top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-20

NGINX open sources TCP load balancing

http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/61d7ae76647d

11 years ago

500 upvotes – 117 comments

Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/justice-charging-eight-grader-felony-hacking

11 years ago

442 upvotes – 217 comments

Prof. Sussman's Reading List

http://aurellem.org/thoughts/html/sussman-reading-list.html

11 years ago

437 upvotes – 75 comments

A cross-platform debugger for Go

http://blog.mailgun.com/introducing-a-new-cross-platform-debugger-for-go/

11 years ago

379 upvotes – 62 comments

1.5 Million Missing Black Men

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/upshot/missing-black-men.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1

11 years ago

291 upvotes – 352 comments

Please consider the impacts of banning HTTP

https://github.com/WhiteHouse/https/issues/107

11 years ago

★ 3 CSS
257 upvotes – 259 comments

Show HN: Kubist, a little web app to make cubism-like images

http://williamngan.github.io/kubist/

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 48 comments

The Lack of Open Tooling for FPGAs

http://curtis.io/others-work/open-tooling-for-fpgas

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 121 comments

Going “Write-Only”

http://begriffs.com/posts/2015-04-20-going-write-only.html

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 140 comments

Tor Exit Node Operator Issued Subpoena

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-April/006804.html

11 years ago

227 upvotes – 41 comments

Pokemon Yellow Total Control Hack

http://aurellem.org/vba-clojure/html/total-control.html

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 25 comments

Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-20/elon-musk-had-a-deal-to-sell-tesla-to-google-in-2013

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 186 comments

The Man Who Broke the Music Business

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-broke-the-music-business

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 73 comments

The Two Day Manifesto

http://twodaymanifesto.com/?atm=email

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 40 comments

Lessons Learned in Software Development

http://henrikwarne.com/2015/04/16/lessons-learned-in-software-development/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 12 comments

A New ‘Wrinkle in Time’

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-wrinkle-in-time-1429219305/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 24 comments

Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD (1943)

http://laphamsquarterly.org/intoxication/exploring-alternate-universe

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 18 comments

Grafana 2.0 Released

http://grafana.org/blog/2015/04/20/Grafana-2-Released.html

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 43 comments

Elixir – The next big language for the web

http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/04/19/elixir_next_language.html

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 82 comments

A Tale Of Two Latino Areas In Miami And San Francisco

http://marketurbanism.com/2015/04/20/travel-update-a-tale-of-two-latino-areas-in-miami-and-san-francisco/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 156 comments

A proof of concept MongoDB clone built on Postgres

https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike

11 years ago

★ 389 JavaScript MIT
142 upvotes – 49 comments

The Sortix Operating System

https://sortix.org/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 76 comments

Major Advance in Artificial Photosynthesis Poses Win/Win for the Environment

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/04/16/major-advance-in-artificial-photosynthesis/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 10 comments

Elm 0.15: Asynchrony with Tasks

http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/0.15.elm

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 20 comments

Korean Shipbuilder Uses Exosuit to Help Build World's Largest Freighter

http://www.dailytech.com/Korean+Shipbuilder+Uses+Iron+Man+Exosuit+to+Help+Build+Worlds+Largest+Freighter/article36339.htm

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 31 comments

Intel's 14nm technology in detail (2014)

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8367/intels-14nm-technology-in-detail

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 5 comments

SX – Stack Exchange mode for Emacs

https://github.com/vermiculus/sx.el/blob/master/README.org

11 years ago

★ 715 Emacs Lisp
115 upvotes – 22 comments

Google Cloud sucks

https://yourbunnywrote.org/2015/04/19/google-cloud/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 18 comments

Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/business/media/netflix-is-betting-its-future-on-exclusive-programming.html?smid=re-share

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 109 comments

“Safe Spaces” and the Mote in America's Eye

http://popehat.com/2015/04/19/safe-spaces-and-the-mote-in-americas-eye/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 88 comments

Building Better Node.js Applications with RethinkDB

https://nodecraft.com/blog/dev/building-better-node-js-apps-with-rethinkdb

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

Turning Ethiopia's desert green

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32348749

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 36 comments

Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Deconstructs the Science of Songwriting

https://medium.com/cuepoint/death-cab-for-cutie-s-ben-gibbard-deconstructs-the-science-of-songwriting-bbd085a06a2a

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Being harassed by Odesk client, What should I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9410592

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 85 comments

Golden hat

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

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Linkurious, the first data visualization platform for graph databases

http://linkurio.us/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

How Nicaraguan Villagers Built Their Own Electric Grid

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/how-nicaraguan-villagers-built-their-own-electric-grid

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Null Pointer Dereferencing Causes Undefined Behavior

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2015/04/20/null-pointer-dereferencing-causes-undefined-behavior

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 92 comments

Photon – Minimal Linux Container Host

https://vmware.github.io/photon/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

The Man Who Hacks Your Employees

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-man-who-hacks-your-people-1429499479

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 41 comments

Curated free-to-use space photography

http://peek.space/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

Debian elects new project leader, PPA support proposed

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150420#news

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 64 comments

BBC News meets a Bulgarian IT entrepreneur [video]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32352370

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 79 comments

Why we don't sell ads – WhatsApp Blog

http://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 78 comments

Box faces Make-or-Break Moment

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/technology/box-provider-of-cloud-computing-services-faces-make-or-break-moment.html?_r=0

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments

Columbia Engineering Professor Invents Video Camera That Runs Without a Battery

http://engineering.columbia.edu/columbia-engineer-invents-video-camera-runs-without-battery

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Massive 2.0: A Postgres-Centric Data Access Tool

https://github.com/robconery/massive-js

11 years ago

★ 2.4k
71 upvotes – 6 comments

How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-management/ar/1

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 53 comments

New Theory Leads to Gigahertz Antenna on a Chip

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/gigahertz-antenna-on-a-chip

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

Myths of the American Revolution (2010)

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/myths-of-the-american-revolution-10941835/?all

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

A technical comparison of open source drone autopilots (2012)

http://online.qmags.com/RAM0912?pg=21&mode=2#pg35&mode2

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: A Guide to TDD'ing React Components

https://github.com/zpratt/react-tdd-guide

11 years ago

★ 594 JavaScript MIT
67 upvotes – 24 comments

Why ‘Do It for Me’ Is the Next Big Thing

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/19/why-do-it-for-me-is-the-next-big-thing/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 32 comments

Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learning

http://petewarden.com/2015/04/20/why-gemm-is-at-the-heart-of-deep-learning/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 27 comments

Y Combinator rejection reasons

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=y+combinator+interview+%22I%27m+sorry+to+say%22++%22decided+not+to+fund%22

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 34 comments

TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client

https://textcraft.co/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Ok to ask retainer fee for being avail during office hours?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9407242

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 53 comments

Pause Me – Apply the 20-20-20 rule to prevent eyestrain while working

https://github.com/ppratscher/pause.me

11 years ago

★ 91 C#
57 upvotes – 50 comments

DNNGraph – A deep neural network model generation DSL in Haskell

https://github.com/ajtulloch/dnngraph

11 years ago

★ 711 Haskell
57 upvotes – 8 comments

Atomic Gardens: Breeding Plants with Gamma Radiation

http://pruned.blogspot.com/2011/04/atomic-gardens.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 7 comments

Is It Finally Game Over for Ethanol?

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/is-it-finally-game-over-for-ethanol

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 55 comments

Pkgsrc-2015Q1 packages for OS X now available

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2015/04/20/msg021423.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Hacker News User Ages

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/HackerNewsUserAges.html?HN_20150420

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 5 comments

Taking Netflix’s Vector Performance Monitoring Tool for a Spin

https://ma.ttias.be/taking-netflixs-vector-performance-monitoring-tool-for-a-spin/?hn

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments

Inside the Elegant, Mesmerizing Subculture of Card Juggling

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/inside-elegant-mesmerizing-subculture-card-juggling/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

Reaching and re-engaging users on the mobile web

http://blog.chromium.org/2015/04/reaching-and-re-engaging-users-on.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 18 comments

The Humanness of Death

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-humanness-of-death

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 25 comments

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Patents [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxcc3SM_KA

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

RFIDs, Encryption, and Stop Rules

http://www.thegrumpyprogrammer.com/2015/04/rfids-encryption-and-stop-rules-oh-my.html

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 9 comments

The third Los Angeles: Can it truly become a green, sustainable city?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/metropolis/2015/04/the_third_los_angeles_can_it_truly_become_a_green_sustainable_city.html

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 45 comments

The Most Popular Programming Languages in GitHub Since 2012

https://www.loggly.com/blog/the-most-popular-programming-languages-in-to-github-since-2012/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 21 comments

Dude, no one will ever buy that online. AKA how incumbents get Pwned in tech

http://www.breakingvc.com/2015/04/20/dude-no-one-will-ever-buy-that-online-aka-how-incumbents-get-pwned-in-tech/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dude-no-one-will-ever-buy-that-online-aka-how-incumbents-get-pwned-in-tech

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 40 comments

The Puzzling Rise in Nearsighted Children

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mysterious-spike-in-nearsighted-children-1429543997?mod=WSJ_article_EditorsPicks_1

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 43 comments
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