top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-04-15

Gitmo Is Killing Me

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html

13 years ago

1333 upvotes – 521 comments

Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Explosions-reported-near-Boston-Marathon-finish-line/-/11971628/19757044/-/ktnc1wz/-/index.html

13 years ago

872 upvotes – 586 comments

Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=submission&id=2603667

13 years ago

753 upvotes – 404 comments

News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier

http://m.guardiannews.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli#top

13 years ago

511 upvotes – 236 comments

Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men

http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/article/why-your-games-are-made-by-childless-31-year-old-white-men-and-how-one-stud

13 years ago

365 upvotes – 170 comments

Show HN: I'm building an open-source, high-frequency trading system

http://scarcecapital.com/hft

13 years ago

301 upvotes – 190 comments

Women, Tech Conferences and the Bullshit Surrounding It

http://www.sugarrae.com/rants-in-bitchland/women-tech-conferences-and-bs/

13 years ago

290 upvotes – 228 comments

Scaling Pinterest - From 0 to 10s of Billions of Page Views a Month in Two Years

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/4/15/scaling-pinterest-from-0-to-10s-of-billions-of-page-views-a.html?utm_source=feedly

13 years ago

261 upvotes – 45 comments

Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions

http://google.org/personfinder/2013-boston-explosions

13 years ago

246 upvotes – 32 comments

How much usage can a Lego piece take before it loses its 'clutch power'?

http://phillipecantin.blogspot.com/2013/02/legos-magic-number-is-37112.html

13 years ago

235 upvotes – 68 comments

The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-terrifying-reality-of-longterm-unemployment/274957/

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 342 comments

How to work with Software Engineers

https://www.kennethnorton.com/essays/how-to-work-with-software-engineers.html

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 88 comments

A New HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status/?include_text=1

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 27 comments

You should blog even if you have no readers

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/you-should-blog-even-if-you-have-no-readers.html

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 64 comments

John Cleese on How to Make Your Life More Creative

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/12/john-cleese-on-creativity-1991/

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 16 comments

HTML5 Video at Netflix

http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/04/html5-video-at-netflix.html

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 127 comments

Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW]

http://donottouch.org/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 53 comments

How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/stories/88acres/88-acres-how-microsoft-quietly-built-the-city-of-the-future-chapter-1.aspx

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 93 comments

Facebook Home ads show Facebook at its worst

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/265cc8a17432

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 42 comments

Tests Are Overhyped

http://sturgill.github.io/2013/04/15/tests-are-overhyped/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 149 comments
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