top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-19

State of MetaFilter

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/23245/State-of-MetaFilter

12 years ago

400 upvotes – 176 comments

What are common mistakes that new or inexperienced managers make?

http://www.quora.com/Management/What-are-common-mistakes-that-new-or-inexperienced-managers-make?share=1

12 years ago

376 upvotes – 147 comments

OpenStreetMap is now navigation-ready

http://stevecoast.com/2014/05/19/why-openstreetmap-is-now-navigation-ready-for-people-like-you/

12 years ago

364 upvotes – 131 comments

The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-pirates-caribbean-nsa-recording-every-cell-phone-call-bahamas/

12 years ago

348 upvotes – 114 comments

Hoodie – Fast web app development

http://hood.ie/

12 years ago

294 upvotes – 143 comments

How did we get so busy?

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/05/26/140526crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=all

12 years ago

246 upvotes – 138 comments

Making Your Writing Work Harder For You

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/content-marketing-strategy

12 years ago

222 upvotes – 110 comments

Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one

https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Adblock-Plus-memory-consumption

12 years ago

★ 1.3k JavaScript GPL-3.0
221 upvotes – 178 comments

Laravel Forge – PHP Platforms On Linode, DigitalOcean, AWS, Rackspace

https://forge.laravel.com/?hn=repost

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 78 comments

Solar Scare Mosquito

http://www.gallactronics.com/2014/05/solar-scare-mosquito.html

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 72 comments

Mandatory encryption on XMPP starts today

http://blog.prosody.im/mandatory-encryption-on-xmpp-starts-today/

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: The static, static site generator

https://github.com/xeoncross/Jr

12 years ago

★ 758 HTML
187 upvotes – 96 comments

Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin [pdf]

http://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-20140518.pdf

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 57 comments

GoPro S-1

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1500435/000119312514204902/d552193ds1.htm

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 93 comments

Soylent 1.0 arrives at Ars: We mix it up and slurp it down

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/05/soylent-1-0-arrives-at-ars-we-mix-it-up-and-slurp-it-down/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 176 comments

Floating Point Routines by Steve Wozniak

http://mailp.in/Y6WE2w8v/

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 24 comments

Rolls-Royce is designing drone ships to challenge $375B freight industry

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-25/rolls-royce-drone-ships-challenge-375-billion-industry-freight.html

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 133 comments

Self-Destructing Cookies

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 47 comments

Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_16-5-2014-15-32-44

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 45 comments

Couple Live Map

https://map.couple.me/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 61 comments

Massive network issues across Europe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7769587

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 22 comments

Famo.us open to everyone

http://famo.us/?new

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 138 comments

Ask HN: The best way to find remote job

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7767420

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 91 comments

The Weird and Wonderful Characters of Clojure

http://yobriefca.se/blog/2014/05/19/the-weird-and-wonderful-characters-of-clojure/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 22 comments

Pokémon Crystal disassembled source code

https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal

12 years ago

★ 2.4k Assembly
106 upvotes – 60 comments

The Frontline Interview: William Binney

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/united-states-of-secrets/the-frontline-interview-william-binney/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 19 comments

U.S. announces first criminal charges against foreign country for cyberspying

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-to-announce-first-criminal-charges-against-foreign-country-for-cyberspying/2014/05/19/586c9992-df45-11e3-810f-764fe508b82d_story.html

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 71 comments

Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream Of A Silicon Reich

http://thebaffler.com/blog/2014/05/mouthbreathing_machiavellis

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Zero Downtime Frontend Deploys with Vulcand on CoreOS

http://coreos.com/blog/zero-downtime-frontend-deploys-vulcand/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 23 comments

An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998)

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

Muse: the brain sensing headband

http://www.choosemuse.com

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 54 comments

Inside the US government’s war on tech support scammers

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/stains-of-deceitfulness-inside-the-us-governments-war-on-tech-support-scammers/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

A plane has been in space for 500 days

http://www.techly.com.au/2014/04/30/plane-space-500-days-one-knows/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 88 comments

Twitter Is Considering a Deal to Buy SoundCloud

http://recode.net/2014/05/19/twitter-is-considering-a-deal-to-buy-soundcloud/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 44 comments

Tips: When starting a new job

http://www.refactoringideas.com/when-starting-a-new-job/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

Fog Computing? Air Computing

http://blog.aerofs.com/fog-computing-air-computing/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

Ruby 2.1.2 is released

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/05/09/ruby-2-1-2-is-released/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

Go from C to Go [video]

http://confreaks.com/videos/3432-gophercon2014-go-from-c-to-go

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Manage servers easily online with Commando.io

https://commando.io

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: A Grunt workflow for designing and testing HTML emails

https://github.com/leemunroe/grunt-email-design

12 years ago

★ 3k SCSS MIT
66 upvotes – 11 comments

What If the Moon Orbited at the Same Height as the ISS?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/19/close_encounter_what_if_the_moon_orbited_much_closer_to_earth.html

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Cold Call Manager

http://www.coldcallmanager.com

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: PyEQS – query Elasticsearch like a Django Queryset

https://github.com/Yipit/pyeqs

12 years ago

★ 207 Python MIT
55 upvotes – 24 comments

Spotting Patterns in C Disassembly

http://www.mindtribe.com/2014/05/spotting-patterns-in-c-disassembly/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

Investors must recognize what ‘this time it’s different’ really means

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/barry-ritholtz-investors-must-recognize-what-this-time-its-different-really-means/2014/05/15/c2d7d072-dc74-11e3-bda1-9b46b2066796_story.html

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 43 comments

Reading and Writing Redis Protocol in Go

http://www.redisgreen.net/blog/2014/05/16/reading-and-writing_redis_protocol/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 19 comments

Grace Hopper and UNIVAC

http://www.linuxvoice.com/history-of-computing-part-2?pk_campaign=hn&pk_kwd=3

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

US files criminal complaint against Credit Suisse

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101614446

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 36 comments

Forget 'the Cloud'; 'the Fog' Is Tech's Future

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304908304579566662320279406

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: SEO for JavaScript, HTML5 and Single Page Applications

https://snapsearch.io/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 56 comments

4 Things I Learned the Hard Way While Freelancing

http://blog.gedrap.me/blog/2014/05/19/4-things-i-learned-the-hard-way-while-freelancing/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

Build Muscle Memory With Your Favorite Editor

https://www.shortcutfoo.com

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 17 comments
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