top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-27

A Hacker’s Guide to Git

http://wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git

12 years ago

HipChat is now free for unlimited users

https://blog.hipchat.com/2014/05/27/hipchat-is-now-free-for-unlimited-users/

12 years ago

Pre-orders start today for Flame, the Firefox OS developer phone

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/flame-firefox-os-developer-phone/

12 years ago

Headroom.js – hide your header on scroll

http://wicky.nillia.ms/headroom.js

12 years ago

You shouldn’t use a spreadsheet for important work

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/05/23/you-shouldnt-use-a-spreadsheet-for-important-work-i-mean-it/

12 years ago

Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Critic, Is Now Building Azure

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/mark-russinovich/

12 years ago

Massimo Vignelli, 1931-2014

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/may/massimo-vignelli-1931-2014

12 years ago

HN Hiring

http://hnhiring.me/

12 years ago

PHP Next Generation

http://www.php.net/archive/2014.php#id2014-05-27-1

12 years ago

Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web

http://t37.net/why-link-shorteners-harm-your-readers-and-destroy-the-web.html

12 years ago

Nitra, JetBrains’ research project for language tooling, goes open-source

http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2014/05/27/nitra-goes-open-source/

12 years ago

Experiments at Airbnb

http://nerds.airbnb.com/experiments-at-airbnb/

12 years ago

Build your own drink mixing robot

http://yujiangtham.com/2014/05/25/build-your-very-own-drink-mixing-robot-part-1/

12 years ago

Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/twitter-to-release-all-tweets-to-scientists-a-trove-of-billions-of-tweets-will-be-a-research-boon-and-an-ethical-dilemma/

12 years ago

Leo The Homeless Coder Is Still Homeless

http://www.businessinsider.com/leo-the-homeless-coder-2014-5

12 years ago

SBCL 1.2.0 Released with ARM support

http://www.sbcl.org/news.html?1.2.0#1.2.0

12 years ago

Check your Google history

https://history.google.com/history/lookup

12 years ago

Physicists Prove Surprising Rule of Threes

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140527-physicists-prove-surprising-rule-of-threes/

12 years ago

Brokers use ‘billions’ of data points to profile Americans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/brokers-use-billions-of-data-points-to-profile-americans/2014/05/27/b4207b96-e5b2-11e3-a86b-362fd5443d19_story.html

12 years ago

Show HN: Font Awesome to PNG

http://fa2png.io/

12 years ago

The brave new world of DIY faecal transplant

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27503660

12 years ago

Googlebot's recent improvements might revolutionize web development

http://blog.workhere.io/googlebots-recent-improvements-might-revolutionize-web-development/

12 years ago

Perl 5.20.0 released

https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.20.0

12 years ago

How much do Y Combinator founders earn?

http://80000hours.org/blog/341-how-much-do-y-combinator-founders-earn

12 years ago

Joyent us-east-1 rebooted due to operator error

https://help.joyent.com/entries/40957424-Transient-availability-issues-in-US-East-1-data-center

12 years ago

CSVKit: CSV utilities that includes csvsql, csvgrep, csvstat, and more

http://csvkit.readthedocs.org/en/0.7.3/

12 years ago

Numeral.js – A JavaScript library for formatting and manipulating numbers

http://numeraljs.com/

12 years ago

Introducing Avocado: A new toolbox for interaction designers

http://labs.ideo.com/2014/05/27/avocado/

12 years ago

U.S. Is No. 1, China Is So Yesterday

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-12/u-s-is-no-1-china-is-so-yesterday

12 years ago

How Statisticians Found AirFrance Flight Two Years After It Crashed

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/527506/how-statisticians-found-air-france-flight-447-two-years-after-it-crashed-into-atlantic/?utm_campaign=socialsync&utm_medium=social-post&utm_source=facebook

12 years ago

Ask HN: Which paid apps and services do you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7802265

12 years ago

Project outline for the first human head transplantation with spinal linkage

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3821155/

12 years ago

Haskell, and Why It Might Be My New Favourite Language

http://unbui.lt/#!/post/haskell-an-introduction

12 years ago

Important Notice to Our Users

http://news.spotify.com/us/2014/05/27/important-notice-to-our-users/

12 years ago

A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-theory-of-everything-reality-emerges-from-cosmic-copyright-law/

12 years ago

T-Mobile USA storing passwords in clear?

http://www.caseyliss.com/2014/5/27/tmobiles-clown-shoes

12 years ago

Post-Snowden: The Economics of Surveillance

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2014/05/27/post-snowden-the-economics-of-surveillance/

12 years ago

Knod – A Tiny HTTP server for your current directory with writes

https://github.com/moserrya/knod

12 years ago

★ 432 Ruby MIT

Software is Eating Hardware – Lessons for Building Magical Devices

http://firstround.com/article/hardware-adam-macbeth

12 years ago

Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/upshot/is-college-worth-it-clearly-new-data-say.html?hp&_r=0

12 years ago

A Blow for Copyright Trolls

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/crushing-blow-copyright-trolls-appeals-court-halts-af-holdings-extortion-scheme

12 years ago

Hacker Who Helped Disrupt Cyberattacks Is Allowed to Walk Free

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/nyregion/hacker-who-helped-disrupt-cyberattacks-is-allowed-to-walk-free.html?hp

12 years ago

Vesper 2.0 and Vesper Sync

http://vesperapp.co/blog/vesper-2-0-and-vesper-sync/

12 years ago

Static energy consumption analysis of LLVM IR programs

http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4565

12 years ago

Commercial GPS Turns 25: How Unwanted Military Tech Found Its True Calling

http://mashable.com/2014/05/25/commercial-gps-25-anniversary

12 years ago

Introducing QuickCoin: Bitcoin Made Simple

http://www.quickcoin.co

12 years ago

An insane idea on reference counting [pdf]

http://epicsol.org/~misha/BSDCan-2014-lwref.pdf

12 years ago

Hiring Developers in a Remote and Distributed Company

https://softwaremill.com/hiring-developers-remote-distributed-company/

12 years ago

Why would anyone want to live on Soylent?

http://www.raptitude.com/2014/05/why-soylent/

12 years ago

Notes for Signalling Unit Log for Flight MH370 [pdf]

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2014/images/05/27/flight.370.data.logs.pdf

12 years ago

Fujitsu harvests low-potassium lettuce grown in semiconductor plant

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/13/national/science-health/fujitsu-harvests-low-potassium-lettuce-grown-plant-clean-room

12 years ago

Hacker culture and the fear of wysiwyg

http://i.liketightpants.net/and/hackers-culture-and-the-fear-of-wysiwyg

12 years ago