top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-01

Burying the URL

http://www.allenpike.com/2014/burying-the-url/

12 years ago

553 upvotes – 368 comments

An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/01/modern-java/

12 years ago

553 upvotes – 396 comments

The slow death of purposeless walking

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27186709

12 years ago

353 upvotes – 183 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679431

12 years ago

336 upvotes – 491 comments

Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/apple-facebook-others-defy-authorities-increasingly-notify-users-of-secret-data-demands-after-snowden-revelations/2014/05/01/b41539c6-cfd1-11e3-b812-0c92213941f4_story.html?hpid=z1

12 years ago

324 upvotes – 82 comments

The cost of Linux's page fault handling

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/YDKRFDwHwr6

12 years ago

260 upvotes – 128 comments

One YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/may/01/truth-youtube-mysterious-videos-webdriver-torso

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 106 comments

The New Aaron Swartz Documentary Looks Powerful. Here's the Trailer

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/29/_the_internet_s_own_boy_about_aaron_swartz_is_a_kickstarter_funded_documentary.html

12 years ago

232 upvotes – 57 comments

How a Florida kid’s “stupid app” saved his family’s home

http://pando.com/2014/04/30/how-a-florida-kids-stupid-app-saved-his-familys-home-and-landed-him-on-the-main-stage-of-facebooks-f8/

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 90 comments

My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal

http://time.com/83200/privacy-internet-big-data-opt-out/

12 years ago

200 upvotes – 175 comments

Our YC Interviews

http://alchemist.svbtle.com/our-yc-interviews

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 73 comments

Gimli Glider

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

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 80 comments

Let's Write Some x86-64

http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2014/04/18/lets-write-some-x86-64/

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 44 comments

John Carmack's former employer claims he stole tech for Oculus VR when he left

http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/01/zenimax-claims-oculus-stole/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 87 comments

Random JSON data generator

http://www.json-generator.com

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 29 comments

The Launch of the Mayday Citizens' SuperPAC

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/84419344732/the-launch-of-the-mayday-citizens-superpac

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 97 comments

Hugelkultur: the ultimate raised garden beds

http://www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679422

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 158 comments

Python for Finance

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JZMZ1NK/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 61 comments

Putting the Chat into Snapchat

http://blog.snapchat.com/post/84407744185/putting-the-chat-into-snapchat

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: Can we do a "Who's looking for work?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682189

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 61 comments

Linux file write patterns: So you want to write to a file fast

http://blog.plenz.com/2014-04/so-you-want-to-write-to-a-file-real-fast.html

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 50 comments

Buttons – A button library built with Sass and Compass

http://alexwolfe.github.io/Buttons/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 30 comments

Comparing Ember and Angular

http://www.benlesh.com/2014/04/embular-part-1-comparing-ember-and.html?spref=tw

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 84 comments

SpaceX granted injunction in rocket launch suit against Lockheed-Boeing

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/elon-musks-spacex-granted-injunction-in-rocket-launch-suit-against-lockheed-boeing/2014/04/30/4b028f7c-d0cd-11e3-937f-d3026234b51c_story.html

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 76 comments

Web Framework Benchmarks Round 9

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 68 comments

Interactively Programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript

http://rigsomelight.com/2014/05/01/interactive-programming-flappy-bird-clojurescript.html

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 42 comments

OpenBSD 5.5 Released

http://www.openbsd.org/55.html?hn

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 62 comments

Swarm: Foursquare's ambitious plan to split its app in two

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/1/5666062/foursquare-swarm-new-app

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 42 comments

Null pointer dereference – new security bug for OpenSSL

http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.5/common/005_openssl.patch.sig

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 29 comments

Golygons and golyhedra

http://cp4space.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/golygons-and-golyhedra

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 5 comments

The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)

http://www.pacifict.com/Story/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

The mmap pattern

http://john.freml.in/mmap-pattern

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 46 comments

ECMAScript 6 support in Mozilla

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/ECMAScript_6_support_in_Mozilla

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 47 comments

Consul 0.2 UI Demo

http://demo.consul.io/ui/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 16 comments

Graphene is likely to cause negative environmental impacts if spilled

http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/22044

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

Avocode – preview and inspect PSD without Photoshop

http://avocode.com/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Julia Impressions

http://eyeballtrees.com/posts/julia-impressions.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

Here’s the Agreement Oculus Broke, According to ZeniMax

http://recode.net/2014/05/01/heres-the-agreement-oculus-allegedly-broke-according-to-zenimax/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 66 comments

The reality show: Schizophrenics used to see demons and spirits (2013)

http://aeon.co/magazine/altered-states/how-reality-caught-up-with-paranoid-delusions/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 62 comments

Alibaba I.P.O. May Unleash Global Fight Over Users

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/technology/after-alibaba-ipo-us-web-giants-may-stop-ignoring-chinese-rivals.html

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

Al Feldstein, the Soul of Mad Magazine, Dies at 88

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/business/media/soul-of-mad-magazine-al-feldstein-dies-at-88.html?_r=0

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Fractals for Fun and Profit

http://gideon.smdng.nl/2014/04/fractals-for-fun-and-profit/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 7 comments

Snabb Switch: Open source packet processing for ISPs

https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch

12 years ago

★ 3k Lua Apache-2.0
66 upvotes – 0 comments

Groundbreaking drone coverage of tornado damage piques ire of FAA

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/0430/Groundbreaking-drone-coverage-of-tornado-damage-piques-ire-of-FAA-video

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 57 comments

Corrupting the ARM Exception Vector Table

http://doar-e.github.io/blog/2014/04/30/corrupting-arm-evt/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

Simpson's Paradox is Back

http://matloff.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/simpsons-paradox-is-back/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

Yahoo ends support of “Do Not Track”

http://yahoopolicy.tumblr.com/post/84363620568/yahoos-default-a-personalized-experience/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 53 comments

Satellite Radio

http://dolske.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/satellite-radio/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 3 comments

Introduction to Markov Processes

http://austingwalters.com/introduction-to-markov-processes/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Hackers Can Mess With Traffic Lights to Jam Roads and Reroute Cars

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/traffic-lights-hacking

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 28 comments
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