top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-04-17

The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

12 years ago

The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

https://blog.linode.com/2014/04/17/linode-cloud-ssds-double-ram-much-more/

12 years ago

Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/books/gabriel-garcia-marquez-literary-pioneer-dies-at-87.html?_r=0&assetType=nyt_now&gwh=570AEB18E30D9E2DEB245EFDC150909D&gwt=regi&assetType=nyt_now

12 years ago

Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602237

12 years ago

How Americans Die

http://www.bloomberg.com/dataview/2014-04-17/how-americans-die.html

12 years ago

Another Big Milestone for Servo: Acid2

https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/04/17/another-big-milestone-for-servo-acid2/

12 years ago

An Update on HN Comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605973

12 years ago

Quantum Entanglement Drives the Arrow of Time

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140416-times-arrow-traced-to-quantum-source/

12 years ago

Go Performance Tales

http://jmoiron.net/blog/go-performance-tales/

12 years ago

Ubuntu 14.04 released

http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/

12 years ago

Seznam, a Czech search company, previews 3D maps

http://beta.mapy.cz/3d?x=16.6012046&y=49.1933802&z=13&source=m3d&3dx=16.6012046&3dy=49.1933802

12 years ago

Dropbox acquires Hackpad (YC W12)

https://hackpad.com/Hackpad-is-teaming-up-with-Dropbox-m1Fne5A6Lzn

12 years ago

British Pathé Puts Over 85,000 Historical Films on YouTube

http://www.openculture.com/2014/04/free-british-pathe-puts-over-85000-historical-films-on-youtube.html

12 years ago

I wish I could read Wikipedia like this

http://blog.assaflavie.com/wikipedia/

12 years ago

The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_tower_design_flaw_that_could_have_wiped_out_the_skyscraper.html

12 years ago

Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)

https://blog.loom.com/loom-is-joining-dropbox-2/

12 years ago

PourOver: A library for simple, fast filtering and sorting in the browser

http://nytimes.github.io/pourover/

12 years ago

Boring Systems Build Badass Businesses

https://devopsu.com/blog/boring-systems-build-badass-businesses/

12 years ago

Isotopic 256

http://jamesdonnelly.github.io/Isotopic256/

12 years ago

CSS Vocabulary

http://pumpula.net/p/apps/css-vocabulary/

12 years ago