top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-11

Tell HN: Call your mom

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728411

12 years ago

555 upvotes – 110 comments

Transform any text into a patent application

http://lav.io/2014/05/transform-any-text-into-a-patent-application/

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 33 comments

Google offering $1M prize for a much smaller power inverter

http://www.littleboxchallenge.com/

12 years ago

200 upvotes – 88 comments

DuckDuckGo Goodies

https://duckduckgo.com/goodies#Cryptography

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 67 comments

What Happened at NewsGator

http://inessential.com/2014/05/10/what_happened_at_newsgator

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 13 comments

Large Public Datasets

http://www.quora.com/Data/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to-the-public?share=1

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 26 comments

Oracle continue to circumvent EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/31357.html

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 63 comments

Syntax highlighters are wrong

https://medium.com/p/6f83add748c9

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 124 comments

Why Your Cell-Phone Bill Should Be Going Down But Isn't

http://readwrite.com/2014/05/09/4g-3g-smartphone-data-price-difference

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 128 comments

Quantum Random Number Generator Created Using A Smartphone Camera

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/602f88552b64

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 37 comments

If You Can Read This, You're SNIing

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2014/05/09/if_you_can_read_this_youre_sniing

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 57 comments

TinySSH is a small SSH server using NaCl, TweetNaCl

http://tinyssh.org/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 61 comments

GitHub Down with a 503

https://status.github.com/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 82 comments

Dumb.domains

http://dumb.domains

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 66 comments

Job hunting is a matter of Big Data, not how you perform at an interview

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/10/job-hunting-big-data-interview-algorithms-employees

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 80 comments

How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company

http://priceonomics.com/how-the-father-of-claymation-lost-his-company/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 18 comments

Bob – A Tarsnap GUI client for OS X

https://github.com/casperstorm/Bob

12 years ago

★ 369 Objective-C
113 upvotes – 15 comments

What's wrong with systemd

http://www.landley.net/notes.html#23-04-2014

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 109 comments

Ants show that emergency exits can work better when they’re obstructed

http://nautil.us/issue/13/symmetry/want-to-get-out-alive-follow-the-ants

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 16 comments

Take It to the Limit (2010)

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/take-it-to-the-limit

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 14 comments

Things that drive me nuts about OpenGL

http://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/05/things-that-drive-me-nuts-about-opengl.html

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 71 comments

UK police ask blogger to remove UKIP tweets

http://axeofreason.blogspot.com/2014/05/you-are-not-allowed-to-read-this-blog.html?spref=tw&m=1

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 37 comments

The compiler is always right

https://blog.mozilla.org/nfroyd/2014/05/09/the-compiler-is-always-right/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 47 comments

The International – Dota 2 Championships

http://www.dota2.com/international/compendium/?

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 42 comments

Streamparse: Pythonic processing of real-time data streams using Apache Storm

https://github.com/Parsely/streamparse

12 years ago

★ 1.5k Python Apache-2.0
75 upvotes – 4 comments

Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983

http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

Defending the Open Internet

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/business/defending-the-open-internet.html?hpw&rref=business&_r=0

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

The homogenization of scientific computing (2013)

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2013/11/18/the-homogenization-of-scientific-computing-or-why-python-is-steadily-eating-other-languages-lunch/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 54 comments

Shortwave: iBeacon-powered messaging

http://getshortwave.com

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 43 comments

Lenovo, the Treasure Hunter of Tech

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-08/lenovo-targets-mobile-as-tech-empire-grows-on-castoff-businesses

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 47 comments

Programming with Nothing (2011)

http://codon.com/programming-with-nothing

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

SICP 2.6: Church Numerals (2011)

http://jlongster.com/2011/12/16/sicp-26-church-notation.html

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

Light Field Photography

http://news.kynosarges.org/2014/05/11/light-field-photography/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

To sleep, perchance to control your dreams

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/05/11/us-science-dreaming-idINKBN0DR0IV20140511

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 43 comments

Notes on Programming in C (1989)

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 51 comments

Symas Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB)

http://symas.com/mdb/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 18 comments

Code Monkey Island – board game to teach kids programming

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rajsidhu/code-monkey-island-making-programming-childs-play

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 22 comments
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