top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-23

The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi

http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2014-07-23-12-28_the_sad_state_of_linux_wi-fi.html

12 years ago

432 upvotes – 266 comments

Apple Confirms “Back Doors”, Downplays Their Severity

http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=3466

12 years ago

422 upvotes – 104 comments

List of Web Business Models

https://gist.github.com/ndarville/4295324

12 years ago

346 upvotes – 70 comments

Sierra Leone's chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/23/ozatp-uk-health-ebola-africa-idAFKBN0FS10V20140723

12 years ago

340 upvotes – 109 comments

The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling Someone a Terrorist

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/23/blacklisted/

12 years ago

329 upvotes – 82 comments

William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions

http://williamshatner.tumblr.com/post/92551992485/facebook-mentions-versus-facebook-pages-apps

12 years ago

286 upvotes – 83 comments

Firm Inefficiency

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/07/firm-inefficiency.html

12 years ago

230 upvotes – 101 comments

Tracking down a kernel bug with git bisect

http://blog.oddbit.com/2014/07/21/tracking-down-a-kernel-bug-wit/

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 46 comments

Polygon sat down with one of the creators of Dwarf Fortress

http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/23/5926447/dwarf-fortress-will-crush-your-cpu-because-creating-history-is-hard

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 99 comments

How recursion got into programming: a comedy of errors

http://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-into-programming-a-comedy-of-errors-3/

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 108 comments

Just let me code

http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/just-let-me-code/240168735

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 133 comments

Terminal – Virtual computers that start, resize, and scale in seconds

http://www.terminal.com

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 84 comments

I've never seen a language's style guide recommend avoiding comments before

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Commenting

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 191 comments

Rebuilding a broken Gameboy with a Raspberry Pi

https://superpiboy.wordpress.com

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 20 comments

Bootstrap 3 Free Themes and Templates

http://www.prepbootstrap.com/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 29 comments

Why I'm Productive in Clojure

http://yogthos.net/blog/49-Why+I%27m+Productive+in+Clojure

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 95 comments

Orchard and Fig are joining Docker

http://blog.docker.com/2014/07/welcoming-the-orchard-and-fig-team/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 30 comments

Prosecutors Are Reading Emails From Inmates to Lawyers

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/nyregion/us-is-reading-inmates-email-sent-to-lawyers.html

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 61 comments

Paletton – Color Scheme Designer

http://www.paletton.com

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 26 comments

Hemingway App now available

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/Desktop.html

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 74 comments

Open Name System: Extending DNS with the Blockchain

http://opennamesystem.org

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 29 comments

Norris numbers

http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/norris-numbers.html

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 37 comments

The Stanford Prison Experiment was flawed

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2014/07/what-textbooks-dont-tell-you-one-of.html

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Tiempo – The fastest way to track time and get paid

http://www.tiempoapp.com/invoices

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 80 comments

Open Source Implementation of Google App Engine

http://github.com/AppScale/appscale

12 years ago

★ 2.4k Python Apache-2.0
109 upvotes – 47 comments

Plasma physics: The fusion upstarts

http://www.nature.com/news/plasma-physics-the-fusion-upstarts-1.15592

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 73 comments

Sense – Wake up when it's right for you

http://hello.is

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 109 comments

Lisp in QBASIC

https://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/dmenezes/lisp.html

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Balances – Mint for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

https://balances.io

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

The Sniper Attack: Anonymously Deanonymizing and Disabling the Tor Network [pdf]

http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/sniper-ndss2014.pdf

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 6 comments

Ethereum Genesis Sale

https://www.ethereum.org/#

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

A brand new Foursquare, with a brand new logo and look

http://blog.foursquare.com/post/92636287198/a-brand-new-foursquare-with-a-brand-new-logo-and-look

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 95 comments

iOS: About diagnostic capabilities

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6331?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

Netflix's Open Connect Appliances

http://gizmodo.com/this-box-can-hold-an-entire-netflix-1592590450

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 64 comments

Commercializing the first direct-diode laser bright enough to cut and weld metal

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/startup-teradiode-invents-direct-diode-laser-bright-enough-to-cut-weld-0723

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 24 comments

Firefox 31 for developers

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/31

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 19 comments

Review: Amazon’s Fire Phone

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/technology/personaltech/review-amazons-fire-phone.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSumSmallMediaHigh&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 51 comments

Sublime Text Development Status

http://sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16517

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 70 comments

'Optical fibre' made out of thin air

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/optical-fibre-made-out-of-thin-air-1.2715321

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2014 Results

http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=861599

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 55 comments

CSS Variables in Firefox 31 – new syntax

http://jan.rs/blog/css-variables-in-firefox-31-new-syntax/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 53 comments

OwnCloud 7 is out

http://karlitschek.de/2014/07/owncloud-7-is-out/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

Cuts and jumpers on a different scale (1989)

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/net/user/tytso/archive/high-power

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Hind-cite.com – Hacker News Charts and Data

http://www.hind-cite.com/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments

Groundbreaking Operating System Is Named an IEEE Milestone

http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-history/groundbreaking-operating-system-is-named-an-ieee-milestone

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

Sixth grader's internet-famous science project may have been plagiarized

http://www.cflas.org/was-lionfish-research-hijacked-by-12-year-old-from-palm-beach-florida/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 39 comments

OS X Yosemite public beta starts tomorrow

http://www.macworld.com/article/2456968/apple-os-x-yosemite-public-beta-arrives-thursday.html

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 51 comments

Announcing Free Incoming SMS For All

https://www.plivo.com/blog/plivo-announces-free-incoming-sms-in-all-20-countries/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 83 comments

Department Of Dirty

http://www.departmentofdirty.co.uk/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

Web App Directories to Promote Your Startup

http://justinmcgill.net/massive-list-of-web-app-directories-to-promote-your-startup/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Building advanced search on Imgur

http://imgur.com/blog/2014/07/22/tech-tuesday-building-imgur-search/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

This is why software sucks

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/this-is-why-software-sucks

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

Logs Are Streams, Not Files (2011)

http://adam.herokuapp.com/past/2011/4/1/logs_are_streams_not_files/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments
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