top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-22

Project Fi by Google

https://fi.google.com/about/

11 years ago

1107 upvotes – 581 comments

The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers

http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201503/2015031201-the-sad-state-of-sysadmin-in-the-age-of-containers.html

11 years ago

970 upvotes – 443 comments

Four days of Go

http://www.evanmiller.org/four-days-of-go.html

11 years ago

496 upvotes – 180 comments

Prime Minister of Singapore Coded Sudoku Solver in C++

http://www.pmo.gov.sg/mediacentre/transcript-speech-prime-minister-lee-hsien-loong-founders-forum-smart-nation-singapore

11 years ago

319 upvotes – 126 comments

Why do pub TVs have a pint glass in the corner?

http://www.lbc.co.uk/why-do-pub-tvs-have-a-pint-glass-in-the-corner-7155

11 years ago

298 upvotes – 195 comments

The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-woman-who-ate-chernobyl-s-apples

11 years ago

284 upvotes – 118 comments

EFF to Congress: Stop the Cybersurveillance Bills

https://www.eff.org/es/deeplinks/2015/04/eff-congress-stop-cybersurveillance-bills

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 41 comments

NHL goal celebration hack: real-time machine learning and hue light show

http://blog.francoismaillet.com/epic-celebration/

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 46 comments

You Have to Hack This Massively Multiplayer Game to Beat It

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/multiplayer-hack-to-win/

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 46 comments

GCC 5.1 released

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 50 comments

Existential crisis at Railsconf

http://railsbird.tumblr.com/post/117076597115/existential-crisis-at-railsconf

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 165 comments

AdBlock Plus defeats German publishers in court

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32409952

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 138 comments

Postmortem of Venture-Backed Startup, Sonar

https://medium.com/@brett1211/postmortem-of-a-venture-backed-startup-72c6f8bec7df

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 48 comments

1ML – unifying ML into one language

http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/1ml/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 60 comments

The Time Needed to Write “Effective Modern C++”

http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-time-needed-to-write-effective.html

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 149 comments

Ask HN: How do I learn how to become a good sysadmin?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9419877

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 118 comments

Taking the Raspberry Pi 2 for a Test Drive with GNU Radio

http://www.rs-online.com/designspark/electronics/eng/blog/taking-the-raspberry-pi-2-for-a-test-drive-with-gnu-radio-2

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 46 comments

How do trains stay on track? (2009) [pdf]

http://materials.mcmaster.ca/Condensed%20Matter/December2009.pdf

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 29 comments

Ops School – Comprehensive Program to Become an Operations Engineer

http://www.opsschool.org/en/latest/

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 13 comments

Sprint – A high-performance, DOM library for modern browsers

https://github.com/bendc/sprint

11 years ago

★ 4.1k JavaScript MIT
138 upvotes – 66 comments

First Round Capital Open Application for Startups

http://firstround.com/openapp

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 49 comments

“Hello World” in assembly language on Linux

http://www.jyotirmoy.net/posts/2015-04-22-assembly-hello-world.html

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 51 comments

Introducing Hello

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/04/introducing-hello/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 96 comments

What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school?

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/04/09/what-like-poor-ivy-league-school/xPtql5uzDb6r9AUFER8R0O/story.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 145 comments

DIY FPGA-based HDMI ambient lighting

http://zerocharactersleft.blogspot.com/2015/04/diy-fpga-based-hdmi-ambient-lighting.html

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 15 comments

MongoDB and RocksDB at Parse

http://blog.parse.com/announcements/mongodb-rocksdb-parse/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 54 comments

LHC glimpses hint of new physics

https://plus.maths.org/content/lhc-glimpses-hint-new-physics

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 7 comments

Dice Loaded Against Public in Canada's Copyright Term Extension

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/dice-loaded-against-public-canadas-copyright-term-extension

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

Drop Table Political Action Committee

http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00576496/1005514/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 16 comments

Student creates powerful catalyst from potassium

http://phys.org/news/2015-04-student-powerful-catalyst-potassium.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 34 comments

The Serotonin Levels-Depression Link Is a 'Marketing Myth,' Psychiatrist Claims

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-serotonin-levels-depression-link-is-a-marketing-myth-psychiatrist-claims

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 67 comments

Wherein I ridicule Facebook some more, then collaborate with the Panopticon

http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2015/04/21.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Laser Scans of London Are a New Way to See the World

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/laser-scans-london-new-way-see-world/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

Why American Workers Without Much Education Are Being Hammered

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/upshot/why-workers-without-much-education-are-being-hammered.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 89 comments

DirecTV's Secret War On Hackers (2001)

http://slashdot.org/story/01/01/25/1343218/directvs-secret-war-on-hackers/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

An Introduction to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists (2000) [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9809016v2.pdf

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 3 comments

Early Japanese Animations: The Origins of Anime (1917-1931)

http://www.openculture.com/2014/06/early-japanese-animations-the-origins-of-anime-1917-1931.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 6 comments

Is there something mysterious about mathematics?

http://ideas.aeon.co/viewpoints/1829

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Europe’s Plan to Compete with Silicon Valley

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/04/22/europes-plan-to-compete-with-silicon-valley/?mod=ST1

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 94 comments

Do Accounting in Clojure and Datomic

https://github.com/juxt/juxt-accounting

11 years ago

★ 282 Clojure GPL-3.0
69 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Credstash – A tiny python utility for managing secrets in EC2

https://github.com/LuminalOSS/credstash

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

New York City Subway Ridership Jumps

http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-subway-ridership-jumps-1429554995

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

Old New Jersey Factory to House Earth’s Largest Vertical Farm

http://weburbanist.com/2015/04/21/old-new-jersey-factory-to-house-earths-largest-vertical-farm/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 14 comments

How Amazon Swooped in to Own Cloud Services

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-22/how-amazon-swooped-in-to-own-cloud-services

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 29 comments

Guy trading at home caused the flash crash of 2010

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-21/guy-trading-at-home-caused-the-flash-crash

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 84 comments

Nitrous.io Targets Enterprises with Pro Version of Cloud Development Platform

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/22/nitrous-io-pro/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

Tesla Motors to Unveil Home and Utility Batteries April 30

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-21/tesla-motors-to-unveil-home-and-utility-batteries-april-30

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 38 comments

Some tech firms being 'friendly to terrorists' says UK police chief

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/04/21/uk-britain-security-tech-idUKKBN0NC1HX20150421

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 55 comments

Deploying v0.11 Phoenix application to Heroku – My first ever blog post

http://www.simonbambey.com/phoenix/2015/04/16/deploying-v-0-11-0-phoenix-application-to-heroku/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

T.H. Tsien, 105, Dies; Scholar of Chinese Books Rescued 30,000 of Them

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/world/asia/th-tsien-scholar-of-chinese-written-word-dies-at-105.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: Corrello – Dashboards and Reports for Trello

http://getcorrello.com/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments

Forgotten Failures of African Exploration

http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/04/22/forgotten-failures-of-african-exploration/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 0 comments

Update on Heml.is

http://blog.brokep.com/2015/04/22/update-on-heml-is/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 35 comments

Implementing a Clojure Ns-Browser in Light Table with React

http://rundis.github.io/blog/2015/lt_react.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 0 comments

Crashlytics now serves over 1M apps

http://crashlytics.com/blog/milestone-achieved-over-1-million-apps

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Is There Enough Meat for Everyone?

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Should-We-Eat-Meat

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 105 comments
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