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

Learn C and build your own Lisp

http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

12 years ago

641 upvotes – 145 comments

Amazon Dash

https://fresh.amazon.com/dash

12 years ago

621 upvotes – 250 comments

Facebook CPC – Don't Waste Your Money

http://jamespanderson.tumblr.com/post/81672314715/facebook-cpc-dont-waste-your-money

12 years ago

477 upvotes – 168 comments

Apache Wave

http://incubator.apache.org/wave/about.html

12 years ago

397 upvotes – 112 comments

My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job

https://medium.com/p/e32d3955115

12 years ago

285 upvotes – 150 comments

Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

http://www.instamotor.com/#/

12 years ago

234 upvotes – 208 comments

American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-trap" is clicked

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/04/02/acsgate-pandora-opens-the-american-chemical-societys-box-and-her-university-gets-cut-off/

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 86 comments

The right way to ask users for iOS permissions

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/04/the-right-way-to-ask-users-for-ios-permissions/

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 58 comments

Contributing to the F# Language, Library and Tools

https://visualfsharp.codeplex.com/

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 63 comments

Michael Lewis: shilling for the buyside?

http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/michael-lewis-shilling-for-the-buyside/

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 212 comments

Tesla Model S Ethernet Network Explored

http://www.dragtimes.com/blog/tesla-model-s-ethernet-network-explored-possible-jailbreak-in-the-future

12 years ago

183 upvotes – 108 comments

The Other Side of Depression

http://www.annewheaton.com/the-other-side-of-depression/

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 90 comments

Don't use assembly unless you're an expert

http://quetzalcoatal.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/if-you-want-fast-code-dont-use-assembly.html?m=1

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 125 comments

Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry.

https://medium.com/p/3c613ea188d7

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 246 comments

Caloric restriction reduces age-related and all-cause mortality in rhesus monkeys

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140401/ncomms4557/full/ncomms4557.html

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 83 comments

The Idiot's Guide to High Frequency Trading

http://blogmaverick.com/2014/04/03/the-idiots-guide-to-high-frequency-trading/

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 94 comments

Japanese Toilets: The Future Called 30 Years Ago

http://blog.hopefullyuseful.com/blog/2014/04/04/the-future-called-30-years-ago/

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 168 comments

5-year-old Ocean Beach boy exposes Microsoft Xbox vulnerability

http://www.10news.com/news/5-year-old-ocean-beach-exposes-microsoft-xbox-vulnerability

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 79 comments

Can Namecoin obsolete ICANN (and more)?

http://theumlaut.com/2014/02/05/namecoin-icann/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 86 comments

Leslie Lamport: Thinking for Programmers [video]

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-642

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 32 comments

Rare 'goat-sheep' born on Irish farm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26870598

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 108 comments

Night Walk in Marseille [video]

https://nightwalk.withgoogle.com/en

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 74 comments

Windows Management Framework V5 Preview

http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2014/04/03/windows-management-framework-v5-preview.aspx

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 63 comments

Linus will not be merging any code from systemd developer

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1677152

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 58 comments

Contributing to Open Source on GitHub

https://guides.github.com/overviews/os-contributing/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 32 comments

Europe votes for clinical trial transparency

http://www.alltrials.net/2014/europe-votes-for-clinical-trial-transparency/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 43 comments

Xtend – Modernized Java

https://www.eclipse.org/xtend/documentation.html

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 81 comments

Node.js Tools for Visual Studio

https://nodejstools.codeplex.com/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 67 comments

Unreal Engine 4.1 Update Preview

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/41-update-preview

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

How Rare Are Anti-Gay-Marriage Donations in Silicon Valley?

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-rare-are-anti-gay-marriage-donations-in-silicon-valley/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 128 comments

An open-source Python implementation using JIT techniques

https://github.com/dropbox/pyston

12 years ago

★ 4.8k
83 upvotes – 27 comments

Mozilla's Gay-Marriage Litmus Test Violates Liberal Values

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/mozillas-gay-marriage-litmus-test-violates-liberal-values/360156/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 83 comments

Apple vs. Android: Developers see a socioeconomic divide

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/04/04/apple_vs_android_developers_see_a_socioeconomic_divide.html

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments

The Twitch Statistics Pipeline

http://ossareh.posthaven.com/the-twitch-statistics-pipeline

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

The Disruption of Cable Television Has Arrived

http://buysidenotes.com/2014/04/02/the-disruption-of-cable-television-has-arrived/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 75 comments

Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

http://stephenhaunts.com/2014/04/03/develop-open-source-alternative-to-visual-studio/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 58 comments

“Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/04/04/cuban-twitter-scam-social-media-tool-disseminating-government-propaganda/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: Ideas on promoting an open source project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7531170

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

Automating Threes [video]

http://www.twitch.tv/teamcolorblind

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Server-Sent Events: The simplest realtime browser spec

https://segment.io/blog/2014-04-03-server-sent-events-the-simplest-realtime-browser-spec/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 31 comments

Mozilla is not Chik-Fil-A

http://www.benmoskowitz.com/?p=971

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 64 comments

A/B Testing Significance Calculator

http://www.jeffpickhardt.com/abcalc

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Why Facebook should worry about Tencent

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/why-facebook-should-worry-about-tencent/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 40 comments
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