top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-04-12

Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)

http://improvingsoftware.com/2009/05/19/programmers-before-you-turn-40-get-a-plan-b/

11 years ago

351 upvotes – 289 comments

Voyage to Nowhere: The Amazon Kindle Story

http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/voyage-to-nowhere

11 years ago

316 upvotes – 188 comments

Sprinklr Acquires GetSatisfaction, Founders Get Nothing

https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585797211679657984

11 years ago

311 upvotes – 135 comments

The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling

http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html

11 years ago

253 upvotes – 67 comments

John Carmack's First Game

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2015/04/game-183-shadowforge-1989.html

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 19 comments

Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2

http://lg.io/2015/04/12/run-your-own-high-end-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 71 comments

Hacker tries to compromise and resell an internet-facing Linux server

http://morris.guru/huthos-the-totally-100-legit-vps-provider/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 67 comments

Rand Paul Pledges to Immediately End NSA Mass Surveillance If Elected President

http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/rand-paul-pledges-to-immediately-end-nsa-mass-surveillance-if-elected-president-20150407

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 196 comments

Spain's hologram protest: Thousands join virtual march against new gag law

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spains-hologram-protest-thousands-join-virtual-march-in-madrid-against-new-gag-law-10170650.html

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 25 comments

PapyrOS, based on Arch Linux

http://papyros.io

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 44 comments

Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/11/twitter-cuts-off-datasift-to-step-up-its-own-b2b-big-data-analytics-business/#.acq8mm:kcu0

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 132 comments

Elementary OS Freya Released

http://elementary.io

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 87 comments

The Moral Bucket List

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/david-brooks-the-moral-bucket-list.html

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 41 comments

Solaris adopting OpenBSD's pf

http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2015/04/solaris-admins-for-glimpse-of-your.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 62 comments

Erlang the movie II: The Sequel

http://www.gar1t.com/blog/erlang-the-movie-ii-the-sequel.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 8 comments

UW scientists, biotech firm may have cure for colorblindness

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/uw-scientists-biotech-firm-may-have-cure-for-colorblindness/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 46 comments

Best, Brightest – and Saddest?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-best-brightest-and-saddest.html?ref=international

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 102 comments

Varoufakis and Stiglitz [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY3Qxm6BoUI

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 117 comments

Firefly – Full Text Search Engine for Dropbox

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2015/03/firefly-instant-full-text-search-engine/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 21 comments

Teenager Charged with Felony for Changing Teacher's Desktop Photo

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/teenager-charged-with-felony-for-changing-teacher-s-desktop-photo-20150410

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 88 comments
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