top 50% 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

Betty – English-like interface for the command line

https://github.com/pickhardt/betty

12 years ago

★ 2.6k Ruby

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

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

12 years ago

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

The Valuation Trap

http://avc.com/2014/05/the-valuation-trap/

12 years ago

SSH agent notifications for OS X

http://devinteske.com/ssh-agent-notifications-osx/

12 years ago

Bloodhound – Elasticsearch client and DSL for Haskell

https://github.com/bitemyapp/bloodhound/

12 years ago

★ 436 Haskell BSD-3-Clause

Studies: Blood from young mice reverses aging in old mice

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/science/young-blood-may-hold-key-to-reversing-aging.html

12 years ago

The Fight (2012)

http://dcurt.is/the-fight

12 years ago

A C error handling style that plays nice with C++ exceptions

http://blog.sduto.it/2014/05/a-c-error-handling-style-that-plays.html

12 years ago

Fast interactive prototyping with D3.js II – Tricks of the trade

http://snips.net/blog/posts/2014/05-04-fast-interactive_prototyping_with_d3_js_II.html

12 years ago

A live HTML5 editor made with Node.js

http://jawerty.github.io/Hyro

12 years ago

Up and Down the Python Data and Web Visualization Stack

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/wrobstory/1eb8cb704a52d18b9ee8/Up%20and%20Down%20PyData%202014.ipynb

12 years ago

Nimrod for C programmers

https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/wiki/Nimrod-for-C-programmers

12 years ago

★ 17.9k Nim

The Great Unwatched

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/business/the-great-unwatched.html

12 years ago

One Scientist’s Bid to Build Cancer-Killing Nanorobots

http://recode.net/2014/05/04/self-assembly-required-one-scientists-bid-to-build-cancer-killing-nanorobots/

12 years ago

AngularJS: Factory vs. Service vs. Provider

http://tylermcginnis.com/angularjs-factory-vs-service-vs-provider/

12 years ago

Revealed preferences aren't always accurate

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1lb/are_wireheads_happy/

12 years ago