top 50% 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

Shadertoy adds procedural GPU-generated music in the browser

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

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Xapo – Bitcoin debit card

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

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

Fantasy World OCaml (2013)

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

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

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

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 5 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

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

Outsmarting the smart meter

http://honeynet.org/node/1179

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 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

When Workers Own Their Companies, Everyone Wins

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118933/economic-benefits-coop

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 58 comments

The Miraculous Face Transplant of Richard Norris

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201408/richard-norris

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

OpenMusic

http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/home

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

Hybrid Logical Clocks

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2014/07/hybrid-logical-clocks.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 3 comments

Racket v6.1 released. Undefined values from uninitialized variables eliminated

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2014/08/racket-v61.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 2 comments

Telehash protocol

https://github.com/telehash/telehash.org/blob/master/protocol.md

12 years ago

★ 483 HTML
61 upvotes – 13 comments

Twitter's User Problem: Fastest Gains Are People That Don't See Ads

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/twitters-user-problem-fastest-gains-are-people-that-dont-see-ads-1406924973-lMyQjAxMTA0MDAwMTEwNDEyWj

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 49 comments

Key Lime Pi

http://www.keylimepi.net

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 28 comments

YC Hacks 2014 Live Blog

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ehrlichfu/2014/08/02/yc-hacks-2014-live-blog/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 5 comments

Eric Wong on why Unicorn will not be hosted on GitHub

http://bogomips.org/unicorn-public/m/20140801213202.GA2729%40dcvr.yhbt.net.html

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 44 comments

Physicists track a quantum system’s wanderings through quantum state space

http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/27133.aspx

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

Comet at 1000 km

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/08/02/comet-at-1000-km/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 9 comments

Gentrification May Actually Be Boon To Longtime Residents

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/22/264528139/long-a-dirty-word-gentrification-may-be-losing-its-stigma

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 58 comments

The mathematics of discovering new things

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/08/01/the-mathematics-of-discovering-new-things/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: What should I save for offline reading during 5 weeks without Internet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8125375

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 54 comments

The Following Code Causes Segfault in Clang

http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20516

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 39 comments

Why Git sucks?

https://enux.pl/article/en/2014-01-21/why-git-sucks

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 79 comments

Network Instability in NYC2 on July 29, 2014

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/network-instability-in-nyc2-on-july-29-2014/

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 21 comments

Real-World Haskell: Carnival, a Blog Commenting Service

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/ship-you-a-haskell

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 5 comments

University of Wisconsin to reprise controversial monkey studies

http://wisconsinwatch.org/2014/07/university-of-wisconsin-to-reprise-controversial-monkey-studies/

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 46 comments

Popcorn Time repository is now self-hosted

https://git.popcorntime.io/

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Geek Bridge – Find dev work in Japan without knowing Japanese

http://www.geekbridge.co/

12 years ago

40 upvotes – 29 comments

Addressing Founder Depression – YC Hackathon project

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Sn82CL2YjFMgZdu2o2sWKFBoGH2VGihQ7LfnD6-kGv0/viewform

12 years ago

40 upvotes – 22 comments

The Power of the Doodle: Improve Your Focus and Memory

http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-power-of-the-doodle-improve-your-focus-and-memory-1406675744?mod=trending_now_3

12 years ago

40 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: One-time redeemable download codes as a service

http://redeemoid.com

12 years ago

39 upvotes – 13 comments

BioMotionLab – Demo

http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html

12 years ago

38 upvotes – 3 comments

The Nvidia Shield Tablet Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8296/the-nvidia-shield-tablet-review

12 years ago

38 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: What do you do to blow off steam?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8124632

12 years ago

37 upvotes – 73 comments
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