top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-06

Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn

http://animalnewyork.com/2015/theres-a-massive-illicit-bust-of-edward-snowden-stuck-to-a-war-monument-in-brooklyn/

11 years ago

696 upvotes – 360 comments

Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/185-jennifer-cloer/821541-10-years-of-git-an-interview-with-git-creator-linus-torvalds

11 years ago

509 upvotes – 177 comments

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance [ft. Edward Snowden]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M

11 years ago

494 upvotes – 138 comments

VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos

http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015/04/vp9-faster-better-buffer-free-youtube.html

11 years ago

483 upvotes – 197 comments

WebGL Fundamentals

http://webglfundamentals.org/

11 years ago

406 upvotes – 51 comments

Responsive Tables in Pure CSS

https://techblog.livingsocial.com/blog/2015/04/06/responsive-tables-in-pure-css/

11 years ago

307 upvotes – 68 comments

A note on the argument about the 'morality' of adblockers

http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/AdblockingAndMorality

11 years ago

257 upvotes – 214 comments

The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-the-trader-who-donates-half-his-pay.html

11 years ago

228 upvotes – 190 comments

Neovim Newsletter #5 – Out of the Box

http://neovim.org/news/2015/april/

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 26 comments

CoreOS (YC S13) Raises $12M to Bring Kubernetes to the Enterprise

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/06/coreos-raises-12m-funding-round-led-by-google-ventures-to-bring-kubernetes-to-the-enterprise/

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 83 comments

Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon

http://stupidhackathon.github.io/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 60 comments

Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform

http://www.trycoursify.com

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 58 comments

Experimenting with HHVM at Etsy

https://codeascraft.com/2015/04/06/experimenting-with-hhvm-at-etsy/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 37 comments

Buttercoin is shutting down

https://buttercoin.com/#/goodbye

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 79 comments

P-Values are not Error Probabilities (2003) [pdf]

http://www.uv.es/sestio/TechRep/tr14-03.pdf

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 35 comments

Can they see my dick pic?

http://cantheyseemydick.com/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 44 comments

More Rust compared to C++

https://rnestler.github.io/more-rust-compared-to-c.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 107 comments

Microsoft Bond

https://github.com/Microsoft/bond

11 years ago

★ 2.6k C++ MIT
128 upvotes – 15 comments

$9000 bounty paid for Python bugs

https://hackerone.com/reports/55017

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 20 comments

Json vs. simplejson vs. ujson

http://jyotiska.github.io/blog/posts/json_vs_simplejson_vs_ujson.html

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 71 comments

Announcing Tectonic: Commercial Kubernetes Platform

https://coreos.com/blog/announcing-tectonic/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 4 comments

C++ Streams

http://jscheiny.github.io/Streams/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 48 comments

The 68000 Wars, Part 2: Jack Is Back

http://www.filfre.net/2015/04/the-68000-wars-part-2-jack-is-back/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 7 comments

GNU Hurd

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 54 comments

Turning the Arduino Uno into an Apple II

http://dpeckett.com/turning-the-arduino-uno-into-an-apple

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Crudlet.js – A common, streamable interface for synchronizing data

https://github.com/mojo-js/crudlet.js

11 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript MIT
94 upvotes – 15 comments

Ansible 1.9.0 Released

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/G7XyPMl1tNc

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

Turkey blocks Twitter, YouTube over hostage photo

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-blocks-twitter-youtube-facebook-over-hostage-photo.aspx?pageID=238&nid=80638&NewsCatID=339

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 15 comments

Shill: Scripting with Least Privilege

http://shill.seas.harvard.edu/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

A Guide to Thesis-Writing and a Guide to Life

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-guide-to-thesis-writing-that-is-a-guide-to-life?intcid=mod-latest

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

Understanding glibc malloc

https://sploitfun.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/understanding-glibc-malloc/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 3 comments

Numeric JavaScript

http://numericjs.com/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

As Demand for Welders Resurges, Community Colleges Offer Classes

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/business/economy/as-demand-for-welders-resurges-community-colleges-offer-classes.html?_r=0

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 58 comments

Anonabox Analysis

https://reclaim-your-privacy.com/wiki/Anonabox_Analysis

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

Lingua::Romana::Perligata – Perl for the XXI-Imum Century (2000)

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

The Hackathon Fast Track: From Campus to Silicon Valley

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/education/edlife/the-hackathon-fast-track-from-campus-to-silicon-valley.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Quant News – Quantitative trading research, news, blogs, and comments

http://www.quantnews.com

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

Aluminum battery from Stanford offers safe alternative to conventional batteries

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/aluminum-ion-battery-033115.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

IPv4 Address Market Takes Off

http://research.dyn.com/2015/04/ipv4-address-market-takes-off/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 60 comments

The arrival of man-made earthquakes

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/13/weather-underground

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

AwSnap – This link crashes Chrome

https://github.com/jlblatt/AwSnap

11 years ago

★ 51
71 upvotes – 40 comments

VCs bet on ‘indoor farming,’ lasers that monitor crops and Soylent drinks

http://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-firms-plant-roots-in-farm-belt-1428348765

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 43 comments

The Fastest VM Bytecode Interpreter (2010)

http://byteworm.com/2010/11/21/the-fastest-vm-bytecode-interpreter/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

The Rise of the ‘Unicorns’

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/01/business/dealbook/The-Rise-of-the-Unicorns.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 55 comments

Building a high performance SSD SAN, part 1

http://smcleod.net/building-a-high-performance-ssd-san/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Isn't networking usually a waste of time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9328340

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 72 comments

Play with Kubernetes Quickly Using Docker

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/play-with-kubernetes-quickly-using-docker/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

Crate: Distributed SQL Database for the Age of Docker

https://crate.io/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 44 comments

John Oliver's Interview of Edward Snowden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykfGWcmUbbk

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

Dockerception: Docker building dockers – keeping them small

https://github.com/jamiemccrindle/dockerception

11 years ago

★ 294 Go Apache-2.0
66 upvotes – 17 comments

ZenPayroll (YC W12) Raises $60M From Group Led by Google Investment Arm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/business/dealbook/zenpayroll-start-up-raises-60-million-from-group-led-by-google-investment-arm.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 35 comments

Burn rate says little about whether a startup is on track

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/05/burn-rate-doesnt-matter/#.v8qwt9:mjbl

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 29 comments

Promoting Health and Longevity Through Diet

http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(15)00186-5

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

3 monitors won't solve your problems

http://aimforsimplicity.com/post/3monitorswontsolveyourproblems/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 81 comments

“We would be willing to set up a $2,500 bounty to implement scrollbar styling”

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 83 comments

A Visual Introduction to Abstract Geometrical Computation

http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/Jerome.Durand-Lose/Recherche/AGC/intro_AGC.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

An American banker, a Saudi billionaire, and a financial implosion

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/13/the-kings-of-the-desert

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 5 comments

Out with the Caraway, in with the Ginger: 50 Years of American Spice Consumption

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/out-with-the-caraway-in-with-the-ginger-50-years-of-american-spice-consumption/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 4 comments

Early 80386 CPUs and their errata

http://www.pcjs.org/blog/2015/02/23/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 23 comments

Minimalist Living: When a Lot Less Is More

http://time.com/3738202/minimalism-clutter-too-much-stuff/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 58 comments

In High-Tech Japan, the Fax Machines Roll On (2013)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/world/asia/in-japan-the-fax-machine-is-anything-but-a-relic.html?pagewanted=all

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 48 comments

What’s the most we can remember?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150401-whats-the-most-we-can-remember

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

FacePay?

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/05/when-buying-is-as-easy-as-liking/#.i6feph:9K0k

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 38 comments

Difficult, Dated, Frustrating, Prophetic – Teaching Thomas Pynchon

http://www.themillions.com/2015/04/difficult-dated-frustrating-prophetic-teaching-thomas-pynchon.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments
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