top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-01

List of April Fools' Day Announcements

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9302010

11 years ago

592 upvotes – 538 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9303396

11 years ago

473 upvotes – 949 comments

Redis 3.0.0 is out

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/redis-db/dO0bFyD_THQ/Uoo2GjIx6qgJ

11 years ago

440 upvotes – 78 comments

Costa Rica Is Now Running on 100% Renewable Electricity

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3044360/costa-rica-is-now-running-on-100-renewable-electricity

11 years ago

404 upvotes – 158 comments

Google’s ARC Now Runs Android Apps on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac, and Linux

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/googles-arc-opens-up-to-developers-runs-android-apps-on-most-desktop-oses/

11 years ago

350 upvotes – 132 comments

Enough with the Salts: Updates on Secure Password Schemes

http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2015/3/26/enough-with-the-salts-updates-on-secure-password-schemes.html

11 years ago

339 upvotes – 221 comments

elgooG

https://com.google/

11 years ago

336 upvotes – 207 comments

Django 1.8 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/apr/01/release-18-final/

11 years ago

286 upvotes – 57 comments

California Imposes First-Ever Water Restrictions to Deal with Drought

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/us/california-imposes-first-ever-water-restrictions-to-deal-with-drought.html

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 237 comments

Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9307255

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 88 comments

Doom3 is the proof that “keep it simple” works

http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-programming/doom3-is-the-proof-that-keep-it-simple-works-r4009

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 108 comments

The poor, misunderstood innerText

http://perfectionkills.com/the-poor-misunderstood-innerText/

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 32 comments

Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/31/google-says-5-of-web-browsers-have-ad-injectors-installed/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook#3Kwfc0:bu8K

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 153 comments

Google releases the first new site hosted on the .Google top-level domain

https://com.google

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 3 comments

Poor land use in the world’s greatest cities carries a huge cost

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21647614-poor-land-use-worlds-greatest-cities-carries-huge-cost-space-and-city

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 146 comments

Exercism.io – Become a better programmer

http://educationware.net/exercism-io-become-a-better-programmer/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 31 comments

Critical Vulnerabilities in JSON Web Token Libraries

https://auth0.com/blog/2015/03/31/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-token-libraries/

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 50 comments

The future of loneliness

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/01/future-of-loneliness-internet-isolation

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 77 comments

Leaked TPP Investment Chapter Reveals Serious Threat to User Safeguards

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/leaked-tpp-investment-chapter-reveals-serious-threat-user-safeguards

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 39 comments

Debugging memory leaks in Ruby

http://samsaffron.com/archive/2015/03/31/debugging-memory-leaks-in-ruby

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: What are some open source projects that a beginner can work on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9305398

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 77 comments

Firefox: The Next Mobile Platform

https://ekjeacheblog.com/firefox-the-next-mobile-platform/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 68 comments

Porting Emacs to Chromebooks and the Web [pdf]

https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/emacs_and_elisp_on_the_chromebook/attachments/slides/797/export/events/attachments/emacs_and_elisp_on_the_chromebook/slides/797/FOSDEM_Building_Emacs_with_NaCl.pdf

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 32 comments

Practical Makefiles, by example

http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/articles/make/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 28 comments

A collection of links for streaming algorithms and data structures

https://gist.github.com/debasishg/8172796

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 3 comments

Bloodborne creator Hidetaka Miyazaki: ‘I didn’t have a dream, wasn’t ambitious'

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/bloodborne-dark-souls-creator-hidetaka-miyazaki-interview

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 51 comments

The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable Product

https://medium.com/@jonhpittman/the-tyranny-of-the-minimum-viable-product-fb25e2e57e6e

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9303599

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 188 comments

Prime Explorer

http://primes.io/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

FoundationDB's Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store Is Not Enough

http://voltdb.com/blog/foundationdbs-lesson-fast-key-value-store-not-enough

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Dark Horse: the story of the all-electric 1968 Mustang

https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/1/8320189/zombie-222-electric-car-1968-mustang-texas-mile

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling

https://ghostcall.io

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 71 comments

Beginner's Guide to Cap-Table Dilution: Cloudera's $1B Fundraise

http://thedavidrees.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-beginners-guide-to-cap-table_29.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 20 comments

Nebula is shutting down

https://www.nebula.com/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 53 comments

Streamtools – A graphical toolkit for working with streams of data

https://nytlabs.github.io/streamtools/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments

OpenBSD 5.7 highlights

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/OpenBSD-57-highlights

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

Trying Something New on Immigration in Colorado

http://www.feld.com/archives/2015/03/trying-something-new-immigration-colorado.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 43 comments

Announcing rkt v0.5, featuring pods, overlayfs, and more

https://coreos.com/blog/announcing-rkt-0.5/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

Redis 3.0.0 stable is out

https://twitter.com/antirez/status/583279220039802881

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 1 comments

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: “The math comes first, words later.”

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152921768278375&id=13012333374

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 39 comments

California Goes Nuts

https://medium.com/mother-jones/california-goes-nuts-daa3632e5c55

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 78 comments

7 Bits Are Not Enough for 2-Digit Accuracy

http://www.exploringbinary.com/7-bits-are-not-enough-for-2-digit-accuracy/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Graduate student takes a problem-solving approach to his brain cancer

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/student-profile-steven-keating-0401

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 39 comments

Introduction to I²C and SPI protocols

http://www.byteparadigm.com/applications/introduction-to-i2c-and-spi-protocols/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

The Economist’s digital strategy and the limits of a model based on advertising

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/04/the-economists-tom-standage-on-digital-strategy-and-the-limits-of-a-model-based-on-advertising/?utm_source=Daily+Lab+email+list&utm_campaign=464c55f003-dailylabemail3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d68264fd5e-464c55f003-395827456

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 49 comments

Ekam Build System

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/ekam

11 years ago

★ 234 C++ Apache-2.0
63 upvotes – 22 comments

iOS 8 length bug breaks jQuery and Underscore object iteration

http://firstdoit.com/ios-8-insidious-length-bug-on-jquery-and-underscore-each-map/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 33 comments

Smarter programming of stoplights could improve efficiency of urban traffic

http://phys.org/news/2015-03-smarter-stoplights-efficiency-urban-traffic.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 45 comments

​The Man Who Invented Stereo

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-man-who-invented-stereo

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9303589

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 118 comments

First look at Project Spartan, Microsoft's take on the modern browser

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/first-look-at-project-spartan-microsofts-take-on-the-modern-browser/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 60 comments

A 25kB RPG for your wristwatch

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidCDrake/20150330/239932/PebbleQuest_25kB_of_Awesome.php

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

Linux Kernel Reading Guide (2014)

http://www.linux.org/threads/linux-kernel-reading-guide.5384/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Deep Learning, the Curse of Dimensionality, and Autoencoders

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/03/deep-learning-curse-dimensionality-autoencoders.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Space.js – HTML-driven narrative 3D-scrolling

http://www.slashie.org/space.js/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments

Why Waze is so popular in Costa Rica (2014)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/10/27/why-waze-is-so-incredibly-popular-in-costa-rica/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 45 comments

Zappos to employees: Get behind our ‘no bosses’ approach or leave with severance

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2015/03/31/zappos-to-employees-get-behind-our-no-bosses-approach-or-leave-with-severance/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 83 comments

You Too Can Save Loads of Money: The Details of the Bayesian Model

http://tech.zalando.com/posts/you-too-can-save-loads-of-money-the-details-of-the-bayesian-model.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

Smartbox by Inbox by Gmail by Google

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/smartbox-by-inbox-mailbox-of-tomorrow.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 30 comments
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