top 50% 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

Go at Google [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Go-Google

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 58 comments

This Page Is Why The Internet Sucks

http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/this-page-is-why-the-internet-sucks/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 101 comments

MRI's Method Caches

http://jamesgolick.com/2013/4/14/mris-method-caches.html

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 15 comments

The Lambda Papers

http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html?

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 10 comments

Why Does Music Feel So Good?

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/11/why-does-music-feel-so-good/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 50 comments

Esquivalience

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquivalience

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

Lisp Is Too Powerful

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispIsTooPowerful

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 94 comments

FlightCar (YC W13) Raises $5.5M Round to Expand and Hire

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/15/flightcar-5-5m-funding/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 58 comments

Moore's Law and the Origin of Life

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

Tugboat: A command line client for DigitalOcean

https://github.com/pearkes/tugboat

13 years ago

★ 1.4k Ruby MIT
91 upvotes – 15 comments

Alice strikes back against Bob's 'reverse dictionary'

http://blog.jgc.org/2013/04/alice-strikes-back-against-bobs-reverse.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Designing Open Source

https://medium.com/words-about-design/e3adc220cfa7

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" (2003)

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Get up to 50% OFF JetBrains Tools and Support a Good Cause

http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/04/15/50-off-jetbrains-tools-and-help-to-plant-a-billion-trees/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments
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