top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-04-01

The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507297

12 years ago

490 upvotes – 170 comments

Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog

http://antirez.com/news/75

12 years ago

428 upvotes – 66 comments

Coinbase user emails and full names leaked

http://pastebin.com/RzWipJFb

12 years ago

419 upvotes – 282 comments

Portia, an open-source visual web scraper

http://blog.scrapinghub.com/2014/04/01/announcing-portia/

12 years ago

367 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507765

12 years ago

337 upvotes – 527 comments

Why xkcd-style graphs are important

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graphs_are_important.html

12 years ago

296 upvotes – 75 comments

Slick – Carousel

http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/

12 years ago

279 upvotes – 112 comments

Challenge HN: Keep lame April Fools' gags off the front page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506793

12 years ago

257 upvotes – 97 comments

The inexplicable rise of open floor plans in tech companies

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/the-inexplicable-rise-of-open-floor-plans-in-tech-companies.html

12 years ago

252 upvotes – 253 comments

Game servers: UDP vs TCP

http://1024monkeys.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/game-servers-udp-vs-tcp/

12 years ago

247 upvotes – 126 comments

Why Don’t We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor?

http://pcmonk.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/why-dont-we-have-a-general-purpose-tree-editor/

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 172 comments

Intel unveils tiny $99 MinnowBoard Max open single-board computer

http://linuxgizmos.com/intel-unveils-tiny-x86-minnowboard-max-open-sbc/

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 141 comments

TimL – Clojure like language which compiles down to VimL

https://github.com/tpope/timl

12 years ago

★ 678 VimL
207 upvotes – 33 comments

Update on Coinbase Data Security

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/81407694500/update-on-coinbase-data-security

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 130 comments

409A as a Service: Cash Cows Get Slaughtered

http://siliconhillslawyer.com/2014/03/15/409a-service-cash-cows-get-slaughtered/

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 54 comments

How Gmail happened: The inside story on its launch, ten years later

http://time.com/43263/gmail-10th-anniversary/

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 67 comments

2048 As A Service

https://github.com/Semantics3/2048-as-a-service

12 years ago

★ 125 JavaScript MIT
179 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Deaf? My iPhone app wakes you up if it hears an alarm

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/deafalarm/id845405123?ls=1&mt=8

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 139 comments

My website was stolen by a hacker and I got it back

http://www.ramshackleglam.com/2014/04/01/my-website-was-stolen-by-a-hacker-and-i-got-it-back/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 155 comments

Zelda De-make

http://labs.benpurdy.com/zelda/

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 44 comments

Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/04/svn-migrates-to-git

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 35 comments

OkCupid/IAC Employees Donated Thousands to Anti-Gay Marriage Politicians

http://pastebin.com/ekaFQXbE

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 185 comments

Android for iOS Developers

http://www.objc.io/issue-11/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 24 comments

AMD's Jaguar Microarchitecture

http://www.realworldtech.com/jaguar/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 30 comments

MCS locks and qspinlocks

http://lwn.net/Articles/590243/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 10 comments

What is the contribution of lambda calculus to the theory of computation?

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/21705/what-is-the-contribution-of-lambda-calculus-to-the-field-of-theory-of-computatio

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 47 comments

Pavel Durov quits as VKontakte CEO

http://gigaom.com/2014/04/01/russias-zuckerberg-pavel-durov-quits-as-vkontakte-ceo-after-kremlin-allies-take-over/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 124 comments

The value of an engineering degree

http://avc.com/2014/03/the-value-of-an-engineering-degree/

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 158 comments

What I learned about stop and frisk from watching my black son

http://m.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/what-i-learned-about-stop-and-frisk-from-watching-my-black-son/359962/

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 51 comments

Email, an idea so old that it's new

http://blog.bitofnews.com/email-an-idea-so-old-that-its-new/

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 104 comments

Parallax effect using motion detection

http://wagerfield.github.io/parallax/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 33 comments

Moonshine – A lightweight Lua VM for the browser

http://moonshinejs.org/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 70 comments

systemd-networkd DHCP performance

https://plus.google.com/114015603831160344127/posts/eztZWbwmxM8

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 17 comments

Microsoft Names Scott Guthrie as Permanent Enterprise Chief

http://recode.net/2014/03/31/microsoft-names-scott-guthrie-as-permanent-enterprise-chief-spencer-to-head-xbox/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507753

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 145 comments

HomestarRunner.com was updated today for the first time in nearly four years.

http://www.homestarrunner.com/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

2-Year-Olds Convert Binary To Hexadecimals In Game Experiment

http://www.flippybitandtheattackofthehexadecimalsfrombase16.com

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 55 comments

Technichi: Macbook Subscription Service

http://www.technichi.com/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 82 comments

StackOverflow closed my question, that's why we exist

http://codingstyleguide.com/blog

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 103 comments

[INFRA-7524] migrate Apache Subversion project over to the git repo

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 35 comments

Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windows XP still above 27%

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/04/01/windows-7-outgains-windows-8-8-1-market-share-windows-xp-still-27/?

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 81 comments

Thinking About Mozilla

http://incisive.nu/2014/thinking-about-mozilla

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 143 comments

Your Game Doesn't Need UDP Yet (2013)

https://thoughtstreams.io/glyph/your-game-doesnt-need-udp-yet/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 53 comments

A micro compiler in Ocaml

http://troydm.github.io/blog/2014/03/29/writing-micro-compiler-in-ocaml/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Writing Idiomatic Python Book

https://www.jeffknupp.com/writing-idiomatic-python-ebook/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Introduction to Compressive Sensing

http://puzlet.com/m/b00cv

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

Stop commenting your code just to say you did

http://bradt.ca/blog/useless-code-comments/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 72 comments

A talking multimeter

http://www.mastrogippo.it/2014/03/a-talking-multimeter/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

The Datacenter as a Computer, Second edition

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00516ED2V01Y201306CAC024

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 0 comments
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