top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-02

Web Framework Benchmarks Round 4

http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/05/02/frameworks-round-4/

13 years ago

369 upvotes – 346 comments

Manchester City Council

http://www.manchester.gov.uk/

13 years ago

363 upvotes – 232 comments

Portal Released For Steam On Linux

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM2Mzk

13 years ago

302 upvotes – 146 comments

Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins

http://www.unheap.com/#

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 51 comments

Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 143 comments

Shenzhen is Like Living in a City-Sized TechShop

http://www.hackthings.com/shenzhen-is-like-living-in-a-city-sized-techshop/

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 195 comments

Show HN: Weekend project - Magnific Popup

http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 64 comments

Year 2038 problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 108 comments

An Introduction to the Mechanics of Bitcoin

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 36 comments

Bayes' rule in Haskell (2007)

http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2007/02/22/bayes-rule-and-drug-tests

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 77 comments

Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304811304577366332400453796.html

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 71 comments

Behind the Scenes with Chicken Scheme

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/05/02/chicken-scheme-part-1/?utm_source=feedly

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 22 comments

Nerds, we need to have a talk (2011)

http://www.thingist.com/item/4372/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 85 comments

Eric Brewer on Why Banks are BASE, Not ACID – Availability Is Revenue

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/1/myth-eric-brewer-on-why-banks-are-base-not-acid-availability.html

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 48 comments

Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/05/02/mozilla-launches-firefox-os-3-0-simulator-with-push-to-device-rotation-simulation-geolocation-api-and-more/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 18 comments

Petition to drop charges against Kiera Wilmot

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/49445260575/quasar-pulsar

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 54 comments

Exploration of the Google PageRank Algorithm

https://googledrive.com/host/0B2GQktu-wcTiaWw5OFVqT1k3bDA/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 25 comments

Probably the worst URL scheme ever

http://www.bvb.de/?_%1B%E7%F4%9D

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 100 comments

Stop “Disrupting” Everything

http://slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/05/disrupting_disruption_a_once_useful_concept_has_become_a_lame_catchphrase.html

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 80 comments

Google and Adobe team up to improve fonts on iOS and Linux

http://www.zdnet.com/google-and-adobe-team-up-to-improve-ios-linux-fonts-7000014803/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 76 comments

Linode Manager Two-Step Authentication

https://blog.linode.com/2013/05/02/linode-manager-two-step-auth/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 84 comments

Building Stuff To Help You Sell The Stuff You Build

http://www.slideshare.net/patio11/microconf-presentation-2013?utm_source=slideshow&utm_medium=ssemail&utm_campaign=upload_digest

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Sweating the UI and UX details: Emails and Email Addresses

http://blog.close.io/post/49440305534/sweating-the-ui-ux-details-in-close-io-emails

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 62 comments

Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects

https://github.com/facebook/xctool

13 years ago

★ 6.8k Objective-C Apache-2.0
92 upvotes – 19 comments

Rack Attack: Protection from abusive clients

http://www.kickstarter.com/backing-and-hacking/rack-attack-protection-from-abusive-clients

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 27 comments

MLWorks: SML compiler from Harlequin returning from the dead as open source

http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mlworks/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

No, I Don't Want a Ticket for the Women's Luncheon

http://stronglikebool.com/post/2013/04/10/No-I-Dont-Want-a-Ticket-for-the-Womens-Luncheon

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 143 comments

Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/magazine/y-combinator-silicon-valleys-start-up-machine.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 8 comments

The Antidote to Burnout is Progress

http://tomtunguz.com/burnout/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

New Dyno Networking Model

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/5/2/new_dyno_networking_model

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

What professional philosophers believe – Survey results

http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 108 comments

Oslo is turning garbage into energy and is running out of garbage

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/europe/oslo-copes-with-shortage-of-garbage-it-turns-into-energy.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 60 comments

Harder than it looks: rounding a float to the nearest integer

http://blog.frama-c.com/index.php?post/2013/05/02/nearbyintf1

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 46 comments

In Tech We Trust? A Debate with Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen [video]

http://www.milkeninstitute.org/presentations/mediapage.taf?ID=3825

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 39 comments

China Cyberspies Outwit U.S. Stealing Military Secrets

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-01/china-cyberspies-outwit-u-s-stealing-military-secrets.html

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 60 comments

Deep-seated attitudes to women have roots in ancient agriculture

http://www.economist.com/node/18986073?

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 58 comments

New chip delivers DNA results within an hour

http://dangerousprototypes.com/2013/05/02/new-chip-delivers-dna-results-within-an-hour/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Planning for Another 100 Million Web Sites

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/planning-for-another-100-million-web-sites/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

Memcache top

http://engineering.tumblr.com/post/48701285213/open-source-memcache-top

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Professors at San Jose State Won't Use a Harvard Professor's MOOC

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Professors-at-San-Jose/138941/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 83 comments

DWP - Services and benefits online

http://dwp.gov.uk/eservice/need.asp

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 38 comments

Survey of Commonly Available C System Header Files

http://hacks.owlfolio.org/header-survey/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

Spark Core: Wi-Fi for Everything (Arduino Compatible)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sparkdevices/spark-core-wi-fi-for-everything-arduino-compatible

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Startups That Rejected $100M Offers

http://www.businessinsider.com/startups-that-rejected-100-million-offers-2013-5

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 54 comments

JDK 8 M7 update

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8-dev/2013-May/002419.html

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

Why Young Americans Should Work Overseas

http://postmasculine.com/work-overseas

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 109 comments

Growing a Language with Clojure and Instaparse

http://gigasquidsoftware.com/wordpress/?p=689

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments

A Way to Share BitTorrent Syncs

http://12char.com

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 31 comments
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