top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-12

I've been tracking everything about myself

http://aprilzero.com/#

12 years ago

461 upvotes – 157 comments

Higher antioxidant, lower cadmium, and lower pesticide residues in organic crops [pdf]

http://csanr.wsu.edu/m2m/papers/organic_meta_analysis/bjn_2014_full_paper.pdf

12 years ago

306 upvotes – 203 comments

Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc.

https://github.com/Xfennec/cv

12 years ago

★ 8.8k C GPL-3.0
252 upvotes – 53 comments

Who smeared Richard Feynman?

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/07/11/smeared-richard-feynman/

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 54 comments

Kryptoradio – A Bitcoin data transmission system

http://kryptoradio.koodilehto.fi/

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 60 comments

Patoline: A modern digital typesetting system

http://patoline.org/

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 80 comments

A “nationwide gentrification effect” is segregating us by education

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/11/college-graduates-are-sorting-themselves-into-cities-increasingly-out-of-reach-of-everyone-else/

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 134 comments

Quoc Le’s Lectures on Deep Learning

http://cs.pitt.edu/~gtrivedi/blog/quoc-les-lectures-on-deep-learning/

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 8 comments

How Coffee Fueled the Civil War

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/how-coffee-fueled-the-civil-war/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 63 comments

Busy NYC Restaurant Solves Major Mystery by Reviewing Old Surveillance

http://dineability.com/busy-nyc-restaurant-solves-major-mystery-reviewing-old-surveillance/

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 70 comments

What I mean when I say "I think VR is bad news"

https://gist.github.com/rygorous/251b945aef2046ac7cee

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 34 comments

Mutable Algorithms in Immutable Languages, Part 1

http://tel.github.io/2014/07/12/mutable_algorithms_in_immutable_languges_part_1/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 41 comments

Bill Gates’s Favorite Business Tales, in The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/07/bill-gates-favorite-business-book.html

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 24 comments

Differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x, with examples

http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_python_2_3_key_diff.html

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 16 comments

An introduction to parallel programming using Python's multiprocessing module

http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_multiprocessing_intro.html

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 24 comments

LibreSSL on Gentoo

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/851-LibreSSL-on-Gentoo.html

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

Multiline strings in JavaScript

https://github.com/sindresorhus/multiline?unicorns

12 years ago

★ 1.4k JavaScript MIT
98 upvotes – 68 comments

Miami is drowning while the powers that be look away

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/miami-drowning-climate-change-deniers-sea-levels-rising

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 59 comments

Anonymous Wikipedia edits from the Norwegian parliament and government offices

https://files.jaribakken.no/wikiedits/no/en.html

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 35 comments

Making sure software stays insecure [pdf]

http://cr.yp.to/talks/2014.07.10/slides-djb-20140710-a4.pdf

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 39 comments

How Sega Planned To Crush Nintendo, 24 Years Ago

http://kotaku.com/how-sega-planned-to-crush-nintendo-24-years-ago-1575042229

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 17 comments

Offer HN: We'll translate your iOS application to Japanese for free

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024093

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 22 comments

Amazon snubs French free delivery ban with one-cent charge

http://www.france24.com/en/20140711-amazon-snubs-french-free-delivery-ban-with-1-cent-charge/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 87 comments

Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 5 comments

OCaml: The Bugs So Far

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/01/07/ocaml-the-bugs-so-far/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

Food Delivery Startup Caviar In Talks To Be Acquired By Square

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/12/caviar-square/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 32 comments

XDomain: A pure JavaScript CORS alternative

https://github.com/jpillora/xdomain

12 years ago

★ 3.1k JavaScript
67 upvotes – 19 comments

Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ changes the face of battle

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israels-iron-dome-changes-the-face-of-battle/2014/07/10/578c779e-0868-11e4-8615-4eddc1f1cffa_story.html

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 69 comments

Expert reaction to organic food nutrition study

http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-comparing-the-nutritional-content-of-organic-and-conventional-foods/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 48 comments

Cloud At A Cost – Hosting For Suckers

http://www.cloudatacost.com/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 53 comments

How compatible is LibreSSL?

http://devsonacid.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/how-compatible-is-libressl/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 51 comments

Watchy: a distributed system monitoring solution

http://redbrain.github.io/watchy/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of clever product hacks by customers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024526

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 34 comments

The Minitransaction: An Alternative to Multi-Paxos and Raft

http://blog.treode.com/minitransaction/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming

https://abstractowl.github.io/2014/07/09/intro-to-aop.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 48 comments
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