top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-07

John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/john-carmack-joins-oculus-as-cto/

13 years ago

993 upvotes – 204 comments

How to Convince Investors

http://paulgraham.com/convince.html

13 years ago

489 upvotes – 113 comments

Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement, Then Sues

http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/editors-pick/articles/A-Russian-Bank-Is-Sued-for/8/7/2013/id/51205

13 years ago

413 upvotes – 179 comments

EFF: "Parallel construction" is really intelligence laundering

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering

13 years ago

384 upvotes – 77 comments

Steps To $5,000 In Monthly Recurring Revenue

http://blog.statuspage.io/5-steps-to-5000-in-monthly-recurring-revenue

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 106 comments

Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/07/slashdot-founder-rob-malda-on-why-there-wont-be-another-hacker-news/?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

332 upvotes – 246 comments

Android AOSP maintainer quits

https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/9HHRURorE7g

13 years ago

328 upvotes – 227 comments

I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

http://www.kickoffboost.com/

13 years ago

318 upvotes – 105 comments

Cyberscare: Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/06/cyberscare_ex_nsa_chief_calls_transparency_groups_hackers_next_terrorists/singleton/

13 years ago

294 upvotes – 177 comments

I cannot afford to go back to engineering school

https://medium.com/p/4ee09a99696e

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 270 comments

Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/restoring_trust.html

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 117 comments

Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir

http://adambard.com/blog/3-languages-to-watch/

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 103 comments

Keep Your Identity Small (2009)

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 90 comments

DigitalOcean raises $3.2M Seed Round

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/07/fast-growing-cloud-hosting-service-digital-ocean-raises-3-2m-seed-round-led-by-ia-ventures/

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 109 comments

IRS manual detailed DEA's use of hidden intel evidence

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-dea-irs-idUSBRE9761AZ20130807

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 83 comments

Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

http://www.thevine.com.au/life/tech/the-single-most-reckless-idiotic-wonderful-app-ever-is-here/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 115 comments

Pixel-perfect timing attacks with HTML5

http://contextis.co.uk/research/white-papers/pixel-perfect-timing-attacks-html5/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 46 comments

A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/2641409235/a-tmux-crash-course/#

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 84 comments

Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2013/08/01/staring-at-the-sun-dalvik-vs-spidermonkey/

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 75 comments

iPhone logs my complete movement profile

http://board.protecus.de/t42771.htm#360301

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 112 comments

Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2013/08/06/announcing-0-9-1.aspx

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 109 comments

Typo: A programming language that runs in Haskell's type system

https://github.com/seliopou/typo

13 years ago

★ 257 Haskell
119 upvotes – 21 comments

Envelopes - Python email for humans

http://tomekwojcik.github.io/envelopes/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 34 comments

JS-Git

https://github.com/creationix/js-git

13 years ago

★ 3.8k JavaScript MIT
117 upvotes – 22 comments

All-You-Can-Fly Airline Plies the California Coast

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/business/airline-banks-on-a-buffet-style-business-model.html

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 49 comments

America's Chronic Overreaction to Terrorism

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324653004578650462392053732.html

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

Blink tag removed from Firefox

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0/releasenotes

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 92 comments

Thoughts on Twitter's new Two-Factor Authentication

http://blog.authy.com/twitter

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

Reactive.coffee: reactive programming and declarative UIs in CoffeeScript

http://yz.mit.edu/wp/introducing-reactive-coffee/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Profiling Atherton

http://kentbrew.github.io/profiling-atherton/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 64 comments

Stop asking users for their timezone – use per-device settings and JavaScript

http://trevoro.net/2013/whats-your-timezone/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 64 comments

Beginning Game Programming for Teens with Python

http://www.raywenderlich.com/24252/beginning-game-programming-for-teens-with-python

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 10 comments

How Much Will Prism Cost the U.S. Cloud Computing Industry?

http://www.itif.org/publications/how-much-will-prism-cost-us-cloud-computing-industry

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Yahoo: Kicking off 30 days of change

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/57582020969/kicking-off-30-days-of-change

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 49 comments

Stealth Startups Are Stupid

http://alexstechthoughts.com/post/57614571209/stealth-startups-are-stupid

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

Defective Heat Sinks Causing Garbage Gaming

http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/defective-heat-sinks-causing-garbage-gaming/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Learn Datalog Today – An interactive Datomic query tutorial

http://www.learndatalogtoday.org/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 7 comments

Dulwich, pure Python Git implementation

https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich

13 years ago

★ 2.2k Python
82 upvotes – 18 comments

Ubuntu Edge Gets First Major Corporate Backer, Funding Still Off Needed Pace

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/07/ubuntu-edge-gets-its-first-major-corporate-backer-in-bloomberg-but-funding-still-off-needed-pace/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

Marelle: logic-based devops with Prolog

http://larsyencken.github.io/marelle/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

If Amazon is the future of work, then be afraid

http://pro.gigaom.com/blog/if-amazon-is-the-future-of-work/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 106 comments

Fractal Machine

http://blog.sciencevsmagic.net/science/fractal-machine/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Happy third birthday, Horse_ebooks

https://medium.com/language-lingustics/7e3b7130f131

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

OS X apps run on Linux with Wine-like emulator for Mac software

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/os-x-apps-run-on-linux-with-wine-like-emulator-for-mac-software/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

IJulia: iPython Notebook for Julia

https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl

13 years ago

★ 2.8k Julia MIT
66 upvotes – 8 comments

The Powerball Jackpot is $425M. Should you play?

https://medium.com/p/28c5a31cd41d

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 76 comments

Yahoo Gets A New Logo

http://yahoo.com

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 44 comments
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