top 50% 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

635 upvotes – 227 comments

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

584 upvotes – 275 comments

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

548 upvotes – 160 comments

Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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

12 years ago

403 upvotes – 166 comments

How Americans Die

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

12 years ago

378 upvotes – 141 comments

Another Big Milestone for Servo: Acid2

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

12 years ago

345 upvotes – 96 comments

An Update on HN Comments

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

12 years ago

339 upvotes – 262 comments

Quantum Entanglement Drives the Arrow of Time

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

12 years ago

319 upvotes – 145 comments

Go Performance Tales

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

12 years ago

296 upvotes – 41 comments

Ubuntu 14.04 released

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

12 years ago

279 upvotes – 126 comments

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

274 upvotes – 87 comments

Dropbox acquires Hackpad (YC W12)

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

12 years ago

257 upvotes – 149 comments

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

254 upvotes – 35 comments

I wish I could read Wikipedia like this

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

12 years ago

234 upvotes – 61 comments

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

232 upvotes – 88 comments

Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)

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

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 145 comments

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

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

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 49 comments

Boring Systems Build Badass Businesses

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

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 108 comments

Isotopic 256

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

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 36 comments

CSS Vocabulary

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

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 35 comments

QEMU 2.0.0 Released

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/267615

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 74 comments

How Can Yahoo Be Worth Less Than Zero?

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-17/how-can-yahoo-be-worth-less-than-zero

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 119 comments

The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.fr/2011/04/linux-security-circus-on-gui-isolation.html

12 years ago

148 upvotes – 68 comments

Plant Breeders Release First 'Open Source Seeds'

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/17/303772556/plant-breeders-release-first-open-source-seeds

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 44 comments

Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration

http://www.hashicorp.com/blog/consul.html

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 57 comments

Yahoo spends $58 million to fire its chief operating officer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/17/yahoo-spends-58-million-to-fire-its-chief-operating-officer/?tid=hp_mm

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 109 comments

Dropbox's Condoleezza Rice advocating for warrantless NSA surveillance

http://www.drop-dropbox.com/surveillance.html

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

Fear of Macros

http://www.greghendershott.com/fear-of-macros/index.html

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 30 comments

Tell HN: I will build you a working MVP for $2,345

http://prototypefor2345.com

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 86 comments

Why The Clock is Ticking for MongoDB

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2014/04/why-clock-is-ticking-for-mongodb.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 136 comments

Kendo UI Core

https://github.com/telerik/kendo-ui-core

12 years ago

★ 2.5k JavaScript
92 upvotes – 20 comments

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2014

http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.html

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

I, Pencil (1958)

http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Tic-tac-toe, with a multiplayer twist

https://tic-tac-tic-tac-toe.firebaseapp.com/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 45 comments

Bootstrapping 101 – How To Start Your Online Venture With Very Little Capital

https://www.imgrind.com/bootstrapping-101-start-online-venture-little-capital/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

The Heartbleed Aftermath: all CloudFlare certificates revoked and reissued

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-heartbleed-aftermath-all-cloudflare-certificates-revoked-and-reissued

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

The spectre haunting San Francisco

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/04/housing-markets

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 78 comments

It’s Time to Encrypt the Entire Internet

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/https/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 96 comments

A bit of XENIX history

http://seefigure1.com/2014/04/15/xenixtime.html

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Pourover and Tamper – Client-side superfast collection management from the NYT

https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-tamper-and-pourover/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

Innovation: The Government Was Crucial After All

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/apr/24/innovation-government-was-crucial-after-all/?insrc=hpss

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 89 comments

U.S. Agent Lures Romanian Hackers in Subway Data Heist

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-17/u-s-agent-lures-romanian-hackers-in-subway-data-heist.html

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

The Science of Scientific Writing

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.877,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 3 comments

When ‘Liking’ a Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/business/when-liking-a-brand-online-voids-the-right-to-sue.html?hp

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Scientists Make First Embryo Clones From Adults

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303626804579507593658361428

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 46 comments

Piston X86-64 Assembler working in web browser and Node.js

http://pasm.pis.to/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Suburbs Try to Prevent an Exodus as Young Adults Move to Cities and Stay

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/nyregion/suburbs-try-to-hold-onto-young-adults-as-exodus-to-cities-appears-to-grow.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 97 comments

The Developer is Dead, Long Live the Developer

http://www.paperplanes.de/2014/4/17/the-developer-is-dead.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

Soylent gets tested, scores a wholesome nutritional label

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/soylent-gets-tested-scores-a-surprisingly-wholesome-nutritional-label/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 64 comments

OpenSSL leaks RSA private key information into entropy subsystem

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=139773689013690&w=2

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments
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