top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-22

How to reward skilled coders with something other than people management

http://lizthedeveloper.com/how-to-reward-skilled-coders-with-something-other-than-people-management

12 years ago

414 upvotes – 153 comments

Quantum OS - OS based on Linux which conforms to Material Design guidelines

http://quantum-os.github.io/

12 years ago

391 upvotes – 163 comments

Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8645443

12 years ago

352 upvotes – 214 comments

Gravitricity

http://www.gravitricity.com/

12 years ago

325 upvotes – 209 comments

The $12 “Gongkai” Phone (2013)

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3107

12 years ago

259 upvotes – 61 comments

FreeBSD: the next 10 years

http://www.slideshare.net/iXsystems/jordan-hubbard-free-bsd-the-next-10-years

12 years ago

249 upvotes – 171 comments

Reduction in Garbage Collection Pause Time in Ruby 2.2

https://www.omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/11/18/ko1-at-rubyconf-2014-massive-garbage-collection-speedup-in-ruby-2-dot-2/?hn=1

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

https://www.truejob.com/

12 years ago

161 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Prophet – A financial micro-framework in Python

http://blog.michaelsu.io/announcing-prophet/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 32 comments

TinyJPG – compress JPEG files with a balance between quality and file size

https://tinyjpg.com

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 30 comments

Gray Code

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/november32014/index.html

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 29 comments

Study: Doubling Saturated Fat in the Diet Does Not Increase It in Blood

http://news.osu.edu/news/2014/11/21/study-doubling-saturated-fat-in-the-diet-does-not-increase-saturated-fat-in-blood/

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 57 comments

Ask HN: Where are all the Rails jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8644822

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 96 comments

Techstars Graduates’ Survival Rates: What the Numbers Show

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/11/20/techstars-graduates-success-rates-what-the-numbers-show/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

Startup creates VetiGel, a plant based polymer that seals wounds in seconds

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-startup-vetigel-based-polymer-wounds.html

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 32 comments

Designing Plan 9 (1990)

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

"Autonomous spaceport drone ship”

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/536262624653365248/photo/1

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Parse the User Agent?

http://www.jefftk.com/p/why-parse-the-user-agent

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 74 comments

User-agent string changes

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh869301(v=vs.85).aspx

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 85 comments

A New Approach to Aid: How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-new-approach-to-aid-how-a-basic-income-program-saved-a-namibian-village-a-642310.html

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 67 comments

The Future of the Web According to Google

https://divshot.com/blog/opinion/the-future-of-the-web-according-to-google/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian fights for a free and open Internet

http://uvamagazine.org/articles/voice_of_his_generation

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments

New Electric Skateboard Models

http://boostedboards.com/new-electric-skateboard-models/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 63 comments

Infobitt – A movement to do for the news what Wikipedia did for encyclopedias

http://www.infobitt.com/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 100 comments

How Lazy Evaluation Works in Haskell

https://hackhands.com/lazy-evaluation-works-haskell/?

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

Elon Musk Testing ‘X-Wing’ Fins, Seafaring Spaceport Drones for Landing/Take-Off

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/22/space-x-x-wing-rocket-drone-landing-pads/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

At Spain’s Door, a Welcome Mat for Entrepreneurs

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/business/international/at-spains-door-a-welcome-mat-for-entrepreneurs-.html?ref=technology

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 48 comments

Silicon Valley Could Offer a Public Bus Commute That's Quicker Than Driving

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/11/silicon-valley-may-soon-offer-a-public-bus-commute-thats-quicker-than-driving/382897/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 60 comments

CERN frees LHC Data

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/november-2014/cern-frees-lhc-data

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 2 comments

Statistical Reference Datasets

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/strd/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

Guy Steele on Functional Code for Parallel Execution (2009) [video]

http://vimeo.com/6624203/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 9 comments

How to Ship an F1 Car Across the Globe in 36 Hours

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/ship-f1-car-across-globe-36-hours

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

A Survey of RTS Game AI Research and Competition in StarCraft (2013) [pdf]

http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~cdavid/pdf/starcraft_survey.pdf

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 26 comments

Futures in Go

http://blog.charmes.net/2014/11/futures-in-go.html

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Non-compete agreement advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8645809

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 40 comments
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