top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-04-29

Firefox 29

http://www.firefox.com

12 years ago

603 upvotes – 503 comments

Google AdSense leak?

http://pastebin.com/qh6Tta3h

12 years ago

425 upvotes – 162 comments

A Motion-Sensing Keyboard

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/typehoverswipe/

12 years ago

406 upvotes – 135 comments

Vagrant Feature Preview: Docker-Based Development Environments

http://www.vagrantup.com/blog/feature-preview-vagrant-1-6-docker-dev-environments.html

12 years ago

329 upvotes – 59 comments

Announcing the MIT Bitcoin Project

http://bitcoin.mit.edu/announcing-the-mit-bitcoin-project/

12 years ago

328 upvotes – 139 comments

Programming Sucks

http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

12 years ago

314 upvotes – 37 comments

Cakebrew: The Mac App for Homebrew

http://www.cakebrew.com/

12 years ago

308 upvotes – 144 comments

Show HN: Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3,500 for prototypes

http://betatype.io

12 years ago

285 upvotes – 142 comments

Outbox vs. USPS: How the Post Office Killed Digital Mail

http://www.insidesources.com/outbox-vs-usps-how-the-post-office-killed-digital-mail/

12 years ago

275 upvotes – 161 comments

Stanford study finds walking improves creativity

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/walking-vs-sitting-042414.html?hn

12 years ago

249 upvotes – 89 comments

Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming

http://www.donotlick.com/firefox-and-flux-a-new-beautiful-browser-is-coming/

12 years ago

246 upvotes – 288 comments

Test-induced design damage

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/test-induced-design-damage.html

12 years ago

243 upvotes – 155 comments

Tails 1.0 is out

https://tails.boum.org/news/version_1.0/index.en.html

12 years ago

241 upvotes – 39 comments

Divide Your Rent Fairly

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/science/rent-division-calculator.html?_r=0

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 111 comments

What's New in Mercurial 3.0

http://hglabhq.com/blog/2014/4/29/what-s-new-in-mercurial-3-0

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 116 comments

Show HN: Turn sketches on paper into app prototypes

https://marvelapp.com/iphone/

12 years ago

222 upvotes – 74 comments

The Longest Conveyor Belt

http://www.conveyorbeltguide.com/LongestBelt.html

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 70 comments

Exec($_GET

https://github.com/search?q=exec%28%24_GET&ref=cmdform&type=Code

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 122 comments

Google's POWER8 server motherboard

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111282580643669107165/posts/Uwh9W3XiZTQ

12 years ago

196 upvotes – 145 comments

What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are? (2004)

http://newyorker.com/archive/2004/12/06/041206fa_fact?currentPage=all

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 53 comments

The Control Group Is Out of Control

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control/

12 years ago

179 upvotes – 74 comments

Joystick-like Input Method for Smartwatches

http://www.gierad.com/projects/smartwatch5dof/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 32 comments

Baremetrics for Buffer

https://buffer.baremetrics.io/dashboard

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 53 comments

Become a better programmer with programming challenges

http://macgyverdev.blogspot.com/2014/04/become-better-programmer-with.html

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 47 comments

Google Cloud DNS

https://developers.google.com/cloud-dns/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 79 comments

Why you might not need MVC with React.js

http://www.code-experience.com/why-you-might-not-need-mvc-with-reactjs/

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 80 comments

Mathematicians trace source of Rogers-Ramanujan identities, find algebraic gold

http://phys.org/news/2014-04-mathematicians-source-rogers-ramanujan-identities-algebraic.html

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 46 comments

Square Pickup

https://squareup.com/pickup

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 42 comments

Android betrays tethering data

http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 103 comments

RIP TDD

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/rip-tdd/750840194948847

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 91 comments

Rust for C++ programmers – part 4: unique pointers

http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.com/2014/04/rust-for-c-programmers-part-4-unique.html?m=1

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 96 comments

The origin of “log in” (2011)

http://www.designcult.org/2011/08/why-do-we-call-in-logging-in.html

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 61 comments

Google acknowledges XKCD #1361

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7664031

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 40 comments

Introducing the new PHP on Heroku

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/4/29/introducing_the_new_php_on_heroku

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 87 comments

A new study reveals that men are often the victims of sexual assault

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/04/male_rape_in_america_a_new_study_reveals_that_men_are_sexually_assaulted.html

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 64 comments

Go, robots and refactoring

http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2014/04/28/refactoring-go-code/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

An interactive explanation of quadtrees

http://jimkang.com/quadtreevis/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 19 comments

How Should You Write a Fast Integer Overflow Check?

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1139

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 47 comments

Circle of fifths and roots of two

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/09/30/perfect-fifths-equal-temperament/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 71 comments

Matt Blaze: My life as an international arms courier (1995)

http://www.crypto.com/papers/export.txt

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 22 comments

The Nix project – Atomic upgrades, rollbacks and multi-user package management

http://nixos.org/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 34 comments

2048 in Idris

https://github.com/KesterTong/idris2048/

12 years ago

★ 124 Idris BSD-3-Clause
84 upvotes – 11 comments

CSS vs. JS Animation: Which is Faster?

http://davidwalsh.name/css-js-animation

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

The Avail Programming Language

http://availlang.org/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: A socially curated startup job board

http://startupjob.org

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 42 comments

Fifty Years of BASIC

http://time.com/69316/basic/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 63 comments

Visualize any public CSV on GitHub in a few clicks

http://blog.statwing.com/visualize-any-public-csv-on-github-in-a-few-clicks/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

Let’s Keep the Internet Dumb

http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/84124784954/lets-keep-the-internet-dumb

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 58 comments

Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality

http://blog.hut8labs.com/speeding-up-your-eng-org-part-i.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

The strange truth about fiction

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/the-strange-truth-about-fiction/10152215561458859

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

Why Americans Are Moving Less: New Jobs Aren't Worth It

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2014/04/why-americans-are-moving-less-new-jobs-arent-worth-it/8973/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

On the future of Web publishing in Unity

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/04/29/on-the-future-of-web-publishing-in-unity/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game

http://lemonstartup.com

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 33 comments

Hacker taps into baby monitor, shouts at sleeping infant

http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2014/04/29/hacker-taps-into-baby-monitor-shouts-at-sleeping-infant/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 56 comments
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