top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-18

Whiteboard Clock

https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/197pwFltWL2HPnOAmC840sPHhjxqxiOnNVOuI_dnLLb4/pub

11 years ago

784 upvotes – 82 comments

HTTP/2 Is Done

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2015/02/18/http2

11 years ago

437 upvotes – 136 comments

There are too many shiny objects and it is killing me

https://yetanothergreatidea.wordpress.com/

11 years ago

364 upvotes – 189 comments

“A spambot barfed its post recipe on my blog”

https://twitter.com/renaudbedard/status/567827024775127040

11 years ago

353 upvotes – 95 comments

Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/18/bringing-asm-js-to-the-chakra-javascript-engine-in-windows-10.aspx

11 years ago

299 upvotes – 107 comments

The Lost Art of C Structure Packing

http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/?src=yc

11 years ago

284 upvotes – 113 comments

How one man made 22 games in 22 years, mostly from his basement

http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/17/the-original-indie-dev-how-one-man-made-22-games-in-22-years-mostly-from-his-basement/

11 years ago

254 upvotes – 108 comments

Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL

http://callumprentice.github.io/apps/flight_stream/index.html

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 77 comments

The Worst Way to Fire Someone: I Was There

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-like-watch-worst-firing-ever-paul-petrone?trk=tod-home-art-list-large_0

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 158 comments

Ask HN: TrueCrypt audit status?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9069295

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 157 comments

Piano playing transformed into Playstation controllers that play StreetFighter

http://www.foobarflies.io/pianette/

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 19 comments

What interests Reddit? A network analysis of 84M comments by 200K users

http://markallenthornton.com/blog/what-interests-reddit/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 58 comments

Becoming a Tech Lead

http://blog.fogcreek.com/becoming-a-tech-lead-interview-with-pat-kua/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 55 comments

Another update on the Truecrypt audit

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/02/another-update-on-truecrypt-audit.html

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 75 comments

85 Years After Pluto’s Discovery, New Horizons Spots Small Moons Orbiting Pluto

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150218

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 42 comments

Alien star system buzzed the Sun

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31519875

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 64 comments

How to get actionable leads from Twitter in real time

http://blog.taskulu.com/post/how-get-actionable-leads-twitter-real-time?utm_source=HN&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=techblog

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 64 comments

Stetho: A new debugging platform for Android

https://code.facebook.com/posts/393927910787513/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 23 comments

I Know This – Hack Jurassic Park’s Security System

http://theinstructionlimit.com/i-know-this-global-game-jam-2015

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 28 comments

Search On Math

http://searchonmath.com/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 20 comments

Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist (2013)

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/18/yanis-varoufakis-how-i-became-an-erratic-marxist

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 136 comments

Our brief in support of Twitter's First Amendment suit against the US government

https://freedom.press/blog/2015/02/our-brief-support-twitters-lawsuit-against-us-government-violating-first-amendment

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 32 comments

Introducing TaskRouter

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/02/introducing-the-taskrouter-api.html?utm_content=bufferf4552&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

What does “asm.js optimizations” mean?

https://blog.mozilla.org/luke/2015/02/18/microsoft-announces-asm-js-optimizations/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

Microsoft Officially Launches Azure Machine Learning Platform

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/18/microsoft-officially-launches-azure-machine-learning-big-data-platform/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 20 comments

Yik Yak Systematically Downvotes Mentions of Competitors

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/17/yakgate/#9iOEGk:wzA

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 45 comments

Fix conflicts only once with Git rerere

https://medium.com/@porteneuve/fix-conflicts-only-once-with-git-rerere-7d116b2cec67

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

A Microscope on Microservices

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/02/a-microscope-on-microservices.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 8 comments

Hubble's star refuses to fade

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31499061

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 46 comments

CMU Accidentally Sends Out 800 Acceptance Letters To CS Program

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/errors-made-notifying-csd-masters-program-applicants

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 51 comments

Stopping HIV with an artificial protein

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/02/stopping-hiv-artificial-protein

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

Google faces Russia Android probe after Yandex protest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31519068

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 117 comments

Patent troll claims to own Bluetooth, scores $15.7M verdict against Samsung

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/patent-troll-claims-to-own-bluetooth-scores-15-7m-verdict-against-samsung/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 46 comments

Did Poincaré anticipate Gödel?

http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath650/kmath650.htm

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 19 comments

The Miracle of Minneapolis

http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-miracle-of-minneapolis/384975/?single_page=true

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 67 comments

The Expressive Web – CSS3 and HTML5 features showcased by Adobe

http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

Humanist Interface: The Entrenchment of Modern Minimalism

http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/2/18/the-entrenchment-of-modern-minimalism

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 47 comments

The Country of Vietnam Resolves to Localhost

https://blog.shodan.io/the-country-of-vietnam-resolves-to-localhost/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

Experience report: Rocket lander in Elm

https://blog.wearewizards.io/experience-report-rocket-lander-in-elm

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Why GM Hired 8,000 Programmers

http://www.wsj.com/articles/gm-built-internal-skills-to-manage-internet-sales-push-1424200731

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 73 comments

What's It Like to Live Without Electricity? Ask an Indian Villager

http://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-whats-it-like-to-live-without-electricity-ask-an-indian-villager/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 32 comments

Tracking down a segfault in grep

http://blog.loadzero.com/blog/tracking-down-a-segfault-in-grep/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

Successful Mobile Teams

http://blog.testmunk.com/successful-mobile-teams/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

Pop Culture Pulsar: Origin Story of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/2015/02/18/pop-culture-pulsar-origin-story-of-joy-divisions-unknown-pleasures-album-cover-video/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

Advertisements from Japan’s Golden Age of Art Deco

http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/advertisements-from-japans-golden-age-of-art-deco.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

Giveffect (YC W15) Has Built a Shopify-Meets-Salesforce for Non-Profits

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/10/giveffect-nonprofits/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

Why I ditched Microsoft Word for LibreOffice and couldn't be happier

http://www.afr.com/p/technology/why_ditched_microsoft_word_and_couldn_VA5wEvmBiRkPmN23EDWnHJ

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 58 comments

Philz Coffee Raises $15M to Expand Nationwide

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/18/philz-coffee-funding/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 46 comments

Are musicians better language learners?

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/feb/27/musicians-better-language-learners?CMP=share_btn_fb

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 46 comments

Start Coding in Pyret

https://code.pyret.org/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments

Transitmix (YC W15) Cuts the Paper Out of Bus Route Planning

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/18/transitmix/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 16 comments

How to ensure that your program does not run under Windows 95 [pdf]

http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplechapter/Chen_bonus_ch02.pdf

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 20 comments

Mastering the Ionic Framework: Build and Deploy Native-Speed Angular Apps

https://thinkster.io/ionic-framework-tutorial/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Memory-Stats.js: Minimal Monitor for JavaScript Heap Size via Performance.memory

https://github.com/paulirish/memory-stats.js

11 years ago

★ 2k JavaScript
48 upvotes – 2 comments

The Road to Akka.NET v1.0

http://petabridge.com/blog/akkadotnet-road-to-v1/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 12 comments

How to Create a Working Kiosk Mode in Android

http://www.andreas-schrade.de/2015/02/16/android-tutorial-how-to-create-a-kiosk-mode-in-android/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 15 comments
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