top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-07

Python is now the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-the-most-popular-introductory-teaching-language-at-top-us-universities/fulltext

12 years ago

743 upvotes – 359 comments

JSON Resume – a JSON-based open source standard for resumes

http://jsonresume.org/

12 years ago

490 upvotes – 210 comments

MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/07/mit-and-dropbox-alums-launch-inbox-a-next-generation-email-platform/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb

12 years ago

390 upvotes – 262 comments

SecureDrop

https://ssl.washingtonpost.com/securedrop

12 years ago

316 upvotes – 95 comments

Xiki: An amazing shell

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/07/programmer-craig-muth-kickstarts-a-new-version-of-his-arguably-amazing-shell-xiki/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb

12 years ago

311 upvotes – 123 comments

Ask HN: How best to learn software design principles?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8000811

12 years ago

274 upvotes – 98 comments

Super Pixel Quest

http://superpixelquest.com/

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 40 comments

Detecting login state for almost any website on the internet

http://words.zemn.me/csp

12 years ago

250 upvotes – 61 comments

iOS 8 Privacy Updates

http://lmjabreu.com/post/ios-8-privacy-updates/

12 years ago

228 upvotes – 77 comments

CentOS 7 released on x86_64

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-July/020393.html

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 120 comments

Urllib3, Stripe, and Open Source Grants

https://medium.com/@shazow/urllib3-stripe-and-open-source-grants-edb9c0e46e82

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 20 comments

Firefly Space Systems

http://www.fireflyspace.com

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 126 comments

Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7998382

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 82 comments

U.S. Banks Curtail International Money Transfers

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/immigrants-from-latin-america-and-africa-squeezed-as-banks-curtail-international-money-transfers/

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 159 comments

Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/07/07/ubuntu-and-open-source-help-the-city-of-munich-save-millions/

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 107 comments

Bitcoin Core switching from hard-coded to flexible fees in next major release

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/2014/07/07/floating-fees

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 55 comments

Code review without your glasses

http://robertheaton.com/2014/06/20/code-review-without-your-eyes/

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Sheetlabs – Turn your spreadsheets into APIs

https://sheetlabs.com

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 78 comments

The Life And Death Of 'The Internet's Own Boy'

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/07/06/327774311/the-life-and-death-of-the-internets-own-boy

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 90 comments

Herringbone Wang Tiles

http://nothings.org/gamedev/herringbone/

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 10 comments

How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/hacking-google-maps/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 124 comments

The Rise of Thin, Mini and Insert Skimmers

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/07/the-rise-of-thin-mini-and-insert-skimmers/

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 73 comments

Private Team Fires 36-Year-Old NASA Probe's Engines

http://www.space.com/26438-isee3-spacecraft-engines-fired.html

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 11 comments

Developer inequality and the technical debt crisis

http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=865

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 103 comments

Natural Earth: A public domain map dataset

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 9 comments

Germany turns up pressure in suspected US spy case

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/6/germany-us-spy.html

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 86 comments

Update to Microsoft Takedown – Domains Fully Restored

http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/07/03/update-microsoft-takedown/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

Summer of Programming Languages

http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/summer-of-programming-languages/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 74 comments

OCaml for the Masses (2011)

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2038036

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 88 comments

In Japan, Idled Electronics Factories Find New Life in Farming

http://online.wsj.com/articles/in-japan-idled-electronics-factories-find-new-life-in-farming-1404700202

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 31 comments

Unapologetically build your startup technology in C#

http://www.sirchristian.net/blog/2014/06/21/unapologetically-build-your-startup-technology-in-c-net/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 146 comments

The Elements of HTML

http://w3c.github.io/elements-of-html/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 36 comments

Welcome to the Everything Boom, or Maybe the Everything Bubble

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/upshot/welcome-to-the-everything-boom-or-maybe-the-everything-bubble.html?src=twr

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 63 comments

The Government Once Built Silicon Valley

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/04/the-government-once-built-silicon-valley/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 41 comments

Anya Groner: The Heart You Save Won’t Be Your Own

http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/anya-groner-the-heart-you-save-wont-be-your-own/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Web Spreadsheet in 99 lines

https://github.com/audreyt/500lines/blob/master/spreadsheet/chapter.md

12 years ago

★ 470 JavaScript
76 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Chances for Restarting a Career in CS @ 30+ ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7997624

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 61 comments

How A Lucky Run In Vegas Saved FedEx

http://priceonomics.com/how-a-lucky-run-in-vegas-saved-fedex/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Modern Science and the Bayesian-Frequentist Controversy (2005) [pdf]

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~ckirby/brad/papers/2005NEWModernScience.pdf

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things

https://medium.com/p/9316abbd5735

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 104 comments

TSA: don't bring uncharged devices from oversea

http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2014/07/06/enhanced-security-measures-certain-airports-overseas

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 64 comments

Subtle -isms at Hacker School

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/38-subtle-isms-at-hacker-school

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 129 comments

SEC due to review the definition of accredited investor

http://equityzen.com/blog/accredited-investor-standards-SEC-review

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 44 comments

Some rambling thoughts on region restrictions

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/07/some-rambling-thoughts-on-regi.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers

http://www.salon.com/2014/07/06/bbc_staff_ordered_to_stop_giving_equal_air_time_to_climate_deniers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 115 comments

Vagrant with Docker: How to set up Postgres, Elasticsearch and Redis on Mac OS X

http://maori.geek.nz/post/vagrant_with_docker_how_to_set_up_postgres_elasticsearch_and_redis_on_mac_os_x

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

Wall Street Banks and Private Equity Firms Compete for Young Talent

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/business/wall-street-banks-and-private-equity-firms-compete-for-young-talent.html

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 43 comments

The Next Big Programming Language You’ve Never Heard Of

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/d-programming-language/?mbid=social_fb

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 73 comments

Inbox — The next-generation email platform

https://www.inboxapp.com/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Twilert – Emails in real time when your brand is mentioned on Twitter

https://www.twilert.com

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Google Has Given HTTPS a Huge Boost

http://blog.httpwatch.com/2014/07/07/google-has-given-https-a-huge-boost

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 41 comments

VMWare: vSphere Web Client sucks so bad

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/477686

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Smart bookmarks extension

https://raindrop.io/extension/?#en_US

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 39 comments

Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/grad.html

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Do VCs have an age bias?

https://modeanalytics.com/benn/reports/211f54949c00

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: A Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library

https://github.com/practicalswift/Pythonic.swift

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

Vellum

http://vellum.nytlabs.com/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 14 comments
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