top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-04-02

0^0

http://www.askamathematician.com/2010/12/q-what-does-00-zero-raised-to-the-zeroth-power-equal-why-do-mathematicians-and-high-school-teachers-disagree/

12 years ago

506 upvotes – 248 comments

Amazon Fire TV

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CX5P8FC/ref=tsm_1_tw_s_kin_n3er02

12 years ago

388 upvotes – 381 comments

Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/02/microsoft-will-soon-bring-back-the-start-menu-in-windows-8-1/

12 years ago

371 upvotes – 290 comments

Tarsnap price cut

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-04-02-tarsnap-price-cut.html

12 years ago

320 upvotes – 157 comments

-2000 Lines of Code (2004)

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt

12 years ago

317 upvotes – 139 comments

Zed: The Next Phase

http://zedapp.org/2014/04/zed-the-next-phase

12 years ago

304 upvotes – 122 comments

Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

http://blog.canonical.com/2014/04/02/shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-services/

12 years ago

298 upvotes – 203 comments

A group of 3,000 citizens is making better forecasts than CIA analysts

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/04/02/297839429/-so-you-think-youre-smarter-than-a-cia-agent

12 years ago

297 upvotes – 135 comments

Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3657

12 years ago

292 upvotes – 74 comments

Microsoft introduces Universal Windows apps

http://wmpoweruser.com/microsoft-introduces-universal-windows-apps/

12 years ago

284 upvotes – 183 comments

WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dn632015

12 years ago

279 upvotes – 131 comments

ipython 2.0.0

http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/whatsnew/version2.0.html

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 56 comments

Announcing TypeScript 1.0

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2014/04/02/announcing-typescript-1-0.aspx

12 years ago

265 upvotes – 115 comments

Haste language

http://haste-lang.org/

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 73 comments

My First Year of Coding

http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/81451670618/my-first-year-of-coding

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 113 comments

Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515755

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 162 comments

What it is like being the only engineer in a meeting [video]

http://laughingsquid.com/the-expert-a-hilarious-sketch-about-the-pain-of-being-the-only-engineer-in-a-business-meeting/

12 years ago

222 upvotes – 112 comments

Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8.1 with personal assistant Cortana

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/04/02/microsoft-unveils-windows-phone-8-1-personal-assistant-cortana-action-center-customizable-lockscreens/?utm_medium=Spreadus&awesm=tnw.to_c4eMC&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=social%20media

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 116 comments

How the secret police tracked my childhood

http://m.bbc.com/news/magazine-26838177?ocid=socialflow_twitter

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 56 comments

My Surreal UberX Experience

http://tomtunguz.com/uber-ride/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=Anuj+Adhiya&utm_campaign=Anuj+Adhiya

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 42 comments

April Fools: migrate Apache Subversion project over to the git repo

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

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 98 comments

CryptoCat iOS Application Penetration Test [pdf]

http://isecpartners.github.io/publications/iSEC_Cryptocat_iOS.pdf

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 131 comments

Wu-Tang Clan Offered $5M for New Album Only Available as One Copy

http://pitchfork.com/news/54627-rza-says-wu-tang-clan-offered-5-million-for-new-album-thats-only-available-as-one-copy/

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 118 comments

Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2036834894/the-most-affordable-automatic-sit-to-stand-desk

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 107 comments

This is how an engineer feels when he's surrounded by idiots

http://www.cnet.com/news/this-is-how-an-engineer-feels-when-hes-surrounded-by-idiots/

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 74 comments

Btrees are the new black

http://www.me.net.nz/blog/btrees-are-the-new-black/

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 41 comments

Working From Home? Here's an Extra Shot of Focus

https://techblog.livingsocial.com/blog/2014/04/02/working-from-home-heres-an-extra-shot-of-focus/

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 50 comments

There is a pure HTML Gmail, and it still works

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LouisGray/posts/epGfV7kqhDv

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: I built this notifying device – electronics, code, design, marketing

http://www.notifon.net

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 57 comments

One Page R: A Survival Guide to Data Science with R

http://onepager.togaware.com/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 17 comments

Microsoft Updates Visual Studio

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/02/microsoft-updates-visual-studio-with-support-for-universal-projects-typescript-1-0-and-net-native-code-compilation/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 59 comments

How to get beyond the parasite economy

http://www.ericgarland.co/2014/03/29/parasite-economy/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 46 comments

Microsoft Build 2014 Day 1 live

http://channel9.msdn.com/?wt.mc_id=build_hp

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 43 comments

Manhattan: Real-time, multi-tenant distributed database for Twitter scale

https://blog.twitter.com/2014/manhattan-our-real-time-multi-tenant-distributed-database-for-twitter-scale

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 42 comments

Using Docker with Github and Jenkins for repeatable deployments

http://blog.buddycloud.com/post/80771409167/using-docker-with-github-and-jenkins-for-repeatable?utm_source=Docker+News&utm_campaign=a4320fc137-Docker_0_5_0_7_18_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c0995b6e8f-a4320fc137-235720153

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub

https://github.com/popcorn-team/popcorn-app

12 years ago

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84 upvotes – 70 comments

Breaking Half of the Telegram Contest

https://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2014/04/02/breaking-half-of-the-telegram-contest/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 33 comments

Suspicious Minds – Why No One Trusts People In Authority

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/SUSPICIOUS-MINDS

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 61 comments

How Russians are outsmarting Internet censorship

http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2014/03/25/how-russians-are-outsmarting-internet-censorship/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 24 comments

Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Limits on Federal Campaign Contributions

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/us/politics/supreme-court-ruling-on-campaign-contributions.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 83 comments

Suspension of NASA contact with Russian entities

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=45536

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 60 comments

Am I really a developer or just a good Googler?

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AmIReallyADeveloperOrJustAGoodGoogler.aspx

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 73 comments

Jwz and Brendan Eich discuss the origins of JavaScript (2010)

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-new-and-stupid/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 113 comments
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