top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-05-19

Choosing Minecraft over Disney

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

13 years ago

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

Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap

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

13 years ago

Docker - Way better than a VM

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

13 years ago

★ 71.4k Go Apache-2.0

A Hacker News For Ideas

http://firespotting.com/newest

13 years ago

\d less efficient than [0-9]

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

13 years ago

Mercury Colonization

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

13 years ago

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

Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures

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

13 years ago

Functional Programming in 5 Minutes

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

13 years ago

Wikileaks Release: Anakata Docs

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

13 years ago

Your top 100 unix commands, for science

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

13 years ago

Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs [video]

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

13 years ago

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

jq - like sed for JSON data

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

13 years ago

Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim

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

13 years ago

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

Bootstrap 3 is mobile-first

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

13 years ago

★ 174.2k MDX MIT

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

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

The $3B+ Exit Tumblr Could Have Had

http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/05/the-3b-exit-tumblr-could-have-had/

13 years ago

The SEO Mistake That Wiped Out 80% of My Traffic

http://www.ecommercefuel.com/seo-mistakes-organic-traffic/

13 years ago

NetBSD 6.1 is Relased

http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.1.html

13 years ago

U.S. Software developer wages fall 2% as workforce expands

https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239308/Software_developer_wages_fall_2_as_workforce_expands

13 years ago

Release of Diaspora v0.1.0.0

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2632812

13 years ago

First Glimpse into the Soul of a Tamagotchi

http://www.kwartzlab.ca/2013/05/first-glimpse-soul-tamagotchi/

13 years ago

Explaining to my Dad why I quit my job

http://joshaust.in/2013/05/explaining-to-my-dad-why-i-quit-my-job/

13 years ago

Techu - RESTful full-text searches with Sphinx, Redis, Nginx and Django

http://georgepsarakis.github.io/techu-search-server/

13 years ago

Yahoo, please start with a Vulnerability Reward Program

http://www.nilsjuenemann.de/2013/05/yahoo-please-start-with-vulnerability.html

13 years ago

Ask HN: Where can I find good freelance opportunities?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5731198

13 years ago

Show HN: Whit - Access any kind of data through SMS

https://github.com/Aaln/whit

13 years ago

★ 197 Python

The myth of Nazi efficiency

http://coffeecuphistory.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/the-myth-of-nazi-efficiency/

13 years ago