top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-29

We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft

http://spacecollege.org/isee3/we-are-now-in-command-of-the-isee-3-spacecraft.html

12 years ago

466 upvotes – 62 comments

How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-tell-someones-age-when-all-you-know-is-her-name/

12 years ago

421 upvotes – 145 comments

Git 2.0

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1405.3/02592.html

12 years ago

405 upvotes – 137 comments

For Hire: Dedicated Young Man With Down Syndrome

http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/portrait-of-down-syndrome/index.html

12 years ago

391 upvotes – 115 comments

Google's XSS game

https://xss-game.appspot.com/

12 years ago

376 upvotes – 156 comments

True Goodbye: ‘Using TrueCrypt Is Not Secure’

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/true-goodbye-using-truecrypt-is-not-secure/

12 years ago

360 upvotes – 237 comments

The Man Who Single-Handedly Converted a Washed-Out Land Into a 1,360 Acre Forest

http://www.thebetterindia.com/10904/jadav-molai-payeng-forest-man-india/

12 years ago

326 upvotes – 41 comments

US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/29/us-cybercrime-laws-security-researchers

12 years ago

273 upvotes – 83 comments

Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13qgzd5gza1ed4gw04ccn1ggua0dbohmd0

12 years ago

269 upvotes – 97 comments

The Makings of a Great Logo

https://bold.pixelapse.com/minming/the-makings-of-a-great-logo

12 years ago

254 upvotes – 74 comments

Absolute Zero

http://www.damninteresting.com/absolute-zero-is-0k

12 years ago

249 upvotes – 41 comments

Interesting Data Sets for Statistics

http://rs.io/2014/05/29/list-of-data-sets.html

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 17 comments

Google Shames Slow U.S. ISPs With Its New YouTube Video Quality Report

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/29/google-shames-slow-u-s-isps-with-its-new-youtube-video-quality-report/

12 years ago

216 upvotes – 77 comments

No more ads

http://blog.opendns.com/2014/05/29/no-more-ads/

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 106 comments

OpenSSL, OpenSSH and NTP to receive support from Core Infrastructure Initiative

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2014/05/core-infrastructure-initiative-announces-new-backers

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 90 comments

Laverna: Self-hosted Evernote alternative

http://laverna.cc

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 50 comments

A Data Analysis Curriculum

http://www.mysliderule.com/data-analysis-intro

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 50 comments

“Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry”

http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/#print

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 129 comments

Google's diversity post makes no mention of age

http://brianstorms.com/2014/05/googles-so-called-diversity-makes-no-mention-of-age.html

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 43 comments

An alternative Haskell home page

http://chrisdone.com/posts/haskell-lang

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 38 comments

I got shipped to California to date tech guys

http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/05/shipped-to-california.html

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 113 comments

Defensive Bash programming

http://www.kfirlavi.com/blog/2012/11/14/defensive-bash-programming/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 57 comments

Thomas Piketty Responds to Criticism of His Data

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/upshot/thomas-piketty-responds-to-criticism-of-his-data.html

12 years ago

122 upvotes – 70 comments

Go, REST APIs, and Pointers

https://willnorris.com/2014/05/go-rest-apis-and-pointers

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 20 comments

RenderMan Price Restructuring

http://renderman.pixar.com/view/non-commercial

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 50 comments

So a female programmer walks into a bar…

https://netguru.co/blog/posts/so-a-female-programmer-walks-into-a-bar-dot-dot-dot

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 137 comments

Replace TrueCrypt – Candidate alternatives

https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/replace_truecrypt/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 56 comments

Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States

http://priceonomics.com/joshua-norton-emperor-of-the-united-states/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 35 comments

Typography in 8 bits: System fonts (2011)

http://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 17 comments

We picked the wrong lawyers for our first startup

http://blog.gymsurfing.com/post/87196483724/3-ways-we-got-screwed-by-picking-the-wrong-lawyers-for

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 84 comments

What the Head of Hiring at Google Doesn’t Understand About Skills

http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/05/28/what-the-head-of-hiring-at-google-doesnt-understand-about-skills/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 125 comments

Emulating a 6502 with cycle-perfect timing

http://xania.org/201405/jsbeeb-getting-the-timings-right-cpu

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

Bayesian A/B Testing

http://developers.lyst.com/data/2014/05/10/bayesian-ab-testing/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Wait-free queueing and ultra-low latency logging

http://mortoray.com/2014/05/29/wait-free-queueing-and-ultra-low-latency-logging/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 55 comments

The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/technology/personaltech/the-soylent-revolution-will-not-be-pleasurable.html?hp

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 173 comments

Skylon ‘spaceplane economics stack up’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27591432

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 52 comments

World War II in the Pacific, narrated by my grandpa

https://soundcloud.com/luciddreamworld/ww2-with-richard-t-williams

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 44 comments

Mojolicious 5.0 released: Perl real-time web framework

http://blog.kraih.com/post/87229338726/mojolicious-5-0-released-perl-real-time-web-framework

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

APL Demonstration From 1975 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

Applying Artificial Intelligence to Nintendo Tetris

http://meatfighter.com/nintendotetrisai/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

Bye Bye Passwords

http://blog.shopittome.com/2014/05/29/bye-bye-passwords/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 59 comments

The GHC Runtime System [pdf]

http://www.scs.stanford.edu/14sp-cs240h/slides/ghc-rts.pdf

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

Typography in 16 bits: System fonts (2011)

http://damieng.com/blog/2011/03/27/typography-in-16-bits-system-fonts

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 2 comments

Interview with TrueCrypt developer (2005)

http://www.wolfmanzbytes.com/windows/70-truecrypt-encryption.html

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 1 comments
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