top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-09

Hello HTTP/2, Goodbye SPDY

http://blog.chromium.org/2015/02/hello-http2-goodbye-spdy-http-is_9.html

11 years ago

426 upvotes – 179 comments

$500k of Azure credit for YC startups

http://blog.ycombinator.com/$500k-of-azure-credit-for-yc-startups

11 years ago

393 upvotes – 166 comments

Photos of the An-225 Mriya – the world’s largest aircraft

http://gelio.livejournal.com/193025.html

11 years ago

333 upvotes – 102 comments

Show HN: A Global Co-Living Subscription for Nomads

http://www.thecaravanserai.co/

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 165 comments

Silver: A free implementation of Swift for .NET, Java, Android, and Cocoa

http://elementscompiler.com/elements/silver/

11 years ago

249 upvotes – 104 comments

Annotated code: Circles bouncing off lines

http://annotated-code.maryrosecook.com/circles-bouncing-off-lines/index.html

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 65 comments

How I Start: Nim

http://howistart.org/posts/nim/1

11 years ago

234 upvotes – 15 comments

Noisli – Improve focus and boost your productivity

http://www.noisli.com/get_combo_by_link/pd8blIFySEkTOHB

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 159 comments

Explore the Swiss Leaks Data

http://www.icij.org/project/swiss-leaks/explore-swiss-leaks-data/

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 139 comments

Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aHURVoSUqpho

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 163 comments

When Children with Autism Grow Up

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bplanten/when-children-with-autism-grow-up

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 124 comments

A simple Minecraft written in Rust

https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/hematite

11 years ago

★ 1.9k Rust MIT
169 upvotes – 59 comments

A collection of useful .htaccess snippets

https://github.com/phanan/htaccess

11 years ago

★ 13.1k
163 upvotes – 19 comments

HubPress – A web application to build your Blog on GitHub

http://hubpress.io/index.html

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 65 comments

My experiences through GrubHub's IPO from start to finish

http://mevans314.com/2015/02/09/whats-an-ipo-my-experiences-of-grubhubs-initial-offering/

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 47 comments

Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6.3 beta

https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=22

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 88 comments

The “Web Application” Myth

https://medium.com/@codepo8/the-web-application-myth-69c6b1506515

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 87 comments

Stanford CS231n – Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition

http://cs231n.github.io/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 11 comments

Sodium's explosive secrets revealed

http://www.nature.com/news/sodium-s-explosive-secrets-revealed-1.16771

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 19 comments

The 2011 DARPA Shredder Challenge

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-a-lone-hacker-shredded-the-myth-of-crowdsourcing-d9d0534f1731

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 28 comments

Translating Mathematics into Code: Examples in Java, Python, Haskell and Racket

http://matt.might.net/articles/discrete-math-and-code/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 48 comments

The Pentagon’s electromagnetic ‘rail gun’ makes its public debut

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/02/06/the-pentagons-electromagnetic-rail-gun-makes-its-public-debut/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 128 comments

The Apprentice Programmer (2013)

http://tobi.lutke.com/blogs/news/11280301-the-apprentice-programmer

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 48 comments

OwnCloud Server 8.0

https://owncloud.org/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 78 comments

Swift compiler crashes

https://github.com/practicalswift/swift-compiler-crashes

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 47 comments

Torrent site Kickass.so has domain banned

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-02/09/kickass-torrents-down

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 154 comments

Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to developers

https://developer.ibm.com/watson/blog/2015/02/09/ibm-watson-now-brings-cognitive-speech-capabilities-developers/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Not in front of the telly: Warning over 'listening' TV

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31296188

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 66 comments

Snowblowing is NP-complete

https://punkrockor.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/snowblowing-is-np-complete/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 11 comments

32- and 64-bit ARM Open Hardware Boards

https://www.96boards.org/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to Do It Correctly (2010)

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

China fines Qualcomm $1B

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-09/china-fines-qualcomm-975-million-sets-patent-licensing-rates

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 33 comments

Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (2014)

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Flux over the Wire using Websockets and Immutable JS

http://blog.rotenberg.io/flux-over-the-wire-3/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 40 comments

Netflix Comes to Cuba

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/09/netflix-comes-to-cuba/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 39 comments

Instruction Synthesis Is Fun and Weird

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1219

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 9 comments

I am the fold

http://www.iamthefold.com

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition

http://zachholman.com/posts/uncanny-valley/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 59 comments

The San Francisco Suicide Club (1977-82)

http://www.suicideclub.com

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 31 comments

Pronouns matter when psyching yourself up

https://hbr.org/2015/02/pronouns-matter-when-psyching-yourself-up

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

Patreon to Europe on #VATMOSS: “Not our problem, mate.”

https://idea15.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/patreon-to-europe-on-vatmoss-not-our-problem-mate/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 68 comments

A Coq development of a theory of lightweight cryptographic ledgers

https://github.com/billlwhite/ledgertheory

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

Another 34000 People Are About to Put Their Future in the Hands of an Algorithm

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/another-34000-people-are-about-to-put-their-future-in-the-hands-of-an-algorithm/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

Better SQL strings in io.js

http://ivc.com/blog/better-sql-strings-in-node-js/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 54 comments

How I almost made a huge mistake in an exit interview

http://www.joshdoody.com/2015/02/how-i-almost-made-a-huge-mistake-in-an-exit-interview/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 102 comments

Learning Smalltalk from “Pharo by Example”

http://www.adamtornhill.com/reviews/pharobyexample.htm

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 19 comments

The stack overflow that wasn't

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/the-stack-overflow-that-wasnt

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Peter Thiel's Dropout Club

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Rich-Mans-Dropout-Club/151703/#

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

In-browser Redis

http://narma.github.io/2015/redis-in-browser/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

The Classic Super Star Trek Game

http://www.almy.us/sst.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 18 comments

Understanding Debt

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/opinion/paul-krugman-nobody-understands-debt.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 97 comments

Code That Doubled our iPad App's Performance

http://blog.getlooseleaf.com/post/110511009139/improving-uibezierpath-performance-and-api

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 0 comments

Accelerat.io – Yelp for accelerators

http://accelerat.io/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 26 comments

SQLCipher – Full Database Encryption for SQLite

https://www.zetetic.net/sqlcipher/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 22 comments

Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.01852v1.pdf

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 13 comments

Goodbye Nim, and Good Luck

https://gradha.github.io/articles/2015/02/goodbye-nim-and-good-luck.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

TXL: a language for text structural transformation, analysis and verification

http://www.txl.ca/nabouttxl.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 12 comments

Quantifying Online Advertising Fraud: Ad-Click Bots vs Humans [pdf]

http://oxford-biochron.com/downloads/OxfordBioChron_Quantifying-Online-Advertising-Fraud_Report.pdf

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 37 comments

Which Companies Wasted the Most Money on Super Bowl Commercials?

http://blog.embed.ly/post/110269131101/which-companies-wasted-the-most-money-on-super

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Simulate Facebook Chat Conversations via the Graph API

http://chatsimulator.com

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Create musical chords out of YouTube videos

https://www.youtab.me

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Calculator_Construction_Set.txt

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 14 comments

Morris Algorithm (2014)

http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/kashif/algorithm/2014/10/17/morris-algorithm.html

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 4 comments

Gitless: experimental version control system

http://people.csail.mit.edu/sperezde/gitless/index.html

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: What to do when CloudFlare is on an Adult block list

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9020646

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: I made a website recorder webapp you can use to create screencasts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9023021

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 24 comments
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