top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-24

Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

http://www.hotelwifitest.com/

12 years ago

671 upvotes – 237 comments

Mistakes You Should Never Make

http://sethbannon.com/mistakes-you-should-never-make

12 years ago

646 upvotes – 328 comments

Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/07/24/digital-whiteboard-trello-spins-out-of-fog-creek-with-10-3m/

12 years ago

590 upvotes – 162 comments

Math Intuition Cheatsheet

http://betterexplained.com/cheatsheet/

12 years ago

478 upvotes – 64 comments

Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007)

http://dheera.net/projects/blur

12 years ago

265 upvotes – 124 comments

A Conference Stole My Identity

http://futurestack.com/blog/2014/07/23/a-little-backstory/

12 years ago

237 upvotes – 142 comments

Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed

http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/24/googles-1b-purchase-of-twitch-confirmed-joins-youtube-for-new-video-empire/

12 years ago

237 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: Streisand – Silence censorship, automate the effect

https://github.com/jlund/streisand

12 years ago

★ 23.5k Shell
234 upvotes – 52 comments

Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm/

12 years ago

234 upvotes – 157 comments

Gog.com Now Supports Linux

http://www.gog.com/news/gogcom_now_supports_linux

12 years ago

225 upvotes – 58 comments

Trello, Inc

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2014/07/24.html

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 25 comments

The new Cloud9 development environment

https://blog.c9.io/site/blog/2014/07/announcing-the-all-new-cloud9-development-environment/

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 73 comments

Ray, the self-driving forklift that is parking cars at a German airport

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/07/01/meet-ray-the-self-driving-forklift-that-is-parking-cars-at-a-german-airport/

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 75 comments

Washington, Minnesota officially endorse a “safer, faster” traffic merge

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2014/07/the-beauty-of-zipper-merging-or-why-you-should-drive-ruder/

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 200 comments

CSS One-Liners

http://alistapart.com/blog/post/ten-css-one-liners-to-replace-native-apps/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 54 comments

How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe

http://www.fogonazos.es/2008/05/how-to-move-200-ton-spectrometer-across.html

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 49 comments

ISPs are spending less on their networks as they make more money off them

http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/24/isps-are-spending-less-on-their-networks-as-they-make-more-money-off-them/

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 71 comments

A Face Recognition Algorithm That Finally Outperforms Humans

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/the-face-recognition-algorithm-that-finally-outperforms-humans-2c567adbf7fc

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 31 comments

Master Emacs in one year

https://github.com/redguardtoo/mastering-emacs-in-one-year-guide/blob/master/guide-en.org

12 years ago

★ 6.4k
145 upvotes – 116 comments

India’s Answer to Google Glass: The Smartshoe

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2014/07/24/indias-answer-to-google-glass-the-smartshoe/

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 64 comments

HN Hiring mapped

http://gaganpreet.github.io/hn-hiring-mapped

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 26 comments

Open sourcing our email signature parsing library

http://blog.mailgun.com/open-sourcing-our-email-signature-parsing-library/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 20 comments

“You're not allowed science any more”

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7414/full/489170a.html

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 158 comments

Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 32 comments

European Court Says CIA Ran Secret Jail in a Polish Forest

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/07/24/world/24reuters-cia-jails-poland.html

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

A Closer Look at Transit

http://swannodette.github.io/2014/07/23/a-closer-look-at-transit/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8081987

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 134 comments

Our Startup Would Probably Die If We Were In San Francisco

http://needwant.com/p/our-startup-would-die-if-we-were-in-san-francisco/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 69 comments

Bitwage

https://www.bitwage.co

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 86 comments

Mapping the Spread of Drought Across the U.S

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/mapping-the-spread-of-drought-across-the-us.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSumMediumMediaFloated&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 44 comments

Notorious Airbnb squatter may be the dev behind two flailing Kickstarter games

http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/24/5933151/notorious-airbnb-squatter-may-be-the-dev-behind-two-flailing

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 90 comments

How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon’s Cloud

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/how-hackers-hid-a-money-mining-botnet-in-amazons-cloud/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 18 comments

Joel Spolsky's business operating system

http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2014/07/24/spolsky

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 17 comments

Burger King's CEO Is 33

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/214894-burger-king-is-run-by-children

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 74 comments

The Quest For A Quantum Future

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/stories/stationq/index.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

“You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore”

http://biomickwatson.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/youre-not-allowed-bioinformatics-anymore/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

Why No One Uses Functional Languages (1998) [pdf]

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~lordkaos/why-no-one.pdf

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: How to split equity?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078356

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 50 comments

Rehabilitation Nation

http://exposure.watsi.org/rehabilitation-nation

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 4 comments

New Yorker Stories to Read Before the Paywall Goes Up

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/07/22/new_yorker_online_free_for_three_months_what_should_you_read.html

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 50 comments

What's the most popular Ruby standard library?

http://omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/07/23/whats-the-most-used-ruby-library/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

Access Control in Swift

https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=5

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 44 comments

Josh Topolsky of The Verge Is Joining Bloomberg

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/business/media/josh-topolsky-of-the-verge-is-joining-bloomberg.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A6%22%7D&_r=1

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

If It Prints, It Ships: 3D Printing and the Postal Service [pdf]

https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library-files/2014/rarc-wp-14-011_if_it_prints_it_ships_3d_printing_and_the_postal_service.pdf

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 39 comments

Maidsafe is working on a decentralized network

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/23/maidsafe/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 51 comments

Microsoft on GitHub

https://github.com/Microsoft/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 57 comments

Gosu – A pragmatic language for the JVM

http://gosu-lang.github.io/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 76 comments

Zillow Said to Be Seeking to Buy Rival Real-Estate Site Trulia

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-24/zillow-said-to-be-seeking-to-buy-rival-real-estate-site-trulia.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 71 comments

UK government adopts ODF as standard document format

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/public-sector/3532219/uk-government-adopts-odf-as-standard-document-format/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

Colombian Student Faces Prison Charges for Sharing an Academic Article Online

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/colombian-student-faces-prison-charges-sharing-academic-article-online

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 7 comments

OnMetal Performance In Early Benchmarks

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/onmetal-shows-phenomenal-performance-in-early-benchmarks/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 38 comments

Heroku locked down

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/651

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

Macroscopic quantum objects cannot exist if P ≠ NP?

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/the-astounding-link-between-the-p-np-problem-and-the-quantum-nature-of-universe-7ef5eea6fd7a

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Moe, a Metric Optimization Engine

https://github.com/Yelp/MOE

12 years ago

★ 1.3k C++
58 upvotes – 4 comments
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