top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-08

I Quit: What really goes on at Apple

http://roadlesstravelled.me/2015/04/06/why-steve-jobs-motivated-me-to-quit-apple/

11 years ago

1215 upvotes – 544 comments

Announcing Git Large File Storage

https://github.com/blog/1986-announcing-git-large-file-storage-lfs

11 years ago

620 upvotes – 159 comments

Microsoft announces Hyper-V Containers

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/08/microsoft-unveils-new-container-technologies-for-the-next-generation-cloud

11 years ago

344 upvotes – 144 comments

Show HN: Kaiwa, a Modern Open-Source XMPP Web Client

http://getkaiwa.com

11 years ago

339 upvotes – 140 comments

8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators

http://trixter.oldskool.org/2015/04/07/8088-mph-we-break-all-your-emulators/

11 years ago

319 upvotes – 99 comments

Microsoft Announces Nano Server

http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2015/04/08/microsoft-announces-nano-server-for-modern-apps-and-cloud.aspx

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 116 comments

Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because “Hacking” Is Illegal

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/videogame-publishers-no-preserving-abandoned-games-even-museums-and-archives

11 years ago

282 upvotes – 152 comments

Stellar Consensus Protocol: Proof and Code

https://www.stellar.org/blog/stellar-consensus-protocol-proof-code/

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 93 comments

The Apple Watch

http://daringfireball.net/2015/04/the_apple_watch

11 years ago

253 upvotes – 284 comments

Apple – OS X – Photos

http://www.apple.com/osx/photos/

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 331 comments

Google purges bad extensions from Chrome

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32206511

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 90 comments

Introducing Vector: Netflix's On-Host Performance Monitoring Tool

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/04/introducing-vector-netflixs-on-host.html

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 62 comments

Teaching Haskell to a 10 year old: Day 1

https://superginbaby.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/teaching-haskell-to-a-10-year-old-day-1/

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 68 comments

What part of “No, Totally” don't you understand?

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-part-of-no-totally-dont-you-understand

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 75 comments

Get a prediction of how other people perceive your face

http://face.cbs.dtu.dk/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 37 comments

Human Rights Watch Sues DEA Over Bulk Collection of Americans’ Telephone Records

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/human-rights-watch-sues-dea-over-bulk-collection-americans-telephone-records

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 18 comments

Skit – I built another JavaScript framework

https://medium.com/on-coding/oh-god-i-built-another-javascript-framework-fb32f0f8ec12

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 42 comments

Who is behind Dart?

https://www.blossom.co/blog/who-is-behind-dart

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 27 comments

Straightening our Backbone: A lesson in event-driven UI development

https://code.mixpanel.com/2015/04/08/straightening-our-backbone-a-lesson-in-event-driven-ui-development/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 27 comments

Athame – Full vim for bash and readline

https://github.com/ardagnir/athame

11 years ago

★ 1.6k C GPL-3.0
105 upvotes – 35 comments

The Solar System and Beyond Is Awash in Water

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-119

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 54 comments

A new syntax definition format for Sublime

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/syntax.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 25 comments

Analyzing Intel Core M Performance

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9117/analyzing-intel-core-m-performance

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 12 comments

BARF – A Binary Analysis and Reverse Engineering Framework

https://github.com/programa-stic/barf-project/?0.2.1

11 years ago

★ 1.4k Python BSD-2-Clause
91 upvotes – 27 comments

The History of Board Games

https://diceygoblin.com/blog/the-full-history-of-board-games/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 15 comments

Mark Pincus, Zynga’s Founder, Returns as C.E.O

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/technology/mark-pincus-zyngas-founder-returns-as-ceo.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 84 comments

Where a 90s tourist guide will take you in 2015 NYC

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/city/168771-90s-tourist-guide-nyc

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 15 comments

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 137 comments

Paris’ $160M Plan to Boost Cycling

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/us-cities-follow-paris-160m-plan-boost-cycling/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 70 comments

Building a 3D Printed Electric Jet Powered Snowboard

http://www.judegomila.com/post/115814462784/building-a-3d-printed-electric-jet-powered

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Anyone using a “no hands” setup for programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9340238

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: How do I test that I'm improving as a software developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9340390

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 52 comments

Germany's trade surplus is a problem

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/04/03-germany-trade-surplus-problem

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 122 comments

Programmer Competency Matrix

http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 51 comments

Rise of the Machines: The Future Has Lots of Robots, Few Jobs for Humans

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/rise-machines-future-lots-robots-jobs-humans/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 109 comments

Show HN: Sameroom.io

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342148

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

Oyster is launching an e-book store

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/netflix-books-just-invaded-amazons-turf/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 56 comments

Contributing to OpenBSD

http://homing-on-code.blogspot.com/2015/04/contributing-to-openbsd.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: CLI for executing code in many different languages with Docker

https://docker-exec.github.io/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

Gestalt Principles for Data Visualization

http://emeeks.github.io/gestaltdataviz/section1.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

Ruby-like string interpolation in Python

https://github.com/syrusakbary/interpy

11 years ago

★ 254 Python
63 upvotes – 50 comments

It's not 1999

http://stratechery.com/2015/1999/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 53 comments

Microsoft seeks to recruit autistic workers

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32204999

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 46 comments

Apple Watch Review – A Day in the Life

http://www.theverge.com/a/apple-watch-review

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 37 comments

Why people hate PHP, a book from hell

http://blog.neattutorials.com/why-people-hate-php-a-book-from-hell/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 60 comments

Bitcoin Lightning Networks Part I: Revocable Transactions

http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=450

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 7 comments
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