top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-01-18

Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster

http://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html

11 years ago

812 upvotes – 309 comments

Salary negotiations for techies (2011)

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Salary+negotiations+for+techies#

11 years ago

299 upvotes – 226 comments

How Amazon Tricks You into Thinking It Always Has the Lowest Prices

http://recode.net/2015/01/13/how-amazon-tricks-you-into-thinking-it-always-has-the-lowest-prices/

11 years ago

288 upvotes – 101 comments

Ask HN: How do you find freelance/contract gigs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908279

11 years ago

275 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: Adopted a dog, had no clue what meds she needed, did some research

http://www.dogmedicationdb.com/

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 73 comments

I think I've solved the Haskell records problem

http://nikita-volkov.github.io/record/

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 101 comments

Conception – An experimental modern IDE written in Go

https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception

11 years ago

★ 529 C++
215 upvotes – 78 comments

Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses

https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 147 comments

Apple Software Quality Questions

http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/01/18/apple-software-quality-questions/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 147 comments

Why Perl Didn't Win

http://outspeaking.com/words-of-technology/why-perl-didnt-win.html

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 183 comments

Pets Allowed: Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn’t be?

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/pets-allowed

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 180 comments

SPARTAN: Procedural Tile Generator

http://pnjeffries.itch.io/spartan-procjam-edition

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 15 comments

Light captured at 100B frames per second

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fastest-camera-ever-created-will-be-used-to-study-invisibility-cloaks

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 27 comments

A list of cool features of Git and GitHub

https://github.com/tiimgreen/github-cheat-sheet

11 years ago

★ 56.5k MIT
164 upvotes – 24 comments

Alligator Eggs

http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 24 comments

Don't Make Visitors Make Accounts

https://www.benburwell.com/posts/your-website-is-not-special-dont-make-visitors-make-accounts/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 83 comments

Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001)

http://chrisdone.com/posts/dijkstra-haskell-java

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 116 comments

HTTPS Watch

https://httpswatch.com/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 56 comments

This American Life: Batman

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/544/transcript

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 25 comments

FuzzBeed – Randomly generated BuzzFeed

http://fuzzzbeed.herokuapp.com

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 34 comments
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