top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-07-18

Now Accepting Bitcoin on Dell.com

http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2014/07/18/we-re-now-accepting-bitcoin-on-dell-com.aspx

12 years ago

Filecoin – Data storage network and crypto-currency based on Bitcoin

http://filecoin.io/#1

12 years ago

GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service

http://static.gotenna.com

12 years ago

Electric life forms that live on energy

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25894-meet-the-electric-life-forms-that-live-on-pure-energy.html

12 years ago

Programming is not math?

http://j2kun.svbtle.com/programming-is-not-math-huh

12 years ago

Kindle Unlimited

https://www.amazon.com/kindleunlimited

12 years ago

“A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-profound-life-lessons-from-Stanford-Professor-John-Ousterhout?share=1

12 years ago

Anatomy of a system call, part 1

http://lwn.net/Articles/604287/

12 years ago

Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-online-polls-ways-british-spies-seek-control-internet/

12 years ago

Google will stop calling games 'free' when they offer in-app purchases

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/18/5915415/google-adding-in-app-purchase-protections-european-commission

12 years ago

Mapcode – A short address for any location on Earth

http://www.mapcode.com

12 years ago

Leading HIV researchers lost as flight MH17 is downed in Ukraine

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10975275/Leading-HIV-researchers-lost-as-flight-MH17-is-downed-in-Ukraine.html

12 years ago

Welcome new YC team members

http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-scott-dalton-adora-brett-nicole-alexis-and-qasar

12 years ago

The Benefits of Failing at French

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/opinion/16alexander.html

12 years ago

Open Source Madness

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/open-source-madness

12 years ago

Tell HN: Take vacation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8052578

12 years ago

Show HN: Weather Icons – Icon font with 123 weather-themed icons

https://github.com/erikflowers/weather-icons

12 years ago

★ 7.1k CSS

Slackware is 21 Years Old

http://slackblogs.blogspot.com/2014/07/slackware-is-21-years-old.html

12 years ago

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

http://hpmor.com/

12 years ago

The time one of my colleagues debugged a line-of-business application

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/07/18/10543324.aspx

12 years ago