top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-04-07

The Heartbleed Bug

http://heartbleed.com/

12 years ago

1768 upvotes – 528 comments

Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source

http://alex.nisnevich.com/untrusted/

12 years ago

555 upvotes – 235 comments

Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue

http://comicneue.com/

12 years ago

521 upvotes – 157 comments

How Zidisha (YC W14) Is Misleading the Public About Its Interest Rates

http://modernmicrocredit.blogspot.com/2014/04/4-ways-that-zidisha-yc-w14-is.html

12 years ago

364 upvotes – 128 comments

Raspberry Pi Compute Module

http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-compute-module-new-product/

12 years ago

356 upvotes – 113 comments

Reasons Not To Raise Venture Capital

http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/five-reasons-not-to-raise-venture-capital

12 years ago

327 upvotes – 85 comments

Superhero.js – One stop for JS Knowledge

http://superherojs.com/

12 years ago

322 upvotes – 29 comments

OpenSSL Security Advisory: TLS heartbeat read overrun

http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt

12 years ago

297 upvotes – 85 comments

The Decline of the Mobile Web

http://www.cdixon.org/2014/04/07/the-decline-of-the-mobile-web/

12 years ago

266 upvotes – 202 comments

Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg87153.html

12 years ago

256 upvotes – 114 comments

Halide, a language for image processing and computational photography

http://halide-lang.org/?

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: An open-source, Raspberry-Pi-based Siri alternative

http://jasperproject.github.io/

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 81 comments

US burns through all high-skill visas for 2015 in less than a week

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/07/us-burns-through-all-high-skill-visas-for-2015-in-less-than-a-week/

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 197 comments

Oracle kills third-party JD Edwards reference website

http://jderef.com/

12 years ago

189 upvotes – 90 comments

S.F. cracks down on Airbnb rentals

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-cracks-down-on-Airbnb-rentals-5381237.php

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 260 comments

What Really Happened in that Double-Blind Violin Sound Test

http://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/20121/13039/

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 90 comments

Fourier series visualisation with D3.js

http://bl.ocks.org/jinroh/7524988

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 19 comments

Is Google crippling Firefox?

https://medium.com/p/cb9ad1292ea3

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 60 comments

R: the good parts

http://hackerretreat.com/r-good-parts/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 50 comments

Dead Man's Switch

http://deadmansswitch.org/

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 99 comments

The Fall of Hacker Groups

http://phrack.org/papers/fall_of_groups.html

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 62 comments

One reason we lack Internet competition: Starting an ISP is hard

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/04/one-big-reason-we-lack-internet-competition-starting-an-isp-is-really-hard/

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 56 comments

Why and How to Start Your SICP Trek

http://hackerretreat.com/why-how-start-sicp/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 60 comments

A dose of perspective

http://exposure.watsi.org/a-dose-of-perspective

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 38 comments

Don't design your own REST back end

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ÓlafurArason/posts/fCmaosPgmwN

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 75 comments

Cover is joining Twitter

http://blog.coverscreen.com/post/81998756366/cover-is-joining-twitter

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 73 comments

Internal Apple document: FY'14 Planning Offsite

http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/216526160?access_key=key-1uv8ibrvnzr4dnx0fu5c&allow_share=true&escape=false&view_mode=scroll

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 196 comments

Programming Languages are the Least Usable, but Most Powerful User Interfaces

http://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2014/03/25/programming-languages-are-the-least-usable-but-most-powerful-human-computer-interfaces-ever-invented/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 100 comments

Ethereum, Bitcoin’s most ambitious successor

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/7/code-your-own-utopiameetethereumbitcoinasmostambitioussuccessor.html

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 52 comments

Steve Jobs’ Itinerary for Apple's 2011 Top 100 Meeting

http://news.rapgenius.com/Steve-jobs-itinerary-for-apples-2011-top-100-meeting-annotated

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 40 comments

The Telephone Tower in Stockholm circa 1890s

http://www.vintag.es/2013/09/the-telephone-tower-in-stockholm-ca.html

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 20 comments

Skype TX

https://media.skype.com/skype-tx/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 52 comments

A Fervent Defense of Front-running HFTs

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

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 154 comments

Half-Life 1 engine based games

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife?utm_source=explore-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=explore-email

12 years ago

★ 4.2k C++
101 upvotes – 49 comments

BASIC at 50

http://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 64 comments

Dead Man's Snitch – Monitoring for Scheduled Tasks

https://deadmanssnitch.com/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 38 comments

A veteran programmer explains how the stock market became “rigged”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/04/04/a-veteran-programmer-explains-how-the-stock-market-became-rigged/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 120 comments

Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process

http://behindthescenesrecruiter.com/post/82005145232/the-single-most-sure-fire-hiring-decision-you-will-ever

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 88 comments

The Excuses for Purging Brendan Eich Are the Old Excuses for Firing Gays

http://www.slate.com/blogs/saletan/2014/04/07/brendan_eich_homophobia_and_corporate_values_the_left_is_the_new_moral_majority.html

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 101 comments

Why Bother With Cucumber Testing?

http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/09/26/why-bother-with-cucumber-testing.html

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 29 comments

The less Americans know about Ukraine’s location, the more they want ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/07/the-less-americans-know-about-ukraines-location-the-more-they-want-u-s-to-intervene/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 70 comments

Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/serious-reading-takes-a-hit-from-online-scanning-and-skimming-researchers-say/2014/04/06/088028d2-b5d2-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 45 comments

Facebook for Android and Why Zuckerberg now owns your ass

http://dannybrown.me/2014/04/04/facebook-for-android-and-why-zuckerberg-now-owns-your-ass

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 83 comments

Xbox One Will Be Able To Upload Game Recordings To YouTube

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/07/xbox-one-will-be-able-to-upload-game-recordings-straight-to-youtube-starting-tomorrow/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments

Alzheimer website slowly disappearing

http://i-remember.fr/en

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 29 comments

Dyn Decided To Stop Offering Free Accounts for Dynamic DNS

http://dyn.com/blog/why-we-decided-to-stop-offering-free-accounts/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: What's your greatest epiphany?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7545284

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 120 comments
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