top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-04-18

New axe design uses lever action to make splitting wood easier

http://www.vipukirves.fi/english/description.htm

12 years ago

579 upvotes – 155 comments

Employee Equity

http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity

12 years ago

510 upvotes – 333 comments

Ask HN: Your favorite YouTube channels?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609584

12 years ago

328 upvotes – 128 comments

SpaceX CRS-3 Mission

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?Mission=CRS3

12 years ago

288 upvotes – 122 comments

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

12 years ago

271 upvotes – 160 comments

How to exploit home routers for anonymity

http://danmcinerney.org/how-to-exploit-home-routers-for-anonymity/

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 78 comments

HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

https://habitrpg.com/static/front

12 years ago

174 upvotes – 49 comments

MorpHex, a hexapod robot

http://zentasrobots.com/2014/04/17/outdoor-footage-of-morphex-and-a-servo-failure/

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 18 comments

Why isn’t New Zealand richer and more productive?

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/04/why-isnt-new-zealand-richer-and-more-productive.html

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 163 comments

Airbnb closes $500M round of funding at a $10B valuation, led By TPG

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/18/airbnb-has-closed-its-500m-round-of-funding-at-a-10b-valuation-led-by-tpg/?ncid=rss

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 102 comments

Crate.io – Big Data SQL in real time

https://crate.io

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 77 comments

You Don't Read Code, You Explore It

http://prog21.dadgum.com/194.html

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 56 comments

A powerful, precise language aptitude test is entering civilian life

http://nautil.us/issue/12/feedback/secret-military-test-coming-soon-to-your-spanish-class

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 60 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

http://www.bottomupcs.com

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 44 comments

Joel Sposky's Take On Equity Allocation In A New Software Startup (2011)

http://money.stackexchange.com/a/26370/2250

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 65 comments

Ripple.js – A tiny foundation for building reactive views

http://ripplejs.github.io/

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 26 comments

Processed foods that dilute protein content subvert our appetite control systems

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v508/n7496_supp/full/508S66a.html

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 68 comments

How Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are rushing to cash in on cannabis

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/high-tech/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 73 comments

Growing-ups

http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/emerging-adults-need-time-to-grow-up/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 78 comments

Uber adds $1 “Safe Rides Fee” to UberX rides for background checks, insurance

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/04/18/uber-adds-vague-1-safe-rides-fee-uberx-rides/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 85 comments

This May Hurt a Bit: Harvard medical student's blog

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/this-may-hurt-a-bit/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

Linux /dev/urandom and concurrency

http://drsnyder.us/2014/04/16/linux-dev-urandom-and-concurrency.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 78 comments

Posical, the Positivist Calendar for Python

http://blog.zdsmith.com/posical-the-positivist-calendar-for-python.html

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 74 comments

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 and 808 Processors

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7925/qualcomms-snapdragon-808810-20nm-highend-64bit-socs-with-lte-category-67-support-in-2015

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Ex-Intuit Engineer Building Free Income Tax Software. Join as cofounder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7611878

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 61 comments

Whither print.css? A Rallying Cry for a Web That’s Fit to Print (2013)

http://www.modrenman.com/2013/04/28/print-css/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 65 comments

Scientists Find an ‘Earth Twin,’ or Perhaps a Cousin

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/science/space/scientists-find-an-earth-twin-or-maybe-a-cousin.html?hp&_r=0

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 56 comments

WebCL – Heterogeneous parallel computing in HTML5 web browsers

https://www.khronos.org/webcl/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

Rust for C++ programmers – part 1: Hello world

http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.co.nz/2014/04/rust-for-c-programmers-part-1-hello.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 41 comments

Unity 5 Feature Preview [video]

http://unity3d.com/5

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 45 comments

Why can’t America get the sidewalk café right?

http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article04171401.aspx

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 77 comments

A dirt cheap “spectrum analyzer” with an RTL-SDR dongle

http://hansvi.be/wordpress/?p=91

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: What encryption algorithms should we take as compromised?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7608695

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 48 comments

Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

http://raindrop.io?lang=en

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 67 comments

C++14 and SDL2: Managing Resources

http://ericscottbarr.com/blog/2014/04/c-plus-plus-14-and-sdl2-managing-resources/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69 (1981)

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3196/the-art-of-fiction-no-69-gabriel-garcia-marquez

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 2 comments
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