top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-12

Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement

http://syncthing.net/

12 years ago

Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days

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

12 years ago

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

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

12 years ago

Realistic terrain in 130 lines of JavaScript

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

12 years ago

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

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

Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus

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

12 years ago

Introducing ASP.NET vNext

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

12 years ago

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

Mkdown

http://www.mkdown.com/8485599

12 years ago

Rand Paul: Show Us the Drone Memos

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

12 years ago

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

Unicode in Python 3

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

12 years ago

Xip.io: Wildcard DNS for everyone

http://xip.io

12 years ago

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

Stop the Slow Lane

http://stoptheslowlane.com/

12 years ago

The Truth on OpenGL Driver Quality

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

12 years ago

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

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

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

12 years ago

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

Categories from scratch

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~poss/categories-from-scratch.html

12 years ago

Show HN: OpenRA – RTS project that recreates Command and Conquer games

http://openra.res0l.net/

12 years ago

Baby Name Predictor

http://time.com/93911/baby-name-predictor/

12 years ago

OAuth Security Cheatsheet

http://www.oauthsecurity.com/

12 years ago

Algorithm for Capturing Pokémon

http://www.dragonflycave.com/rbycapture.aspx

12 years ago

Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/05/12/mobile-first-cloud-first-development-visual-studio-apache-cordova-tooling-and-cloud-optimized-net-futures.aspx

12 years ago

Bezier Curves and Type Design: A Tutorial

http://learn.scannerlicker.net/2014/04/16/bezier-curves-and-type-design-a-tutorial/

12 years ago

Roshi: a CRDT system for timestamped events

https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/roshi-a-crdt-system-for-timestamped-events

12 years ago

Plaintiff in tech hiring suit asks judge to reject settlement

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/12/uk-apple-google-settlement-idUKKBN0DS0CN20140512

12 years ago

The Power of Fat

http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/human-fat-cells-can-be-used-to-heal-hearts-and-joints

12 years ago

Teen Arrested for 30+ Swattings, Bomb Threats

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/teen-arrested-for-30-swattings-bomb-threats/

12 years ago

Who owns the fish? A Common Lisp solution to "Einstein's Riddle" (2004)

http://www.weitz.de/einstein.html

12 years ago

These tweets are proof that startup people are crazy

http://liamgooding.com/these-tweets-are-proof-that-startup-people-are-crazy

12 years ago

Space Invaders in Perl 6

http://ttjjss.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/new-game-space-invaders/

12 years ago

Open-Source Go Libraries

https://www.spacemonkey.com/blog/posts/go-open-source

12 years ago

Apple's FTLJIT project aims to give JavaScript a boost

http://www.infoworld.com/t/javascript/apple-has-its-own-javascript-accelerator-in-the-works-242042

12 years ago

DevArt: Art made with code

https://devart.withgoogle.com/?

12 years ago

“If Your Only Tool Is a Hammer Then Every Problem Looks Like a Nail”

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/08/hammer-nail/

12 years ago

Lock-free Data Structures: Atomicity and Atomic Primitives

http://kukuruku.co/hub/cpp/lock-free-data-structures-basics-atomicity-and-atomic-primitives

12 years ago

The Internet Map

http://internet-map.net/

12 years ago

HP Makes $1 Billion Bet on Open Cloud

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/h-p-makes-1-billion-bet-on-open-cloud

12 years ago

Air traffic system failure caused by computer memory shortage

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/12/us-airtraffic-bug-exclusive-idUSBREA4B02320140512

12 years ago

Measuring the impact of Google Analytics (2013)

http://smerity.com/cs205_ga/

12 years ago

Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans as Antarctic Ice Melts

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/earth/collapse-of-parts-of-west-antarctica-ice-sheet-has-begun-scientists-say.html?src=twr&_r=1

12 years ago