top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-08-02

Vision-Correcting Displays [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdapCs6vR8

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 48 comments

When It's Bad to Have Good Choices

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/bad-good-choices

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 81 comments

Please Give Edward Snowden His Medal of Freedom Already

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/02/the-rorschach-rashomon/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 61 comments

PostgreSQL/FreeBSD performance and scalability on a 40-core machine [pdf]

https://www.kib.kiev.ua/kib/pgsql_perf_v2.0.pdf

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 16 comments

Google tips off cops after spotting child abuse images in email

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/07/31/google-tips-off-cops-after-spotting-child-abuse-images-in-email/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 126 comments

Patching the Newton

http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=2233

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 17 comments

How I Accumulated 2M Stellar in Less Than 24 Hours

https://medium.com/@everettforth/how-i-accumulated-2-million-stellar-in-less-than-24-hours-98b89af934cb

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 62 comments

Most Math Problems Do Not Have a Unique Right Answer

http://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2014/08/most-math-problems-do-not-have-unique.html

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 67 comments

Wikipedia Zero and Net Neutrality: Protecting the Internet as a Public Space

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-protecting-the-internet/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

The Great Colorado Weed Experiment

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/opinion/sunday/high-time-the-great-colorado-weed-experiment.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 98 comments

Stellar account with more than one million stellars

https://www.stellar.org/viewer/#live/everettforth

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Miimic – Let your friends text for you

http://www.miimic.me/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 51 comments

Fantasy World OCaml (2013)

http://chaudhuri.info/misc/fwocaml/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

Xapo – Bitcoin debit card

https://xapo.com/en/wallet/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

Shadertoy adds procedural GPU-generated music in the browser

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ldXXDj

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

https://gist.github.com/john2x/e1dca953548bfdfb9844

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 5 comments

MDN Database Disclosure

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2014/08/01/mdn-database-disclosure/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 46 comments

Reddit's Favorite Scientist Just Got Banned for Cheating the Site

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/reddits-favorite-scientist-just-got-banned-for-cheating-the-site

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 64 comments

Replication Controversy in Psychology

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/07/replication_controversy_in_psychology_bullying_file_drawer_effect_blog_posts.single.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 66 comments

Reanimating Bertha, a Mechanical Behemoth Slumbering Under Seattle

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/02/us/reanimating-bertha-the-mechanical-behemoth-stuck-under-seattle.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 33 comments
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