top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-21

Call Me Maybe: MongoDB Stale Reads

https://aphyr.com/posts/322-call-me-maybe-mongodb-stale-reads

11 years ago

605 upvotes – 144 comments

We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/?mbid=social_fb

11 years ago

578 upvotes – 394 comments

Elevator.js

http://tholman.com/elevator.js/

11 years ago

438 upvotes – 66 comments

NASA data API

https://data.nasa.gov/developer

11 years ago

351 upvotes – 40 comments

C-51 will undermine Canada’s businesses: Open letter from 60 business leaders

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/how-c-51-will-undermine-canadas-business-climate-an-open-letter-from-60-canadian-business-leaders

11 years ago

309 upvotes – 63 comments

This man just claimed a new European nation. 160,000 people want to live there

http://littlerock.com.mt/news/this-man-just-claimed-a-new-european-nation-160000-people-already-want-to-live-there/

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 150 comments

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

http://automatetheboringstuff.com/

11 years ago

282 upvotes – 51 comments

Keywhiz: Square's system for distributing and managing secrets

https://square.github.io/keywhiz/

11 years ago

232 upvotes – 31 comments

If 1+x is 1, how much is 1-x?

https://gus-massa.blogspot.com/2015/04/if-1x-is-1-how-much-is-1-x.html

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 51 comments

Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop for Dog Sniff Unconstitutional [pdf]

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-9972_p8k0.pdf

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 133 comments

Ask HN: Please stop making infinite scrolling websites

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416017

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 94 comments

Japan maglev train breaks world speed record again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32391020?OCID=fbasia

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 165 comments

Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/04/20/websites-prep-for-googles-mobilegeddon/?mod=LS1

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 180 comments

To Reduce VR Sickness, Add a Virtual Nose

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/reduce-vr-sickness-just-add-virtual-nose/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 99 comments

Modern Extreme Programming

http://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2015/04/17/modern-extreme-programming/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 83 comments

Nginx 1.8.0 stable has been released

http://nginx.org/?1.8

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 21 comments

Magento eCommerce PHP Remote Code Execution

https://ma.ttias.be/magento-ecommerce-php-remote-code-execution

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 78 comments

Ubuntu 15.04 Launches with Support for OpenStack Kilo, New LXD Hypervisor

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/ubuntu-15-04-launches-with-support-for-openstack-kilo-new-lxd-hypervisor-and-snappy-core/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 45 comments

Rails API is coming to Rails 5

https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/19832

11 years ago

★ 58.3k Ruby MIT
126 upvotes – 36 comments

The Modern Workforce

http://jeremycai.com/labor.html

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 76 comments

Internet Archive: What’s new with v2

https://blog.archive.org/2015/02/12/whats-new-with-v2/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 26 comments

A Technical Founder’s Notes on Sales Team Management

https://medium.com/@kwindla/a-technical-founder-s-notes-on-sales-team-management-60e1a93d4648?r=hn

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 37 comments

The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words

http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/the-world-record-for-the-shortest-math-article-2-words.html

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: What startups were refused from YC but became successful?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9413204

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 71 comments

GitWikXiv: Toward a successor to the academic paper

http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/04/16/beyond-papers-gitwikxiv/

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 49 comments

New York judge grants writ of habeus corpus to two chimpanzees

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/chimpanzees-granted-legal-persons-status-unlawful-imprisonment

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 166 comments

Seattle Police Will Hire Programmer and Prolific Records Requester Tim Clemans

http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/04/20/22079865/seattle-police-will-hire-programmer-and-prolific-records-requester-tim-clemans#

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 44 comments

When You Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?

https://mitchkirby.wordpress.com/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 161 comments

Techempower Web Framework Benchmarks Round 10

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 62 comments

Elon Musk's first wife on what it takes to become a billionaire

http://www.quora.com/Will-I-become-a-billionaire-if-I-am-determined-to-be-one-and-put-in-all-the-necessary-work-required?share=1

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 70 comments

3,000 floppy disk archive (1982–1994)

http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=43109

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 43 comments

This machine catches stingrays: Pwnie Express demos cellular threat detector

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/this-machine-catches-stingrays-pwnie-express-demos-cellular-threat-detector/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Infinite Monkeys – Pooling the Wisdom of Hacker News Comments

https://github.com/thomshutt/infinite-monkeys

11 years ago

★ 187 HTML
93 upvotes – 28 comments

Program Your Finances: Command-Line Accounting

https://www.petekeen.net/keeping-finances-with-ledger

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Emacs Theme Creator

https://github.com/mswift42/theme-creator

11 years ago

★ 224 JavaScript GPL-3.0
91 upvotes – 15 comments

John Nash receives Abel Prize for revered work in mathematics

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S42/72/29C63/index.xml?section=topstories

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 0 comments

The Python Road Not Taken

http://aleph.nu/blog/2015/the-python-road-not-taken/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 74 comments

Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-wasnt-built-to-last-a-lesson-from-human-mortality-rates/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 60 comments

Have you heard 'the hum'? Mystery of Earth's low droning noise solved?

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/have-you-heard-the-hum-mystery-of-earths-low-droning-noise-could-now-be-solved-10182111.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 38 comments

Fxpay: Mozilla's JavaScript library for in-app payments

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/04/easier-in-app-payments-with-fxpay/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 9 comments

A back-to-front TrueCrypt recovery story: The plaintext is the ciphertext

https://www.nccgroup.trust/en/blog/2015/04/a-back-to-front-truecrypt-recovery-story-the-plaintext-is-the-ciphertext/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 5 comments

Deploying ECMAScript 6

http://www.2ality.com/2015/04/deploying-es6.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 56 comments

VMware just created its first Linux OS and it's rubbish

https://lwn.net/Articles/641141/#Comments

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 40 comments

On Dijkstra's Algorithm

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-simple-elegant-algorithm-that-makes-google-maps-possible

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 26 comments

Trapped into Selling Magazines Door-To-Door

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/04/trapped-into-selling-magazines-door-to-door/388601/?single_page=true

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

An NFC PGP SmartCard for Android

https://grepular.com/An_NFC_PGP_SmartCard_For_Android

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

I Was an Animal Experimenter

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/i-was-an-animal-experimenter/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 83 comments

The easiest way to use Docker on your Mac

https://kitematic.com/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 58 comments

Tough, Cheap, and Real: Detroit

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/taking-back-detroit/see-detroit.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 55 comments

Why the super-rich get richer

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2015/04/why-super-rich-get-richer.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 74 comments

Simple Rules for Healthy Eating

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/upshot/simple-rules-for-healthy-eating.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 66 comments

Surge in Chinese tech stocks is making the dot-com bubble look tame

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-07/u-s-dot-com-bubble-was-nothing-compared-to-today-s-china-prices

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Density – The Heartbeat of a City

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/density-heartbeat-city/id955990160

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 45 comments

UK trader in fraud arrest over US 'flash crash'

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32406056

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Onfleet, local delivery logistics SaaS

https://onfleet.com

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

Film made in 1967 about 1999

https://archive.org/details/Year1999Ad

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 39 comments

Egg.js – A Simple Way to Add Easter Eggs to Your Site

http://thatmikeflynn.com/egg.js/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Get a personal site on your own domain name in just a few minutes

https://www.claimyourname.io

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 44 comments

How to Crack Mifare Classic Cards

https://www.firefart.at/how-to-crack-mifare-classic-cards/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 9 comments

How to see everything you’ve Googled while logged in

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04/20/how-to-see-everything-youve-ever-googled-if-youre-so-brave/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 34 comments

Getting started with LXD – the container lightervisor

https://www.stgraber.org/2015/04/21/lxd-getting-started/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments
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