top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-31

Stellar

https://stripe.com/blog/stellar

12 years ago

943 upvotes – 454 comments

The Lowdown on Lidar

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B941PmRjYRpnX3ZqLWlQMGdGXzQ/edit

12 years ago

667 upvotes – 271 comments

Introducing EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/inaugural-stupid-patent-month

12 years ago

462 upvotes – 110 comments

NASA presents evidence that microwave thrusters seem to work

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/31/nasa-validates-impossible-space-drive

12 years ago

406 upvotes – 198 comments

Seven habits of highly fraudulent users

http://blog.siftscience.com/seven-habits-of-highly-fraudulent-users/?

12 years ago

390 upvotes – 139 comments

A Buddhist monk confronts Japan’s suicide culture (2013)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/24/last-call-3

12 years ago

354 upvotes – 176 comments

The Kids Who Beat Autism

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/magazine/the-kids-who-beat-autism.html

12 years ago

327 upvotes – 138 comments

Panasonic and Tesla Sign Agreement for the Gigafactory

http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/panasonic-and-tesla-sign-agreement-gigafactory

12 years ago

264 upvotes – 101 comments

Mitro Releases a New Free and Open Source Password Manager

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/mitro-a-new-free-password-manager

12 years ago

248 upvotes – 129 comments

Algebraic Data Types

http://tech.esper.com/2014/07/30/algebraic-data-types/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 58 comments

Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative

https://affinity.serif.com/

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 95 comments

LinkedIn Neutered Rapportive Today

http://ahamlett.com/blog.html#linkedin-neutered-rapportive-today

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 34 comments

Critiquing Facebook's new PHP spec

http://blog.circleci.com/critiquing-facebooks-new-php-spec/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 65 comments

C.I.A. Admits Penetrating Senate Intelligence Computers

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence-commitee-cia-interrogation-report.html

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 46 comments

S.&P. Says Argentina Has Defaulted

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/s-p-says-argentina-has-defaulted/

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 188 comments

Show HN: I'm renting a truck to make buying and selling furniture easier

http://thedealtruck.com/?hn

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 86 comments

Paypal has not been sending payment notifications to merchants

http://discuss.tindie.com/t/disbursements-through-us-bank-accounts-or-debit-cards/599

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 71 comments

Domain Name Registration and Geo DNS for Route 53

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/route-53-domain-reg-geo-route-price-drop/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 46 comments

Build hybrid apps with the Ionic Creator

http://ionicframework.com/blog/ionic-creator/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 31 comments

Snowden's temporary asylum status expires in Russia

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28586840

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 22 comments

Text and Ride in India

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/business/international/start-ups-in-india-streamline-auto-rickshaw-business.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 29 comments

Consulting Medieval Manuscripts Online

http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/mdmss.shtml

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 26 comments

“TurboFan” – Experimental new optimizing compiler for Google's V8 JS engine

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/v8-dev/ab8V5Z58_70/5-05DvysCt8J

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

20 cool Clojure functions

http://daveyarwood.github.io/2014/07/30/20-cool-clojure-functions/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 40 comments

Introducing Stellar: a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money

https://www.stellar.org/blog/introducing-stellar/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

Create your own machine-learning-powered RSS reader

http://blog.algorithmia.com/post/93293999119/create-your-own-machine-learning-powered-rss-reader-in

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 37 comments

Introducing the Internet.org App

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/07/introducing-the-internet-org-app/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 84 comments

Martha Stewart: Why I Love My Drone

http://time.com/3053003/martha-stewart-drone

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

https://github.com/andrewstuart/hn

12 years ago

★ 273 Go MIT
98 upvotes – 23 comments

Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/usb-security/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 74 comments

80+ Speakers in the First Ever Virtual Software Conference (AirPair W14)

https://www.airpair.com/airconf2014

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Ideas for a small passive income site

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8114897

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

The Linux Kernel Explained (1999)

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk-toc.html

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

Capitalizing on Capitol Hill: Informed Trading by Hedge Fund Managers

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1707181

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 4 comments

Rackspace Developer+ Program

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-developer-program-for-developers-by-developers/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 73 comments

PagerDuty raises $27.2M in Series B led by Bessemer

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/31/pagerduty-lands-27-2m-in-series-b-to-continue-mission-to-simplify-it-incident-management/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 33 comments

Cloudy With a Chance of War

http://nautil.us/issue/15/turbulence/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-war

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Software Pipelining on the Mill CPU [video]

http://millcomputing.com/topic/pipelining/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 51 comments

Iliad confirms its interest in T-Mobile US [pdf]

http://www.iliad.fr/en/presse/2014/CP_310714_Eng.pdf

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

Judge orders Microsoft to turn over data held overseas

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-orders-microsoft-to-turn-over-data-held-overseas/2014/07/31/b07c4952-18d4-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 60 comments

The great forgetting

http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/where-do-childrens-earliest-memories-go/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Accelerate Excel – 100x faster spreadsheets

http://engine.datanitro.com/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 46 comments

Google I/O Android App

https://github.com/google/iosched

12 years ago

★ 21.6k Kotlin Apache-2.0
67 upvotes – 17 comments

Apple’s CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive Capacity In Place

http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/07/apples-cdn-now-live.html

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Timely – Scheduling and Time Tracking, Simultaneously

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

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 48 comments

First taste of Rust

http://pudgepacket.github.io/rust/2014/07/28/first-taste-of-rust/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Grad Student Rigs Cheap Alternative to $1,000 Air Purifiers in China

http://scienceblog.com/73679/grad-student-rigs-cheap-alternative-rival-1000-air-purifiers-smog-choked-china/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 32 comments

Matt Cutts and other tech donors launch CounterPAC

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/07/31/yet-another-super-pac-is-using-big-money-to-take-on-big-money/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

Poorly Managed HealthCare.gov Construction Cost $840M, Watchdog Finds

http://online.wsj.com/articles/poorly-managed-healthcare-gov-construction-cost-840-million-watchdog-finds-1406751529?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 74 comments

F1 Tech Is About to Make Buses More Efficient

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/f1-kers-london-buses/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

Android Wear: Capitaine Train on your wrist

https://blog.capitainetrain.com/7356-android-wear-train-tickets

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

A +Pool in the East River

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/swim-swam-swum

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 37 comments

Fotopedia is shutting down

http://blog.fotopedia.com/fotopedia-shutdown/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 41 comments

Shazam for Mac

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shazam/id897118787

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 42 comments
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