top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-14

RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.0-release/

11 years ago

407 upvotes – 152 comments

Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company?

http://bosnadev.com/2015/04/14/facebook-chats-are-being-scanned-by-a-cia-funded-company/

11 years ago

392 upvotes – 174 comments

Finding bugs in SQLite, the easy way

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2015/04/finding-bugs-in-sqlite-easy-way.html?m=1

11 years ago

340 upvotes – 69 comments

Apple ResearchKit on GitHub

http://researchkit.github.io/index.html

11 years ago

335 upvotes – 110 comments

Trackers and bank accounts

http://www.windytan.com/2015/04/trackers-and-bank-accounts.html

11 years ago

301 upvotes – 47 comments

Owner of a Credit Card Processor Is Setting a New Minimum Wage: $70,000 a Year

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/business/owner-of-gravity-payments-a-credit-card-processor-is-setting-a-new-minimum-wage-70000-a-year.html

11 years ago

268 upvotes – 224 comments

Why Energy Storage Is About to Get Big – And Cheap

http://rameznaam.com/2015/04/14/energy-storage-about-to-get-big-and-cheap/

11 years ago

241 upvotes – 227 comments

Lumen – A micro-framework by Laravel

https://laravel-news.com/2015/04/lumen/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 110 comments

Free Ebook: How to Code in HTML5 and CSS3

http://howtocodeinhtml.com/

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 65 comments

SpaceX Dragon CRS-6 Launch Webcast

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

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 139 comments

Twilio Video – Real-time WebRTC video infrastructure

https://www.twilio.com/video

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 104 comments

D-Link patch doesn’t address all bugs listed in their own security advisory

http://www.devttys0.com/2015/04/what-the-ridiculous-fuck-d-link/

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 80 comments

Gotchas from Two Years with Node

https://segment.com/blog/gotchas-from-two-years-of-node/

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 117 comments

Chris Granger on the LightTable architecture

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/light-table-discussion/2csnnNA1pfo/693EWDJVhuwJ

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 99 comments

Reverse Engineering Wipeout

http://phoboslab.org/log/2015/04/reverse-engineering-wipeout-psx

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Free, instant, secure, disposable chat rooms built in Go

https://niltalk.com/

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 93 comments

A New Era at the Tor Project

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-era-tor-project

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 44 comments

Design is losing its seat at the table

http://mokriya.quora.com/Designer-Duds-Losing-Our-Seat-at-the-Table?share=1

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 76 comments

Apple WWDC 2015

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/index.html

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 105 comments

The Cryptographic Doom Principle

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-cryptographic-doom-principle/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 134 comments

Npm Private Modules

https://www.npmjs.com/private-modules

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 74 comments

NGINX Open Source: Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead

http://nginx.com/blog/nginx-open-source-reflecting-back-and-looking-ahead/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

Shopify to raise $100M in Toronto, New York IPO

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/shopify-to-raise-100m-in-toronto-new-york-ipo-1.3033009

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 71 comments

Docker Raises $95M Series D Round for Its Container Platform

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/14/docker-raises-95m-series-d-round-for-its-container-platform/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 86 comments

A Field Guide to the American Sandwich

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/14/dining/field-guide-to-the-sandwich.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 85 comments

Women preferred 2:1 over men for STEM faculty positions

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/04/women-preferred-21-over-men-stem-faculty-positions

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 138 comments

PuzzleScript

http://www.puzzlescript.net/editor.html?hack=7c68f433e31a7cafbcce

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 10 comments

The wow of water rendering

https://vimeo.com/120475526

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 33 comments

Parallel Map in Elixir

http://www.selectedintelligence.com/post/116327140769/parallel-map-in-elixir

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 40 comments

Etsy Vendors to get option to buy $2,500 of shares before public float

http://www.wsj.com/articles/etsy-vendors-to-get-a-piece-of-ipo-1428971989

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 57 comments

Popular JavaScript Package Manager Npm Raises $8M, Launches Private Modules

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/14/popular-javascript-package-manager-npm-raises-8m-launches-private-modules

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 64 comments

Do engineers really make better spouses?

http://www.divorcedebbie.com/engineers-divorce-rates-better-spouses/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 121 comments

Lessons from a Failed YC Pitch with Paul Graham

https://keen.io/blog/116400439081/lessons-from-a-failed-yc-pitch-with-paul-graham

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Unfunny April Fool's Joke from the Magic Lantern Developers

http://kukuruku.co/hub/it/unfunny-april-fools-joke-from-the-magic-lantern-developers

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 50 comments

F# Survey 2015 Results

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ly_W1ZUH3x_ph4H6I_64uvEib2brDx34j-FoaZkeYLI/viewanalytics

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 45 comments

Google’s Internal Response to Imminent E.U. Charges

http://recode.net/2015/04/14/here-is-googles-internal-response-to-the-imminent-e-u-charges-memo/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 96 comments

The Maker of the Trollface Meme

http://kotaku.com/the-maker-of-the-trollface-meme-is-counting-his-money-1696228810/+tcberman

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 58 comments

Colorado now allows equity crowdfunding

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_27906349/hicklooper-signs-equity-crowdfunding-law-let-anyone-invest

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

Percona acquires Tokutek

http://www.percona.com/percona-acquires-tokutek

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

Visualizing matrix multiplication as a linear combination

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2015/visualizing-matrix-multiplication-as-a-linear-combination/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

Barnacle gosling’s terrifying cliff tumble

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141020-chicks-tumble-of-terror-filmed

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Political Extremism Is Supported by an Illusion of Understanding (2013) [pdf]

http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/todd_rogers/files/political_extremism.pdf

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 45 comments

Three Types of Harmful Hackathons

http://blog.rokkincat.com/three-types-of-harmful-hackathons/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: A fast append-only data store for Java 8

http://probablyfine.co.uk/2015/04/11/announcing-java-dirty/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 31 comments

Rocket Will Be Recaptured in Midair with a Helicopter

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/americas-newly-announced-rocket-will-be-recaptured-in-midair-with-a-helicopter

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 45 comments

A Math Problem from Singapore Goes Viral

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/science/a-math-problem-from-singapore-goes-viral-when-is-cheryls-birthday.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 49 comments

How to Prepare for the Y Combinator Interview

https://tryzen99.com/blog_posts/prepare-y-combinator-interview

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Jennicam and the Birth of 'Lifecasting'

http://digg.com/2015/reply-all-jennicam

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 47 comments

Hottest tech startups in France

http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-17-hottest-tech-startups-in-france-2015-4?op=1

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: All You Can Optimize on Your Website in a Single Report

https://www.dareboost.com

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 46 comments

Google, Microsoft, Stall Points, and Growth

http://blog.kedrosky.com/googles-microsoft-moment-when

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 29 comments

2015 MacBook Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9136/the-2015-macbook-review

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 67 comments

Dynamic Software Updating: Linux 4.0 and Beyond

http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2015/04/14/dynamic-software-updating/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Your pain reliever may also be diminishing your joy

http://news.osu.edu/news/2015/04/13/emotion-reliever/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments

What to expect in NetBSD 7

http://netbsd-news.me/NetBSD7/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 18 comments

Halt and Catch Fire (Season 1) available on Netflix

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70302182?trkid=13752289

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 36 comments

LA's Proposed Parking Signs

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/las-proposed-parking-signs-brilliantly-simple/?mbid=social_fb

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 52 comments

O₂ Engine – HTML5 Visual Novel Engine

http://o2engine.org/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Alan Turing's notebook sold for $1M

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32295436

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

Andy Hertzfeld's take on the Schlender-Tetzeli bio

https://medium.com/backchannel/would-steve-jobs-have-liked-the-new-biography-i-don-t-think-so-c9ceb4fc3005

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

What the Fourth Industrial Revolution Looks Like

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/life-after-the-fourth-industrial-revolution

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 66 comments

Kim Dotcom Megaupload case falters over sharing Canadian data

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/kim-dotcom-megaupload-case-falters-over-sharing-canadian-data-1.3030991

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 56 comments

Yahoo Stock Quotes in Go

https://github.com/doneland/yquotes

11 years ago

★ 185 Go MIT
49 upvotes – 22 comments

RainbowStream: A Twitter client on the terminal

http://www.rainbowstream.org/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 20 comments

Nokia in Talks to Buy Alcatel-Lucent

http://www.wsj.com/articles/nokia-in-talks-to-buy-alcatel-lucent-1428996832

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments

Russian way with the mathematical travelling salesman (1979)

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/29/mathematics-khachian-russia-travelling-salesman-archive-1979

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

Cynicism and Experience

http://jamisondance.com/03-29-2015/cynicism-and-experience

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 27 comments

Looking for security trouble spots in Go code

http://0xdabbad00.com/2015/04/12/looking_for_security_trouble_spots_in_go_code/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 4 comments

Gravity Payments in Seattle Is Raising Minimum Salaries to $70K

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/business/owner-of-gravity-payments-a-credit-card-processor-is-setting-a-new-minimum-wage-70000-a-year.html

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 51 comments

A Tale of Two Exploits

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-tale-of-two-exploits.html

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 6 comments
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