2013-07-05 front | Hacker News

Stories from July 5, 2013

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.

1.		Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted (translate.google.com)
		426 points by cowchase on July 5, 2013 \| 233 comments
2.		Thorium nuclear reactor trial begins in Norway (extremetech.com)
		419 points by sasoon on July 5, 2013 \| 137 comments
3.		EU Parliament supports the possible suspension of U.S. data sharing agreements (zdnet.com)
		387 points by rlpb on July 5, 2013 \| 103 comments
4.		Hikikomori: Why are so many Japanese men refusing to leave their rooms? (bbc.co.uk)
		299 points by akandiah on July 5, 2013 \| 181 comments
5.		Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NSA’s surveillance state? (washingtonpost.com)
		255 points by sethbannon on July 5, 2013 \| 132 comments
6.		The Revel Web Framework for Go (robfig.github.io)
		238 points by staunch on July 5, 2013 \| 68 comments
7.		If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism? (theatlantic.com)
		227 points by milesf on July 5, 2013 \| 128 comments
8.		What is A/B Testing? (visualwebsiteoptimizer.com)
		220 points by paraschopra on July 5, 2013 \| 109 comments
9.		Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals (1981) (nytimes.com)
		178 points by patdennis on July 5, 2013 \| 145 comments
10.		A Disease Without a Cure Spreads Quietly in the West (nytimes.com)
		177 points by sgaither on July 5, 2013 \| 59 comments
11.		Basic Neural Network on Python (danielfrg.github.io)
		172 points by dfrodriguez143 on July 5, 2013 \| 28 comments
12.		Iceland proposes citizenship for Snowden (newsday.com)
		161 points by option_greek on July 5, 2013 \| 14 comments
13.		CppCMS – High Performance C++ Web Framework (cppcms.com)
		120 points by viana007 on July 5, 2013 \| 128 comments
14.		Kuler without Flash (adobe.com)
		112 points by Techasura on July 5, 2013 \| 30 comments
15.		Response to NSA scandal: German Government moves away from data retention (translate.google.com)
		112 points by lukashed on July 5, 2013 \| 21 comments
16.		The state of democratic control over surveillance in France (ruwenzori.net)
		109 points by liotier on July 5, 2013 \| 67 comments
17.		KORE – A fast SPDY-capable webserver for web development in C (kore.io)
		110 points by dhotson on July 5, 2013 \| 58 comments
18.		Politician: Call Snowden to Germany as witness (thelocal.de)
		106 points by NonEUCitizen on July 5, 2013 \| 17 comments
19.		No Patents on Seeds (no-patents-on-seeds.org)
		107 points by nns1212 on July 5, 2013 \| 20 comments
20.		Doug Engelbart was unable to find funding for his work (zdnet.com)
		105 points by hackerbob on July 5, 2013 \| 18 comments
21.		As Competition Wanes, Amazon Cuts Back Discounts (nytimes.com)
		104 points by kanamekun on July 5, 2013 \| 59 comments
22.		The programming languages behind "the mother of all demos" (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
		99 points by nnq on July 5, 2013 \| 2 comments
23.		ClojureScript: Things That Might Worry You, but Shouldn't (2012) (jasonrudolph.com)
		96 points by m0th87 on July 5, 2013 \| 23 comments
24.		Just a new name: Germany does Not move away form data retention at all (translate.google.com)
		96 points by Morst on July 5, 2013 \| 21 comments
25.		US sends pre-emptive warrant to Ireland to stop Snowden flight refuelling there (irishtimes.com)
		93 points by imc on July 5, 2013 \| 59 comments
26.		Snowden is more distraction than traitor (aljazeera.com)
		91 points by joelrunyon on July 5, 2013 \| 15 comments
27.		Using D3.js to Brute Force the Pirate Puzzle (azundo.github.io)
		85 points by azundo on July 5, 2013 \| 10 comments
28.		What really happened to the software on the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft? (rapitasystems.com)
		84 points by skeletonjelly on July 5, 2013 \| 35 comments
29.		Wt, C++ Web Toolkit (webtoolkit.eu)
		82 points by stesch on July 5, 2013 \| 50 comments
30.		How to Opt Out of AT&T's Plan to Sell Data About You and Your Smartphone Use (forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill)
		80 points by iProject on July 5, 2013 \| 13 comments
		More

HN For You