top 50% 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

400 upvotes – 199 comments

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

http://filecoin.io/#1

12 years ago

281 upvotes – 137 comments

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

http://static.gotenna.com

12 years ago

255 upvotes – 178 comments

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

253 upvotes – 54 comments

Programming is not math?

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

12 years ago

248 upvotes – 159 comments

“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

245 upvotes – 62 comments

Kindle Unlimited

https://www.amazon.com/kindleunlimited

12 years ago

245 upvotes – 191 comments

Anatomy of a system call, part 1

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

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 19 comments

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

211 upvotes – 98 comments

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

207 upvotes – 92 comments

Mapcode – A short address for any location on Earth

http://www.mapcode.com

12 years ago

203 upvotes – 119 comments

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

199 upvotes – 78 comments

Welcome new YC team members

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

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 48 comments

The Benefits of Failing at French

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

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 150 comments

Open Source Madness

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

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 50 comments

Tell HN: Take vacation

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

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 117 comments

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

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

12 years ago

★ 7.1k CSS
184 upvotes – 35 comments

Slackware is 21 Years Old

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

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 60 comments

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

http://hpmor.com/

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 127 comments

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

162 upvotes – 14 comments

Mayhem – A hidden threat for *nix web servers

https://www.virusbtn.com/virusbulletin/archive/2014/07/vb201407-Mayhem

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 54 comments

Irmin: Git-like distributed, branchable storage

http://openmirage.org/blog/introducing-irmin

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 25 comments

Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

http://vorillaz.github.io/devicons

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 77 comments

Verizon made an enemy tonight

http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Verizon-Fios-Netflix-Vyprvpn.html

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 49 comments

A Gentle Introduction to Monad Transformers – or, Values as Exceptions

https://github.com/kqr/gists/blob/master/articles/gentle-introduction-monad-transformers.md

12 years ago

★ 404 Haskell
119 upvotes – 54 comments

The 10:10 Code (2010)

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/1010-code.html?

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Good countries for American expats

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8053134

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 121 comments

Show HN: SwiftHN, a Hacker News reader in Swift

http://dimillian.github.io/SwiftHN/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 44 comments

FedEx Charged With Shipping Drugs For Illegal Online Pharmacies

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/17/332400444/fedex-charged-with-shipping-drugs-for-illegal-online-pharmacies?sc=tw

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 61 comments

Use the unofficial Bash strict mode

http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prostitution in 2003

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5898187/prostitution-rhode-island-decriminalized

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 130 comments

Battleship Rangefinders and Geometry

http://mathscinotes.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/battleship-rangefinders-and-geometry/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: A high-speed laser camera trigger for under $2

http://www.vela.io/posts/building-a-laser-camera-trigger-for-2-dollars/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 28 comments

Fastpass: A Centralized “Zero-Queue” Datacenter Network

http://fastpass.mit.edu/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 28 comments

Elastic MapReduce Streaming in Go

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/emr-streaming-in-go/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

Mac and Cheese Maze Mystery Resolved

http://krazydad.com/blog/2014/07/18/about-that-mac-cheese-maze/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

Keeping employees from discussing their salaries is illegal

http://m.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/when-the-boss-says-dont-tell-your-coworkers-how-much-you-get-paid/374467/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Holographic Displays Coming to Smartphones

http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/holographic-displays-coming-to-smartphones

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

Programming is not math

http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2014/07/15/programming-is-not-math/#comments

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 113 comments

Hacking POS Terminal for Fun and Non-profit

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Hacking-POS-Terminal-for-Fun-and-Non-profit/ba-p/6540620#.U8lhTvldXXp

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 16 comments

Chrome 37 Beta: DirectWrite on Windows and the Dialog Element

http://blog.chromium.org/2014/07/chrome-37-beta-directwrite-on-windows.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 33 comments

Tips on Configuring Elasticsearch for High Performance

https://www.loggly.com/blog/nine-tips-configuring-elasticsearch-for-high-performance/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=Blog-9-tips-ES

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

Piri Reis Map

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/roko_s_basilisk_the_most_terrifying_thought_experiment_of_all_time.html

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 90 comments

A New Digital Currency Whose Value Is Based on Your Reputation

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/document-coin/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 43 comments

Tips for Better Deep Learning Models

http://www.lauradhamilton.com/10-tips-for-better-deep-learning-models

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

The American Poker Frat of Playa del Carmen

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/07/04/online_poker_american_poker_exiles_gamble_all_day_and_party_all_night_in.html

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

Google Imagery: Cost-effective, accurate imagery for your operations

http://lp.google-mkto.com/Google-imagery.html

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 17 comments

Chinese Hackers Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/world/asia/chinese-hackers-pursue-key-data-on-us-workers.html&assetType=nyt_now&_r=0

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 38 comments
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