top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-04-19

Stock Photos That Don’t Suck

https://medium.com/design-ux/62ae4bcbe01b

12 years ago

568 upvotes – 67 comments

The Government is Silencing Twitter and Yahoo, and It Won't Tell Us Why

https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security-free-speech/government-silencing-twitter-and-yahoo-and

12 years ago

286 upvotes – 91 comments

Greed and the Wright Brothers

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/opinion/nocera-greed-and-the-wright-brothers.html

12 years ago

201 upvotes – 90 comments

OpenWorm: A Digital Organism In Your Browser

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openworm/openworm-a-digital-organism-in-your-browser

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 47 comments

Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware

http://www.cnet.com/news/nike-fires-fuelband-engineers-will-stop-making-wearable-hardware/

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 83 comments

Delphi – why won't it die? (2013)

http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/2013/05/delphi-why-wont-it-just-die.html

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 162 comments

Update on Linksys WRT1900AC support for OpenWRT

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=230686#p230686

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 53 comments

The Collison brothers and $1.75B online payments startup Stripe

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/9c8d9f7c-c000-11e3-9513-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2zLRSJUsg

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 26 comments

The limits of "unlimited" vacation

http://jacobian.org/writing/unlimited-vacation/

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 102 comments

Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform

https://github.com/facebook/phabricator

12 years ago

★ 12.3k PHP Apache-2.0
120 upvotes – 49 comments

Chrome users oblivious to Heartbleed revocation tsunami

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/04/18/chrome-users-oblivious-to-heartbleed-revocation-tsunami.html

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 59 comments

Bitcoin 2.0: Unleash The Sidechains

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/19/bitcoin-2-0-unleash-the-sidechains/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 27 comments

All software sucks

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 138 comments

Levinux – A Tiny Version of Linux for Education

http://mikelev.in/ux/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

Screenshot Saturday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7614742

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 129 comments

Obama to hit Y Combinator headquarters in Mountain View on May 8

http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2014/04/18/new-obama-to-hit-y-combinator-headquarters-in-mt-view-on-may-8/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 76 comments

Printoo: Paper-Thin, Flexible Arduino-Compatible modules

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1030661323/printoo-paper-thin-flexible-arduinotm-compatible-m

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

Introduction to MIPS assembly language (2007)

http://chortle.ccsu.edu/AssemblyTutorial/index.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 48 comments

Taking e-mail back, part 4: The finale, with webmail and everything after

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/taking-e-mail-back-part-4-the-finale-with-webmail-everything-after/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

Mavericks as an iBeacon

http://www.blendedcocoa.com/blog/2013/11/02/mavericks-as-an-ibeacon/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 5 comments

'I have lived underwater'

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140411-i-have-lived-underwater

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Reactive UIs with React and Bacon

http://joshbassett.info/2014/reactive-uis-with-react-and-bacon/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 55 comments

Intercooler.js – A JavaScript-optional Ajax library

http://intercoolerjs.org

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 17 comments

Is F# Ready for Production?

http://blog.dantup.com/2014/04/is-fsharp-ready-for-production/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 47 comments

Comparison of different concurrency models: Actors, CSP, Disruptor and Threads

http://java-is-the-new-c.blogspot.com/2014/01/comparision-of-different-concurrency.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

EcoVent: Make every room in your home the right temperature [video]

http://get.ecoventsystems.com/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Try Scala in your browser

http://scalatutorials.com/tour/interactive_tour_of_scala_scalculator.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

Don’t Add Features to Make Customers Happy (2011)

http://zurb.com/article/561/don-t-add-features-to-make-customers-happ

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

HMRC 'plans to share tax data with private firms'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27086401

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 49 comments

Autocomplete of entire Linux kernel using Redis's new ZRANGEBYLEX

http://autocomplete.redis.io/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Cloudy Snake Oil

https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/04/cloudy_snake_oil/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments

Fairy tales in password hashing with scrypt

http://vnhacker.blogspot.com/2014/04/fairy-tales-in-password-hashing-with.html

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments
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