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

The next version of DuckDuckGo

https://next.duckduckgo.com

12 years ago

Observations of an Internet Middleman

http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-internet-middleman/

12 years ago

Minimum Viable Block Chain

http://www.igvita.com/2014/05/05/minimum-viable-block-chain/

12 years ago

Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster

http://news.php.net/php.internals/73888

12 years ago

Startup School is going global

http://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-is-going-global

12 years ago

Volvo’s first self-driving cars now being tested live on public roads in Sweden

http://www.kurzweilai.net/volvos-first-self-driving-cars-now-being-tested-live-on-public-roads-in-swedish-city

12 years ago

NES Dual Port RAM Interface

http://www.batslyadams.com/2014/05/nes-dual-port-ram-interface.html

12 years ago

Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork

http://animalnewyork.com/2014/artists-notebook-ramsey-nasser/

12 years ago

Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day

http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?13052-Swype-makes-almost-4000-location-requests-every-day

12 years ago

The Case for React.js and ClojureScript

http://murilopereira.com/the-case-for-reactjs-and-clojurescript

12 years ago

Why I am excited about Clojure

http://blog.txus.io/2014/05/why-i-am-excited-about-clojure/

12 years ago

Through the Warp Zone: Hacking Super Mario Brothers to unlock new worlds

https://emily.st/p/AUg

12 years ago

You never did math in high school

http://j2kun.svbtle.com/you-never-did-math-in-high-school/?_nospa=true

12 years ago

Google’s fiber effect: Fuel for a broadband explosion

http://www.cnet.com/news/googles-fiber-effect-fuel-for-a-broadband-explosion/

12 years ago

SCiO: A Pocket Molecular Sensor For All

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903107259/scio-your-sixth-sense-a-pocket-molecular-sensor-fo?ref=discovery

12 years ago

TextSecure's Private Group Messaging

https://whispersystems.org/blog/private-groups/

12 years ago

I “Leaked” the story about the Biometric EarPods. But I’m not proud of it

http://earpodsecret.tumblr.com/post/84812960647/sorry

12 years ago

Optimizely Raises $57 Million

http://blog.optimizely.com/2014/05/05/optimizely-series-b-funding/

12 years ago

Packr – Packages Java apps for distribution on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

https://github.com/libgdx/packr

12 years ago

★ 2.6k C++ Apache-2.0

Automattic Raises $160 Million, Valued at $1.16 Billion

http://recode.net/2014/05/05/wordpress-parent-automattic-has-raised-160-million-now-valued-at-1-16-billion-post-money/

12 years ago

OpenSSH sshd – memory leak

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=gjkivAf3

12 years ago

Why our startup failed

https://oncletom.io/2014/why-our-startup-failed/

12 years ago

Simple steps to implementing a programming language

http://kjetilvalle.com/posts/implement-a-programming-language.html

12 years ago

Target removes CEO in wake of cyber attack

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/05/us-target-ceo-idUSBREA440BD20140505

12 years ago

A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks/

12 years ago

★ 16.6k Python BSD-3-Clause

Using Wikipedia in the classroom: a cautionary tale

http://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/using-wikipedia-in-the-classroom-a-cautionary-tale/

12 years ago

Advice for ambitious 19 year olds (2013)

http://blog.samaltman.com/advice-for-ambitious-19-year-olds?repost=yes

12 years ago

Facebook's Realtime Updates API has been down for 12 days

https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/738043236218053/

12 years ago

AMD is working on K12, brand-new x86 and ARM cores

http://techreport.com/review/26418/amd-reveals-k12-new-arm-and-x86-cores-are-coming

12 years ago

Death to the Technical Interview

http://blog.iambob.me/death-to-the-technical-interview/

12 years ago

Port of SGI ElectroPaint screensaver made via decompilation

http://github.com/drvink/electroportis

12 years ago

★ 130 C

Snowden's letter: Big things are happening in Denmark

http://www.b.dk/nationalt/big-things-are-happening-in-denmark

12 years ago

New dev release of Sublime Text 3

http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev

12 years ago

The Alexandria Police Department is taking pictures of everyone’s cars

http://capitolcityproject.com/police-are-keeping-records-of-when-i-visited-my-girlfriend/

12 years ago

The End of Food?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/12/140512fa_fact_widdicombe

12 years ago

Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7697050

12 years ago

Combinator Parsing

http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2014/05/04/combinator-parsing-part-1/

12 years ago

Sony develops new 185 TB storage tape

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27282732

12 years ago

My favorite debugging tool

http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ba9c5a596f88fa86026dd89a2&id=01a7043a5b&e=35d9c2c5b6

12 years ago

Proposed Mexican Telecom Law Would Be a Disaster for Internet Freedom

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/proposed-mexican-telecom-law-would-be-disaster-internet-freedom

12 years ago

On Pull Requests

http://cramer.io/2014/05/03/on-pull-requests/

12 years ago

Python recursion visualization with rcviz

https://zvzzt.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/python-recursion-visualization-with-rcviz/

12 years ago

Ask HN: “Coinbase just sent you 0.002329 BTC”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7699531

12 years ago

Plasso: Payments Made Simple

http://plasso.co

12 years ago

How Did Dread Pirate Roberts Acquire and Protect His Bitcoin Wealth? [pdf]

http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/782.pdf

12 years ago

RFC 3092: Etymology of "Foo"

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3092.txt

12 years ago

Show HN: I open-sourced my iPhone app side project

https://github.com/dvingo/a_timely_manner

12 years ago

★ 94 Objective-C MIT