top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-05-12

Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement

http://syncthing.net/

12 years ago

623 upvotes – 184 comments

Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days

http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/adsense-breakdown/

12 years ago

483 upvotes – 131 comments

Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/23569441/449288

12 years ago

468 upvotes – 85 comments

Realistic terrain in 130 lines of JavaScript

http://www.playfuljs.com/realistic-terrain-in-130-lines/

12 years ago

339 upvotes – 56 comments

The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/the-world-of-computer-go/

12 years ago

322 upvotes – 180 comments

Glenn Greenwald: The NSA tampers with US-made routers

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden?r

12 years ago

317 upvotes – 136 comments

Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6474/

12 years ago

297 upvotes – 104 comments

Introducing ASP.NET vNext

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingASPNETVNext.aspx

12 years ago

252 upvotes – 205 comments

Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours

http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours

12 years ago

229 upvotes – 103 comments

Mkdown

http://www.mkdown.com/8485599

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 56 comments

Rand Paul: Show Us the Drone Memos

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/opinion/show-us-the-drone-memos.html

12 years ago

219 upvotes – 266 comments

Distributed Systems and the End of the API

http://writings.quilt.org/2014/05/12/distributed-systems-and-the-end-of-the-api/

12 years ago

209 upvotes – 94 comments

Unicode in Python 3

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 96 comments

Xip.io: Wildcard DNS for everyone

http://xip.io

12 years ago

206 upvotes – 69 comments

Why bad scientific code beats code following "best practices"

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/why-bad-scientific-code-beats-code-following-best-practices.html

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 168 comments

Stop the Slow Lane

http://stoptheslowlane.com/

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 50 comments

The Truth on OpenGL Driver Quality

http://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-truth-on-opengl-driver-quality.html

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 109 comments

Asm.js performance improvements in the latest version of Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/asm-js-performance-improvements-in-the-latest-version-of-firefox-make-games-fly/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: As an experienced dev, how do you learn a language/framework quickly?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7733249

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 66 comments

2 billion-year-old African nuclear reactor

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/181620-2-billion-year-old-african-nuclear-reactor-proves-that-mother-nature-still-has-a-few-tricks-up-her-sleeve

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 38 comments
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