top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-04-22

Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

http://projectnaptha.com/

12 years ago

1055 upvotes – 134 comments

The New Deal

http://blog.ycombinator.com/the-new-deal

12 years ago

625 upvotes – 178 comments

Parallax effect from Google Lens Blur photos

http://depthy.stamina.pl/

12 years ago

375 upvotes – 58 comments

My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player

http://andrewkelley.me/post/quest-build-ultimate-music-player.html

12 years ago

370 upvotes – 152 comments

Space Monkey dumps Python for Go

https://www.spacemonkey.com/blog/posts/go-space-monkey

12 years ago

338 upvotes – 204 comments

Forensic Ballistics: How Apollo 12 Helped Solve the Skydiver Meteorite Mystery

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2014/0419-forensic-ballistics.html

12 years ago

281 upvotes – 32 comments

GitLab – Open Source Git Management Software

https://www.gitlab.com/

12 years ago

281 upvotes – 111 comments

How to be a great software developer

http://peternixey.com/post/83510597580/how-to-be-a-great-software-developer

12 years ago

263 upvotes – 143 comments

LibreSSL

http://www.libressl.org/

12 years ago

254 upvotes – 255 comments

Goji: a web microframework for Go

https://goji.io/

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 86 comments

Debugging Asynchronous JavaScript with Chrome DevTools

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/async-call-stack/

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 48 comments

Vkontakte Founder Flees Russia

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/vkontakte-founder-flees-russia-claims-persecution/498715.html

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 102 comments

Nobody lives here: the 5 million US census blocks with zero population

http://mapsbynik.tumblr.com/post/82791188950/nobody-lives-here-the-nearly-5-million-census/

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 103 comments

The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/the-american-middle-class-is-no-longer-the-worlds-richest.html?smid=tw-upshotnyt&_r=1

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 196 comments

Chat Wars: Microsoft vs. AOL

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/

12 years ago

160 upvotes – 24 comments

Lytro Announces New Light Field Camera

https://www.lytro.com/#

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 112 comments

GCC 4.9.0 released

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-04/msg00195.html

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 28 comments

OS X Beta Seed Program

https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 76 comments

Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k

http://www.vox.com/2014/4/22/5640734/learning-to-code-boosted-incomes-to-72000

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 57 comments

The disappearing inventor

http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=14708

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 58 comments

Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/04/22/weebly-valued-at-455-million-amid-website-building-boom/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 89 comments

NPR open-sources Copytext, a library for handling spreadsheets as Python objects

http://copytext.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 12 comments

Redis 2.8.9 is out

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/redis-db/32VPw9X46Sg/GxHLzKeqRc0J

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

Lisp macros for C

https://github.com/eudoxia0/cmacro

12 years ago

★ 893 Common Lisp
116 upvotes – 72 comments

NIST removes Dual_EC_DRBG

http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/sp800-90-042114.cfm

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 22 comments

New generic top-level domains

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 123 comments

Falcon 9 first stage found, but probably not recoverable

http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/space-flight-missions/commercial-space-space-flight-missions/spacex/crs-3/spacex-president-shotwell-talks-recovery-efforts-recent-ribbon-cutting-ceremony/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

Security Update 2014-002

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6207?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 66 comments

Dept of Health and Human Services spends $146 per month per user for email [pdf]

http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/661829.pdf

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

Sorting Out the Law Behind Phil Ivey's Edge Sorting Debacle at Borgata

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2014/04/sorting-out-the-law-behind-phil-ivey-s-edge-sorting-debacle-18054.htm

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 45 comments

Isaac Asimov's predictions 50 years on

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27069716

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 70 comments

Amazon Sales Take a Hit in States With Online Tax

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-22/amazon-sales-take-a-hit-in-states-with-online-tax.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 80 comments

Ruby Tips, Part 5

http://globaldev.co.uk/2014/04/ruby-tips-part-5/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Web scraping with Factor

http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2014/04/scraping-re-factor.html

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Graphene made with kitchen blender

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27113732

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Google I/O Registration 2014

http://stancarney.co/2014/04/google-io-registration-2014/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 31 comments

The Quest for Randomness

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2014/3/the-quest-for-randomness

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 39 comments

Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots

http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarmming-languages-snapshots/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 38 comments

Please stop hashing passwords

http://blog.tjll.net/please-stop-hashing-passwords/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 95 comments

Dujiangyan irrigation system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Jiang_Yan_Irrigation_System

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Wait, WUT?

http://x.naveen.com/post/83436808746/wait-wut

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 43 comments

What you’d need to make in every county in the US to afford a decent one-bedroom

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/04/22/what-youd-need-to-make-in-every-county-in-america-to-afford-a-decent-one-bedroom/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 54 comments

HFT Quote Stuffing is a software bug

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/quote_stuffing_is_a_software_bug.html

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 63 comments

The Best Hires Are Right Under Your Nose

http://firstround.com/article/Mine-Your-Network-for-Early-Stage-Hiring-Gold

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 56 comments

Clang vs GCC benchmark on UnrealEngine3

https://plus.google.com/+RyanGordon/posts/4N6vPqaGjrV

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 39 comments
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