top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-13

Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome

http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-Why-React-is-Awesome

12 years ago

632 upvotes – 219 comments

Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT

https://www.webkit.org/blog/3362/introducing-the-webkit-ftl-jit/

12 years ago

491 upvotes – 96 comments

‘Alien’ creator H.R. Giger is dead

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/Alien_creator_H.R._Giger_is_dead.html?cid=38569780

12 years ago

418 upvotes – 67 comments

iMessage purgatory

http://adampash.com/imessage-purgatory/

12 years ago

386 upvotes – 170 comments

Octotree: the missing GitHub tree view (Chrome extension)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/octotree/bkhaagjahfmjljalopjnoealnfndnagc

12 years ago

362 upvotes – 106 comments

Computers are fast

http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/05/12/computers-are-fast/

12 years ago

315 upvotes – 154 comments

Source code of ASP.NET

https://github.com/aspnet

12 years ago

291 upvotes – 99 comments

Big Cable says investment is flourishing, but their data says it's falling

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/12/5711082/big-cable-says-broadband-investment-is-flourishing-but-their-own-data

12 years ago

290 upvotes – 53 comments

Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/05/13/Pervasive-Monitoring-is-an-Attack

12 years ago

250 upvotes – 27 comments

Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/13/eu-google-dataprotection-idUSL6N0NZ23Q20140513

12 years ago

247 upvotes – 205 comments

Xeer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeer

12 years ago

246 upvotes – 117 comments

MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source

https://github.com/LLK/scratch-flash

12 years ago

★ 1.3k ActionScript GPL-2.0
239 upvotes – 61 comments

Introducing Firebase Hosting

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2014-05-13-introducing-firebase-hosting.html

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 75 comments

Ask HN: Can we get a "Show HN:" section

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7737921

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 34 comments

3D Video Capture with Three Kinects

http://doc-ok.org/?p=965

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 40 comments

Babun – A new Windows shell

http://babun.github.io/

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 108 comments

Today at 16:53:20 GMT, it'll be 1400000000 in Unix time.

http://www.epochconverter.com/

12 years ago

170 upvotes – 57 comments

Lectures Aren't Just Boring, They're Ineffective, Too

http://news.sciencemag.org/education/2014/05/lectures-arent-just-boring-theyre-ineffective-too-study-finds

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 126 comments

GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow

http://instantclick.io/github-pages-and-apex-domains

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 87 comments

Found after 500 years, the wreck of Columbus's flagship the Santa Maria

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/exclusive-found-after-500-years-the-wreck-of-christopher-columbuss-flagship-the-santa-maria-9359330.html

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 52 comments

A Test for School Reform in Newark

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/19/140519fa_fact_russakoff

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 232 comments

Metaprogramming for madmen

http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for-madmen/

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 12 comments

Scaling SQL with Redis

http://cramer.io/2014/05/12/scaling-sql-with-redis/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 35 comments

Understanding SaaS: Why the Pundits Have It Wrong

http://a16z.com/2014/05/13/understanding-saas-valuation-primer/

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 27 comments

‘No Place to Hide,’ by Glenn Greenwald

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/books/no-place-to-hide-by-glenn-greenwald.html?_r=0

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 41 comments

"If you're over 30, you're a slow old man" – Zuckerberg. He turns 30 tomorrow.

http://thedailywyatt.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/young-people-are-just-smarter/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 134 comments

Popular fish oil study deeply flawed, new research says

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/popular-fish-oil-study-deeply-flawed-new-research-says-1.2637702?cmp=rss

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 112 comments

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

How ACH works: A developer perspective – Part 2

http://engineering.zenpayroll.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-perspective-part-2/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

NSA Reportedly Intercepts And Alters Routers And Servers Exported From U.S.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/13/nsa-reportedly-intercepts-and-alters-routers-and-servers-exported-from-u-s-to-facilitate-surveillance/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 45 comments

The Curse of Dimensionality in Classification

http://www.visiondummy.com/2014/04/curse-dimensionality-affect-classification/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

Tesla's relative asks Elon Musk for a donation to finish the Tesla Museum

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7741170

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

The Orange Box: Cloud for the Free Man

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/05/the-orange-box-cloud-for-free-man.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

Documents from Glenn Greenwald's new book [pdf]

http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/video/olmk/holt/greenwald/NoPlaceToHide-Documents-Compressed.pdf

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 28 comments

What’s So Scary About Smart Girls?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/opinion/sunday/kristof-whats-so-scary-about-smart-girls.html?smid=fb-share&smv2&_r=0

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 89 comments

Simple Design is What You Need, Not What You Want

http://firstround.com/article/Simple-Design-is-What-You-Need-Not-What-You-Want-1

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 26 comments

Widgy: Open Source Python/Django CMS Framework

http://wid.gy/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 43 comments

Where did all the developers go?

http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/where-did-all-the-developers-go/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 101 comments

How interest-free banking works: The case of JAK

http://www.feasta.org/documents/review2/carrie2.htm

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 43 comments

Turnspit Dogs: The Rise And Fall Of The Vernepator Cur

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/13/311127237/turnspit-dogs-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-vernepator-cur

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Tip any song or musician with Bitcoin

http://saycheers.co

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 44 comments

Things I Learned Designing at Disqus

http://joshuasortino.com/journal/14-things-learned-designing-at-disqus

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 41 comments

So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp

http://lebonmail.com/courrier_lebonmail.com.pdf

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 59 comments
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