top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-05

New GitHub Pages domain: github.io

https://github.com/blog/1452-new-github-pages-domain-github-io

13 years ago

305 upvotes – 90 comments

Firefox Nightly Gets New Baseline JIT Compiler

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2013/04/05/the-baseline-compiler-has-landed/

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 102 comments

The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide

http://www.businessinsider.com/jody-sherman-ecomom-2013-4?op=1

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 67 comments

URLs are for People, not Computers

http://www.not-implemented.com/urls-are-for-people-not-computers/

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 152 comments

Extracting Audio from Pictures of Gramophone Recordings

https://mediapreservation.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/extracting-audio-from-pictures/

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 24 comments

Something is burning in the server room; how can I quickly identify what it is?

http://serverfault.com/questions/496139/something-is-burning-in-the-server-room-how-can-i-quickly-identify-what-it-is/

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 120 comments

Dell/Alienware release Ubuntu gaming desktop

http://alienware.com/ubuntu/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 99 comments

In Search of the Cookie Dough Tree

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=88

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 68 comments

Web Framework Benchmarks Round 2

http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/04/05/frameworks-round-2/

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 232 comments

Introduction to x64 Assembly

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/introduction-to-x64-assembly?wapkw=%28video%20encode%20white%20paper%29

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 76 comments

Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps

http://jakelevine.me/blog/2013/04/nobody-knows-that-i-use-these-apps/

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 64 comments

Until Today, If You Were 17, It Could Have Been Illegal To Read Seventeen.com

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/until-today-if-you-were-17-it-could-have-been-illegal-read-seventeencom-under-cfaa

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 101 comments

Homeless in Silicon Valley

http://billmoyers.com/content/homeless-in-high-techs-shadow/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 142 comments

There are no 10x developers, but there are 1/10 ones

http://www.techfounder.net/2013/04/04/there-are-no-x10-developers-but-there-are-certainly-110-ones/

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 165 comments

Show HN: Pinry, a self-hosted Pinterest

http://getpinry.com/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 41 comments

List out of Lambda

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/03/list-out-of-lambda

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 47 comments

Updated Packages – Python 3.3

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/TechnicalOverview#Python_3.3

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 111 comments

Zombie VCs

http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/04/zombie-vcs/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 102 comments

Coinbase Merchant Data Leak?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167900.0

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 117 comments

Everything I know about design I learned playing Starcraft

http://quizlet.com/inside-quizlet/everything-i-know-about-design

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 57 comments

Coinbase Response: Data On Merchant Pages

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/47198421272/data-on-merchant-pages#

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 18 comments

Google Spell goes down and no one notices

http://www.brokentone.com/blog/2566/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 48 comments

Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things

https://self-evident.org/?p=993

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 125 comments

Why are We Still Talking about LucasArts' Old Adventure Games?

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/189899/why_are_we_still_talking_about_.php

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 71 comments

I Bought a Bitcoin

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/i-bought-a-bitcoin.html

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 111 comments

Bitcoin Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-05/bitcoin-really-is-an-existential-threat-to-the-modern-liberal-state.html

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 98 comments

AMI-Bios Sourcecode and UEFI Signing Key leaked?

http://adamcaudill.com/2013/04/04/security-done-wrong-leaky-ftp-server/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Pandas, Numpy, and SciPy users can now access our over 4M datasets

http://www.quandl.com/help/python

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 13 comments

We Can Do Better

http://www.ea.com/news/we-can-do-better

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 116 comments

Show HN: How I built a trading signal by scraping Nasdaq for short interest

https://www.quantopian.com/posts/ranking-and-trading-on-days-to-cover

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 51 comments

119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st

http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/04/119-investors-actively-doing-series-a-deals-since-march-1st/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

Revenue Management for Meth Dealers in Flint (Fiction)

http://analyticsmadeskeezy.com/2012/10/08/revenue-management-for-meth-dealers-in-flint/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

Thesis Hatement

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/04/there_are_no_academic_jobs_and_getting_a_ph_d_will_make_you_into_a_horrible.single.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 86 comments

Reconstruction Of Visual Images Using Brain Activity Patterns

http://www.cns.atr.jp/dni/en/research-projects/reconstruction-visual-images/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

For One Man, It Really Is the End of the World

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130404190015-21564708-for-one-man-it-really-is-the-end-of-the-world

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 48 comments

A Better To-Do List: The 1-3-5 Rule

http://www.thedailymuse.com/career/the-1-3-5-rule/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Twitter Just Became a Games Platform

http://ryanhoover.me/post/47205151064/twitter-just-became-a-games-platform

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Must-Reads When Recruiting Programmers

http://blog.kiratalent.com/post/47112553827/12-must-reads-when-recruiting-programmers

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

An acquisition rarely starts out looking like one

http://jmtame.posthaven.com/an-acquisition-rarely-starts-out-looking-like-one

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Jedi Knight 2 And 3 Source Code Released

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/05/lucas-smarts-jedi-knight-2-and-3-source-code-released/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments

Grimwire.js: A RESTful Browser OS that does Peer-to-peer over WebRTC

http://blog.grimwire.com/#2013-04-04-grimwire.md

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments

Freicoin - easy-to-use demurrage currency

http://freico.in

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 82 comments

Flat UI jQuery Theme

https://github.com/ququplay/jquery-mobile-flat-ui-theme

13 years ago

★ 1.6k CSS
64 upvotes – 23 comments

How Much Traffic Does a Magazine or TV Mention Send Your Website?

http://blog.momentgarden.com/post/47117433601/how-much-traffic-does-a-magazine-or-tv-mention-send

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

10x developer talk is fundamentally misguided

http://andothernoise.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/10x-developer-talk-is-fundamentally.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

How many 10K hours do you have left?

http://nowincolour.com/2013/04/how-many-10k-hours-do-you-have-left/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 36 comments

Hilariously Mean Roger Ebert Reviews

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/40-hilariously-mean-roger-ebert-reviews/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Just Use Sublime Text

http://delvarworld.github.io/blog/2013/03/16/just-use-sublime-text/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 64 comments

Krugman's Baby-Sitting Co-op Explains The Design Flaw At The Heart Of Bitcoin

http://www.forbes.com/sites/pascalemmanuelgobry/2013/04/05/krugman-baby-sitting-co-op-bitcoin/

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 107 comments

H1B Visa Lottery for FY 2014

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=5051f359827dd310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e7801c2c9be44210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 67 comments

Redesigning the Save Symbol

http://branch.com/b/redesigning-the-save-symbol-let-s-do-this

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 65 comments

Switch to Posthaven

http://www.switchtoposthaven.com/

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 24 comments
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