top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-19

Unicode Text Converter

http://www.panix.com/~eli/unicode/convert.cgi?text=The+secret+is+out.+

12 years ago

908 upvotes – 229 comments

Node.js in Flame Graphs

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/11/nodejs-in-flames.html

12 years ago

778 upvotes – 240 comments

Cache is the new RAM

http://blog.memsql.com/cache-is-the-new-ram/

12 years ago

438 upvotes – 95 comments

New Search Strategy for Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/yahoo-and-mozilla-form-strategic-partnership/

12 years ago

430 upvotes – 344 comments

Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI

https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/7-rules-for-creating-gorgeous-ui-part-1-559d4e805cda?hn=1

12 years ago

385 upvotes – 61 comments

Neural Networks That Describe Images

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/?hn

12 years ago

357 upvotes – 60 comments

Google disables SSL search at BT’s request

http://blog.al4.co.nz/2014/09/google-commits-privacy-seppuku-at-bts-request/

12 years ago

307 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8629919

12 years ago

293 upvotes – 335 comments

Jolla Tablet

http://jolla.com/tablet

12 years ago

243 upvotes – 113 comments

Light Table 0.7.0

http://lighttable.com/2014/11/19/light-table-070/

12 years ago

243 upvotes – 105 comments

A Cautionary Tale of Learning to Code

http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2014/11/a-cautionary-tale-of-learning-to-code.html

12 years ago

240 upvotes – 129 comments

Bill to Restrict N.S.A. Data Collection Blocked in Vote by Senate Republicans

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/us/nsa-phone-records.html?module=Notification&version=BreakingNews&region=FixedTop&action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=22423438&pgtype=article

12 years ago

233 upvotes – 150 comments

Queues Don't Fix Overload

http://ferd.ca/queues-don-t-fix-overload.html

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 59 comments

Interact.js – drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures

https://github.com/taye/interact.js

12 years ago

★ 12.9k TypeScript MIT
203 upvotes – 35 comments

Questions with Vim’s Creator, Bram Moolenaar

http://www.binpress.com/blog/2014/11/19/vim-creator-bram-moolenaar-interview/

12 years ago

195 upvotes – 74 comments

How My Book Launch Went

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/11/20/how-my-book-launch-went/

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 31 comments

EIZO Announces Monitor with 1920x1920 Resolution

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8740/eizo-announces-the-ips-265-flexscan-ev2730q-monitor-with-1920x1920-resolution

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 132 comments

A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

http://hamberg.no/gtd/

12 years ago

181 upvotes – 91 comments

Two new subatomic particles discovered at CERN

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/2-new-subatomic-particles-discovered-at-cern-1.2840199?cmp=rss

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 34 comments

The Startup That Built Google’s First Self-Driving Car

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/the-unknown-startup-that-built-googles-first-selfdriving-car

12 years ago

172 upvotes – 50 comments

Microsoft Azure Outage

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#current

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 172 comments

Show HN: C# 6.0 Functional Language Extensions

https://github.com/louthy/language-ext

12 years ago

★ 7k C# MIT
164 upvotes – 87 comments

Intro to Docker and how we use it at WriteLaTeX

http://jdlm.info/ds-docker-demo/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 20 comments

Trends: Uber vs. Lyft

http://www.diklein.com/blog/2014/11/17/trends-uber-vs-lyft

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 130 comments

Is Docker ready for production?

https://t37.net/is-docker-ready-for-production-feedbacks-of-a-2-weeks-hands-on.html?

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 70 comments

Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30100973

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 158 comments

PHP Cross-Platform Desktop GUI Framework

https://github.com/naetech/nightrain

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 67 comments

Peter Thiel: Uber is most ethically challenged company in Silicon Valley [video]

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/18/technology/uber-unethical-peter-thiel/

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 122 comments

Before Snowden, a debate inside NSA

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/acc54fc0c64c4c3eae29b8ac380cc065/ap-exclusive-snowden-debate-inside-nsa

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 37 comments

Electrical brain stimulation beats caffeine and the effect lasts longer

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/19/electrical-brain-stimulation-caffeine

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Picky Pint – Scan beer lists with a photo

http://www.pickypint.com/

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 45 comments

Don’t use IDs in CSS selectors? (2011)

http://oli.jp/2011/ids/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 44 comments

Response to Netflix's “Node.js in Flames” Blog Post

https://gist.github.com/hueniverse/a3109f716bf25718ba0e

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 25 comments

Marijuana helped shrink one of the most aggressive brain cancers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/18/how-pot-helped-shrink-one-of-the-most-aggressive-brain-cancers/

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 59 comments

Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/11/msg00091.html

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 199 comments

Go language's HTTP/2 demo and interop server

https://http2.golang.org/

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 29 comments

The TechCrunch Bubble Index: Parsing Headlines to Quantify Startup Hype

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/techcrunch-bubble-index/

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 20 comments

Azure Partial Service Interruption

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#history

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 2 comments

RelativeWave Acquired by Google, Giving Its App Design Tool Away for Free

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/19/relativewave-gets-acquired-by-google-and-starts-giving-its-80-design-app-away-for-free/

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 6 comments

TypeScript 1.4 sneak peek: union types, type guards, and more

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2014/11/18/what-s-new-in-the-typescript-type-system.aspx

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Axis - a React.js multiplayer math game

http://www.axisthegame.com

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 49 comments

San Francisco system font replacement for Yosemite

https://github.com/wellsriley/YosemiteSanFranciscoFont

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 57 comments

Many Older Brains Have Plasticity, but in a Different Place

http://neurosciencenews.com/neuroplasticity-aging-learning-1557/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 5 comments

Half of stars lurk outside galaxies

http://www.nature.com/news/half-of-stars-lurk-outside-galaxies-1.16288

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 78 comments

Rust, Lifetimes, and Collections

http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/rust-lifetimes-and-collections/

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 45 comments

Deep Learning Tutorial [pdf]

http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/deeplearning.pdf

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Morning Reader – A simple way to read the news

http://morningreader.com

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

Patch to Log SSH Passwords – One Year Results

http://w8rbt.org/patches/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 59 comments

Bitmarkets: Private decentralized marketplaces based on two party escrow

http://voluntary.net/bitmarkets/

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

NASM Examples

http://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/nasmexamples/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

Complete X86/x64 JIT and Remote Assembler for C++

https://github.com/kobalicek/asmjit

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

The Nonsense of 10X Developers and GitHub as a CV

https://codequalified.com/blog/2014/11/20/nonsense-of-10x-developers-and-github-as-a-cv/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 56 comments

RubyGems.org Redesign

http://rubygems.org/?redesign

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

The Effort Effect (2007)

https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=32124

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

Rust developer tools – status and strategy

https://gist.github.com/nick29581/a3bbf6dd1b14ce57f18c

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 4 comments

Azure Status: We're Having Issues

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#current

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 3 comments

Partial Evaluation and Immutable Servers

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1197

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 80 comments
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