top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-23

Apple now rejecting apps with Pebble Smartwatch support

http://forums.getpebble.com/discussion/22081/apple-now-rejecting-apps-with-pebble-smartwatch-support

11 years ago

702 upvotes – 407 comments

Show HN: A random startup generator

http://tiffzhang.com/startup

11 years ago

607 upvotes – 189 comments

What happens if you remove randomness from Doom?

http://jmtd.net/log/deterministic_doom/

11 years ago

450 upvotes – 102 comments

“Cheating teachers go to jail. Cheating Wall Streeters don’t. What’s up?”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/04/23/jon-stewart-cheating-teachers-go-to-jail-cheating-wall-streeters-dont-whats-up-with-that/

11 years ago

307 upvotes – 152 comments

Amazon Finally Discloses Cloud Services Sales, Showing 49% Jump

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-23/amazon-finally-discloses-cloud-services-sales-showing-49-jump

11 years ago

301 upvotes – 137 comments

Comcast Plans to Drop Time Warner Cable Deal

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-23/comcast-plans-to-drop-time-warner-cable-deal

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 77 comments

‘Gods’ edging out robots at Toyota facility

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/07/business/gods-edging-out-robots-at-toyota-facility/

11 years ago

248 upvotes – 117 comments

C# 7 Work List of Features

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/2136

11 years ago

★ 20.3k C# MIT
246 upvotes – 145 comments

Elixir vs. Erlang: a question of momentum

http://journal.dedasys.com/2015/04/23/elixir-vs-erlang-a-question-of-momentum/

11 years ago

240 upvotes – 129 comments

Borg: The Predecessor to Kubernetes

http://kubernetesio.blogspot.com/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kubernetes.html

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 38 comments

Wi-Fi hack creates 'no iOS zone' that cripples iPhones and iPads

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/22/wi-fi-hack-ios-iphone-ipad-apple

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 90 comments

The Slow Death of the University

https://chronicle.com/article/The-Slow-Death-of-the/228991/

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 126 comments

Ransomware Decryptor

https://noransom.kaspersky.com/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 49 comments

SIGAINT email service targeted by 70 bad TOR exit nodes

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-April/037549.html

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 53 comments

An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia (2013)

http://crypto.junod.info/2013/09/09/an-aspiring-scientists-frustration-with-modern-day-academia-a-resignation/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 98 comments

Branchless code sequences

http://www.davespace.co.uk/blog/20150131-branchless-sequences.html

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 31 comments

Liblfds, a portable, license-free, lock-free data structure library written in C

http://www.liblfds.org/?

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 74 comments

Atom Shell is now Electron

http://blog.atom.io/2015/04/23/electron.html

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 81 comments

Rodeo – A data-centric IDE for Python

https://github.com/yhat/rodeo

11 years ago

★ 3.8k JavaScript
149 upvotes – 16 comments

Cheaper bandwidth or bust: How Google saved YouTube

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/cheaper-bandwidth-or-bust-how-google-saved-youtube/

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 55 comments

Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition (2013)

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/relationships-are-more-important-than-ambition/275025/?utm_source=pocket8&single_page=true

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 81 comments

Why we are leaving Dropbox

https://medium.com/@ralf/4-reasons-why-we-are-leaving-dropbox-126e79f3a49

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 134 comments

Dirt in Medieval Books

http://medievalbooks.nl/2015/03/27/dirty-medieval-books/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 17 comments

Drop-In Coworking Spaces in Tokyo

http://tokyocheapo.com/business/drop-in-coworking-spaces-tokyo/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 51 comments

Replacing Ruby on Rails: Let's Go

http://madebymany.com/blog/replacing-rails-part-1-lets-go

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 88 comments

On problems with threads in Node.js

http://www.future-processing.pl/blog/on-problems-with-threads-in-node-js/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 61 comments

Foucault’s lecture notes from 1970–71 demolish caricatures of his thought (2013)

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/foucaults-addendum/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 132 comments

How to Detect Sneaky N.S.A. ‘Quantum Insert’ Attacks

http://wired.com/2015/04/researchers-uncover-method-detect-nsa-quantum-insert-hacks

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 48 comments

The Last Line Effect

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2015/04/22/the-last-line-effect

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 18 comments

List of European train stations and associated metadata

https://github.com/capitainetrain/stations

11 years ago

★ 135 Ruby ODbL-1.0
107 upvotes – 55 comments

Chicago Boss: The Erlang Web Framework

http://chicagoboss.org

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 19 comments

OSv, a new operating system for the cloud

https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv

11 years ago

★ 4.2k C
101 upvotes – 29 comments

Audi and Amazon to try car-boot delivery service

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32431301

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 73 comments

Chinese scientists admit to tweaking the genes of human embryos

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-scientists-just-admitted-tweaking-205300657.html

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 74 comments

Online curl command line builder

https://curlbuilder.com/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 44 comments

Saying Yes

http://exposure.watsi.org/saying-yes

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 13 comments

Version control, collaborative editing and undo

http://incidentalcomplexity.com/2015/04/22/version-control/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

Join the Dropbox Notes beta

https://www.dropbox.com/notes

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

Marvel Avenged: From financial ruin to the biggest film franchise in history

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32379661

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 57 comments

The Best Way to Organize a Lifetime of Photos

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-way-to-organize-a-lifetime-of-photos-1429637857

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 53 comments

Walking New York

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/22/magazine/new-york-city-walks.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

Waterloo Co-op: A Blessing and a Curse

http://joshuakalp.in/blog/2015/04/22/a-blessing-and-a-curse/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

Google Age Discrimination

http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-41451

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 113 comments

What Changed at Y Combinator After 7 Years

http://blog.yesgraph.com/changed-y-combinator-7-years/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

Flask vs. Django: Worksheet to choose the right framework

https://wakatime.com/blog/25-pirates-use-flask-the-navy-uses-django?

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 68 comments

MEGA65 – An open-source C65-like 8-bit computer

http://www.m-e-g-a.org/mega65-introduction/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

Forget Rand Paul, Let's Talk Paul Rand

http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dfa53e03a5aa8e49e4fb09eb0&id=3b28f46546

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 37 comments

Deutsche Bank to Pay Record $2.5B to Resolve Libor

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-23/deutsche-bank-to-pay-record-2-5-billion-to-resolve-libor-probes

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 43 comments

SSH Agent Forwarding considered harmful

http://heipei.github.io/2015/02/26/SSH-Agent-Forwarding-considered-harmful/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Continous Heart Rate for Android Wear and Apple Watch

http://www.cardiogr.am

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 53 comments

When Going Online Will Send You to Prison

http://digg.com/2015/when-going-online-will-send-you-to-prison

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Treev – Search Bar for Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, and Trello (Chrome)

http://treev.co

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

Ubuntu 15.04

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseNotes

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

Wander (1974) – a lost mainframe game is found

https://ahopeful.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/wander-1974-a-lost-mainframe-game-is-found/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

Tutorials and tools for sysadmins and developers

https://syscoding.com/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

Best Time to Post on Hacker News: It's Irrelevant

http://antontarasenko.com/2015/04/23/best-time-to-post-its-irrelevant/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Americans Are Going Abroad

https://medium.com/migration-issues/why-are-americans-leaving-75fe530ce49d?sectionName=suggested

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 61 comments
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