top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-22

PDFium: Chrome’s PDF rendering engine is now open-source

https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/

12 years ago

421 upvotes – 100 comments

Is It Better to Rent or Buy?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html?_r=0

12 years ago

408 upvotes – 246 comments

Some of the work we did at Danger

https://medium.com/tech-talk/d823af31f7c

12 years ago

339 upvotes – 78 comments

My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/magazine/my-no-soap-no-shampoo-bacteria-rich-hygiene-experiment.html

12 years ago

335 upvotes – 261 comments

Osmo

https://www.playosmo.com/

12 years ago

331 upvotes – 104 comments

What does GCHQ know about our devices that we don't?

https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/what-does-gchq-know-about-our-devices-that-we-dont

12 years ago

293 upvotes – 157 comments

Send money to debit cards

https://stripe.com/blog/send-money-to-debit-cards

12 years ago

274 upvotes – 117 comments

An open letter on feminism in tech

http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/an-open-letter-on-feminism-in-tech

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 316 comments

A Tour of Machine Learning Algorithms

http://machinelearningmastery.com/a-tour-of-machine-learning-algorithms

12 years ago

207 upvotes – 35 comments

9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age

http://9m.no/

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 69 comments

BPF: The Forgotten Bytecode

http://blog.cloudflare.com/bpf-the-forgotten-bytecode

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 29 comments

We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow (2006)

http://frank.geekheim.de/?page_id=128

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 196 comments

Snowden’s First Move Against the NSA Was a Party in Hawaii

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/snowden-cryptoparty

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 41 comments

Containers on the Google Cloud Platform

https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/containers

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 38 comments

Go 1.3 Linker Improvements

http://dave.cheney.net/2014/05/22/go-1-3-linker-improvements

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 27 comments

Is This How We'll Cure Cancer?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2014/05/07/is-this-how-well-cure-cancer/

12 years ago

167 upvotes – 116 comments

A Comparison of Go Web Frameworks

http://corner.squareup.com/2014/05/evaluating-go-frameworks.html

12 years ago

165 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter?

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/05/metafilter_layoffs_why_has_google_forsaken_the_legendary_internet_forum.single.html

12 years ago

144 upvotes – 80 comments

How to handle big repositories with Git

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/05/handle-big-repositories-git/

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 33 comments

Zenimax Sues Oculus

http://www.zenimax.com/press/ZeniMax_Media_Inc._and_id_Software_LLC_File_Suite_Against_Oculus_VR_Inc._and_its_Founder_Palmer_Luckey

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 86 comments

Manifesto for Async Software Development

http://asyncmanifesto.org/

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 58 comments

Compressor.io – Compress and optimize your images

http://compressor.io

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 71 comments

On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google: An Explainer

http://searchengineland.com/metafilter-penalized-google-192168

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 94 comments

A History of Tug-of-War Fatalities

http://priceonomics.com/a-history-of-tug-of-war-fatalities/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 30 comments

Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2014/05/goodbye-ipv4-iana-starts-allocating-final-address-blocks/

12 years ago

125 upvotes – 106 comments

It's Time to Kill Surface

http://stratechery.com/2014/time-kill-surface/

12 years ago

118 upvotes – 105 comments

Homomorphic encryption implementation

https://hcrypt.com/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 96 comments

There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014

http://blog.playcanvas.com/apple-embraces-webgl/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 50 comments

Why I'm sending back Google Glass

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9248434/Why_I_m_sending_back_Google_Glass?taxonomyId=128&pageNumber=1

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 98 comments

Stop Leaning In. Put Down Your IPhone. And HELP ME.

http://kirstensamazing.com/stop-leaning-in-put-down-your-iphones-and-help-me/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 139 comments

eBay user data for sale?

http://pastebin.com/vmvjGw3N

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 106 comments

Hackers raid eBay in historic breach, access 145 million records

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/22/us-ebay-password-idUSBREA4K0B420140522

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 97 comments

Programming Language Breakdown for the HealthCare.gov Website

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/05/22/programming-language-breakdown-for-the-healthcare-gov-website/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

https://www.fiber7.ch/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 58 comments

AirWheel electric unicycle review

http://www.bemmu.com/airwheel-electric-unicycle-review

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Fast and Extensible Parser for Markdown in PHP

http://parsedown.org/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Screen recording with JavaScript

https://mgechev.github.io/jscapture/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 29 comments

Great miscalculations: The French railway error and others

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27509559

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 51 comments

For Frustrated Gifted Kids, A World of Online Opportunities

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/05/for-frustrated-gifted-kids-a-world-of-online-opportunities/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

Inside the Building That's Calling Itself the People's Republic of Donetsk

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117846/donetsks-people-republic-one-building-endless-bureaucracy

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

Why I Am Not An Integrated Information Theorist (or, The Unconscious Expander)

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Google Fiber: Working with content providers to minimize buffering

http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/minimizing-buffering.html

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

DoorDash (YC S13) Raises $17.3 Million From Sequoia To Expand On-Demand Delivery

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/22/doordash-17-3m-sequoia/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

The Myth That Americans Are Busier Than Ever

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-myth-that-americans-are-busier-than-ever/371350/?_ga=1.154308414.742779469.1395405048

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 50 comments

Who’s behind the last-minute push to thwart patent reform?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/21/whos-behind-the-last-minute-push-to-thwart-patent-reform/

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 60 comments

Facebook without the News Feed

http://maxfriedrich.de/post/86417669824

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 72 comments

Fab Lays Off One-Third of Global Headcount, Slashing New York City Staff

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/21/fab-lays-off-one-third-of-staff-from-new-york-city-office/?ncid=twittersocialshare

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 46 comments

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art makes available almost 400,000 images

http://www.metmuseum.org/research/image-resources/frequently-asked-questions

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

Thousands of Toddlers Are Medicated for A.D.H.D., Report Finds

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/among-experts-scrutiny-of-attention-disorder-diagnoses-in-2-and-3-year-olds.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 57 comments

Google open-sources JsAction, a JavaScript event delegation library

https://github.com/google/jsaction

12 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript Apache-2.0
64 upvotes – 44 comments

Ripe for Disruption

http://jacquesmattheij.com/ripe-for-disruption

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 35 comments

Open letter by Ladar Levison

http://lavabit.com/?asdf

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

The commando scientist billionaire who died fighting terrorists

https://www.philipithomas.com/life-of-danny-lewin/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 49 comments
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