top 50% 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

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

Bass Guitar Preamp Design [pdf]

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

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Horror co-founder stories.

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

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 35 comments

CSVjs: Basic CSV parsing and encoding in JavaScript

https://github.com/knrz/CSVjs

12 years ago

★ 1.5k JavaScript MIT
66 upvotes – 47 comments

Racket version 6.0.1 is now available

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2014/05/racket-v601.html?m=1

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 3 comments

Starquakes: maybe we can be a little frightened (2009)

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/18/ok-so-maybe-we-can-be-a-little-frightened/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Don't learn to code. Learn to think

http://brikis98.blogspot.com/2014/05/dont-learn-to-code-learn-to-think.html

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

A wireless network for gadgets set to arrive in San Francisco

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248478/A_wireless_network_for_gadgets_set_to_arrive_in_San_Francisco

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

The threat facing online comments

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9c0cf256-e197-11e3-b7c4-00144feabdc0.html#axzz32cyddExJ

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 55 comments

U.S. may act to keep Chinese hackers out of Defcon

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/24/us-cybercrime-usa-china-idUSBREA4N07D20140524

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 46 comments

One insider describes how trial lawyers killed patent reform

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/24/5745832/one-insider-describes-how-trial-lawyers-killed-patent-reform

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

I'm back. This time without Google

http://www.ahmedatia.com/Blog/IamBackWithoutGoogle.aspx

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 43 comments

Dijkstra on Dutch TV (2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCCigccBzIU

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 20 comments

Benford's law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Rails Google Summer of Code students and mentors

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/5/23/meet-our-google-summer-of-code-students-and-mentors/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 24 comments

Out of Prohibition’s Reach: How Technology Cures Toxic Policy

http://stanfordreview.org/article/out-of-prohibitions-reach-how-technology-cures-toxic-policy/

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

Kill The Hamburger Button

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/24/before-the-hamburger-button-kills-you/

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 54 comments
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