top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-04-20

SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docked With The Space Station

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/04/20/spacex-dragon-successfully-docked-with-the-space-station/

12 years ago

445 upvotes – 71 comments

Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

http://www.getpostman.com/

12 years ago

429 upvotes – 140 comments

The Invention of the AeroPress

http://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-aeropress/

12 years ago

280 upvotes – 127 comments

Metacademy

http://www.metacademy.org/

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Idea Sunday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616910

12 years ago

249 upvotes – 507 comments

Did removing lead from petrol spark a decline in crime?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27067615

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 270 comments

Man compares his prosthetic hand to a 3D-printed one

http://www.3duniverse.org/2014/04/19/jose-delgado-jr-compares-his-new-3d-printed-hand-to-his-more-expensive-myoelectric-prosthesis/

12 years ago

200 upvotes – 54 comments

Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check

http://www.sodnpoo.com/posts.xml/spoofing_the_samsung_smart_tv_internet_check.xml

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 141 comments

“Don't fuck up the culture” – A letter to the Airbnb team

https://medium.com/p/597cde9ee9d4

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 148 comments

No, don't enable revocation checking

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/04/19/revchecking.html

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 155 comments

The Case for Formal Verification (2013)

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/14818

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 108 comments

H. G. Wells’ interview with Stalin (1934)

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/04/h-g-wells-it-seems-me-i-am-more-left-you-mr-stalin

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 137 comments

Bored people quit (2011)

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/bored-people-quit/

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 37 comments

Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk

http://torrentfreak.com/popcorn-time-devs-drop-like-flies-but-no-one-will-talk-140420/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 101 comments

Never Negotiate Your Freelance Rate

http://planscope.io/blog/never-negotiate-freelance-rate/

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 34 comments

Space Colony Art from the 1970s

http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArtHiRes/70sArt/art.html

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 57 comments

Rust for C++ programmers – part 2: control flow

http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.com/2014/04/rust-for-c-programmers-part-2-control.html

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 61 comments

JSZip: Create, read and edit .zip files with JavaScript

http://stuk.github.io/jszip/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 54 comments

Citizen Kubrick (2004)

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/mar/27/features.weekend

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 25 comments

Did Israel steal bomb-grade uranium from the United States?

http://thebulletin.org/did-israel-steal-bomb-grade-uranium-united-states7056

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 60 comments

One-bit Computing at 60 Hz

http://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/One-bit%20computer/One-bit%20computer.html

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 21 comments

The Convergence of Modern C++ on the Lisp Programming Style

https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/convergence-of-modern-cplusplus-and-lisp/

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 75 comments

Eavesdropping on a wireless keyboard (2013)

http://www.windytan.com/2013/03/eavesdropping-on-wireless-keyboard.html

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 16 comments

NYC Subway Data REST API

http://nycpulse.herokuapp.com/api

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

Hack Rifle

http://www.hscott.net/projects-2/hack-rifle/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 55 comments

Learn How to Contribute to the Linux Kernel: Take the Eudyptula Challenge

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/770112-learn-how-to-contribute-to-the-linux-kernel-take-the-eudyptula-challenge

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 31 comments

One Man's Quest to Make Business Travel a Lot Less Awful

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2014/04/inside-quest-make-business-travel-lot-less-awful/8870/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

Math topics useful for computer science/programming

http://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/1734/what-should-be-included-in-a-freshman-mathematics-for-computer-programmers-cou/1745#1745

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 65 comments

Nuclear plants release less radiation into environment than coal plants (2007)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 53 comments

CSS 3D Solar System

http://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/idhuG

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

When the Internet dies, meet the meshnet that survives

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229653.700-when-the-internet-dies-meet-the-meshnet-that-survives.html#.U1OUR8etvy8

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04

http://www.zdnet.com/hands-on-with-ubuntu-14-04-the-best-ubuntu-desktop-ever-7000028578/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 88 comments

Fine grain Cross-VM Attacks on Xen and VMware are possible

http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/248

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 23 comments

Honda’s Dancing Humanoid Robot

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/honda-asimo/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

Powdered Alcohol

http://www.bevlaw.com/bevlog/alcohol-beverages-generally/powdered-alcohol

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments
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