top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-05-04

Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary

http://rappers.mdaniels.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

12 years ago

Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/pressroom/Linus-Torvalds-Named-Recipient-of-the-2014-IEEE-Computer-Society-Computer-Pioneer-Award

12 years ago

PostgreSQL partitioning explained

https://github.com/fiksu/partitioned/blob/master/PARTITIONING_EXPLAINED.txt

12 years ago

Ask HN: Idea Sunday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262

12 years ago

Magic mirror: One way mirror with a monitor behind it

http://michaelteeuw.nl/post/80391333672/magic-mirror-part-i-the-idea-the-mirror

12 years ago

Zombies once destroyed Japan's economy, now they're infecting China's

http://qz.com/198458/zombies-once-destroyed-japans-economy-now-theyre-infecting-chinas/

12 years ago

Chinese Number Websites

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117608/chinese-number-websites-secret-meaning-urls

12 years ago

Chrome's experiment of hiding the URL is great for security

http://jakearchibald.com/2014/improving-the-url-bar/

12 years ago

Betty – English-like interface for the command line

https://github.com/pickhardt/betty

12 years ago

★ 2.6k Ruby

What Writing and Selling Software Was Like in the 80s

http://thecodist.com/article/what_writing_and_selling_software_was_like_in_the_80_39_s

12 years ago

The Meaning of Life

http://sivers.org/ml

12 years ago

GitHub Language Trends

http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2014/05/02/github-language-trends-and-the-fragmenting-landscape

12 years ago

Osxc – Simple configuration tool for OS X

http://osxc.github.io/

12 years ago

Coding the Movies – Don’t Fake It

http://blog.goconspire.com/post/84670090993/coding-the-movies-dont-fake-it

12 years ago

Ask HN: How Can I Find a Mentor?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693954

12 years ago

Hot or Not: Revealing Hidden Services by their Clock Skew [pdf]

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/ccs06hotornot.pdf

12 years ago

Chrome's experiment of hiding the URL is awful

http://disconnected.craig.is/where-did-my-url-go-chrome/

12 years ago

U-2 spy plane caused widespread shutdown of U.S. flights

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/03/us-usa-airport-losangeles-idUSBREA420AF20140503

12 years ago

When does a physical system compute?

http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.7979

12 years ago

Show HN: WriterKata – a site for writers to practice their craft

http://writerkata.com

12 years ago