top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-05-24

Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla

http://www.donotlick.com/2014/05/23/try-out-fira-sans-a-free-open-source-typeface-commissioned-by-mozilla/

12 years ago

338 upvotes – 134 comments

Responding to the Explosion of Student Interest in Computer Science [pdf]

http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/NCWIT.pdf

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 194 comments

From Gmail to Fastmail

http://blog.l0cal.com/2014/05/23/from-gmail-to-fastmail/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 163 comments

Tehran tracked, captured, studied, copied RQ-170

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/f3fc9b2c087a

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 116 comments

Data mining Reddit posts reveals how to ask for a favor and get it

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/527496/dating-mining-reddit-posts-reveals-how-to-ask-for-a-favor-and-get-it/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 47 comments

A Diamond Market No Longer Controlled By De Beers

http://www.kitco.com/ind/Zimnisky/2013-06-06-A-Diamond-Market-No-Longer-Controlled-By-De-Beers.html

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 111 comments

Trillions of plastic pieces found in Arctic ice

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/05/23/arctic-ice-trapped-plastic/9507653/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 51 comments

How to start and scale a full stack startup

http://blog.42floors.com/how-to-start-and-scale-a-full-stack-startup/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

Tail Calls, Optimization, and ES6

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/tail-calls-optimization-es6/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 59 comments

One reason I dread Google doc shares

https://plus.google.com/113174802278825610073/posts/ff3uLcMrQxF

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 72 comments

The evolution of chess: Game lengths and outcomes

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/05/24/a-data-driven-exploration-of-the-evolution-of-chess-match-lengths-and-outcomes/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

When should I not kill -9 a process?

http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/8916/22558

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 83 comments

Chancecoin: a decentralized casino built on top of Bitcoin

http://chancecoin.com

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: We brought iOS dictation to Windows

http://www.myechoapp.com

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Inequality: A Piketty problem?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/05/inequality-0

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 43 comments

Introducing Nvest

http://www.nvest.me/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 57 comments

Don’t follow your dreams: A commencement speech for the mediocre

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/22/dear_graduates_dont_follow_your_dreams_commencement_speech_for_the_mediocre/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Horror co-founder stories.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7793904

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 35 comments

Bass Guitar Preamp Design [pdf]

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BygxsNKAEwEWVUFYMk8xWEtCYmc

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Hacking the DSP-W215, Again, Again

http://www.devttys0.com/2014/05/hacking-the-dsp-w215-again-again/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments
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