top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-18

Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being

https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/Lh8SKC6sED1

13 years ago

579 upvotes – 385 comments

Children are suffering a severe deficit of play

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/children-today-are-suffering-a-severe-deficit-of-play/

13 years ago

342 upvotes – 182 comments

The Engineer Who converted 12,100 Cups Of Pudding to 1.25 Million Air Miles

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/engineer-bought-12100-cups-pudding-earn-1-25-million-air-miles/

13 years ago

287 upvotes – 156 comments

A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics

13 years ago

285 upvotes – 91 comments

The Dribbblisation of Design

http://insideintercom.io/the-dribbblisation-of-design/

13 years ago

276 upvotes – 100 comments

The iPhone 5s Review

http://anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review

13 years ago

270 upvotes – 269 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 21 comments

Simpson's Paradox

http://vudlab.com/simpsons/

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 50 comments

Verizon, caught red-handed

http://buzzmachine.com/2013/09/17/verizon-caught-red-handed/

13 years ago

209 upvotes – 36 comments

Cyanogen raises $7 million to build a better version of Android

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/18/4742828/cyanogen-raises-7-million-to-build-the-best-version-of-android

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 62 comments

I'm Gen Y, and I Don't Feel Special or Entitled, Just Poor

http://aweinstein.kinja.com/fuck-you-im-gen-y-and-i-dont-feel-special-or-entitl-1333588443

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 162 comments

Google vs. Death

http://techland.time.com/2013/09/18/google-vs-death/

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 132 comments

Web development in C: Crazy?

https://medium.com/code-adventures/ff723209f8f5

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 201 comments

A New Chapter

http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/a_new_chapter

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 26 comments

Elon Musk's Hyperloop is viable, says maker of simulation software

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-18/elon-musks-hyperloop-will-work-says-some-very-smart-software

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 96 comments

Svg.js

http://svgjs.com/

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 50 comments

Upsource: A Platform

http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/09/18/upsource-a-platform/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 38 comments

How To Take Exceptional Notes and Be Productive with Paper

http://tomtunguz.com/how-to-take-exceptional-notes-and-be-productive-with-paper

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 123 comments

Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

https://trysignal.com

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 88 comments

RedScript – like CoffeeScript, in Ruby

https://github.com/AdamBrodzinski/RedScript

13 years ago

★ 418 JavaScript MIT
148 upvotes – 65 comments

The Coral Content Distribution Network

http://www.coralcdn.org/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 43 comments

Just go home

https://medium.com/life-hacks/76632b62eb0b

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 77 comments

Death of an adjunct professor

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/death-of-an-adjunct-703773/

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 70 comments

iOS 7, thoroughly reviewed

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/09/ios-7-thoroughly-reviewed/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 111 comments

How to fake courage

http://blog.42floors.com/fake-courage/#.Ujm_RX8EXuA.hackernews

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 42 comments

Introducing Trello Gold

http://blog.trello.com/introducing-trello-gold-board-backgrounds-stickers-and-more/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 86 comments

Watch how fast people are upgrading to iOS 7

https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_7

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 74 comments

No One Reads Kafka At Gitmo

https://medium.com/editors-picks/6076fd7f2500

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 89 comments

The iPhone 5S and 5C

http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/the_iphone_5s_and_5c

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 96 comments

Researchers can slip an undetectable trojan into Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUS

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/researchers-can-slip-an-undetectable-trojan-into-intels-ivy-bridge-cpus/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 31 comments

Perceived Performance: Ways to Make Your Mobile Site Feel Like a Native App

http://www.mobify.com/blog/beginners-guide-to-perceived-performance/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 14 comments

Github For Everything

http://wiredcraft.com/posts/2013/09/18/github-for-everything.html

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 63 comments

The Rise of Bay Area Rents

http://priceonomics.com/the-rise-of-bay-area-rent-prices/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 63 comments

Twilio Announces MMS Support

http://www.twilio.com/mms

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 44 comments

BlackBerry to cut up to 40 percent of employees

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/09/report-blackberry-to-cut-up-to-40-percent-of-employees/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 36 comments

Add MapBox to iOS 7 with One Line of Code

http://www.mapbox.com/blog/ios7-mapbox/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 5 comments

BBM Available for Android and iPhone

http://blogs.blackberry.com/2013/09/bbm-for-android-iphone/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 103 comments

Neurosynaptic chips

http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/neurosynaptic-chips.shtml?lnk=ushpls1

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 8 comments

JSDB.io – A Database of JavaScript Libraries

http://www.jsdb.io/?sort=trending

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/17/223345977/auto-brewery-syndrome-apparently-you-can-make-beer-in-your-gut

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

Intel: The year of the Linux desktop is here

http://www.zdnet.com/intel-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-is-here-7000020849/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 75 comments

1/1 Scale F-16 Cockpit

http://www.arcair.com/Gal2/1801-1900/Gal1882-F-16cockpit-Sachs/00.shtm

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 44 comments

Formula E

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/09/formula-e-intro/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 53 comments
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