingatron: Building a Railroad to Space

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/391496725/the-slingatron-building-a-railroad-to-space?ref=category

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 76 comments

"Australia Tax" is real: Infrastructure and Communications report

http://www.zdnet.com/the-australia-tax-is-real-geo-blocking-to-stop-7000018644/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 134 comments

Skin in the Game as a Required Heuristic for Acting Under Uncertainty

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2298292

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 62 comments

OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/osi-the-internet-that-wasnt

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 62 comments

Down with lifehacking

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/07/lifehacking_is_just_another_way_to_make_us_work_more.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 55 comments

Tor use is now forbidden on Kimsufi's OVH

http://forum.ovh.com/showthread.php?t=89685

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 78 comments

Honest In-App Purchases

http://david-smith.org/blog/2013/07/23/honest-consumable-in-app-purchases/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 76 comments

Data Structures using C++

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci102/slides.html

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 52 comments

Google offering same-day delivery from retailers in the Bay Area

https://www.google.com/shopping/express/about/index.html

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 42 comments

Meetup Golf - a game I play to keep myself from networking wrong

http://blog.ledwards.com/blog/2013/07/28/meetup-golf/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 38 comments

Google's ‘Gopher Team’

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

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

Scraping web sites which dynamically load data (like Twitter)

http://blog.databigbang.com/scraping-web-sites-which-dynamically-load-data/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2013Jul/0047.html

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 39 comments

Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/13/07/not-even-silicon-valley-escapes-history/277824/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

On why removing features makes people unhappy

http://www.dgsiegel.net/news/2013_07_27-on_why_removing_features_makes_people_unhappy

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 101 comments

Opponents of NSA surveillance emboldened by close House vote

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/313853-nsa-foes-emboldened-by-house-vote-

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

GitHub was experiencing a DDoS

https://status.github.com/?utm=1

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 72 comments

How we're going to change Georgia Tech

http://chintanparikh.github.io/blog/2013/07/27/how-were-going-to-change-georgia-tech/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 90 comments

Announcing Trigger.io v2.0

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2013/07/29/trigger-2-0-build-mobile-apps-using-the-best-of-html5-and-our-new-native-module-ecosystem/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

CIS 194: Introduction to Haskell (Spring 2013)

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 44 comments

SIP Trunking to Replace My Landline Phone Using Plivo

http://plivo.com/blog/sip-trunking-to-replace-my-landline-phone-using-plivo/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Goodbye academia, I get a life (2011)

http://blog.devicerandom.org/2011/02/18/getting-a-life/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: better software deployment with Git

http://github.com/arnoo/git-deliver

13 years ago

★ 658 Shell GPL-3.0
66 upvotes – 30 comments

A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jul/28/lecture-johnson-and-boswell/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

UCLA scientists double efficiency of novel solar cell

http://phys.org/news/2013-07-ucla-scientists-efficiency-solar-cell.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 23 comments

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012) [pdf]

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/21/1118373109.full.pdf

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 34 comments

HackMIT - Hackathon for students from any school, Oct 4-6

http://www.hackmit.org/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 37 comments

Stripe Shop

https://shop.stripe.com

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments
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