top 50% 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

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

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

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

The State of Probabilistic Programming

https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/the-state-of-probabilistic-programming/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 30 comments

The Essence of Peopling

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/04/08/the-essence-of-peopling/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

BrowserHack: NetHack ported to the web

http://coolwanglu.github.io/BrowserHack/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Self-Organizing Is So Hard

https://medium.com/nobl-collective/why-self-organizing-is-so-hard-247821591e67

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 23 comments

Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007)

http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 126 comments

CRT simulation (2014)

http://www.piratehearts.com/blog/2014/03/28/crt-simulation/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 34 comments

Remind HN: Followups are impossible if you have no contact details

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9362626

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 39 comments

Mushroom Cultivation Revisited

http://kylegabriel.com/projects/2015/04/mushroom-cultivation-revisited.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/04/on-the-great-filter-existentia.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 43 comments

Intel DDIO, LLC cache, buffer alignment, prefetching, and packet rates

http://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2015/04/intel-ddio-llc-cache-buffer-alignment.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

Dependency Injection is Evil (2011)

http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/dependency-injection-is-evil.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 69 comments

Sophia: A modern embeddable key-value database – v1.2.2 released

http://sphia.org/index.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Black-hole.js – Visualize black hole gravitational lensing in WebGL

https://github.com/cliffcrosland/black-hole.js

11 years ago

★ 378 JavaScript
72 upvotes – 14 comments

Basscss – Low-level CSS toolkit

http://www.basscss.com/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

“So, …” What?

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2015/04/11/So-What

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 75 comments

Escher – A language for connecting technologies using pure metaphors

http://gocircuit.github.io/escher/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

Closures and Objects Are Equivalent

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 45 comments

Namespacing Variants in ML

http://keleshev.com/namespacing-variants-in-ml

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 5 comments

Why Nobel-Winning Scientists Are Getting Older

http://priceonomics.com/why-nobel-winning-scientists-are-getting-older/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments

Using SMT Solvers to Analyze the Premier League Table

http://www.spramod.info/using-smt-solvers-to-analyze-the-premier-league-table.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain

http://www.eBay.c.uk

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 46 comments

Block languages

http://www.blocklanguages.org/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Function Plot – A 2d function plotter powered by d3

http://maurizzzio.github.io/function-plot/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

How Pixar Solves Problems from the Inside Out

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/12/how-pixar-solves-problems-from-the-inside-out/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

More Efficient TLB shootdowns

http://zinascii.com/2015/illumos-5498.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Denge sound mirrors

http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/soundmirrors/locations/denge/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments
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