top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-11

ElementaryOs Luna released

http://elementaryos.org/

13 years ago

377 upvotes – 296 comments

You broke the Internet. We're making ourselves a GNU one [video]

https://gnunet.org/internetistschuld

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 75 comments

Pixel Shaders: Proposal for an Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming

http://pixelshaders.com/

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 21 comments

The Massachusetts Software Tax

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3015446/why-were-so-frustrated-about-the-massachusetts-software-tax

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 194 comments

Injectable oxygen keeps people alive without breathing

http://techandfacts.com/injectable-oxygen/

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 63 comments

Hacking Transcend WiFi SD Cards

http://haxit.blogspot.com/2013/08/hacking-transcend-wifi-sd-cards.html

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 54 comments

mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player

http://mpv.io/index.html

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 83 comments

PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0450

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 83 comments

Android RNG Weakness Renders Bitcoin Wallets Insecure

http://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2013-08-11-android

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 102 comments

No, really—consciousness is worth thinking about

http://duncancarroll.tumblr.com/post/57994245946/no-really-consciousness-is-worth-thinking-about

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 151 comments

Julia and Python: a dynamic duo for scientific computing [video]

http://lanyrd.com/2013/scipy/schhyz/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 18 comments

Tracking devices hidden in London's recycling bins are stalking your smartphone

http://qz.com/112873/this-recycling-bin-is-following-you/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Do you read on the toilet? This web app is for you.

http://www.backlabel.gr

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 68 comments

Flat Surface Shader

http://wagerfield.github.io/flat-surface-shader/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 36 comments

The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer

http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 40 comments

This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3009577/open-company/this-is-what-happens-when-publishers-invest-in-long-stories/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 37 comments

Bike blog: Experiments in Speed [video]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/video/2013/aug/09/bike-blog-experiments-speed-video

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 58 comments

Wikipedia Co-Founder Refuses to Comply With China's Censorship

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/09/wikipedia-co-founder-refuses-to-comply-with-chinas-censorhip/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 41 comments

I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook

http://mashable.com/2013/08/11/teens-facebook/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: Kraken.io – image optimization service

https://kraken.io

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

Billionaire Revealed: The Biggest Company You’ve Never Heard Of

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/billionaire-revealed-biggest-company-ve-never-heard-135439645.html

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 55 comments

Carmack talks practical use of Haskell, Lisp in game prog at Quakecon keynote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1PhArSujR_A&t=130

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 39 comments

Rails 4 startup template

https://github.com/dennybritz/rails_startup_template

13 years ago

★ 666 Ruby
88 upvotes – 42 comments

Introduction to making HTML5/JavaScript games with Coquette.js

http://superbigtree.tumblr.com/post/57993562778/introduction-to-making-html5-javascript-games-with

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 26 comments

Agda by Example: λ-calculus

http://mazzo.li/posts/Lambda.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

How and why writing crypto is hard (2012)

http://www.acooke.org/cute/WhyandHowW0.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Dmesg: An old, new, cool tool

http://inconsolation.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/dmesg-an-old-new-cool-tool/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Guess whose emails the NSA can't read

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/07/guess-whose-email-the-nsa-cant-read.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Mega to run ‘cutting-edge’ encrypted email

http://rt.com/news/mega-secure-email-lavabit-359/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

Smartphone-monitoring bins in London track places of work, past behavior

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/no-this-isnt-a-scene-from-minority-report-this-trash-can-is-stalking-you/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

A self-published riff on Hamlet broke every Kickstarter record.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/08/ryan_north_s_kickstarter_hamlet_adventure_to_be_or_not_to_be_reviewed.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: What do you want to see in Rails 4.1?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6195616

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 89 comments

Secure Share – decentralized encrypted social network

http://secushare.org/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Consciousness is worth thinking about

http://hack.ly/articles/why-consciousness-may-not-come-from-the-brain/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 82 comments

The Man Who Would Overthrow Harvard

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324110404578627712224845012.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 69 comments

A much-maligned engine of innovation

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/32ba9b92-efd4-11e2-a237-00144feabdc0.html

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 34 comments

How Much Do Average Apps Make On Each Platform?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlouis/2013/08/10/how-much-do-average-apps-make/?partner=yahootix

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

The Flattening of Ebook Sales

http://www.roughtype.com/?p=3590

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 54 comments
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