top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-04-05

How I Hacked a Router

http://disconnected.io/2014/03/18/how-i-hacked-your-router/

12 years ago

348 upvotes – 89 comments

Mathematicians find way to put 7 cylinders in contact without using their ends

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tale-touching-tubes

12 years ago

265 upvotes – 84 comments

Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAghAJcO1o

12 years ago

249 upvotes – 83 comments

Why UPS Trucks Rarely Turn Left

https://priceonomics.com/why-ups-trucks-dont-turn-left/

12 years ago

228 upvotes – 127 comments

Primer: Shaders

http://notes.underscorediscovery.com/shaders-a-primer/

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 35 comments

Can I delete my Skype account?

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA142/can-i-delete-my-skype-account

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 78 comments

Recreating the THX Deep Note

http://www.earslap.com/instruction/recreating-the-thx-deep-note

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 27 comments

Low-level is easy

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/low-level-is-easy.html

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 56 comments

Say “no” to import side‐effects in Python

http://chrismorgan.info/blog/say-no-to-import-side-effects-in-python.html

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN Mods: Can you make submission URLs human-readable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7536719

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 71 comments

Taking Pictures with a DRAM Chip

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kurzschluss.com%2Fkuckuck%2Fkuckuck.html&edit-text=

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 34 comments

2048 implemented in 487 bytes of C

https://gist.github.com/justecorruptio/9967738

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 45 comments

C# 6: First reactions

http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2014/04/04/c-6-first-reactions.aspx

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 65 comments

The SEO Dominance of RetailMeNot

http://priceonomics.com/the-seo-dominance-of-retailmenot/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 47 comments

Functionally Solving Problems With Haskell

http://learnyouahaskell.com/functionally-solving-problems

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 60 comments

RegExr 2.0

http://www.regexr.com

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 43 comments

Sony blocks Sintel on YouTube

http://www.blendernation.com/2014/04/05/sony-blocks-sintel-on-youtube/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 48 comments

India Launches Its Second Navigation Satellite

http://www.space.com/25373-india-navigation-satellite-launch.html

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 15 comments

Technology’s Man Problem

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/technology/technologys-man-problem.html?pagewanted=all

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 69 comments

Moving Remy in Harmony: Pixar's Use of Harmonic Functions

http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-harmonic

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 8 comments
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