top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-07

The Day I Started Lying to Ruth

http://nymag.com/news/features/cancer-peter-bach-2014-5/

12 years ago

566 upvotes – 141 comments

Firefox Developer Tools – Editable box model, Sublime Text keys

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/editable-box-model-multiple-selection-sublime-text-keys-much-more-firefox-developer-tools-episode-31/

12 years ago

420 upvotes – 114 comments

Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2014/05/dear-internet-lets-demo-slow-lane.html

12 years ago

410 upvotes – 193 comments

Jekyll 2.0.0 is released

http://jekyllrb.com/news/2014/05/06/jekyll-turns-2-0-0/

12 years ago

265 upvotes – 55 comments

The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDb

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-story-behind-the-worst-movie-on-imdb/

12 years ago

245 upvotes – 140 comments

The Scraping Problem and Ethics

http://blog.osvdb.org/2014/05/07/the-scraping-problem-and-ethics/

12 years ago

241 upvotes – 126 comments

Decoupled from IP, TCP is at last able to support multihomed hosts

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2591369

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 44 comments

Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers

http://www.betterthangrep.com/

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 127 comments

How to create good outcomes when negotiating

http://www.aaronkharris.com/guidelines-when-negotiating

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 47 comments

Talk of an Internet Fast Lane Is Already Hurting Some Startups

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527006/talk-of-an-internet-fast-lane-is-already-hurting-some-startups/

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 121 comments

Enough Machine Learning to Make Hacker News Readable Again [video]

http://pyvideo.org/video/2612/enough-machine-learning-to-make-hacker-news-reada

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 85 comments

Oh-My-God particle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 41 comments

Three Optimization Tips for C++

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/three-optimization-tips-for-c/10151361643253920

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 56 comments

Visualisation of the expansion of IKEA

http://mike-barker.com/ikea/

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 123 comments

International Space Station HD Livestream

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/17074538

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 47 comments

The Return of Upcoming.org by Andy Baio

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waxpancake/the-return-of-upcomingorg

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 52 comments

Rarely Used Postgres Datatypes

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2014/05/07/Postgres-datatypes-the-ones-youre-not-using/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 67 comments

If ICANN only charges $0.18 per domain name, why am I paying $10?

http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/61467/if-icann-only-charges-0-18-per-domain-name-why-am-i-paying-10

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 53 comments

PaintCode 2

http://www.paintcodeapp.com/intro

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 71 comments

Hacking the Samsung NX300 "Smart" Camera

http://op-co.de/blog/posts/hacking_the_nx300/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 51 comments

GopherCon 2014 Videos

http://confreaks.com/events/gophercon2014

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 74 comments

A Look at the Formula 1 Steering Wheel

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/formula-1-steering-wheels/?mbid=social_fb

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 60 comments

Let’s Make a Bubble Map

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/bubble-map/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 17 comments

The Conflict at the Heart of Open Source

http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/the-conflict-at-the-heart-of-open-source/240168123

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 81 comments

MyHDL – Design hardware with Python – Examples

http://www.myhdl.org/examples/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

Spouses of Some H-1B Visa Holders to Be Allowed to Work

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/us/politics/us-plan-aims-to-draw-immigrants-with-technology-skills.html

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 112 comments

Amazon's Wholesale Slaughter: Jeff Bezos' $8 Trillion B2B Bet

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/05/07/amazons-wholesale-slaughter-jeff-bezos-8-trillion-b2b-bet/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 40 comments

Disqus: It's Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/5/7/update-on-disqus-its-still-about-realtime-but-go-demolishes.html

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 48 comments

SocketCluster – WebSockets that scale to 100K messages per second on 8 cores

https://github.com/topcloud/socketcluster

12 years ago

★ 6.1k JavaScript MIT
93 upvotes – 24 comments

Why engineers make great CEOs

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-opportunities/why-engineers-make-great-ceos/article5984318.ece

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 57 comments

Google Classroom

http://www.google.com/edu/classroom/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 63 comments

Packetbeat: Open-source application monitoring

http://packetbeat.com

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 23 comments

Learn Git in the Browser

https://try.github.io/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 44 comments

L++ Language

https://bitbucket.org/ktg/l

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 39 comments

Docker 0.11 Released

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0110-2014-05-07

12 years ago

★ 71.4k Go Apache-2.0
80 upvotes – 37 comments

Weierstrass functions: continuous but not differentiable anywhere

http://puzlet.com/m/b00f5

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

Fix HackerNews Issue #11, which is driving us all crazy: Unknown or expired link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7708312

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 33 comments

Unix on the Game Boy Advance (2004)

http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/gbaunix/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

A Short History of Game Panics

http://reason.com/archives/2014/05/07/a-short-history-of-game-panics

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: C++11 inline object definitions

https://github.com/matt-42/iod

12 years ago

★ 727 C++ MIT
70 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Flight Times Sliced, Diced and Visualized (side project)

http://flightsphere.com/flight-time/from/san-francisco/to/los-angeles

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 37 comments

Docker 0.11 is the Release Candidate for 1.0

http://blog.docker.io/2014/05/docker-0-11-release-candidate-for-1-0/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

The little things I learned in the valley

http://www.gigpeppers.com/the-little-things-i-learned-in-the-valley-may-2014-edition/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 66 comments

Programming and thinking the functional way

http://peteratt.com/programming-thinking-functional-way/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 80 comments

Every Country Will Have Armed Drones Within Ten Years

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/05/every-country-will-have-armed-drones-within-ten-years/83878/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 61 comments

Portable VirtualBox: run any OS from a USB stick

http://www.vbox.me/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: Would self-taught programmers be interested in such a book?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7710990

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 58 comments

Mozilla Ichnaea

https://mozilla-ichnaea.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 3 comments

Flowhub is now in Public Beta

http://flowhub.io/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 58 comments

Don’t name your input elements ‘action’ or ‘submit’

http://www.joezimjs.com/javascript/dont-name-inputs-action-submit/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 37 comments

Tesla Q1 earnings report [pdf]

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/2964432284x0x752463/4d500edc-fd71-4b5b-8b60-542f73d9c64e/Q1%2714%20Shareholder%20Letter%20final.pdf

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Comment on on-demand TV as if everyone is watching at the same time

http://beta.spoilr.tv/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 44 comments

Google Nest

http://google-nest.org/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 27 comments

The Domain Market is a Mess

http://spencerfry.com/the-domain-market-is-a-mess

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 48 comments
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