top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-16

I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee

http://ergoemacs.org/misc/xah_as_good_as_dead.html

12 years ago

363 upvotes – 301 comments

“A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines”

http://it.emory.edu/windows7-incident/

12 years ago

337 upvotes – 138 comments

Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

http://www.macuser.co.uk/9015-adobe-creative-cloud-outage-leaves-adobe-users-locked-out

12 years ago

336 upvotes – 233 comments

The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

http://wololo.net/2014/05/16/the-shock-of-playing-the-ouya-one-year-later/

12 years ago

321 upvotes – 157 comments

Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp

12 years ago

246 upvotes – 158 comments

Baidu Hires Andrew Ng

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527301/chinese-search-giant-baidu-hires-man-behind-the-google-brain

12 years ago

227 upvotes – 83 comments

I Don’t Want to Hire Women

http://clarissasblog.com/2014/05/14/i-dont-want-to-hire-women/

12 years ago

213 upvotes – 212 comments

Practical Tmux

https://mutelight.org/practical-tmux

12 years ago

169 upvotes – 94 comments

Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2014

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 94 comments

Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition

http://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-just-cable-companies-and-blame-local-government-for-dismal-broadband-competition/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 152 comments

India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/16/us-india-election-idUSBREA4E0XG20140516

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 141 comments

TDD your API

http://blog.balancedpayments.com/tdd-your-api/

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 50 comments

Claude Shannon demonstrates Theseus, a magnetic maze-solving mouse [video]

http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2010/3/16/In-Their-Own-Words-Claude-Shannon-Demonstrates-Machine-Learning

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 26 comments

The Multiple SQLite Problem

http://www.ericsink.com/entries/multiple_sqlite_problem.html

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 45 comments

Zero to One, by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters

http://zerotoonebook.com/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 62 comments

How Wall Street recruits so many Ivy League grads

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/15/5720596/how-wall-street-recruits-so-many-insecure-ivy-league-grads

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 123 comments

Word Lens (Quest Visual) is Joining Google

http://www.wordlens.com/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 42 comments

Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for'

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-25559089

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 146 comments

Asynchronous JavaScript at Netflix

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/03/going-reactive-asynchronous-javascript.html

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 18 comments

Gitchain: Decentralized P2P Git Repos aka "Git meets Bitcoin"

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/612530753/gitchain

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 44 comments

How libraries decide which books to keep

https://medium.com/book-excerpts/4ca8405f1e11

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 48 comments

MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the Bitcoin blockchain

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/mse-protect_updating/microsoft-security-essentials-reporting-false/0240ed8e-5a27-4843-a939-0279c8110e1c

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 77 comments

The perfect shape

http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-perfect-shape.html

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 21 comments

N2O: Erlang Web Framework

http://kukuruku.co/hub/erlang/n2o-erlang-web-framework

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Chain, the Blockchain API for developers

https://chain.com/?

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 58 comments

Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read recently?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7756497

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 90 comments

Pinterest Raises $200M

http://readwrite.com/2014/05/15/pinterest-funding-5-billion-valuation?utm_campaign=&utm_source=t.co&awesm=readwr.it_c1lW&utm_content=readwrite3-orionautotweet&utm_medium=readwr.it-twitter#awesm=~oEnyPbNPuqcMEH

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 63 comments

Kola Superdeep Borehole

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kola-superdeep-borehole

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 42 comments

Google I/O 2014 schedule

https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

(Ab)Using Language Features: The Common Lisp Condition System

http://www.dawnofthedata.com/2014/05/abusing-langauge-features-common-lisp.html

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

Setting Up a Radio System from Scratch

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/05/16/radio-system-from-scratch/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

What web developers thought of in the noughties as being MVC doesn't scale

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2014/05/16/no_really_what_web_developers/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 77 comments

Pathfinding Demystified

http://gabrielgambetta.com/path1.html

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 20 comments

Interview with Haiku developer Paweł Dziepak

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2014-05-10_extensive_interview_haiku_developer_pawe%C5%82_dziepak

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 47 comments

Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 73 comments

How we raised $484k on Kickstarter to make Glowing Plants

http://blog.glowingplant.com/post/85922974558/how-we-raised-484k-on-kickstarter-to-make-glowing

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 61 comments

Earnest – A writing tool for first drafts

http://www.moreofless.co.uk/earnest/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 58 comments

Apple and Google's Motorola unit agree to settle smartphone patent litigation

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/16/us-apple-google-settlement-idUSBREA4F0S020140516

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Elon Musk: Gigafactory will take battery production 'to another level'

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_25761219/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-gigafactory-will-take-battery

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-15/rackspace-hires-morgan-stanley-to-evaluate-options.html

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 62 comments

Circle Emerges From Stealth To Bring Bitcoin To The Masses

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/15/circle-emerges-from-stealth-to-bring-bitcoin-to-the-masses/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 70 comments

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 72 comments

HyperLogLog – Cornerstone of a Big Data Infrastructure

http://research.neustar.biz/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-day-hyperloglog-cornerstone-of-a-big-data-infrastructure/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 5 comments

How the FBI Cracked a Chinese Spy Ring

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/05/how-the-fbi-cracked-a-chinese-spy-ring.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 24 comments

How I Went From An Idea To Paying Customers In 3 Days

https://planscope.io/blog/idea-to-customers-in-3-days/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

A proposal for more reliable locks using Redis

http://antirez.com/news/77

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

Tablesaw – A group of plugins for responsive tables

https://github.com/filamentgroup/tablesaw

12 years ago

★ 5.4k JavaScript MIT
51 upvotes – 3 comments

Transactional Memory: History and Development

http://kukuruku.co/hub/cpp/transactional-memory-history-and-development

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments
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