top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-27

Using Google without a Google+ profile

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/everything-in-its-right-place.html

11 years ago

589 upvotes – 273 comments

I am an 18-year-old techie/student. I have leukemia and need your help

https://github.com/m3hr/swabbathon-swabbers

11 years ago

549 upvotes – 74 comments

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, nuclear scientist and former president of India, has died

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/apj-abdul-kalam-dies/article7470722.ece

11 years ago

458 upvotes – 76 comments

Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/07/27/426613020/major-flaw-in-android-phones-would-let-hackers-in-with-just-a-text

11 years ago

399 upvotes – 283 comments

Play GTA V in your Browser, Sort of

http://phoboslab.org/log/2015/07/play-gta-v-in-your-browser-sort-of

11 years ago

362 upvotes – 158 comments

Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers

http://futureoflife.org/AI/open_letter_autonomous_weapons#

11 years ago

305 upvotes – 288 comments

Steam hit by major security breach

http://masterherald.com/steam-hit-by-major-security-breach-many-accounts-hacked/23239/

11 years ago

300 upvotes – 245 comments

Show HN: A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative

http://www.meshtag.com

11 years ago

270 upvotes – 134 comments

8-bit GIFs of Japanese life

http://designmadeinjapan.com/magazine/illustration-icon/tumblr-gifs-of-japanese-life/

11 years ago

268 upvotes – 62 comments

Review of Nestle water permit neglected for decades

http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2015/07/23/review-nestle-water-permit-neglected-decades/30562241/

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 132 comments

A LinkedIn Hack That Led to a $120k Investment

http://thehustle.co/the-linkedin-hack-that-made-me-120000

11 years ago

248 upvotes – 89 comments

‘Sea Slaves’: The human misery that feeds pets and livestock

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/world/outlaw-ocean-thailand-fishing-sea-slaves-pets.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 121 comments

China stocks drop over 8%

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/27/us-markets-china-stocks-idUSKCN0Q10KE20150727

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 158 comments

Moving Fast with High Code Quality

http://engineering.quora.com/Moving-Fast-With-High-Code-Quality?share=1

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 52 comments

Debops (2014)

http://enricozini.org/2014/debian/debops/

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 93 comments

Vantage.js: A new take on interactive CLI for Node

https://github.com/dthree/vantage/#

11 years ago

★ 3.4k JavaScript MIT
187 upvotes – 14 comments

Brazil Is An Alternate Video Game Universe Where Sega Beat Nintendo

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/brazil-is-a-video-game-alternate-universe-where-sega-beat-nintendo

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 71 comments

Final Steps

https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/07/27/final-steps/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 99 comments

The Itanium processor, part 1: Warming up

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/07/27/10630772.aspx

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Intro to Machine Learning in Interactive D3.js Visualizations

http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 12 comments

Why you should wait on upgrading to .Net 4.6

http://nickcraver.com/blog/2015/07/27/why-you-should-wait-on-dotnet-46/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 5 comments

Reasons to work from home

http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=132

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 66 comments

A Tiny Bank’s Surreal Trip Through a Fraud Prosecution

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/business/a-tiny-banks-surreal-trip-through-a-fraud-prosecution.html

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 80 comments

Why slow thinking wins

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/07/25/the-power-slow-thinking/ToZbzYl7rG0yVMCtsZ7WnJ/story.html

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 64 comments

Kids in India Are Sparking Urban Planning Changes by Mapping Slums

http://www.citylab.com/tech/2015/02/kids-are-sparking-urban-planning-changes-by-mapping-their-slums/385636/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 14 comments

The Brain vs. Deep Learning Part I: Computational Complexity

https://timdettmers.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/brain-vs-deep-learning-singularity/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 16 comments

The 'impossible' EmDrive could reach Pluto in 18 months?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/24/emdrive-space-drive-pluto-mission

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 110 comments

On Hurd, Linux and the Misadventures of Cross-Compiling a GNU Hurd Toolchain

http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/07/25/0/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 0 comments

Annoyed by Mobile Sites That “Ask” You to Download Their App? You’re Not Alone

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/23/i-dont-want-your-app/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

Nike Missile Sites of the San Francisco Bay Area (2001)

http://acme.com/jef/nike/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 48 comments

The Skysphere

http://www.theskysphere.com/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 15 comments

Qualcomm lays off 15% of its workforce, succumbs to cult of shareholder value

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/210758-qualcomm-will-lay-off-15-of-its-workforce-succumbs-to-cult-of-shareholder-value

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 65 comments

The Evidence Supports Artificial Sweeteners Over Sugar

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/upshot/the-evidence-supports-artificial-sweeteners-over-sugar.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 131 comments

Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9953592

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 120 comments

Thoughts Evoked by CircleCI's July 2015 Outage

http://blog.mihasya.com/2015/07/19/thoughts-evoked-by-circleci-outage.html?hn

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 5 comments

Stephen Hawking AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3eret9/science_ama_series_i_am_stephen_hawking/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 5 comments

Razer Acquires Ouya’s Software, Tech and Dev Teams in All-Cash Deal

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/27/razer-confirms-ouya-acquisition/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)

http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

Learning from the Enemy: The Gunman Project (2007) [pdf]

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_histories/learning_from_the_enemy.pdf

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

Open Astrophysics Bookshelf

http://open-astrophysics-bookshelf.github.io/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: What skills would you invest in learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954433

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 66 comments

RcSim - A Model Flight Simulator

http://picolisp.com/wiki/?rcsim

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments

Taming Complexity with Reversibility

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/taming-complexity-with-reversibility/1000330413333156

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 2 comments

Sparc removal

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/07/msg00006.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Ceryx – Open-source dynamic Nginx

https://www.sourcelair.com/blog/articles/75/ceryx-dynamic-nginx

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 4 comments

The Time Zone Rebels of the World

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/city/215293-the-time-zone-rebels-of-the-world

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Meadow Education: A beginner's guide to medical marijuana

https://getmeadow.com/education/how-is-marijuana-medicine

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

QEMU heap overflow flaw while processing certain ATAPI commands

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/212

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Are Night Shifts Killing Me?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33638905

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

J-Bob – The proof assistant from “The Little Prover”

https://github.com/the-little-prover/j-bob

11 years ago

★ 437 Scheme BSD-2-Clause
59 upvotes – 4 comments

A Bad Idea from Congress About How to Fund Science

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2015/07/27/heres-a-colossally-bad-idea-from-congress-about-how-to-fund-science/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 45 comments

Foundations of a good UI

http://www.codelitt.com/blog/the-foundations-of-a-good-ui/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

Space and Time

http://thegreatatuin.blogspot.com/2015/07/space-and-time.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

The Automation Myth

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/27/9038829/automation-myth

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 47 comments

Miscomputation: Learning to live with errors

http://tomasp.net/blog/2015/failures/index.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 0 comments

The Evolution of V8 and the Challenges of Research in a Billion User VM [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z92Xm9VlPjM

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 1 comments
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