top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-30

Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in

http://nomadlist.io/?hn

12 years ago

639 upvotes – 298 comments

Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition

http://eloquentjavascript.net/

12 years ago

632 upvotes – 107 comments

Announcing a specification for PHP

http://hhvm.com/blog/5723/announcing-a-specification-for-php

12 years ago

346 upvotes – 256 comments

Micro heaters cut 87% off my electric heat bill

http://www.richsoil.com/electric-heat.jsp

12 years ago

330 upvotes – 267 comments

What was your best passive income in 2014?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588

12 years ago

323 upvotes – 466 comments

UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28551069

12 years ago

305 upvotes – 112 comments

Sprint Will Sell a $12 Wireless Plan that Only Connects to Facebook or Twitter

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/30/sprint-tries-a-facebook-only-wireless-plan/

12 years ago

297 upvotes – 244 comments

Let's Build a Traditional City and Make a Profit

http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20130330.php#.U9l1i53n_cs

12 years ago

295 upvotes – 218 comments

My First Unikernel

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/07/28/my-first-unikernel%2F

12 years ago

267 upvotes – 51 comments

My Startup School Europe talk: The Technology

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-technology.html

12 years ago

245 upvotes – 50 comments

Nukes of Hazard (2013)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/nukes-of-hazard

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 171 comments

Immutable Data Collections for Javascript

https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js

12 years ago

★ 33k TypeScript MIT
204 upvotes – 89 comments

Tor security advisory: “relay early” traffic confirmation attack

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-relay-early-traffic-confirmation-attack

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 45 comments

FCC chair accuses Verizon of throttling unlimited data to boost profits

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/fcc-chair-accuses-verizon-of-throttling-unlimited-data-to-boost-profits/

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 6 comments

A computer algebra system written in Python

https://github.com/sympy/sympy

12 years ago

★ 14.5k Python
142 upvotes – 30 comments

BitPay's New Plan

http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/07/29/bitpay-s-new-plan-free-unlimited-forever.html

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 48 comments

Lords: right to be forgotten is wrong, unworkable, unreasonable

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/30/right-to-be-forgotten-is-wrong

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 75 comments

The American Room

https://medium.com/message/the-american-room-3fce9b2b98c5

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 64 comments

The Dentist Office Software Story

http://avc.com/2014/07/the-dentist-office-software-story/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 66 comments

Wikimedia Foundation now accepts Bitcoin

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/30/wikimedia-foundation-now-accepts-bitcoin/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

The Happy Demise of the 10X Engineer

http://a16z.com/2014/07/30/the-happy-demise-of-the-10x-engineer/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 106 comments

Open Source OCR in JavaScript

http://antimatter15.com/ocrad.js/demo.html

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 26 comments

Why Andrew Ng left Google and joined Baidu

http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/30/andrew-ng-baidu/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 48 comments

It takes more than practice to excel

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140728094258.htm

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 79 comments

Tenus – Golang Powered Linux Networking

http://containerops.org/2014/07/30/tenus-golang-powered-linux-networking/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

Getting started with drones

http://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-drones-quadcopters/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 10 comments

We're Fighting the Feds Over Your Email

http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/brad-smith-were-fighting-the-feds-over-your-email-1406674616

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 84 comments

ZeroVM – Hyperscale Cloud Infrastructure

http://www.zerovm.org/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

GitHub Pages now runs Jekyll 2.2.0

https://github.com/blog/1867-github-pages-now-runs-jekyll-2-2-0

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

What will I look like?

http://whatwillilooklike.com/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 86 comments

Android IMSI-Catcher Detector

http://secupwn.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 34 comments

Poisson Image Editing in Python

https://github.com/fbessho/PyPoi

12 years ago

★ 282 Python
75 upvotes – 6 comments

Perl as a career option

http://www.linuxcareer.com/perl-as-a-career-option

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 50 comments

Founders On Depression

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/30/founders-on-depression/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Humanity Box – Ads that change lives

http://humanitybox.com/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 36 comments

C and Go without CGO

http://skullcountry.com/c-and-go-without-cgo

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

AMD Announces the Availability of 64-bit ARM Opteron Developer Kits

http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/64-bit-developer-kit-2014jul30.aspx

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 59 comments

Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/30/detour/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

Lumosity: a warning to users (2009)

https://www.indregard.no/2009/05/28/lumosity-a-warning-to-users/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 32 comments

Illegal prime number

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

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

DNS And Docker Containers

http://wiredcraft.com/posts/2014/07/30/dns-and-docker-containers.html

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: How much traffic to expect if your project hits HN front page?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107658

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 42 comments

Why the Vivaldi tablet never came to market

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/606100/1bc685b18f0f85bc/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 38 comments

The Crisis in American Walking (2012)

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/walking/2012/04/why_don_t_americans_walk_more_the_crisis_of_pedestrianism_.html

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 48 comments

Animals That Taste Only Saltiness

http://nautil.us/blog/the-animals-that-taste-only-saltiness

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

404 Simulator

http://www.404simulator.com/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 23 comments

What are the practical steps for monetizing a web service?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8108605

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 27 comments

Why it makes sense to bike without a helmet

http://www.howiechong.com/journal/2014/2/bike-helmets#.U9hcx4BdUeP

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 88 comments
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