top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-03

New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity

http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline

11 years ago

1248 upvotes – 631 comments

Myself – v1.0.3

http://codepen.io/jakealbaugh/full/PwLXXP/

11 years ago

965 upvotes – 78 comments

Automakers Say You Don’t Really Own Your Car

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/automakers-say-you-dont-really-own-your-car

11 years ago

392 upvotes – 167 comments

Announcing Rust 1.0 Beta

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/03/Rust-1.0-beta.html

11 years ago

348 upvotes – 114 comments

Thousands of Spaniards Leave Twitter for GNU Social

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/thousands-of-spaniards-leave-twitter-for-gnu-social

11 years ago

305 upvotes – 70 comments

Tesla Stockholders Can't Take a Joke

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-02/tesla-stockholders-can-t-take-a-joke

11 years ago

288 upvotes – 209 comments

How I cracked NQ Vault's “encryption”

https://ninjadoge24.github.io/#002-how-i-cracked-nq-vaults-encryption

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 59 comments

Secret Service Interrogation of Wozniak (2002)

http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/78.html

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 101 comments

What Happens When You Try to Photoshop Money

http://hyperallergic.com/195922/what-happens-when-you-try-to-photoshop-money/

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 105 comments

Do Not Learn Frameworks – Learn the Architecture

http://kukuruku.co/hub/programming/do-not-learn-frameworks-learn-the-architecture

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 82 comments

Don't React

http://staltz.com/dont-react/

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 122 comments

Don't Enforce R as a Standard

http://timotheepoisot.fr/2015/04/02/do-not-enforce-R/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 88 comments

The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth?p=1

11 years ago

153 upvotes – 37 comments

Microsoft: An Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible'

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/microsoft-open-source-windows-definitely-possible/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 186 comments

Earth receiving mysterious radio signals

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/earth-receiving-mysterious-radio-signals-outer-space-alien-life-source-possibility-believe-1494686

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 28 comments

Hashpipe – Pipe iff the hash matches

http://jbenet.github.io/hashpipe/

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 83 comments

Learn AngularJS

http://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-angularjs

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 112 comments

How to Sell Excellence

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a4GvI0dbL8sfAlnTUwVxhq4_j-QiDlz02_t0XZJXnzY/preview?sle=true&slide=id.p

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 120 comments

Let’s Build a Web Server. Part 1

http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbaws-part1/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

Chrome’s Console API: Greatest Hits

http://www.mitchrobb.com/chromes-console-api-greatest-hits/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 23 comments

How a $3.85 latte paid for with a fake $100 bill led to counterfeiter's downfall

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/how-a-3-85-latte-paid-for-with-a-fake-100-bill-lead-to-counterfeit-kingpins-downfall/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, If So, What Can You Do About It? [pdf]

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/perfbook.2015.01.31a.pdf

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 31 comments

Sick time is logarithmic

http://greatnotbig.com/2015/03/sick-time-logarithmic/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 38 comments

How We Use Make

https://segment.com/blog/how-we-use-make/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 31 comments

Kivy 1.9 – A framework for creating novel and performant user interfaces

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kivy-users/PZpI1g-W3do

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 16 comments

The F-35's $400k helmet

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/04/01/meet-the-most-fascinating-part-of-the-f-35-the-400000-helmet/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 128 comments

SeatGeek Raises $62M

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/04/02/seatgeek-scores-62-million-for-its-ticket-selling-app/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network

http://www.interactually.com/linkedin-creepiest-social-network/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 87 comments

The Cuban Money Crisis

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-04-01/cuba-s-new-money

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 50 comments

Io.js community thoughts on reconciliation

https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1336

11 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
89 upvotes – 39 comments

How Many Beliefs Are Due to Sleep Deprivation?

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/when-you-hear-a-loud-crash-just-as-youre-falling-asleep/389303/?single_page=true

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

Greece draws up drachma plans, prepares to miss IMF payment

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11513341/Greece-draws-up-drachma-plans-prepares-to-miss-IMF-payment.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 190 comments

Disrespect in Education (2014)

https://lukepalmer.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/disrespect-in-education/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 73 comments

Linux on Your Canon DSLR? Why Not?

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=14847

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Fast autocomplete service written in Go and JavaScript

https://autocompeter.com/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 47 comments

The Mad Scientist of Bicycles

http://priceonomics.com/the-mad-scientist-of-bicycles/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 3 comments

A Probabilistic Theory of Deep Learning

http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00641

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

How to pay $400 instead of $70,000 in Delaware franchise tax

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/delaware-franchise-tax/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments

Researchers improve efficiency of human walking

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=134667&org=NSF

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

The Economist’s Tom Standage on digital strategy and the limits of advertising

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/04/the-economists-tom-standage-on-digital-strategy-and-the-limits-of-a-model-based-on-advertising

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 56 comments

Fast Fibonacci

http://www.nayuki.io/page/fast-fibonacci-algorithms

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 49 comments

A rare LHC tour

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/04/a-rare-lhc-tour-avoiding-radiation-to-see-scientific-history-up-close/1/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

The Lisp Machine: Noble Experiment or Fabulous Failure? (1991) [pdf]

http://pt.withy.org/publications/LispM.pdf

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Tagging all GitHub repos

https://github.com/porter-io/tag-github

11 years ago

★ 162
68 upvotes – 30 comments

A Brief History of Graphics [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzN2pgL0zeg&list=PLOQZmjD6P2HlOoEVKOPaCFvLnjP865X1f&index=1

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

Controlling the Barrels in Donkey Kong

http://www.donhodges.com/Controlling_the_barrels_in_Donkey_Kong.htm

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

Good-bye Shockley Labs

http://siliconvalley.town/good-bye-shockley-labs/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

FnordMetric: Create charts and dashboards from SQL

http://fnordmetric.io/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Simple apply/filter/reduce package in Go

https://github.com/robpike/filter

11 years ago

★ 870 Go
64 upvotes – 64 comments

An Update on Microsoft’s Approach to Do Not Track

http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/04/03/an-update-on-microsofts-approach-to-do-not-track/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 60 comments

OnLive shuts down streaming games service, sells patents to Sony

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/04/onlive-shuts-down-streaming-games-service-sells-patents-to-sony-embargoed-7pm-eastern/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 35 comments

Remembering My Cousin, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977)

http://www.unz.org/Pub/Encounter-1977aug-00020

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments
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