top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-04-27

Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656154

12 years ago

323 upvotes – 502 comments

The user is drunk (2013) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2CbbBLVaPk

12 years ago

297 upvotes – 59 comments

Freelancer.com is destroying my life

http://medium.com/p/3a2af69cf977

12 years ago

262 upvotes – 139 comments

Software of the Apollo guidance computer was hand-woven into rope core memory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P12r8DKHsak&t=20s

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 32 comments

FPV with Oculus Rift and a Quadcopter

https://github.com/Matsemann/oculus-fpv

12 years ago

★ 475 C++ Apache-2.0
234 upvotes – 60 comments

Go: Best Practices for Production Enviroments

http://peter.bourgon.org/go-in-production/

12 years ago

222 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: What is the most difficult tech/dev challenge you ever solved?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654392

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 173 comments

Some thoughts on Go and Erlang

http://blog.erlware.org/2014/04/27/some-thoughts-on-go-and-erlang/

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 143 comments

The TeX tuneup of 2014 [pdf]

http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb35-1/tb109knut.pdf

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 69 comments

“Mostly functional” programming does not work

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2611829

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 192 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656003

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 60 comments

Brazilians welcome genetically-modified mosquito to help fight dengue fever

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-04-25/brazilians-welcome-genetically-modified-mosquito-help-fight-dengue-fever

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 86 comments

Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ prototype, a Silk Road the FBI can't seize

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/darkmarket/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 83 comments

Classy: Cleaner class-based controllers for AngularJS

http://davej.github.io/angular-classy/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 57 comments

Syntax extensions and regular expressions for Rust

http://blog.burntsushi.net/rust-regex-syntax-extensions

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Idea Sunday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654771

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 172 comments

A new Django content management system

https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/

12 years ago

★ 20.3k Python BSD-3-Clause
115 upvotes – 39 comments

Software Checklist

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SoftwareChecklist.html?ColinsBlog

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 67 comments

GoLearn – Machine Learning in Go

http://www.sjwhitworth.com/machine-learning-in-go-using-golearn/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: Best Firefox phone to get?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7655450

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 47 comments

Exercise during pregnancy gives newborn brain development a head start

http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20131111-exercise-during-pregnancy-gives-newborn-brain-development-a-head-start.html

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 17 comments

Identify mystery text, win $1000

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/identify-mystery-text-win-1000/index.html

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 32 comments

Heartbleed and RSA private keys

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2014/04/25/heartbleed-and-rsa-private-keys/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 3 comments

An Erlang Postgres driver: refurbishing open source

http://journal.dedasys.com/2014/04/27/an-erlang-postgres-driver-refurbishing-open-source/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 4 comments

Getting Started, circa 1983

http://www.simonallardice.com/general/2014/03/17/first-computer.html

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

The Sorry State of Peer-to-Peer iOS-to-Android connectivity

http://blog.moritzhaarmann.de/blog/2014/04/27/sorry-state-of-p2p/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

The Story Behind Upcoming Film “Spacesuit” (2013)

http://www.thecredits.org/2013/09/bras-in-space-the-incredible-true-story-behind-upcoming-film-spacesuit/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

Why You Shouldn't Say It's Easy When Teaching

http://karissamck.com/blog/2014/04/26/why-you-shouldnt-say-its-easy-when-teaching/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 60 comments

There’s scant evidence that healthy foods prevent cancer or fatty foods cause it

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/256766501.html

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 60 comments

Muen Kernel: Trustworthy by Design – Correct By Construction

http://www.muen.sk/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Amazon's Stressed Out Culture Is Burning Out Employees

http://www.minyanville.com/sectors/technology/articles/AMZN-AAPL-WMT-GOOG-MSFT-Amazon/10/10/2013/id/52177

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 41 comments

BitBucket was down

http://status.bitbucket.org/?

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 52 comments

Data Scientist Interviews

http://www.datascienceweekly.org/blog/18-data-scientist-interviews-volume-1-april-2014

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 29 comments

CEO Gurbaskh Chahal Fired by RadiumOne Board

http://recode.net/2014/04/27/exclusive-ceo-gurbaskh-chahal-fired-by-radiumone-board/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 64 comments

Wikipedia Redesign Concept

http://wikipedia.gkvasnikov.com/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 47 comments

The Tower of David – Venezuela’s “vertical slum”

http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2014/04/02/the-tower-of-david-venezuelas-vertical-slum/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

SomaFM: "We need to raise $410 by the end of the day."

http://somafm.com/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Why I Don't Drink

http://www.neal.is/blogging/why-I-dont-drink

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 71 comments

Blendle – iTunes for journalism launches in the Netherlands

http://launch.blendle.nl/welkom/?lang=en

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 15 comments
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