top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-04-25

No Exit

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/no-exit/?hn

12 years ago

445 upvotes – 171 comments

Using Facebook Notes to DDoS any website

http://chr13.com/2014/04/20/using-facebook-notes-to-ddos-any-website/?

12 years ago

308 upvotes – 76 comments

SpaceX Successfully Soft-Landed Booster Rocket in the Atlantic

http://mashable.com/2014/04/25/elon-musk-spacex-booster-stage-atlantic/

12 years ago

306 upvotes – 136 comments

Today was the last day of Nokia as we knew it

http://kneeland.me/2014/04/24/the-end/

12 years ago

294 upvotes – 101 comments

How I wrote Game Programming Patterns

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/04/22/zero-to-95688-how-i-wrote-game-programming-patterns/

12 years ago

290 upvotes – 43 comments

Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL?

http://storagemojo.com/2014/04/25/amazons-glacier-secret-bdxl/

12 years ago

276 upvotes – 132 comments

Facebook's git repo is 54GB

https://twitter.com/feross/status/459259593630433280

12 years ago

251 upvotes – 231 comments

The worst year of my life

http://maban.co.uk/91/

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 257 comments

Porting the Go compiler from C to Go

http://gophercon.sourcegraph.com/post/83820197495/russ-cox-porting-the-go-compiler-from-c-to-go

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 93 comments

Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet

http://www.savetheinternet.com/sti-home

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 56 comments

Marvel Comics API

http://developer.marvel.com

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 62 comments

How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk

https://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/drink-night-without-getting-drunk-212500989.html

12 years ago

192 upvotes – 136 comments

Kowloon Walled City

http://projects.wsj.com/kwc

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 56 comments

PiPhone – A Raspberry-Pi-based Smartphone

http://www.raspberrypi.org/piphone-home-made-raspberry-pi-smartphone/

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 53 comments

TechCrunch covered Vic Gundotra's departure badly

http://mattcruikshank.blogspot.com/2014_04_01_archive.html

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 114 comments

HipChat Will Grant Employers Access To 1-to-1 Chat History

http://blog.hipchat.com/2014/04/25/hey-were-changing-our-terms-of-service/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 135 comments

Gobot – Go framework for robotics, physical computing, internet of things

http://gobot.io/

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 25 comments

What's left of NoSQL?

http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2013-04/whats-left-of-nosql/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 104 comments

RadiumOne CEO escapes felony charges

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/item/36623-radiumone-ceo-escapes/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 70 comments

Apple, Google to pay $324 million to settle conspiracy lawsuit

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/25/us-apple-google-lawsuit-exclusive-idUSBREA3N28Z20140425

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 102 comments

LyX 2.1.0 released

http://www.lyx.org/News

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 13 comments

Ludum Dare is about to start

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 27 comments

The Unexpected Entrepreneur: Interview with Joe Satriani

http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/the-unexpected-entrepreneur-an-exclusive-interview-with-joe-satriani.html

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 16 comments

Go Continuous Delivery is now open source

https://github.com/gocd/gocd/

12 years ago

★ 7.3k Java Apache-2.0
112 upvotes – 46 comments

SEO: 4 things huge sites are allowed to do but you’re not.

http://nenadseo.com/big-dogs/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 41 comments

A simple way Google could have avoided fucking up Google+

http://www.scottporad.com/2014/04/24/a-totally-simply-way-google-could-have-avoided-fing-up-google/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 114 comments

Using Vim as a writing environment

http://timotheepoisot.fr/2014/01/01/vim-writing-environment/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

Why we don't sell ads (2012)

http://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 76 comments

Comcast response to Netflix

http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/comcast-response-to-netflix

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 106 comments

What can men do?

http://blog.codinghorror.com/what-can-men-do/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 121 comments

The way we board airplanes

http://www.vox.com/2014/4/25/5647696/the-way-we-board-airplanes-makes-absolutely-no-sense

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 106 comments

A new CPU (2013)

http://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/44.php

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 13 comments

Eating Alone by Design: An Entire Restaurant With Tables for One

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-24/eating-alone-by-design-an-entire-restaurant-with-tables-for-one

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 62 comments

Character Encodings For Modern Programmers

http://blog.gatunka.com/2014/04/25/character-encodings-for-modern-programmers/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

Almost half of homeless men had traumatic brain injury in their lifetime

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140425104714.htm

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

Optimal Light Exposure for Rapidly Correcting Circadian Misalignment

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1003523

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

Obama pledges Net neutrality laws if elected president (2007)

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/obama-pledges-net-neutrality-laws-if-elected-president/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

In which I answer all of the questions (2012)

http://sarajchipps.com/post/55986333661/in-which-i-answer-all-of-the-questions

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 58 comments

New 3DS Emulator

http://gbatemp.net/threads/new-3ds-emulator.365154/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

Why USB sucks (2005)

http://www.technozeal.com/topic2.html

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 96 comments

Amazon’s Shrinking Profit Sets Off a Seismic Shock to Its Shares

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/business/amazons-shrinking-profit-sets-off-a-seismic-shock-to-its-shares.html?hp

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 59 comments

After months of delay, Soylent finally ships

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/04/after-months-of-delay-soylent-finally-ships/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 80 comments

Why is Kim Jong-un always surrounded by people taking notes?

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27116092

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 41 comments

How Facebook keeps getting more addictive

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/04/facebook_news_feed_edgerank_facebook_algorithms_facebook_machine_learning.single.html

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

Better JavaScript Promises

http://frederic.vanderessen.com/better-javascript-promises/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 41 comments

Irony is ruining our culture

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/13/david_foster_wallace_was_right_irony_is_ruining_our_culture/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 65 comments

Modifying Transcend WiFi SD Card Firmware

http://fernjager.net/post/modifying-transcend-wifi-sd-card-firmware/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

Codebabes.com | Learn Coding and Web Development the Fun Way

http://codebabes.com/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 64 comments

A fast, parallel backtracking algorithm for n-queens implemented in Rust

https://github.com/reem/rust-n-queens

12 years ago

★ 70 Rust
53 upvotes – 7 comments
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