top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-18

Google is Breaking the Internet

http://jeremypalmer.com/post/86123982870/google-is-breaking-the-internet

12 years ago

503 upvotes – 297 comments

YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?

http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/youtube-to-acquire-videogame-streaming-service-twitch-for-1-billion-sources-1201185204/

12 years ago

403 upvotes – 235 comments

Why I Don’t Do CrossFit

http://erinsimmonsfitness.me/2014/04/17/why-i-dont-do-crossfit/

12 years ago

265 upvotes – 173 comments

So You’re Not Desirable

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/opinion/sunday/so-youre-not-desirable.html

12 years ago

255 upvotes – 133 comments

Basics of Machine Learning

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/vlavrenk/iaml.html

12 years ago

253 upvotes – 32 comments

New York City photographed with the Game Boy Camera in 2000

http://www.ironicsans.com/2014/05/new_york_city_in_2000_photogra.html

12 years ago

238 upvotes – 31 comments

AT&T to Buy DirecTV for $48.5 Billion

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/att-to-buy-directv-for-48-5-billion/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 164 comments

Don't Become a Scientist (1999)

http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 159 comments

What If U.S. Cities Just Stopped Participating in the War on Drugs?

http://www.citylab.com/crime/2014/05/what-if-us-cities-just-stopped-participating-in-the-war-on-drugs/370878/

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 141 comments

Always Hungry? Here’s Why

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/opinion/sunday/always-hungry-heres-why.html

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 131 comments

Arecibo Observatory Detects Mysterious, Energetic Radio Burst

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/20/mysterious-energetic-radio-burst/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 81 comments

Some small suggestions for the Intel instruction set

http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140517-insns.html

12 years ago

138 upvotes – 37 comments

Finch – local port forwarding

https://meetfinch.com/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 54 comments

MIT-related work that has transformed computer science

https://www.csail.mit.edu/node/2223

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 52 comments

Control-R, my favorite Unix shell command

http://blog.lerner.co.il/control-r-favorite-unix-shell-command/

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 61 comments

How to become a Good Theoretical Physicist

http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~Gadda001/goodtheorist/index.html

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 33 comments

Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 94 comments

Google Maps Adds Elevation Profiles To Bike Routes

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/16/google-maps-adds-elevation-profiles-to-bike-routes-to-help-you-avoid-those-steep-hills/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 46 comments

OCaml 4.02: Everything else

https://blogs.janestreet.com/ocaml-4-02-everything-else/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 52 comments

Type checking in Python

http://senko.net/type-checking-in-python

12 years ago

97 upvotes – 77 comments

Integrating Google Docs, Chrome, and IPython

https://plus.google.com/+KayurPatel/posts/P89KQiKdXBk

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 13 comments

What Farm-to-Table Got Wrong

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/opinion/sunday/what-farm-to-table-got-wrong.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 23 comments

BADA55: safe curves for elliptic-curve cryptography

http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/bada55.html

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 15 comments

The woman who saw beneath oceans

http://www.skepticblog.org/2014/05/14/the-woman-who-saw-beneath-oceans/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Jmat.js: A new mathematics library in JavaScript

http://lodev.org/jmat/jmat_demo.html

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 13 comments

Patent reform hangs by a thread as Senate Democrats bottle up key bill

http://gigaom.com/2014/05/16/patent-reform-hangs-by-a-thread-as-senate-democrats-bottle-up-key-bill/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

Clib: Package manager for C

https://github.com/clibs/clib

12 years ago

★ 5.1k C MIT
83 upvotes – 56 comments

Computer-related horror stories, folklore and anecdotes (1990)

http://www.speedygrl.com/funnies/texts/computer.folklore.from.net.rumors.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

SSH Tunnel – Local and Remote Port Forwarding Explained With Examples

http://blog.sensible.io/2014/05/17/ssh-tunnel-local-and-remote-port-forwarding-explained-with-examples.html

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

R3 – High-performance URL router library in C

https://github.com/c9s/r3

12 years ago

★ 818 C MIT
77 upvotes – 29 comments

LibreSSL – the first 30 days

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/index.html

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 31 comments

Loving what I used to hate

http://sivers.org/hate

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Detroit: Bankrupt city turned corporate luxury brand

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/may/14/detroit-bankrupt-brand-ad-chrysler-nostalgia

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 61 comments

Many ‘strict herbivores’ will eat animal matter on occasion

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/12/20/carnivory-in-cows-and-deer/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Scientists propose collider that could turn light into matter

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/18/5724658/photon-collider-could-turn-light-into-matter

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 33 comments

ActiveJob – gem for defining background jobs in Rails

https://github.com/rails/activejob

12 years ago

★ 739 Ruby
64 upvotes – 22 comments

“Free” as in “we own your IP”

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-17/free-as-in-we-own-your-ip.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 21 comments
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