top 50% 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

Why Men Love War (1984)

http://public.wsu.edu/~hughesc/why_men_love_war.htm

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 92 comments

Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AplG6KnOr2Q

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 26 comments

Forcing code out of line in GCC and C++11

http://xania.org/201209/forcing-code-out-of-line-in-gcc

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

gettimeofday() should never be used to measure time

http://blog.habets.pp.se/2010/09/gettimeofday-should-never-be-used-to-measure-time

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 41 comments

“It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture..encryption products” (1997)

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/T?&report=hr108p4&dbname=105&

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

Write a Shell in C

http://stephen-brennan.com/2015/01/16/write-a-shell-in-c/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 8 comments

Linux kernel booting process, part 2

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/linux-bootstrap-2.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
90 upvotes – 3 comments

Attacks on 'Insecure' Progressive Insurace Dongle Could Spawn Road Carnage

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/01/15/researcher-says-progressive-insurance-dongle-totally-insecure/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 34 comments

Why did Japan surrender? (2011)

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/why_did_japan_surrender/?page=full

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 71 comments

An Analysis of Minecraft-like Engines (2012)

http://0fps.net/2012/01/14/an-analysis-of-minecraft-like-engines/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments

Perl Already Won

http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2015/01/perl-already-won.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 86 comments

Learn Unix the Hard Way

http://learnunixthehardway.com/book/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: What do you think of my new startup ProductChart.com?

http://www.productchart.com

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 38 comments

Critical Vulnerability in Verizon Mobile API Compromising User Email Accounts

http://randywestergren.com/critical-vulnerability-verizon-mobile-api-compromising-user-email-accounts/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

Understanding Traceroute [pdf]

https://major.io/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/RAS_Traceroute_Book_Format.pdf

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 4 comments

What the Swiss Franc Appreciation Means

https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/16/what-the-wild-swiss-franc-appreciation-really-means-currency-wars-federal-reserve/?utm_content=buffer0ea36&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 50 comments

Web MIDI API

http://webaudio.github.io/web-midi-api/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

What's Stopping Me Using Java8 Lambdas – Try Debugging Them

http://www.rationaljava.com/2015/01/whats-stopping-me-using-java8-lambdas.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 42 comments

Rapere Intercept Drone

http://rapere.io/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 48 comments
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