top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-04

The Other Side of Diversity

https://medium.com/@ericajoy/the-other-side-of-diversity-1bb3de2f053e

12 years ago

704 upvotes – 447 comments

Principles of Rich Web Applications

http://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications/

12 years ago

534 upvotes – 148 comments

C4 – C in 4 functions

https://github.com/rswier/c4

12 years ago

★ 10.6k C GPL-2.0
517 upvotes – 138 comments

The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum chamber [video]

http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/the-hammer-feather-drop-in-the-worlds-biggest-vacuum-chamber

12 years ago

443 upvotes – 118 comments

The Art of Not Working at Work

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/11/the-art-of-not-working-at-work/382121/?single_page=true

12 years ago

414 upvotes – 125 comments

Dropbox is in your Office

https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/11/dropbox-microsoft-office-partnership/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=promoted-update&utm_term=English&utm_content=announcement&utm_campaign=microsoft-dropbox-partnership

12 years ago

348 upvotes – 195 comments

Google Launches Managed Service for Running Docker Apps on Its Platform

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/11/google-cloud-platform-live-introducing-container-engine-cloud-networking-and-much-more.html

12 years ago

264 upvotes – 60 comments

New NSA Documents Shine More Light into Black Box of Executive Order 12333

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/new-nsa-documents-shine-more-light-black-box-executive-order-12333

12 years ago

255 upvotes – 44 comments

Please grow your buffers exponentially

http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/11/04/please-grow-your-buffers-exponentially/

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 156 comments

How I made the print and eBook versions of my web book

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/11/03/bringing-my-web-book-to-print-and-ebook/

12 years ago

228 upvotes – 66 comments

Woz’s take on the Apple 1’s noisy -5 volt supply

http://www.willegal.net/blog/?p=6023

12 years ago

223 upvotes – 61 comments

Let's Talk About Beacons

http://nfarina.com/post/101309491728/lets-talk-about-beacons

12 years ago

219 upvotes – 93 comments

Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality/

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 91 comments

Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/11/too-many-kids-quit-science-because-they-dont-think-theyre-smart/382165/?single_page=true

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 140 comments

Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (2013)

http://blog.hut8labs.com/coding-fast-and-slow.html?reddit

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 64 comments

Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited Photo Storage

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/04/amazon-prime-members-newest-benefit-is-free-unlimited-photo-storage/

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 217 comments

How I created two images with the same MD5 hash

http://natmchugh.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-i-created-two-images-with-same-md5.html

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 47 comments

2015 Tesla Model S P85D First Test

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/alternative/1411_2015_tesla_model_s_p85d_first_test/

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 125 comments

Mayday.us

https://stripe.com/blog/mayday

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 31 comments

Former NSA lawyer: the cyberwar is between tech firms and the US government

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/04/nsa-cyberwar-stewart-baker-cloudflare-snowden

12 years ago

183 upvotes – 74 comments

Facebook's Top Open Data Problems

https://research.facebook.com/blog/1522692927972019/facebook-s-top-open-data-problems/

12 years ago

180 upvotes – 61 comments

The new hypervisor LXD

http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/tools/lxd

12 years ago

178 upvotes – 77 comments

Secure Messaging Scorecard

https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Balls – Game I’ve made while I was learning Swift

http://gameofballs.co/

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 64 comments

NTFS now supported in ReactOS LiveCD

http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in-reactos-livecd/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 46 comments

Adobe Brackets hits 1.0

https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Release-Notes:-1.0

12 years ago

★ 33k JavaScript MIT
150 upvotes – 37 comments

A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub [pdf]

http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/lang_study.pdf

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 40 comments

LokiJS – Lightweight JavaScript in-memory database

http://lokijs.org/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 37 comments

Sean Rad Out as Tinder CEO

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2014/11/04/exclusive-sean-rad-out-as-tinder-ceo-inside-the-crazy-saga

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 50 comments

Face++: API for face detection – also detects gender, age, pose

http://www.faceplusplus.com/demo-detect/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 50 comments

$300k for Cracking Telegram Encryption

https://telegram.org/blog/cryptocontest

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 90 comments

Lecture 13: How to Be a Great Founder

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec13/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

Google’s Quest to Write the Rulebook for Interactive Design

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/googles-quest-write-rulebook-interactive-design/

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 56 comments

Geiser: Emacs modes that conspire to keep the Lisp Machine spirit alive

http://nongnu.org/geiser/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 11 comments

Stanford MBAs Shift Away from Tech

http://poetsandquants.com/2014/10/29/stanford-mbas-shift-away-from-tech/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 77 comments

Understanding Python Bytecode

http://security.coverity.com/blog/2014/Nov/understanding-python-bytecode.html

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 6 comments

Urban Onshoring: The Movement to Bring Tech Jobs Back to America

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/urban-onshoring/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Cobalt2 theme and colour scheme for Sublime Text

https://github.com/wesbos/cobalt2

12 years ago

★ 1.5k
80 upvotes – 52 comments

The Economics of UberX in NYC

http://justin-singer.org/blog/2014/11/the-economics-of-uberx-part-ii/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

The hipster effect: When anticonformists all look the same

http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8001

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 54 comments

Porting to Emscripten

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/11/porting-to-emscripten/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

Array languages for Lisp programmers (2010)

http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10500180

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

Space Tourism Isn’t Frivolous, or Impossible

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/opinion/space-tourism-isnt-frivolous-or-impossible.html?ref=opinion

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Interbot – Get work done right from your chat app

http://interbot.co

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 41 comments

Google Cloud Platform Live

https://cloud.google.com/events/google-cloud-platform-live/stream

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

Tinder’s Sean Rad Demoted from CEO, Will Serve as President of Board

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/04/tinders-sean-rad-demoted-from-ceo-will-serve-as-president-of-board/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

Paradoxes of Software Architecture (2012)

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1963779

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

Paul Rand and Steve Jobs (2011)

http://www.printmag.com/featured/paul-rand-steve-jobs/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments

Why We’re Just Now Getting the 1960s Batman TV Show on DVD

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/batman-home-video-finally/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 55 comments

Handbook of Data Structures and Applications – B Trees (2004) [pdf]

http://zgking.com:8080/home/donghui/publications/books/dshandbook_BTree.pdf

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 0 comments

Amazon Cloud Drive: Prime Photos

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/primephotos

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU?

http://danluu.com/2choices-eviction

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

Qake: GNU Make-based build system with a different approach

https://github.com/mkpankov/qake/blob/master/README.md

12 years ago

★ 63 C
54 upvotes – 30 comments

The Guardian Is Being Swamped with 'Dark Traffic'

http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-guardians-dark-social-traffic-problem-2014-10

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 67 comments

Game Programming Patterns now available in print and eBook

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

learn.mean.io - new mean stack documentation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8555358

12 years ago

52 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Ruby Heap Viz – An interactive Ruby object graph visualization

https://github.com/mattbaker/ruby-heap-viz

12 years ago

★ 327 JavaScript
51 upvotes – 4 comments

The Roman typefaces used in Chinese and Japanese text

http://bellisk.blogspot.com/2012/05/roman-typefaces-used-in-chinese-and.html

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 33 comments

Mathematicians settle 30-year-old resonance controversy with interval arithmetic

http://phys.org/news/2014-11-mathematicians-year-old-resonance-controversy.html

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

What It Means to Live in a Holographic Universe

http://nautil.us/blog/what-it-means-to-live-in-a-holographic-universe

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments
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