top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-29

Show HN: Markov chains explained visually

http://setosa.io/blog/2014/07/26/markov-chains/index.html

12 years ago

1070 upvotes – 92 comments

Australia bans reporting of multi-nation corruption case

https://wikileaks.org/aus-suppression-order/?gag

12 years ago

420 upvotes – 132 comments

Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone

https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal/

12 years ago

410 upvotes – 194 comments

Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

https://palant.de/2014/07/29/which-is-better-adblock-or-adblock-plus

12 years ago

336 upvotes – 184 comments

My iOS Indie-Game Numbers

http://txt.jazzychad.net/gist/19a05ad4e7ef77072b44

12 years ago

325 upvotes – 143 comments

I created my own MMO and lost 100 pounds

http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/22/5625906/weight-loss-mmo-video-game

12 years ago

315 upvotes – 136 comments

Google Startup Launch

https://developers.google.com/startups/

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 41 comments

Pinboard 2014 Expenses

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au7yiR802qQmdE5seXMzTlFDTl80QTFNaWpmTHBfdlE&usp=sharing#gid=0

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 73 comments

App Rot

http://www.marco.org/2014/07/28/app-rot

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 58 comments

How a bug in Dropbox permanently deleted my 8000 photos

https://medium.com/@jan.curn/how-bug-in-dropbox-permanently-deleted-my-8000-photos-cb7dcf13647b

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 141 comments

The seL4 microkernel

https://github.com/seL4/seL4

12 years ago

★ 5.4k C
194 upvotes – 43 comments

Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup

https://api.blockspring.com/blog/api-in-60-seconds

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 71 comments

The Business of Fake Hollywood Money

http://priceonomics.com/the-business-of-fake-hollywood-money/

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 73 comments

Amazon/Hachette Business Interruption

http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle/ref=cm_cd_tfp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx3J0JKSSUIRCMT

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 130 comments

Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/indian-e-commerce-firm-flipkart-raises-eye-popping-1-billion/

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 90 comments

Steel worker reveals blocking view of U.S. aircraft on day of atomic bombing

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/news/20140726p2a00m0na014000c.html

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 41 comments

Total darkness at night key to success of breast cancer therapy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140725080408.htm

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 82 comments

Deep Learning Image Classifier

http://deeplearning.cs.toronto.edu/

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 32 comments

Stuff that every programmer should know: Data Visualization

http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2014/06/stuff-that-every-programmer-should-know.html?

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 20 comments

The Suburbs Will Die: One Man's Fight to Fix the American Dream

http://time.com/3031079/suburbs-will-die-sprawl/

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 187 comments

‘Craft’ Whiskey Is Probably From a Factory Distillery in Indiana

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/28/your-craft-whiskey-is-probably-from-a-factory-distillery-in-indiana.html

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 112 comments

The NSA's Cyber-King Goes Corporate

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/07/29/the_crypto_king_of_the_NSA_goes_corporate_keith_alexander_patents

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 69 comments

Debian and the PHP license

http://lwn.net/Articles/604630/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 88 comments

Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed, awk, emacs and vim (2012)

http://matt.might.net/articles/sculpting-text/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 32 comments

Go Concurrency Patterns: Context

http://blog.golang.org/context

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 17 comments

A Nuclear Probe to Explore Earth’s Interior

http://beyondearthlyskies.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-nuclear-probe-to-explore-earths.html

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 64 comments

Experimenting with Mozjpeg 2.0

http://blog.cloudflare.com/experimenting-with-mozjpeg-2-0

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 22 comments

What I learned from reading 8,000 recruiting messages

https://blog.hired.com/what-i-learned-from-reading-8000-recruiting-messages/

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 24 comments

Nine Nations of North America 30 years Later

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/03/where-do-borders-need-to-be-redrawn/nine-nations-of-north-america-30-years-later

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 61 comments

Cascaded Displays: Spatiotemporal Superresolution using Offset Pixel Layers

https://research.nvidia.com/publication/cascaded-displays-spatiotemporal-superresolution-using-offset-pixel-layers

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: My first iPhone game – after 18 months of work

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/got-light/id900957568?mt=8

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

Personal Privacy Is Only One of the Costs of NSA Surveillance

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/the-big-costs-of-nsa-surveillance-that-no-ones-talking-about/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 65 comments

Ask HN: Why is the 40-comment penalty being applied to Show HNs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8100116

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

Flight rules for Git – What to do when things go wrong

https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules

12 years ago

★ 42.4k CC-BY-SA-4.0
96 upvotes – 29 comments

The HTML5 drag and drop disaster (2009)

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/09/the_html5_drag.html

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 71 comments

Less research is needed

http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2012/06/25/less-research-is-needed/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 17 comments

To Stop Cheating, Nuclear Officers Ditch the Grades

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/334501037/to-stop-cheating-nuclear-officers-ditch-the-grades?sc=tw

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 59 comments

Generate raw WAV output by hooking malloc and read

https://github.com/gordol/malloc-ld_preload-sounds

12 years ago

★ 193 C
88 upvotes – 23 comments

Massively Parallel Graph processing on GPUs

http://mapgraph.io

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

Uber vs. Car Ownership

http://blog.samaltman.com/uber-vs-car-ownership

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 72 comments

Conway's Multiplayer Game of Life

http://lifecompetes.com/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 25 comments

HackMIT Puzzle Guide

https://medium.com/hackmit-2014/joining-the-fancycat-club-hackmit-14-puzzle-guide-6f4ebef5b69

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

Updated MacBook Pros

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 147 comments

Robot With Broken Leg Learns To Walk Again In 2 Minutes

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/robot-with-broken-leg-learns-to-walk-again-in-2-minutes-40b8f24bd26

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

The Copenhagen Wheel: Electric pedal-assist motor in the hub of a bicycle wheel

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/07/if-an-electric-bike-is-ever-going-to-hit-it-big-in-the-us-its-this-one/375167/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

Why are some people so much luckier than others?

http://ninjasandrobots.com/why-are-some-people-so-much-luckier-than-others

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 59 comments

Using SSL Certificates with HAProxy 1.5

http://serversforhackers.com/editions/2014/07/29/haproxy-ssl-termation-pass-through/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 4 comments

A $300M IT flop

http://fcw.com/articles/2014/07/24/it-flop-at-ssa.aspx

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 70 comments

Twitter Reports Second Quarter 2014 Results

https://investor.twitterinc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=862505

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 50 comments

Supreme Court’s new rules on abstract patents hit Apple v. Samsung

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/supreme-courts-new-rules-on-abstract-patents-hit-apple-v-samsung/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 44 comments

Bitpost – Private decentralized messaging

http://voluntary.net/bitpost/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: First US-based Bitcoin broker

http://www.sf-ox.com

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: How can I sustainably run a website without charging a fee?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8100622

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 63 comments

Kiwi rocket company ready to blast off

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/60372738/kiwi-rocket-company-ready-to-blast-off.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Amazon’s Scorpion Problem

http://www.feld.com/archives/2014/07/amazons-scorpion-problem.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 59 comments

EA Launches a $30 Per Year Netflix for Games on Xbox One

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/29/ea-launches-a-30-per-year-netflix-for-games-on-xbox-one/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 51 comments

U.S. Senate bill proposes sweeping curbs on NSA surveillance

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/29/us-usa-nsa-congress-idUSKBN0FY1EM20140729

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: BigScreen sends pictures and music from OS X to ChromeCast

http://www.roguesavant.com/bigscreen/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Appsites – Beautiful websites for mobile apps in minutes

http://appsites.com

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

Poptip Joins Palantir

http://blog.poptip.com/post/93241017288/poptip-joins-palantir

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 50 comments
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