top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-13

Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

https://medium.com/@WhatALongHandle/hi-its-google-corporate-development-d0c77fd69191

11 years ago

1227 upvotes – 278 comments

The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer

http://www.jeffwofford.com/?p=1579

11 years ago

471 upvotes – 176 comments

Ask HN: What's left for early startup engineers as the company grows?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8881811

11 years ago

463 upvotes – 186 comments

The Human Toll of Flashbangs

https://www.propublica.org/article/flashbangs

11 years ago

440 upvotes – 250 comments

Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/13/charlie-hebdo-cover-magazine-prophet-muhammad

11 years ago

316 upvotes – 465 comments

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 – Original Source Code (1978)

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=774

11 years ago

250 upvotes – 70 comments

BPA alternative disrupts normal brain-cell growth, study says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/bpa-alternative-disrupts-normal-brain-cell-growth-is-tied-to-hyperactivity-study-says/2015/01/12/a9ecc37e-9a7e-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html?hpid=z5

11 years ago

242 upvotes – 164 comments

Google Domains Launches to All in U.S

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/13/google-domains-launches-to-all-in-u-s-with-support-for-blogger-integration-templates-and-more-domain-endings/?ncid=rss

11 years ago

239 upvotes – 241 comments

UX Check

http://www.uxcheck.co/

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 44 comments

Twitter Sort

http://github.com/ExPHAT/twitter-sort

11 years ago

★ 385 Python MIT
195 upvotes – 52 comments

Run Any JavaScript Function in the Cloud

https://github.com/mentum/lambdaws

11 years ago

★ 1.2k JavaScript LGPL-3.0
181 upvotes – 58 comments

We're making hackable, open-source sex toys (NSFW)

https://www.comingle.io

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 59 comments

How to create a handheld Linux terminal

http://n-o-d-e.net/post/107977286006/how-to-create-a-handheld-linux-terminal

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 92 comments

Disproportionately Common Names by Profession

http://verdantlabs.com/professions/index.html

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 106 comments

Regular naps are 'key to learning'

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30776745

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 31 comments

The golden ratio has spawned a beautiful new curve: the Harriss spiral

http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/jan/13/golden-ratio-beautiful-new-curve-harriss-spiral

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 21 comments

Save the Honeybee, Sterilize the Earth

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/save-the-honeybee-sterilize-the-earth-pollination-industrial-complex-95566/#all

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 56 comments

Errors are values

http://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 135 comments

Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE

http://blog.duangle.com/2015/01/conspire-programming-environment-for.html

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 17 comments

FCC urged to investigate Verizon’s statements on utility rules

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/fcc-urged-to-investigate-verizons-two-faced-statements-on-utility-rules/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 68 comments

What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7? (2010)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2010/01/04/what-s-up-with-the-beep-driver-in-windows-7.aspx

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 33 comments

Pinegrow Year in Review 2014 – From 0 to $100K

https://medium.com/@mattront/pinegrow-year-in-review-2014-from-0-to-100k-fed4e7a05689

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: I built an iOS remake of that old windows game SkiFree

http://thewaterbear.com/powder-released/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 54 comments

A Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail Party

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/13/liquid-nitrogen-cocktail-party/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 59 comments

ArXiv Hits 1M Submissions

https://www.library.cornell.edu/about/news/press-releases/arxiv-hits-1-million-submissions-0

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 16 comments

Linus Torvalds: Apple's HFS+ is probably the worst file-system ever

http://www.linuxveda.com/2015/01/13/linus-torvalds-apples-hfs-probably-worst-file-system-ever/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Slalom – creating declarative touch interactions with constraints

http://iamralpht.github.io/constraints/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior (2011)

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know.html?m=1

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 65 comments

Prison Map

http://prisonmap.com/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Simple wiki server written in Go

https://github.com/renstrom/go-wiki

11 years ago

★ 302 Go MIT
82 upvotes – 25 comments

A theme-park chain where children pretend to be adults

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/grow

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site

http://nightchamber.com

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 41 comments

Battery life: Apple's solving for x

http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/01/battery-life-apples-solving-for-x/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 59 comments

100 Hours of Meditation in 10 Days

http://www.highexistence.com/100-hours-meditation-10-days-vipassana/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 67 comments

Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the ‘Real’ Dread Pirate Roberts

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/isilk-road-trial-opening-statements/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 56 comments

A Proof That Some Spaces Can’t Be Cut

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150113-a-proof-that-some-spaces-cant-be-cut/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 2 comments

Gitrob – OSINT gathering tool for GitHub

http://michenriksen.com/blog/gitrob-putting-the-open-source-in-osint/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Bletchley: the women's story

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/11323312/Bletchley-the-womens-story.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

How Bitcoin’s Blockchain Could Power an Alternate Internet

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-bitcoins-blockchain-could-power-an-alternate-internet-bb501855af67

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Apache Flink – Fast and reliable large-scale data processing engine

https://flink.apache.org/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

Being a Manager Is Lonely

http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2015/01/being-a-manager-is-lonely.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

Leisure is the new productivity

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/12/opinions/schulte-leisure-productivity/index.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 30 comments

AWS C4 Instances

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/?sc_ichannel=em&sc_icountry=global&sc_icampaigntype=launch&sc_icampaign=em_130722160&sc_idetail=em_865952340&ref_=pe_411040_130722160_17#compute-optimized

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 68 comments

Computing planetary positions – a tutorial with worked examples (2003)

http://www.stjarnhimlen.se/comp/tutorial.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

Gear VR: Today’s best virtual reality

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/gear-vr-for-todays-best-virtual-reality-strap-a-phone-to-your-face/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 15 comments

Arduino milling machine

http://rikkipitt.com/arduino-milling-machine-part-i

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 26 comments

Unikernels: Library Operating Systems for the Cloud

http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/01/13/unikernels-library-operating-systems-for-the-cloud/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 9 comments

Voxelvoid – A retro arcade shooter

http://www.voxelvoid.com

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 26 comments

An Open Source Tool for Easier Database Testing

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/01/13/an-open-source-tool-for-easier-database-testing/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

C4 game engine drops Linux support citing frustrations with desktop Linux

http://www.terathon.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14050

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 84 comments

VC investment vs. Gartner hype cycle

http://cdixon.org/2015/01/12/vc-investment-vs-gartner-hype-cycle/

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 12 comments
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