top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-03

Programming Is a Dead End Job

http://thecodist.com/article/programming_is_a_dead_end_job

12 years ago

299 upvotes – 183 comments

Why I won’t work for Google

http://qnrq.se/why-i-wont-work-for-google/

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 216 comments

SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9248070/SanDisk_announces_4TB_SSD_hopes_for_8TB_next_year

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 148 comments

GitHub monoculture

http://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201405/github_monoculture.html

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 104 comments

Shit HN Says

https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 56 comments

Does Google Have A Secret “Translate” Service?

http://searchengineland.com/secret-google-translate-service-relevant-search-marketers-182434

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 52 comments

Truthcoin: Trustless, Decentralized Bitcoin Prediction Marketplace

https://github.com/psztorc/Truthcoin

12 years ago

★ 383 HTML MIT
140 upvotes – 60 comments

Working on The Witness: The Nebraska Problem

http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0015.html

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 19 comments

Stranger in a Strange Land: “Big Data” programmer meets HPC community

http://www.machinedlearnings.com/2014/02/stranger-in-strange-land.html

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 34 comments

The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved (1970)

http://liamk.org/derby/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 60 comments

Snails Are Dissolving in Pacific Ocean

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/05/snails-are-dissolving-pacific-ocean

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 55 comments

Prose, a content editor for GitHub

http://prose.io

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 51 comments

Inferno Raspberry Pi image – beta release

http://lynxline.com/inferno-raspberry-pi-image-beta1/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

Parallelising Python with Threading and Multiprocessing

http://www.quantstart.com/articles/Parallelising-Python-with-Threading-and-Multiprocessing

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 37 comments

NoTex: An online text editor for reStructuredText, Markdown, LaTex

https://notex.ch/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

Why washing machines are no longer built to last

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27253103

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 113 comments

2014 MacBook Air: Performance benchmarks

http://www.macworld.com/article/2150841/lab-tested-new-2014-macbook-air-benchmarks.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 69 comments

Confirming Consensus on removing RSA key Transport from TLS 1.3

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg12266.html

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments

World History Maps and Timelines

http://geacron.com/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

The Great Smartphone War

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/06/apple-samsung-smartphone-patent-war.print

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 79 comments

A Chinese copy of GitHub.com

https://code.csdn.net/dwzteam/dwz_jui/issues?closed=0

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 49 comments

Best Practices of Combining Typefaces (2010)

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/11/04/best-practices-of-combining-typefaces#

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

Hello Haskell, Goodbye Lisp (2009)

http://newartisans.com/2009/03/hello-haskell-goodbye-lisp/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: My first Ludum Dare entry, online multiplayer game Hide-n-Stab

http://54.244.244.60/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 54 comments

An analysis of Facebook photo caching

https://code.facebook.com/posts/220956754772273/an-analysis-of-facebook-photo-caching/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s lame excuses for his net neutrality proposal

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/05/fcc_chairman_tom_wheeler_s_lame_excuses_for_his_net_neutrality_proposal.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 41 comments

Intuition for Simulated Annealing

http://rs.io/2014/02/16/simulated-annealing-intuition.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

Stephen Hawking: AI, Potentially the Worst Thing to Happen to Humanity

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/stephen-hawking-artificial-intelligence-potentially-worst-thing-happen-110523390.html#r6ovIz7

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 108 comments

Pattern Matching – Make the Compiler Work for You

http://deliberate-software.com/function-pattern-matching/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 33 comments

Bill Gates on track to own no Microsoft stock in four years

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/03/us-microsoft-gates-idUSBREA410YS20140503

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 54 comments

Interactive Rust disassembler

http://rust.godbolt.org/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 3 comments

End of Moore's Law: It's not just about physics

http://www.cnet.com/news/end-of-moores-law-its-not-just-about-physics/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 61 comments

Storing Bandwidth with Superdense Coding

http://strilanc.com/quantum/2014/05/03/Storing-Bandwidth-with-Superdense-Coding.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

The Norwegian Tech Industry is All at Sea

http://www.thenordicweb.com/2014/05/01/the-norwegian-tech-industry-is-all-at-sea/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

CSS Variables in Firefox 29

http://jan.rs/blog/2014/05/03/css-variables-firefox-29/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 30 comments

Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algorithms

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Project VimR – Refined Vim experience for Mac

https://github.com/qvacua/vimr

12 years ago

★ 6.9k Swift MIT
55 upvotes – 26 comments

I would prefer to pay for Twitter

http://justindunham.net/2014/05/i-would-pay-for-twitter/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 39 comments

A command-line power tool for Twitter

https://github.com/sferik/t

12 years ago

★ 5.5k Ruby MIT
48 upvotes – 13 comments

What Would Have Happened Had You Invested in an Index Fund?

http://blog.greaterthanzero.com/post/84006166062/real-benchmarking-what-would-have-happened-had-you

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 27 comments

U.S. jury orders smartphone maker Samsung to pay Apple $120 million

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/03/us-apple-samsung-elec-idUSBREA410Z020140503

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 59 comments

Novena’s Hackable Bezel

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3923

12 years ago

46 upvotes – 0 comments
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