top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-05

Why the name?

https://wiki.debian.org/WhyTheName

11 years ago

352 upvotes – 93 comments

Ten Commandments of Sushi

https://medium.com/gone/the-ten-commandments-of-sushi-4eac45192c7d/

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 114 comments

I won't be using Angular for my next project

https://javascriptkicks.com/articles/2657

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 115 comments

Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison

https://twitter.com/xychelsea

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 133 comments

Programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/programming-competitions-work-performance/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 105 comments

Toolkit

http://titon.io/en/toolkit

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 41 comments

JavaScript libraries to draw your own diagrams

http://modeling-languages.com/javascript-drawing-libraries-diagrams/

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 28 comments

Influence – The Psychology of Persuasion

http://www.2uo.de/influence/

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 33 comments

A Grand Juror Speaks: The inside story of how prosecutors always get their way

http://harpers.org/archive/2015/03/a-grand-juror-speaks/

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 101 comments

The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-reason-college-tuition-costs-so-much.html

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 129 comments

Large Hadron Collider restarts after two-year rebuild

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32160755

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 35 comments

My life with Comcast

http://www.bennjordan.com/blog/?p=617

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 43 comments

What happened to the laptop computer? (1985)

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/08/business/the-executive-computer.html

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 86 comments

NVMe, the fast future for SSDs

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2899351/everything-you-need-to-know-about-nvme.html

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 59 comments

Tales from the Trenches: I was SWATed

http://blog.randi.io/2015/04/03/swated/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: Why do I have to struggle with everything?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9325068

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 84 comments

Exploring the Tesla Model S CAN Bus

http://www.instructables.com/id/Exploring-the-Tesla-Model-S-CAN-Bus/?ALLSTEPS

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 26 comments

Learning Haskell as a non-programmer (2014)

https://superginbaby.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/learning-haskell-as-a-nonprogrammer/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 71 comments

Lambda Nights: Learn Functional Programming by writing a simple compiler

http://lambda-nights.com/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 5 comments

Thinking too highly of higher ed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/peter-thiel-thinking-too-highly-of-higher-ed/2014/11/21/f6758fba-70d4-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 116 comments

Turn your ES5 code into readable ES6

https://github.com/mohebifar/xto6

11 years ago

★ 5.6k JavaScript MIT
92 upvotes – 27 comments

A history of the Amiga – The demo scene (2013)

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-9-the-demo-scene/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 23 comments

Classic Game Postmortem: Loom [video]

http://gdcvault.com/play/1021862/Classic-Game-Postmortem

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 18 comments

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (2011)

https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 21 comments

How Coursera Competes for the Best Talent

http://firstround.com/review/this-is-how-coursera-competes-against-google-and-facebook-for-the-best-talent/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 31 comments

An open source status page system, for everyone

https://cachethq.io/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 48 comments

Creating a PHP extension in Rust

http://jaredonline.svbtle.com/creating-a-php-extension-in-rust

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

The Thinkers Behind Musk’s Fear: Russell, Bostrom, and Omohundro

https://medium.com/@LyleCantor/russell-bostrom-and-the-risk-of-ai-45f69c9ee204

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 67 comments

Key West Declared a Faux War on the United States in 1982

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/key-west-declared-a-faux-war-on-the-united-states-in-1982-f2c40b429e75

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

Bug Prediction at Google (2011)

http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/12/bug-prediction-at-google.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

Anyone noticed that almost no YC companies are purely B2C software anymore?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9323705

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

Pure CSS3 calculator

http://experiments.hertzen.com/css3calculator/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

Amok – Live Editing for JavaScript

http://amokjs.com

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Envdb – Ask your environment questions

https://github.com/mephux/envdb

11 years ago

★ 513 JavaScript Apache-2.0
63 upvotes – 7 comments

Last universal ancestor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_ancestor

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Generatingfunctionology (1989) [pdf]

http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/gfologyLinked2.pdf

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 5 comments

GovCo

https://medium.com/@gerstenzang/govco-6f4eb4ad18c9

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 40 comments

Osmosis: Web scraper for Node.js

https://github.com/rc0x03/node-osmosis

11 years ago

★ 4.1k JavaScript
61 upvotes – 20 comments

What makes the ankle exo so effective is its simplicity

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a14923/ankle-exo-leg-wearable-tech/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

Alcohol or Marijuana?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/upshot/alcohol-or-marijuana-a-pediatrician-faces-the-question.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 56 comments

Linux kernel initialization process, part 4

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/Initialization/linux-initialization-4.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
56 upvotes – 0 comments

Producing Open Source Software

http://producingoss.com/en/index.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

Buffer: Composable Buffers for Go

https://github.com/djherbis/buffer

11 years ago

★ 553 Go MIT
50 upvotes – 14 comments

A list of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS tools with free tiers

https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev

11 years ago

★ 120.9k HTML
49 upvotes – 1 comments

National Day of PACER Protest

https://yo.yourhonor.org/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 25 comments
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