top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-19

How to Center in CSS

http://howtocenterincss.com/

11 years ago

1036 upvotes – 289 comments

Fossdroid.com: Free and open source Android applications

http://fossdroid.com/

11 years ago

408 upvotes – 73 comments

This French tech school has no teachers, no books, no tuition

http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/13/this-french-tech-school-has-no-teachers-no-books-no-tuition-and-it-could-change-everything/?hn=true

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 118 comments

United Airlines Stops Researcher Who Tweeted about Airplane Network Security

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/united-airlines-stops-researcher-who-tweeted-about-airplane-network-security

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 121 comments

Clockmaker John Harrison vindicated 250 years after ‘absurd’ claims

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/19/clockmaker-john-harrison-vindicated-250-years-absurd-claims

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 60 comments

Lol my thesis – Summing up years of work in one sentence

http://lolmythesis.com/

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 28 comments

DARPA Has Open-Sourced 'Dark Web' Search Tech

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/04/17/darpa-nasa-and-partners-show-off-memex/

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 62 comments

The Missing Mt. Gox Bitcoins

http://blog.wizsec.jp/2015/04/the-missing-mtgox-bitcoins.html

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 89 comments

Homeless Millennials Are Transforming Hobo Culture

http://www.newsweek.com/homeless-millennials-are-transforming-hobo-culture-323151

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 158 comments

Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace/?postshare=1051429409402997

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 118 comments

What doomed MakerBot? The Osborne effect

http://www.hugs.io/2015/04/18/makerbot-and-the-osborne-effect.html

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 84 comments

The Effect of Physical Exercise on the Concentration of Individuals with ADHD

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372555/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 107 comments

Norway to switch off FM in 2017

http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 135 comments

JVM Internals (2013)

http://blog.jamesdbloom.com/JVMInternals.html

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 24 comments

Twitter CFO Anthony Noto Privately Analyzes Facebook

http://dcurt.is/twitter-cfo-anthony-noto-on-facebook/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 69 comments

Unix swiss army knife for headless browser JavaScript

https://github.com/sotownsend/BooJS

11 years ago

★ 843 Ruby MIT
115 upvotes – 48 comments

Kansas Police shutdown cannabis oil activist’s Facebook

http://kansasexposed.org/2015/04/17/kansas-police-shutdown-cannabis-oil-activists-facebook-to-prevent-her-from-raising-money-for-her-legal-defense/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 42 comments

BuzzFeed Says Posts Were Deleted Because of Advertising Pressure

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/business/media/buzzfeed-says-posts-were-deleted-because-of-advertising-pressure.html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 126 comments

Secret Files Reveal the Structure of Islamic State

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-files-show-structure-of-islamist-terror-group-a-1029274.html?full

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 36 comments

Solar Power Battle Puts Hawaii at Forefront of Worldwide Changes

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/business/energy-environment/solar-power-battle-puts-hawaii-at-forefront-of-worldwide-changes.html

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 98 comments

Wagtail

https://wagtail.io/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

LifeWiki

http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

The Machines Are Coming

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/opinion/sunday/the-machines-are-coming.html

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 98 comments

This is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage (1967) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL_9JKKj-xE

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

A gruesome legal case turned Voltaire into a crusader for the innocent

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/13/broken-on-the-wheel/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 9 comments

IBM creates a research group to test Numenta, a brain-like AI software

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/536326/ibm-tests-mobile-computing-pioneers-controversial-brain-algorithms/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

Netflix begins audio description for visually impaired

http://blog.netflix.com/2015/04/netflix-begins-audio-description-for.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

Nice Downtowns: How Did They Get That Way? People Made Them

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/04/on-the-making-of-downtowns-from-fresno-to-seattle-to-shanghai/390873/?single_page=true

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 76 comments

Type-safe routing in Spock

http://www.spock.li/2015/04/19/type-safe_routing.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 4 comments

A fascinating and huge Russian earthflow [video]

http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2015/04/17/russian-earthflow-1/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

Propositions as Filenames, Builds as Proofs: The Essence of Make

http://bentnib.org/posts/2015-04-17-propositions-as-filenames-essence-of-make.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

The Coffee of Civilization in Iceland

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-coffee-of-civilization-in-iceland

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

An Experiment in Purely Functional IO for Clojure

https://github.com/micmarsh/clojure-pure-io/blob/master/gist.md

11 years ago

★ 83 Clojure EPL-1.0
72 upvotes – 41 comments

Serving All Your Heroin Needs

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/opinion/sunday/serving-all-your-heroin-needs.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 86 comments

Build Your Own Probability Monads

http://www.randomhacks.net/probability-monads/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

How Success Almost Killed a Game, and How Its Creators Saved It

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/04/16/400140583/how-success-almost-killed-a-game-and-how-its-creators-saved-it

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

Coroutines in C with Arbitrary Arguments

http://250bpm.com/blog:48

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

Study links brain anatomy, academic achievement, and family income

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/link-brain-to-anatomy-academic-achievement-family-income-0417

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments
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