top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-02

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170

12 years ago

559 upvotes – 365 comments

It's Different for Girls

http://heidiroizen.tumblr.com/post/84530650750/its-different-for-girls

12 years ago

427 upvotes – 379 comments

How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch

http://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-original-apple-fr-1570573636/all

12 years ago

351 upvotes – 97 comments

A new book compiles knowledge necessary for society to recover after disaster

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rebooting-civilization-survivorse28099-how-to-guide-for-restoring-technology-after-the-apocalypse-excerpt/

12 years ago

280 upvotes – 133 comments

Global heatmap of cycling and running routes

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#2/-72.60058/23.12465/gray/both

12 years ago

258 upvotes – 139 comments

Headphones and Earphones Benchmarking Test Files

http://www.audiocheck.net/soundtests_headphones.php

12 years ago

247 upvotes – 137 comments

Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension for privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/privacy-badger

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 125 comments

With IPO Hopes Fading, Square and Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/02/with-ipo-hopes-fading-square-and-box-face-reality-of-commodity-products/

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 108 comments

Hamming, "You and Your Research" (1995) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw

12 years ago

194 upvotes – 25 comments

Here’s my favorite operating systems war story, what’s yours?

http://blog.valerieaurora.org/2013/12/17/heres-my-favorite-operating-systems-war-story-whats-yours/

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 24 comments

Common LibreSSL porting mistakes

http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2014/04/common-libressl-porting-mistakes.html

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 66 comments

‘Solar’ jet fuel made out of air

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/05/solar-jet-fuel-made-out-thin-air

12 years ago

173 upvotes – 123 comments

Thinking in Types

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/thinking-in-types

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 118 comments

Washington state sues Kickstarted game creator who failed to deliver

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/216887/Washington_sues_Kickstarted_game_creator_who_failed_to_deliver.php

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 77 comments

We Aren’t the World (2013)

http://www.psmag.com/magazines/magazine-feature-story-magazines/joe-henrich-weird-ultimatum-game-shaking-up-psychology-economics-53135/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 81 comments

The Illusion of Life: Disney's principles of animation

http://the12principles.tumblr.com/

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 31 comments

Is it Pokémon or big data technology?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kckcq_uv8dk9-W5rIdtqRwCHN4Uh209ELPUjTEZJDxc/viewform

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 37 comments

Snowden: Why hasn’t DNI Clapper been punished for lying to Congress?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/snowden-why-hasnt-the-director-of-national-intelligence-been-punished-for-lying-to-congress/2014/05/01/4f4aaa2d-fc94-4eee-9782-0b2566b4b4a1_story.html

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 113 comments

When Sued Don't Tweet

http://jacquesmattheij.com/when-sued-dont-tweet

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 115 comments

‘~’ is being removed from Rust

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/59

12 years ago

★ 6.4k Markdown Apache-2.0
126 upvotes – 115 comments

Value Types for Java – A sketch of proposed enhancements

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/values-0.html

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 98 comments

How to tell when someone is lying?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/mariakonnikova/2014/04/how-to-tell-when-someone-is-lying.html

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 97 comments

OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Redirect Vulnerability

http://tetraph.com/covert_redirect/oauth2_openid_covert_redirect.html

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 56 comments

Map Reduce: A simple introduction (2010)

http://ksat.me/map-reduce-a-really-simple-introduction-kloudo/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 36 comments

The bug that hides from breakpoints

http://drewdevault.com/2014/02/02/The-worst-bugs.html

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 28 comments

It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/hospital-equipment-vulnerable/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 63 comments

Make Your Own Grid Paper

http://gridzzly.com/#t

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 38 comments

What Programming is Like

http://blog.samstokes.co.uk/blog/2014/05/01/what-programming-is-like/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 38 comments

Elon Musk Wants SpaceX to Replace Russia as NASA's Space Station Transport

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-30/elon-musk-wants-spacex-to-replace-russia-as-nasas-space-station-transport#r=read

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 57 comments

Ask HN: Best current Linux-compatible laptop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7684775

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 120 comments

Elm 0.12.1: Fast immutable arrays

http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/0.12.1.elm

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Lulzlabs AirChat: Free Communications For Everyone.

https://github.com/lulzlabs/AirChat

12 years ago

★ 1k Perl
86 upvotes – 62 comments

Working simultaneously vs. waiting simultaneously

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/working-simultaneously-vs-waiting-simultaneously.html

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: HTML5 Game of Life in 24-bit RGB

http://rgb.0-z-0.com

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

NASA code from years of projects

https://github.com/nasa

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Why Events Are A Bad Idea For High-Concurrency Servers (2003)

http://static.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/vonbehren/vonbehren_html/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

Steve Ballmer Now Owns More Microsoft Stock Than Bill Gates

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/02/steve-ballmer-now-owns-more-microsoft-stock-than-bill-gates/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Stash, an evernote for command line

http://trystash.com

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

Coping with the TCP TIME-WAIT state on busy Linux servers

http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2014-tcp-time-wait-state-linux.html

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

What do conductors do?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/10782663/What-do-conductors-do.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

Jepsen: Testing Partition Tolerance of PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Riak (2013)

http://www.infoq.com/articles/jepsen

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

IN/MSX: Running 4 Copies of an Operating System at Once (2008)

http://jeff-barr.com/2008/01/08/inmsx-running-4-copies-of-an-operating-system-at-once/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Is CSS Turing Complete?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497146/is-css-turing-complete

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 40 comments

Uptalk is becoming more frequent among men

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25232387

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 47 comments

SpaceX wins injunction to stop USAF buying Russian rocket engines

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/01/us-spacex-unitedlaunchalliance-idUSKBN0DH2G420140501

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments
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