top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-16

OS X Reviewed

http://hypercritical.co/2015/04/15/os-x-reviewed

11 years ago

461 upvotes – 109 comments

Android’s 10 Millisecond Problem explained

http://superpowered.com/androidaudiopathlatency/

11 years ago

431 upvotes – 299 comments

Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot

http://acuman.us/

11 years ago

430 upvotes – 297 comments

Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad

http://spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/21512-why-we-are-no-longer-developing-for-the-ipad/

11 years ago

406 upvotes – 489 comments

French National Assembly approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)

http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/04/16/les-deputes-approuvent-un-systeme-de-surveillance-du-trafic-sur-internet_4616652_4408996.html

11 years ago

375 upvotes – 211 comments

Yes, You Can Catch Insanity

http://nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/yes-you-can-catch-insanity

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 100 comments

IKEA introduces wireless charging furniture [pdf]

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/pressroom/press_materials/USA_PR_Wireless_charging.pdf

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 146 comments

Docker 1.6: Engine and Orchestration Updates, Registry 2.0, and Windows Client

http://blog.docker.com/2015/04/docker-release-1-6/

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 62 comments

SpaceX Plans to Land Next Falcon 9 on Solid Ground

http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/space/2015/04/15/spacex-ground-attempt-reusable-landing-sea/25827625/

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 132 comments

Python 2, Python 3, Debian and Porting

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00005.html

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 98 comments

GitHub's 2014 Transparency Report

https://github.com/blog/1987-github-s-2014-transparency-report

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 122 comments

Rare Video Captures Sperm Whale in Deep Sea

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/150415-sperm-whale-deep-sea-video-rov-gulf-mexico-nautilus-ballard-science/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 24 comments

Why Young Men Go to War

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/sebastian-junger-knows-why-young-men-go-to-war-f163804cbf6

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 214 comments

Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy in 1882

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/eating-too-much-rice-almost-sank-the-japanese-navy-f985772c81a6/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 61 comments

Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 35 comments

L.A. school district ditches iPad curriculum

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ipad-curriculum-refund-20150415-story.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 93 comments

Highland.js

http://highlandjs.org/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

CEO cuts his pay by almost $1M to give his employees big raises

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-seattle-ceo-pay-20150415-story.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 102 comments

Is Slack Really Worth $2.8B? A Conversation with Stewart Butterfield

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/is-slack-really-worth-2-8-billion-a-conversation-with-stewart-butterfield/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 121 comments

EmacsConf 2015 Planning Doc

https://emacsconf.github.io/emacsconf2015/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 20 comments

How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013)

http://yosefk.com/blog/how-fpgas-work-and-why-youll-buy-one.html

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 107 comments

I was interviewed by Fog Creek

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/fogcreek-interview/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 96 comments

Pharo 4.0 Released

http://pharo.org/news/pharo-4.0-released

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 79 comments

Police Must Respect the Right of Citizens to Record Them

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/police-must-respect-right-citizens-record-them

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 14 comments

An Analysis of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Crash Landing

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/analysis-falcon-9-crash-landing/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 71 comments

Don’t make bicyclists more visible. Make drivers stop hitting them

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/15/dont-make-bicyclists-more-visible-make-cars-stop-running-them-over/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 181 comments

CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide

http://8088mph.blogspot.com/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-illustrated.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

Kickstarter: They’re Like Wreck-It-Ralph in a China Shop

http://www.goblinscomic.org/kickstarter-theyre-like-wreck-it-ralph-in-a-china-shop-and-each-piece-of-china-is-a-backer/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 64 comments

Tupper's formula

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper%27s_self-referential_formula

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

Snapchat Sneakily Uses Its Own App to Poach Uber Engineers

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2015/04/15/snapchat-sneakily-uses-its-own-app-to-poach-uber-engineers/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 89 comments

The design and implementation of the Meteor platform [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqLbodVH3dw

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 6 comments

AMD Exits Dense Microserver Business, Ends SeaMicro Brand

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9170/amd-exits-dense-microserver-business-ends-seamicro-brand

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/16/used-daily-by-750k-workers-slack-raises-160m-to-value-collaboration-startup-at-2-8b/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 110 comments

Rapydscript: Python-like pre-compiler for JavaScript

http://www.rapydscript.com/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 24 comments

The Rise of Micro Startup Acquisitions

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/15/rise-of-micro-startup-acquisitions

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

Get Notified When Someone Posts an Article from Your Domain on Hacker News

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/04/get-notified-when-someone-posts-an-article-from-your-domain-on-hacker-news-using-node-js-firebase-and-twilio.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

Lisp Space – A Space for Parentheses

http://lisp.space/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 52 comments

The Roomba for Lawns Is Really Pissing Off Astronomers

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/irobot-lawnbot/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 116 comments

VersionPress 1.0 Released

http://blog.versionpress.net/2015/04/versionpress-1-0-released/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

How the Mill CPU does fork() in a single address space

http://millcomputing.com/topic/fork-2/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

At Marathon in North Korea, Curiosity Goes a Long Way

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/sports/at-marathon-in-north-korea-curiosity-goes-a-long-way.html?

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

Luajit IO framework

http://luajit.io

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

A Yale Graduate Leaves a Trail of Ventures and Debts

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/business/dealbook/a-yale-graduate-leaves-a-trail-of-ventures-and-debts.html

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 35 comments

Loading 180 tiled images with HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/1

https://http2.golang.org/gophertiles?latency=0

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 54 comments

Optimizing TLS for High–Bandwidth Applications in FreeBSD [pdf]

https://people.freebsd.org/~rrs/asiabsd_2015_tls.pdf

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Towards improved C++ support for games, graphics, real-time, embedded systems [pdf]

http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2015/n4456.pdf

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

Remembering the Case that Established Code as Speech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-established-code-speech/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Dependency-based prioritization makes HTTP/2 much faster than SPDY

http://blog.kazuhooku.com/2015/04/dependency-based-prioritization-makes.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

Beer and Data Science – Looking at topic modeling in multi-aspect reviews

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/benjamincohen1/d7caaa3d07bbb89cd39a

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

One instruction set computer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

Pharmacy Startup PillPack Could Change the Way America Takes Its Medicine

http://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhedgecock/2015/04/15/this-pharmacy-startup-wants-to-change-the-way-you-take-your-medicine/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 28 comments

Bruce Eckel: Rethinking Scala

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

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 48 comments

Java Generics FAQs

http://www.angelikalanger.com/GenericsFAQ/JavaGenericsFAQ.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 65 comments

4Q: the final archive format

https://github.com/robey/4q

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 46 comments

Apollo: Scalable and Coordinated Scheduling for Cloud-Scale Computing

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/boutin

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments

The story behind Jar’Edo Wens, the longest-running hoax in Wikipedia history

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04/15/the-great-wikipedia-hoax/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 38 comments

Reactive PostgreSQL for Meteor

https://github.com/numtel/meteor-pg

11 years ago

★ 299 JavaScript MIT
50 upvotes – 16 comments

Why don’t our brains explode at movie cuts?

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-dont-our-brains-explode-at-movie-cuts/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 55 comments

How Machines See the Web: Exploring the Web Algorithmically

http://blog.algorithmia.com/post/116365814879/how-machines-see-the-web-exploring-the-web

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments

World-record electric motor for aircraft

http://phys.org/news/2015-04-world-record-electric-motor-aircraft.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 54 comments

Mysterious mechanisms at play at the edge of the event horizon

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1515/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

Puppet 4 is now production-ready

https://puppetlabs.com/blog/say-hello-open-source-puppet-4

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 54 comments

“Eeny, meeny, miny, mo” and the ambiguous history of counting-out rhymes

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/16/losing-count/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 18 comments

Boulder: An ACME-based CA, written in Go used by letsencrypt.org

https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder

11 years ago

★ 5.6k Go MPL-2.0
45 upvotes – 3 comments

When everybody’s reading, but nobody’s smarter, what value has the word?

http://www.themorningnews.org/article/binge-reading-disorder

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

MoMA’s Digital Art Vault

http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/04/14/momas-digital-art-vault

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 7 comments
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