top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-09

All of Bach

http://allofbach.com/en/

12 years ago

607 upvotes – 148 comments

How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux

http://www.linuxvoice.com/the-big-switch/

12 years ago

382 upvotes – 197 comments

Quora in the next YC batch

http://blog.ycombinator.com/quora-in-the-next-yc-batch

12 years ago

306 upvotes – 177 comments

Wayback Machine Hits 400,000,000,000

http://blog.archive.org/2014/05/09/wayback-machine-hits-400000000000/

12 years ago

300 upvotes – 56 comments

Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards

http://ankisrs.net/

12 years ago

293 upvotes – 135 comments

Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf]

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/13-1021.Opinion.5-7-2014.1.PDF

12 years ago

285 upvotes – 253 comments

How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds

https://gist.github.com/kyledrake/e6046644115f185f7af0

12 years ago

274 upvotes – 124 comments

CoreOS Beta Release

https://coreos.com/blog/coreos-beta-release/

12 years ago

253 upvotes – 37 comments

Flux Application Architecture

http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/flux-overview.html

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 87 comments

WhatsApplebee's: the premiere Applebee's-based social chat app

http://whatsapplebees.com

12 years ago

210 upvotes – 53 comments

Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood

http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 176 comments

Haskell tutorial for C programmers

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Tutorial_for_C_Programmers

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 51 comments

Brazilian Kids Learn English by Video Chatting With Elderly Americans

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/perfect-match-brazilian-kids-learn-english-video-chatting-lonely-elderly-americans-157523

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 30 comments

Brain.js Demo – Train a neural network to recognize color contrast

https://harthur.github.io/brain/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 26 comments

How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup

http://trevorstarick.com/twitter-an-untapped-well-of-potential-new-users/?

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 76 comments

Jsfmt – Like Gofmt, but for JavaScript

https://github.com/rdio/jsfmt

12 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript
155 upvotes – 47 comments

CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE

http://cshell.net/

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 83 comments

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python

http://docs.python-guide.org

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 12 comments

How I Handle Trello Support

http://blog.fogcreek.com/four-million-to-one/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 14 comments

Don't Call it a Fast Lane

http://dontcallitafastlane.com/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 37 comments

We don't eat swans

http://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/come/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 134 comments

What Happens When a Neurosurgeon Removes Your Hippocampus

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/heres-what-happens-when-a-neurosurgeon-slurps-out-your-hippocampus/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 70 comments

Birdly – An attempt to fly with Oculus Rift [video]

http://birdly.zhdk.ch/en/about/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 38 comments

Extension Points, or how OCaml is becoming more like Lisp

https://blogs.janestreet.com/extension-points-or-how-ocaml-is-becoming-more-like-lisp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=extension-points-or-how-ocaml-is-becoming-more-like-lisp

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 29 comments

Saving the Feynman van

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/may-2014/saving-the-feynman-van

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 7 comments

Protest in front of the FCC

http://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/this-is-happening-right-now-in-front-of-the-fcc

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 31 comments

JavaZone 2014 movies

http://2014.javazone.no/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 15 comments

Google Music natively on Linux

http://packetfire.org/content/google-music-all-access-natively-linux

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 23 comments

The Lurking Smalltalk in Unix and Plan 9 [pdf]

http://plosworkshop.org/2013/preprint/kell.pdf

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 38 comments

Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad

http://www.dringend.cc/

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 59 comments

ZTE Starts Sales of Open C Firefox OS Phone on eBay

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/08/zte-starts-sales-of-open-c-firefox-os-phone-on-ebay

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 62 comments

Incident Response at Heroku

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/5/9/incident-response-at-heroku

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 9 comments

Killer Queen: Half Joust, half StarCraft and one giant snail

http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/8/29/4593934/killer-queen-joust-starcraft-giant-snail

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

I ported a JavaScript app to Dart

http://blog.sethladd.com/2014/05/i-ported-javascript-app-to-dart-heres.html

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 80 comments

How the US stopped its fisheries from collapsing

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/8/5669120/how-the-us-stopped-its-fisheries-from-collapsing

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Digital Ocean: Limited Public IPv6 Beta Release

https://assets.digitalocean.com/email/ipv6-grandfathered.html

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 59 comments

Desperate Measures – A Time To Hack

http://amish-programmer.blogspot.com/2014/05/desperate-measures-time-to-hack.html

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Seymour Cray: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtOA1vuoDgQ

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 39 comments

What if C++ looked more like Python or CoffeeScript?

http://cpprocks.com/what-if-c-looked-more-like-python-or-coffeescript/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 76 comments

Exposure to neonicotinoids impairs honeybee winterization before colony collapse

http://www.bulletinofinsectology.org/pdfarticles/vol67-2014-125-130lu.pdf

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 24 comments

Spotting Photo Fakery via Dino A. Brugioni, CIA, 1969

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1156875-spotting-photo-fakery-via-dino-a-brugioni-1969.html

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments
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