top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-05-15

The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)

https://plus.google.com/+IanHickson/posts/iPmatxBYuj2

12 years ago

782 upvotes – 234 comments

FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15/fcc-approves-plan-to-allow-for-paid-priority-on-internet/

12 years ago

679 upvotes – 331 comments

OS X Command Line Utilities

http://www.mitchchn.me/2014/os-x-terminal/

12 years ago

567 upvotes – 235 comments

FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support DRM

http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-adobe-to-support-digital-restrictions-management

12 years ago

459 upvotes – 276 comments

Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in trial

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/15/womans-cancer-killed-by-measles-virus-in-unprecedented-trial/?tid=hp_mm

12 years ago

424 upvotes – 131 comments

Tremor-cancelling spoon for Parkinson's tremors

https://www.liftlabsdesign.com/

12 years ago

387 upvotes – 89 comments

The Trade of the Century: When George Soros Broke the British Pound

http://priceonomics.com/the-trade-of-the-century-when-george-soros-broke/

12 years ago

238 upvotes – 182 comments

An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 3: Web Development

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/15/modern-java-pt3/

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 163 comments

Mac keyboard shortcuts

http://mattgemmell.com/mac-keyboard-shortcuts/

12 years ago

217 upvotes – 121 comments

User Onboarding

http://www.useronboard.com/onboarding-teardowns/

12 years ago

210 upvotes – 69 comments

The Reykjavik Confessions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_7617/index.html

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 77 comments

What Do Animals See in a Mirror?

http://nautil.us/issue/13/symmetry/what-do-animals-see-in-a-mirror

12 years ago

190 upvotes – 79 comments

Static Site Generators

http://staticsitegenerators.net

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 120 comments

Leaked NYT innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age

http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-innovation-report-is-one-of-the-key-documents-of-this-media-age/

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 58 comments

Edge of the Creative Commons (2013)

http://blog.brentlaabs.com/2013/12/the-edge-of-creative-commons.html

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 65 comments

How extreme isolation warps the mind

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140514-how-extreme-isolation-warps-minds

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 134 comments

Show HN: Take It Apart

https://www.takeitapart.com

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 59 comments

Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mi.com%2Fmitv&edit-text=

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 107 comments

Peer Review as a Service: It's not about the journal

http://theoj.org

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 36 comments

The Economics of a Kickstarter Project

https://medium.com/@cameronmoll/5b374cfeb43c

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 66 comments
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