top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-04-21

Results of the GitHub Investigation

https://github.com/blog/1823-results-of-the-github-investigation

12 years ago

Game Mechanic Explorer – examples for game mechanics, algorithms, and effects

http://gamemechanicexplorer.com

12 years ago

Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2014/04/21/farewell-github-hello-immersive-computing.html

12 years ago

Build Tools – Make, no more

http://hadihariri.com/2014/04/21/build-make-no-more/

12 years ago

The ticking time-bomb at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2013/11/baltic-sea

12 years ago

Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992)

http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

12 years ago

Microsoft OneDrive for Business modifies files as it syncs

http://www.myce.com/news/microsoft-onedrive-for-business-modifies-files-as-it-syncs-71168/

12 years ago

Is the Toilet Free?

http://madebymany.com/blog/is-the-toilet-free

12 years ago

Flynn: first preview release

https://flynn.io/#preview-release

12 years ago

The most expensive lottery ticket in the world

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/21/the-most-expensive-lottery-ticket-in-the-world/

12 years ago

How to Convert a Digital Watch to a Negative Display

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f43/how-convert-plain-dw-5600-negative-display-129102.html

12 years ago

LibGDX 1.0 released

http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=3412

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Everyone Deserves Great Design

http://www.everyonedeservesgreatdesign.com

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What every founder fears

https://medium.com/p/2fe173c44215

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Capital Man: Thomas Piketty is economics’ biggest sensation and fiercest critic

http://chronicle.com/article/Capital-Man/146059

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Iodine – tunneling IP over DNS

https://github.com/yarrick/iodine

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★ 7.8k C ISC

Scala 2.11.0 Release Notes

http://scala-lang.org/news/2014/04/21/release-notes-2.11.0.html

12 years ago

Elixir v0.13.0 released, hex.pm and ElixirConf announced

http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2014/04/21/elixir-v0-13-0-released/

12 years ago

Supreme Court to hear arguments on Aereo this week

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/aereo-case-goes-to-supreme-court/2014/04/21/50bbd1e8-c59d-11e3-9f37-7ce307c56815_story.html

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Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders

https://accredible.com/

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Home entertainment implementations are pretty appalling

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/31178.html

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Invitation for DNC reception with Obama at YC

http://www.scribd.com/doc/219461164/Obama-YC-invite

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Pied Piper

http://www.piedpiper.com/

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AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat Bluff

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATTs-Expansion-of-1-Gbps-to-100-Cities-is-a-Big-Fat-Bluff-128628

12 years ago

Let the Type System do the Work

http://javadocmd.com/blog/let-the-type-system-do-the-work/

12 years ago

Vegetative patient says 'I'm not in pain'

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-20268044

12 years ago

Most of the Amazon SES IP blacklisted by SpamCannibal

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=538207

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UPSERTisms in Postgres

http://johtopg.blogspot.se/2014/04/upsertisms-in-postgres.html

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Cubans trace roots to remote Sierra Leone village

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-25876023#TWEET1107434

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Accepted projects – Google Summer of Code 2014

https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2014

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Uproar over plan to dispose of Syrian chemical weapons in the Mediterranean

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/03/23/in-greece-uproar-over-plan-to-dispose-of-syrian-chemical-weapons-in-the-mediterranean/

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Chemical weapons dumped in the Baltic sea (2007) [pdf]

http://www.mir.gdynia.pl/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BST-NATO.pdf

12 years ago

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Class 13 Notes – You Are Not A Lottery Ticket (2012)

http://blakemasters.com/post/23435743973/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-13-notes-essay

12 years ago

Getting Lazy with C++

http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/04/21/getting-lazy-with-c/

12 years ago

Faster AngularJS Rendering with ReactJS

http://www.williambrownstreet.net/blog/2014/04/faster-angularjs-rendering-angularjs-and-reactjs/

12 years ago

Reddit downgrades technology community after censorship

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27100773

12 years ago

Fighting Cargo Cult – An Incomplete SSL/TLS Bookmark Collection

https://daniel.molkentin.net/2014/04/21/fighting-cargo-cult-the-incomplete-ssltls-bookmark-collection/

12 years ago

Set up your private Git hosting with Gogs

http://obahua.com/setup-your-private-git-hosting-with-gogs/

12 years ago

Functional Programming in JavaScript is Garbage

http://awardwinningfjords.com/2014/04/21/functional-programming-in-javascript-equals-garbage.html

12 years ago

In Silicon Valley Thriller, a Settlement May Preclude the Finale

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/business/in-silicon-valley-thriller-a-settlement-may-preclude-the-finale.html?hp

12 years ago

Ask HN: Is UML still relevant today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7624601

12 years ago

Reference Note on Russian Communications Surveillance

http://csis.org/publication/reference-note-russian-communications-surveillance

12 years ago

Facts conveniently withheld – The rest of the Julie Ann Horvath story

https://medium.com/p/d96f431f4e8e

12 years ago

When to Hold Out For a Lower Airfare

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-to-hold-out-for-a-lower-airfare/

12 years ago

Nokia phones to be renamed Microsoft Mobile

http://zeenews.india.com/business/news/technology/nokia-phones-to-be-renamed-microsoft-mobile_98151.html

12 years ago

Corn Ethanol Is Of No Use

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/04/20/its-final-corn-ethanol-is-of-no-use/?fb_action_ids=277355565775300&fb_action_types=news.publishes

12 years ago

Mobile-Payments Startup Square Discusses Possible Sale

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303825604579513882989476424-lMyQjAxMTA0MDIwMDEyNDAyWj

12 years ago

OpenBSD forks, prunes, fixes OpenSSL

http://www.zdnet.com/openbsd-forks-prunes-fixes-openssl-7000028613/

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