top 50% 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

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

OS X Command Line Utilities

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

12 years ago

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

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

Tremor-cancelling spoon for Parkinson's tremors

https://www.liftlabsdesign.com/

12 years ago

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

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

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

12 years ago

Mac keyboard shortcuts

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

12 years ago

User Onboarding

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

12 years ago

The Reykjavik Confessions

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

12 years ago

What Do Animals See in a Mirror?

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

12 years ago

Static Site Generators

http://staticsitegenerators.net

12 years ago

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

Edge of the Creative Commons (2013)

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

12 years ago

How extreme isolation warps the mind

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

12 years ago

Show HN: Take It Apart

https://www.takeitapart.com

12 years ago

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

The Economics of a Kickstarter Project

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

12 years ago

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

http://theoj.org

12 years ago

How do hedge funds get away with it? Eight theories

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/05/how-hedge-funds-get-away-with-it.html

12 years ago

Thomas Edison and the Cult of Sleep Deprivation

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/thomas-edison-and-the-cult-of-sleep-deprivation/370824/

12 years ago

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2007)

http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth.html

12 years ago

Functional programming explained in Clojure with a terminal-based game

http://www.braveclojure.com/functional-programming/?again

12 years ago

PostgreSQL 9.4 Beta 1 Released

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1522/

12 years ago

Show HN: Updn – HN/Reddit-style site where stories, votes, tips use Bitcoin

https://github.com/fisher-lebo/updn

12 years ago

★ 3 Ruby

Early Superoptimizer Results

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1146

12 years ago

Amazon, AT&T, Snapchat rated among the least trustworthy with data, EFF finds

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248384/Amazon_AT_amp_T_Snapchat_rated_among_the_least_trustworthy_with_data_EFF_finds

12 years ago

Why Yahoo Keeps Killing Everything It Buys

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/yahoo-blink/

12 years ago

How Azure Web Sites Sucked in Production

http://elekslabs.com/2014/05/how-azure-web-sites-sucked-in-production.html

12 years ago

How Satya Nadella Has Changed Microsoft In 3 Months

http://www.businessinsider.com/nadella-builds-new-microsoft-in-3-months-2014-5?IR=T

12 years ago

Payments: The end of a monopoly

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21601624-and-no-end-new-ways-pay-your-bills-end-monopoly

12 years ago

Test Isolation Is About Avoiding Mocks

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2014/test-isolation-is-about-avoiding-mocks

12 years ago

The Pleasure of Designing your own Furniture

https://medium.com/@duopixel/2b093e64c88

12 years ago

$10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/85758038492/10-of-free-bitcoin-for-college-students

12 years ago

Show HN: Paperstencil – cross between word processor and web form

https://github.com/bitstat/paperstencil

12 years ago

★ 162 JavaScript

Throttler: a Clojure library for rate limiting

http://brunov.org/clojure/2014/05/14/throttler/

12 years ago

One Thing That Makes Google's Self-Driving Cars Work

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/all-the-world-a-track-the-trick-that-makes-googles-self-driving-cars-work/370871/

12 years ago

Send money to a customer’s checking account using their debit card number

https://www.balancedpayments.com/push-to-card

12 years ago

Poof and then Rails was gone

http://patmaddox.com/2014/05/15/poof-and-then-rails-was-gone/

12 years ago

The Italian Man Who Inspired Google Web Search

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-15/meet-the-italian-man-who-beat-google-to-web-search-and-gave-it-away-for-free-.html

12 years ago

Neural networks and a dive into Julia

http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/julia-neural-networks.html

12 years ago

How 3-D Printed Guns Evolved Into Serious Weapons in a Year

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/3d-printed-guns/

12 years ago

Dockerizing a Python Web App

http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/application-management/post/Tx1ZLAHMVBEDCOC/Dockerizing-a-Python-Web-App

12 years ago

Ask PG: Can you do it again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7749781

12 years ago

Show HN: Ampache – Web-based audio/video streaming and file manager

https://github.com/ampache/ampache

12 years ago

★ 3.7k PHP AGPL-3.0

Consider a Different Physics Textbook

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/5-reasons-you-should-consider-a-different-physics-textbook/

12 years ago

2013 Founders’ Letter

http://investor.google.com/corporate/2013/founders-letter.html

12 years ago