top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-05-19

Choosing Minecraft over Disney

https://medium.com/editors-picks/57a0128b53c9

13 years ago

509 upvotes – 185 comments

Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/19/dear-american-consumers-please-dont-start-eating-healthfully-sincerely-the-food-industry/

13 years ago

313 upvotes – 303 comments

Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap

https://simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/unheralded-mathematician-bridges-the-prime-gap/

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 94 comments

A Hacker News For Ideas

http://firespotting.com/newest

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 72 comments

Docker - Way better than a VM

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/

13 years ago

★ 71.4k Go Apache-2.0
256 upvotes – 84 comments

\d less efficient than [0-9]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16621738/d-less-efficient-than-0-9

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 75 comments

Mercury Colonization

http://einstein-schrodinger.com/mercury_colony.html

13 years ago

232 upvotes – 125 comments

The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/336152689211756544

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 175 comments

Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures

http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_monads_in_pictures.html

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 125 comments

Functional Programming in 5 Minutes

http://slid.es/gsklee/functional-programming-in-5-minutes

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 81 comments

Wikileaks Release: Anakata Docs

http://wikileaks.org/gottfrid-docs/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 36 comments

Your top 100 unix commands, for science

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XNMoSdfYFe_WkPfU--M88oL00PDLIOAo1HxjhZvZYJ4/viewform

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 79 comments

Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs [video]

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+avinash/posts/UgWmghiGvRM

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 22 comments

How and Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011)

http://code.mixpanel.com/2011/08/05/how-and-why-we-switched-from-erlang-to-python/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 43 comments

jq - like sed for JSON data

http://stedolan.github.io/jq/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 29 comments

Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim

http://fredkschott.com/post/50510962864/introducing-covim-collaborative-editing-for-vim

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 23 comments

I know who 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is, says Ted Nelson

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/19/ted_nelson_thinks_hes_outed_bitcoins_nakamoto/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 80 comments

Bootstrap 3 is mobile-first

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/6342

13 years ago

★ 174.2k MDX MIT
100 upvotes – 28 comments

Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance In The UK

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/19/former-google-exec-turns-whistleblower-on-companys-tax-avoidance-machinations-in-the-uk/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 56 comments

Why use a database instead of just saving your data to disk?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/190482/why-use-a-database-instead-of-just-saving-your-data-to-disk

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 92 comments
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