top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-04-06

Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/733754/visually-stunning-math-concepts-which-are-easy-to-explain

12 years ago

560 upvotes – 78 comments

Ask HN: Idea Sunday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601

12 years ago

369 upvotes – 567 comments

The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid

http://uncrunched.com/2014/04/06/the-hypocrisy-of-sam-yagan-okcupid/

12 years ago

347 upvotes – 288 comments

Flickr: Invitations disclosure (resend feature)

https://hackerone.com/reports/1533

12 years ago

317 upvotes – 90 comments

Progress Button Styles

http://tympanus.net/Development/ProgressButtonStyles/

12 years ago

287 upvotes – 52 comments

WebM support on 4chan

http://blog.4chan.org/post/81896300203/webm-support-on-4chan

12 years ago

229 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: Any hackers over 60? 70?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7540232

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 118 comments

Mailr: an open-source webmail client with Gmail-like conversations

http://pusto.org/en/mailr/

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 51 comments

Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer

http://startupboy.com/2014/04/01/the-fifth-protocol/?q=1

12 years ago

214 upvotes – 58 comments

Alan Kay's Reading List

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlanKaysReadingList

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 59 comments

This girl in SF stole my MacBook Air

http://www.ahryunmoon.com/blog/blog/2014/04/05/girl-macbook-air/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 205 comments

Man's high-tech paradise lost: bionic eye removed

http://www.thewhig.com/2012/11/28/mans-high-tech-paradise-lost

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 78 comments

Spaced Repitition

http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 67 comments

Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/mercedes-f1-turbo

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 98 comments

Spiped – symmetric, encrypted, authenticated pipes between sockets

http://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 86 comments

Speed memory access by arranging data to take advantage of CPU caching

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/data-locality.html#11

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 52 comments

The Fallacy of Android-First

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/06/the-fallacy-of-android-first/

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 86 comments

Virtual reality affects men and women differently

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/04/03/is-the-oculus-rift-sexist.html

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 103 comments

Miracle health device crowdfunds $730k, but might be bullshit

http://pando.com/2014/03/20/on-indiegogo-a-miracle-health-device-raises-730k-and-a-whole-load-of-red-flags/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 98 comments

A Story Of realloc (And Laziness)

http://blog.httrack.com/blog/2014/04/05/a-story-of-realloc-and-laziness/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 63 comments

Digital Ocean needs to start showing outages on their status page

https://medium.com/p/f9b57df6d938

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Siri, open the garage

http://delian.io/siri-open-the-garage

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 44 comments

Agony of an African programmer

http://www.iafrikan.com/2014/04/03/agony-of-an-african-programmer/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 132 comments

Google Now for Chrome

http://www.google.com/landing/now/#

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 100 comments

Why 'gallons per mile' is better than 'miles per gallon'

http://datagenetics.com/blog/april12014/index.html

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 121 comments

NoSQL Meets Bitcoin and Brings Down Two Exchanges

http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/04/06/another-one-bites-the-dust-flexcoin/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 68 comments

Hello JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (2012)

http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/12/hello-jit-world-joy-of-simple-jits.html

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 9 comments

Why is 1 GB equal to 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30?

https://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 76 comments

Anti-Tech Protesters Are Telling Kevin Rose’s Neighbors That He’s A “Parasite”

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/06/kevin-rose-protesters-parasite/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 89 comments

Note the commit hash

https://github.com/bradfitz/deadbeef

12 years ago

★ 111
86 upvotes – 29 comments

360 degree video with 6 GoPro cameras

http://www.jonasginter.de/360-grad-video-mit-6-gopro-kameras/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

The Power of Lua and Mixins

http://notmagi.me/the-power-of-lua-and-mixins/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

Static Web Apps – A Field Guide

http://www.staticapps.org/?hn

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 92 comments

My 7-Year Old Daughter’s First Programming Experience

http://dancali.io/blog/a-74-step-account-of-my-7-year-old-daughters-first-programming-experience

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 61 comments

Game of Thrones: why hasn’t Westeros had an industrial revolution?

https://theconversation.com/game-of-thrones-why-hasnt-westeros-had-an-industrial-revolution-25240

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 62 comments

Microsoft Is Suddenly a New Company. But Is It Too Late?

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/microsoft-new-company

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 88 comments

A Fuel-Efficient Big Rig From Walmart

http://www.wired.com/2014/03/walmart-big-rig/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 55 comments

Automation Alone Isn’t Killing Jobs

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/business/automation-alone-isnt-killing-jobs.html

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 115 comments

HTerm – The Graphical Terminal

http://41j.com/hterm/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

Peas: Ruby-based Docker PaaS

https://github.com/tombh/peas

12 years ago

★ 599 Ruby GPL-2.0
68 upvotes – 14 comments

Aroma: A game creation framework for Lua

http://leafo.net/aroma/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Mother Earth Mother Board (1996)

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

2048 in 3D

http://seenjs.io/demo-2048.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 51 comments
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