top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-04

FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/fcc-chairman-wheeler-net-neutrality/

11 years ago

1275 upvotes – 424 comments

A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics

https://medium.com/@warrenhenning/a-software-engineers-adventures-in-learning-mathematics-62140c59e5c

11 years ago

419 upvotes – 222 comments

Testosterone is the drug of the future

http://fusion.net/story/42619/why-testosterone-is-the-drug-of-the-future/

11 years ago

341 upvotes – 296 comments

Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard

http://www.vikingcodeschool.com/posts/why-learning-to-code-is-so-damn-hard

11 years ago

314 upvotes – 258 comments

Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/ross-ulbricht-convicted-of-running-silk-road-as-dread-pirate

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 278 comments

Microsoft Acquires Calendar App Sunrise for North of $100M

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/04/microsoft-sunrise

11 years ago

288 upvotes – 111 comments

Prometheus: An open-source service monitoring system and time series database

http://prometheus.io/

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 114 comments

CPU Backdoors

http://danluu.com/cpu-backdoors/

11 years ago

271 upvotes – 48 comments

How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/how-google-inbox-shares-70-of-its-code-across-android-ios-and-the-web/

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 78 comments

Laravel 5 released

https://laravel-news.com/2015/02/laravel-5-released/

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 107 comments

Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)

http://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-cautionary-tale/

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 85 comments

I Visit Libraries to Sell Bitcoins to Random People from the Internet

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-visit-libraries-to-sell-bitcoins-to-random-people-from-the-internet

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 83 comments

Hard Drive Data Sets

https://www.backblaze.com/hard-drive-test-data.html

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 58 comments

A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/02/a-little-thing-to-love-about-perl-6-and-cobol.html

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 129 comments

Non-blocking UI's with interface previews

http://www.callumhart.com/blog/non-blocking-uis-with-interface-previews

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 53 comments

Earth Primer

http://www.earthprimer.com/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 30 comments

Alibaba begins drone delivery trials in China

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31129804

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 115 comments

Animated Bézier Curves

http://jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/#

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 28 comments

Techies Who Are Homeschooling Their Kids

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-home-schooling/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 127 comments

How a HyperLogLog works

http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/02/04/its-log-its-log-its-big-its-hyper-its-good/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 17 comments

TSA jails innocent traveler when he asks to file a complaint

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150204_TSA_jails_innocent_traveler_when_he_asks_to_file_a_complaint.html

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 26 comments

At 90, She's Designing Tech for Aging Boomers

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/01/19/377702882/at-90-shes-designing-tech-for-aging-boomers

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 15 comments

How We Bought easypost.com

https://www.easypost.com/blog/how-we-bought-easypost-dot-com

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 34 comments

Straighter Teeth by Mail

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/a-trip-to-the-mail-box-not-the-orthodontist/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Nadella's Second Year as Microsoft CEO Will Be a Lot Harder

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/why-nadella-s-second-year-as-microsoft-ceo-will-be-a-lot-harder

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 55 comments

Matrix – An Open Standard for Decentralised Persistent Communication

http://matrix.org/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

JVM implementation challenges: Why the future is hard but worth it [pdf]

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/201502-JVMChallenges.pdf

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 74 comments

Why Google Glass Broke

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/style/why-google-glass-broke.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 76 comments

YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights

https://twitter.com/atestu/status/563004733519302659

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 36 comments

New Hampshire Bill Backs Bitcoin for State Taxes

http://panampost.com/belen-marty/2015/02/04/new-hampshire-bill-backs-bitcoin-for-state-taxes/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 58 comments

.Trashes, .fseventsd, and .Spotlight-V100

http://blog.hostilefork.com/trashes-fseventsd-and-spotlight-v100/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 66 comments

Paradoxes That Threaten to Tear Modern Cosmology Apart

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/the-paradoxes-that-threaten-to-tear-modern-cosmology-apart-d334a7fcfdb6

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 58 comments

How FEMA Uses Waffle House to Measure Disasters

http://wabe.org/post/how-fema-uses-waffle-house-measure-disasters

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 12 comments

Get ready for GitHub Universe

https://github.com/blog/1955-get-ready-for-github-universe-october-1-2-in-san-francisco

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 2 comments

Staples Agrees to Buy Office Depot for About $6.3 Billion

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/staples-to-buy-office-depot-in-deal-valued-at-6-3-billion

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 58 comments

Silk Road trial closes

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/silk-road-trial-closes-its-a-hacker-its-a-virus-its-ludicrous/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 50 comments

JSON, interfaces, and go generate

http://talks.golang.org/2015/json.slide#1

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

The Pirate Bay is an FBI honeypot? A disconcertingly plausible conspiracy theory

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-pirate-bay-is-an-fbi-honeypot-a-disconcertingly-plausible-conspiracy-theory

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 66 comments

JUniversal: A new, Java-based approach to cross-platform mobile apps

https://msopentech.com/blog/2015/01/26/juniversal-a-new-java-based-approach-to-cross-platform-mobile-apps/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

Harvard stores 700 terabytes of data into a single gram of DNA (2012)

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134672-harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 73 comments

Linthub: Static code analysis for GitHub pull requests

https://linthub.io/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 34 comments

Jobs at Apple-Search

https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?job=36607344&openJobId=36607344#&openJobId=36607344

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 66 comments

Google SoundScript: faster OOP for JavaScript

http://www.2ality.com/2015/02/soundscript.html?hn

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 60 comments

American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/on-learning-by-doing/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 65 comments

Is your programming language unreasonable?

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/is-your-language-unreasonable/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Jolie – The First Programming Language for Microservices

http://www.jolie-lang.org/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 37 comments

100 Years of National Geographic Maps

http://news-beta.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/150123-maps-mapping-cartography-history-national-geographic-centennial/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 2 comments

Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8997034

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 107 comments

Rapid Web Application Server in Assembler

https://2ton.com.au/rwasa/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

Jaconda – Integrate your Telegram with services

http://telegram.jaconda.im

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 33 comments

Cooking Patterns

http://alexey.ch/cooking-patterns

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 44 comments

China tightens Web controls; commenters must register real names

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-web-controls-20150204-story.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 55 comments

Meadow (YC W15) ‘Ubered’ Over a Doctor to Give Me a Medical Marijuana Evaluation

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/04/cannabismd/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 31 comments

How Medium Is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers

http://firstround.com/article/how-medium-is-building-a-new-kind-of-company-with-no-managers

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 49 comments

Stream processing, Event sourcing, Reactive, CEP… and making sense of it all

http://blog.confluent.io/2015/01/29/making-sense-of-stream-processing/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments
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