top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-13

To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home (2014)

https://hbr.org/2014/01/to-raise-productivity-let-more-employees-work-from-home

11 years ago

543 upvotes – 225 comments

The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/10/8383165/reddit-button-explained

11 years ago

461 upvotes – 214 comments

Linux 4.0

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=39a8804455fb23f09157341d3ba7db6d7ae6ee76

11 years ago

390 upvotes – 79 comments

The Code Is Just the Symptom

https://medium.com/@rubyghetto/the-code-is-just-the-symptom-c77f43b29320

11 years ago

263 upvotes – 65 comments

Socket.IO C++

http://socket.io/blog/socket-io-cpp/

11 years ago

253 upvotes – 78 comments

Game of Thrones leak and watermark: a stupid tracking system

http://blog.frite-camembert.net/got-leak.html

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 275 comments

LLILC – LLVM-Based Compiler for .NET CoreCLR

https://github.com/dotnet/llilc

11 years ago

★ 1.5k C++ MIT
220 upvotes – 43 comments

I Am Eric Ries, Author of the Lean Startup. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369577

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 112 comments

Why the sun is a poor dumping ground for nuclear waste (2010)

http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/shooting_for_the_sun/

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 171 comments

German author Guenter Grass dies

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32285705?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 58 comments

Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/xaGffxAM-hs

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 293 comments

Stephen King: “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”

https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/135/King_Everything.html

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 51 comments

Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels?

http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/could-we-reboot-civilisation-without-fossil-fuels/

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 178 comments

Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/13/planet-labs-rockets-to-118-million-in-series-c-funding-to-cover-the-earth-in-tiny-satellites/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 44 comments

Distraction is a kind of obesity of the mind

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/12/matthew-crawford-distraction-is-a-kind-of-obesity-of-the-mind-the-world-beyond-your-head

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 42 comments

Why Open Source Startups Fail

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/12/the-real-reason-open-source-startups-fail/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 86 comments

Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/better-probabilistic-programming-0413

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 78 comments

CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-is-now-a-google-cloud-platform-technology-partner/

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 83 comments

The J1 Forth CPU

http://www.excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 22 comments

Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Extend the Age of Oil

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-12/saudi-arabia-s-plan-to-extend-the-age-of-oil

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 131 comments

Show HN: TypeSlab – simple, shareable typographic posters

http://typeslab.com

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 37 comments

Inconvenient Truths About the Apple Watch

https://medium.com/@flyosity/inconvenient-truths-about-the-apple-watch-11bafa44551b

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 100 comments

My 5.5 Months on Soylent: The Joys of Not Cooking

http://www.helloerik.com/my-5-5-months-on-soylent-the-joys-of-not-cooking

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 138 comments

True Zero-Downtime HAProxy Reloads

http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/04/true-zero-downtime-haproxy-reloads.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 49 comments

First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves

http://www.nealstephenson.com/news/2015/04/13/seveneves-excerpt/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 96 comments

USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2016

http://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/uscis-completes-h-1b-cap-random-selection-process-fy-2016

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 106 comments

Man Says He Can Make 20-Year-Old Rum in 6 Days

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/lost-spirits/

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 94 comments

HFT in my backyard – VI

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/hft-in-my-backyard-vi-2/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 13 comments

RQ – A small JavaScript library for managing asychronicity

http://www.rq.crockford.com/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

The Golden Ratio: Design's Biggest Myth

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3044877/the-golden-ratio-designs-biggest-myth

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 37 comments

Japan to open first hotel entirely operated by robots

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/japan-open-hotel-operated-robots-article-1.2103352?cid=bitly

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 85 comments

Presidential candidate website tech, compared

https://paulschreiber.com/blog/2015/04/12/presidential-candidate-website-tech-compared/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

Plain web text offenders: sending my location over HTTP when HTTPS was possible

http://blog.jgc.org/2015/04/plain-web-text-offenders-sending-my.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

SpaceX CRS-6 Launch Webcast

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#.VKcrD3vO87w

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 60 comments

Fatal silence: Why do so many fortysomething men kill themselves?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32231774

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 87 comments

Real-Time Full-Text Search with Luwak and Samza

http://blog.confluent.io/2015/04/13/real-time-full-text-search-with-luwak-and-samza/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

Less is more: language features

http://blog.ploeh.dk/2015/04/13/less-is-more-language-features/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: What do you guys think of zero rating?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9367080

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 63 comments

Typos in search queries at Khan Academy

http://johncs.com/posts/spellchecker.htm

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Watching and Re-Watching “The Mother of All Demos”

http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2015/04/from-the-vault-watching-and-re-watching-the-mother-of-all-demos/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

Squirrel – A high-level, light-weight scripting language

http://squirrel-lang.org/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 39 comments

Why do some developers consider Agile development to be nonsense?

http://www.agileoverflow.com/t/why-do-some-developers-at-strong-companies-like-google-consider-agile-development-to-be-nonsense/107

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 144 comments

Link time and inter-procedural optimization improvements in GCC 5

http://hubicka.blogspot.com/2015/04/GCC5-IPA-LTO-news.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments

Ways Men in Tech Are Unintentionally Sexist (2014)

http://notapattern.net/2014/10/14/ways-men-in-tech-are-unintentionally-sexist/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 146 comments

Microcode parser for AMD, Intel, and VIA processors

https://github.com/ddcc/microparse

11 years ago

★ 134 Python GPL-2.0
61 upvotes – 8 comments

JIT compiler for 6502 machine code, built on lib6502 and LLVM

https://github.com/ZornsLemma/lib6502-jit

11 years ago

★ 55 C
59 upvotes – 7 comments

Interview with Eric Lippert

http://blog.fogcreek.com/dev-life-interview-with-eric-lippert/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

Scientists have found more evidence for liquid water on Mars

https://www.vox.com/2015/4/13/8384337/mars-water-liquid-curiosity

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

Refresh is acquired by LinkedIn

http://blog.refresh.io/post/115300546551/announcement

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

Mystery of Ceres' bright spots grows

http://www.nature.com/news/mystery-of-ceres-bright-spots-grows-1.17313

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

LowRISC tagged memory preview release

http://www.lowrisc.org/blog/2015/04/lowrisc-tagged-memory-preview-release/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

More 8088 MPH how it's done

http://www.reenigne.org/blog/more-8088-mph-how-its-done/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

A maths question for Singapore schoolkids

http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/apr/13/can-you-solve-the-singapore-primary-maths-question-that-went-viral

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 51 comments

Subway station toilets: a surprisingly accurate indicator of urban civilisation

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/10/subway-station-toilets-indicator-urban-civilisation

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 55 comments

Pycket – A Tracing JIT for a Functional Language [pdf]

http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/samth/pycket-draft.pdf

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 1 comments

Graphene oxide soaks up radioactive waste

http://news.rice.edu/2013/01/08/another-tiny-miracle-graphene-oxide-soaks-up-radioactive-waste/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

C# 6 exception filters and how they are much more than syntactic sugar

http://www.volatileread.com/Wiki?id=1087

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 19 comments

StackNotes

http://www.stacknotes.io/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 31 comments

Welcome Luke and Rick

http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-luke-and-rick

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

Tableflip.club

http://tableflip.club

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 43 comments

Brain Bleeding JavaScript Obfuscation

https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/01/12/javascript_deobfuscation

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 15 comments

Black-hole.js

http://cliffcrosland.tumblr.com/post/115981256393/black-hole-js

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 6 comments
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