top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-22

A better pull request

https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/01/a-better-pull-request/

11 years ago

479 upvotes – 161 comments

Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game

http://play.elevatorsaga.com/

11 years ago

411 upvotes – 104 comments

Riot – A React-like, 2.5K user interface library

https://muut.com/riotjs/

11 years ago

388 upvotes – 214 comments

16 Things

http://a16z.com/2015/01/22/16-things/

11 years ago

371 upvotes – 125 comments

Gotham Air: Manhattan to JFK in 6 minutes for $99

http://www.gothamair.com/

11 years ago

358 upvotes – 211 comments

Gitlet: Git implemented in JavaScript

http://gitlet.maryrosecook.com/

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 66 comments

Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/numpile/

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 43 comments

Text-only video game shows how genre can be beautiful, innovative and complex

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/01/hadean_lands_the_text_only_video_game_shows_how_the_genre_can_be_beautiful.single.html

11 years ago

246 upvotes – 85 comments

Learn data science in your browser

https://dataquest.io/

11 years ago

244 upvotes – 45 comments

Improving Linux networking performance

https://lwn.net/Articles/629155/

11 years ago

235 upvotes – 48 comments

WhatsApp doesn't understand the web

http://andregarzia.com/posts/en/whatsappdoesntunderstandtheweb

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 121 comments

Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/silk-road-trial-fbi-reveals-whats-on-ross-ulbrichts-computer-in-open-court/

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 146 comments

Show HN: Using SVG to Shrink Your PNGs

http://peterhrynkow.com/how-to-compress-a-png-like-a-jpeg/

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 40 comments

How much should I raise in my angel round? How should I spend it?

http://calacanis.com/2015/01/21/how-much-should-i-raise-in-my-angel-round-how-should-i-spend-it/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 42 comments

Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in prison

http://boingboing.net/2015/01/22/barrettbrown.html

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 97 comments

Fair Use Is Not an Exception to Copyright, It’s Essential to Copyright

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/fair-use-not-exception-copyright-its-essential-copyright

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 30 comments

2015 Gates Annual Letter

http://www.gatesnotes.com/2015-Annual-Letter

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 109 comments

Tuxedo.js – A Framework Built on React and Flux

http://www.tuxedojs.org/

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 82 comments

The second crypto war and the future of the Internet

https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/01/the-second-crypto-war-and-the-future-of-the-internet/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 70 comments

Mouse Box

http://mouse-box.com/#index_pl.html

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 81 comments

Drone carrying drugs crashes near US-Mexico border

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30931367

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 151 comments

What happens when DNS in China is poisoned and pointed at your server

http://furbo.org/2015/01/22/fear-china/

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 55 comments

Gotalk

http://rsms.me/2015/01/21/gotalk.html

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 24 comments

A dead man's switch for your computer?

http://blog.viktorpetersson.com/post/108852454049/a-dead-mans-switch-for-your-computer

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 72 comments

List of Unsolved Problems in Physics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_physics

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 21 comments

Using NYC Taxi Data to Identify Muslim Taxi Drivers

http://theiii.org/index.php/997/using-nyc-taxi-data-to-identify-muslim-taxi-drivers/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 21 comments

Mosh – a robust, responsive replacement for SSH

https://mosh.mit.edu

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 45 comments

KDE's Plasma 5.2 – The Quintissential Breakdown

https://kver.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/plasma-5-2-the-quintissential-breakdown/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 59 comments

Positioning in the web explained with GIFs

http://blog.froont.com/positioning-in-web-design/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

Marissa Mayer’s Plan for Yahoo Takes Hold

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/technology/personaltech/marissa-mayers-plan-for-yahoo-takes-hold-the-question-now-is-time.html?referrer=

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 53 comments

Mistakes Developers Make When Using Python for Big Data Analytics

https://www.airpair.com/python/posts/top-mistakes-python-big-data-analytics

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

New metal is so hydrophobic it makes water bounce like magic

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/new-amazing-metal-is-so-hydrophobic-it-makes-water-boun-1680799039?amp

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

The Kenya Financial Diaries Project

http://www.fsdkenya.org/new/our-work/financial-diaries.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

ComVeriCast: Internet Freedom

https://comvericast.com/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 12 comments

My First BillG Review (2006)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

America’s new aristocracy

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21640331-importance-intellectual-capital-grows-privilege-has-become-increasingly

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 86 comments

Abusing Contributors is not OK

http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2015/01/abuse-is-not-ok.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 58 comments

Dwarf Fortress, the Great Ancestor

http://zarkonnen.com/dwarf_fortress_the_great_ancestor

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 23 comments

Coffee Meets Bagel Meets Me – Statistical analysis of online dating

https://medium.com/@mydatablog/coffee-meets-bagel-meets-ginny-ea33fd0780ae

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 45 comments

Our experience with Ember

https://labs.kollegorna.se/blog/2015/01/ember-overview/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

Zbackup: open-source, encrypted, de-duplicated, compressed backups

https://github.com/zbackup/zbackup

11 years ago

★ 841 C++
76 upvotes – 21 comments

Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (2003) [pdf]

http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/ITA-software-travel-complexity.pdf

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gashawmola.offline

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 48 comments

Kim Dotcom launches end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/01/22/kim-dotcom-launches-end-end-encrypted-audio-video-chat-service/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 26 comments

A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home

http://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/ai-has-grown-up-and-left-home-rp

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 54 comments

Why I Don't Teach SOLID

http://qualityisspeed.blogspot.com/2014/08/why-i-dont-teach-solid.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 60 comments

BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/21/blackberry-wut/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 56 comments

Why the CDC and FDA Are Telling You Two Different Things About Flu Drugs

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-cdc-and-fda-are-telling-you-two-different-things-about-the-flu/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

Letters to Junior Developers

http://www.codeovereasy.com/2015/01/letters-to-junior-developers/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 32 comments

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 2 comments

Olivetti Programma 101 “Perottina”

http://www.curtamania.com/curta/database/brand/olivetti/Olivetti%20Programma%20101/index.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

As 0days get meaner, Google defenses increasingly outpace Microsoft

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/as-0days-get-meaner-google-defenses-increasingly-outpace-microsoft/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 32 comments
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