top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-27

Game about squares

http://gameaboutsquares.com/

12 years ago

Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour

http://www.scalescale.com/rolling-your-own-cdn-build-a-3-continent-cdn-for-25-in-1-hour/

12 years ago

The TTY demystified

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php

12 years ago

A Russian scientist who was struck by a particle accelerator beam

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

12 years ago

Rand Paul introduces bill to reform civil asset forfeiture

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/25/rand-paul-introduces-bill-to-reform-civil-asset-forfeiture/

12 years ago

Government Surveillance and Internet Search Behavior

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2412564

12 years ago

Parsing PHP in Go

https://stephensearles.com/?p=288

12 years ago

U.K. National Grid status

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

12 years ago

Stingray, the fake cell phone tower

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/184597-stingray-the-fake-cell-phone-tower-cops-and-providers-use-to-track-your-every-move

12 years ago

Evolutionary algorithms and analog electronic circuits

http://www.hforsten.com/evolutionary-algorithms-and-analog-electronic-circuits.html

12 years ago

You Are Not Late

https://medium.com/message/you-are-not-late-b3d76f963142

12 years ago

X64_dbg: An open-source x64/x86 debugger for Windows

http://x64dbg.com/

12 years ago

The Majority of Today’s App Businesses Are Not Sustainable

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/21/the-majority-of-todays-app-businesses-are-not-sustainable/

12 years ago

Aerospike goes Open Source

http://www.aerospike.com/blog/entrepreneurs-break-all-the-rules-aerospike-goes-open-source/

12 years ago

Employment rates for STEM Ph.D.s are down or stagnant across the board

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/07/employment_rates_for_stem_ph_d_s_it_s_a_stagnant_job_market_for_young_scientists.html

12 years ago

Quantum gas goes below absolute zero

http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-gas-goes-below-absolute-zero-1.12146

12 years ago

Jarvis: Personal assistant via SMS

https://jarv.co

12 years ago

Tracking two years of laptop battery use, sampled every minute

http://www.ifweassume.com/2014/07/better-living-through-data.html

12 years ago

Black holes might end their lives by transforming into their exact opposite

http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-bounce-could-make-black-holes-explode-1.15573

12 years ago

Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/upshot/hold-the-phone-a-big-data-conundrum.html?_r=0

12 years ago

Messages in the Deep – The Story of the Underwater Internet

http://builtvisible.com/messages-in-the-deep/

12 years ago

Billion-Dollar Billy Beane

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/billion-dollar-billy-beane/

12 years ago

Lawsuit Filed to Prove Happy Birthday Is in the Public Domain (2013)

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/11165823451/filmmaker-finally-aims-to-get-court-to-admit-that-happy-birthday-is-public-domain.shtml

12 years ago

In Search for Killer, DNA Sweep Exposes Intimate Family Secrets in Italy

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/world/europe/in-search-for-killer-dna-sweep-exposes-intimate-family-secrets-in-italy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

12 years ago

Acrobat Reader for Linux removed

http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/

12 years ago

Show HN: Webhook – Static site generator with a CMS

http://www.webhook.com/?hn

12 years ago

Paris syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome

12 years ago

High Intensity Training Improves Health, Physical Function in Middle Aged Adults

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4085611/

12 years ago

With immigration reform off the agenda, some in tech turn to plan B

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/25/with-immigration-reform-off-the-agenda-some-in-tech-turn-to-plan-b/

12 years ago

Amazon’s Cloud Is Growing So Fast It’s Scaring Shareholders

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/amazons_cloud/

12 years ago

Python Multiple Assignment Is a Puzzle

http://jw2013.github.io/blog/2014/07/26/python-multiple-assignment-is-a-puzzle/

12 years ago

Why Killing Cash is Key to MasterCard’s Competitive Strategy

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/mastercard-competitive-strategy/

12 years ago