top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-25

Today is Debian 8 release day

https://release.debian.org/

11 years ago

362 upvotes – 142 comments

A minimal blog engine written in Go, compatible with Ghost themes

https://kabukky.github.io/journey/

11 years ago

280 upvotes – 94 comments

Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9439286

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 168 comments

When Is Cheryl's Birthday?

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Cheryl.ipynb

11 years ago

240 upvotes – 128 comments

M7.9 Earthquake in Nepal

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002926

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 77 comments

The Invisible Hand of Super Metroid

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/HugoBille/20120114/90903/The_Invisible_Hand_of_Super_Metroid.php?hn=2

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 54 comments

TV maker Vizio may finally get paid after beating 17th patent troll

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/24/tv-maker-vizio-may-finally-get-paid-after-beating-17th-patent-troll/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 69 comments

An App Launch Guide for Indie Developers

https://github.com/adamwulf/app-launch-guide/blob/master/README.md

11 years ago

★ 4k Unlicense
181 upvotes – 20 comments

CSV Challenge

https://gist.github.com/jorin-vogel/2e43ffa981a97bc17259

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 80 comments

My Summer Car Game

http://www.johannesrojola.com/msc/

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 30 comments

Explained Visually is now open source

https://github.com/vicapow/explained-visually

11 years ago

★ 880 JavaScript MIT
161 upvotes – 11 comments

Ting Gigabit Fiber Internet

https://ting.com/internet

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 62 comments

Is Git a Block Chain?

http://domustower.com/blog/post/is-git-a-block-chain/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 49 comments

OpenBSD's safe, new file(1) implementation

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=142989267412968&w=2

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 84 comments

Foundations of Data Science by John Hopcroft [pdf]

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book11April2014.pdf

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 24 comments

Maintainership transfer of uBlock: post mortem

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Maintainership-transfer-of-uBlock%3A-post-mortem

11 years ago

★ 63k JavaScript GPL-3.0
115 upvotes – 16 comments

How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8% – featuring fanotify

https://blog.jtlebi.fr/2015/04/25/how-i-shrunk-a-docker-image-by-98-8-featuring-fanotify/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 47 comments

YC Interview Prep Tool

http://ycinterview.com/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 14 comments

Firestr: encrypted P2P chat and Lua application platform

http://mempko.com/firestr/firestr.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 37 comments

Liquid mercury found under Mexican pyramid could lead to king's tomb

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/liquid-mercury-mexican-pyramid-teotihuacan

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 19 comments

YouTube is not a real business (2006)

http://calacanis.com/2006/02/20/youtube-is-not-a-real-business/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 58 comments

TrackPoint (2011)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=60

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 66 comments

HP-01 wrist instrument, 1977

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/personalsystems/0022/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

Russian Hackers Read Obama’s Unclassified Emails, Officials Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/us/russian-hackers-read-obamas-unclassified-emails-officials-say.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

How to take advantage of Redis just adding it to your stack (2011)

http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/take-advantage-of-redis-adding-it-to-your-stack.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Markov Composer – Using machine learning and a Markov chain to compose music

http://zx.rs/3/Markov-Composer---Using-machine-learning-and-a-Markov-chain-to-compose-music/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

Effects from Filming the Adventures of Baron Munchausen (2010)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001631/board/nest/155432909?d=155738288#155738288

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Lessons I Learned from Co-Founding a Tech Startup

http://blog.sueraisty.com/lessons-learned-from-co-founding-a-tech-startup/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 36 comments

Digital Geometry Processing with Discrete Exterior Calculus

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~keenan/Projects/DGPDEC/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

The Beauty of Code

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/09/05/the-beauty-of-code/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 17 comments

Twilight Zone meets Escher meets Dali in the philosophical comic strip ‘the bus’

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_philosophical_comic_strip_the_bus

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

How not to interview someone who already has a job (2011)

http://www.recruitingblogs.com/m/blogpost?id=502551%3ABlogPost%3A1466641

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 69 comments

Aijuboard – A Computer Based on the Zynq-7000 SoC with FPGA Running Plan 9

https://www.indiegogo.com/at/aijuboard

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

Google Fi Patent

http://www.google.com/patents/US20120036035

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 48 comments

The state of Clojure on Android

http://blog.ndk.io/2015/04/23/state-of-coa.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

Behavior trees for AI: How they work

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisSimpson/20140717/221339/Behavior_trees_for_AI_How_they_work.php

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments

SymbolHound

http://symbolhound.com

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 11 comments

Carnival Cash: The Cult of Seniority

http://www.daedtech.com/carnival-cash-the-cult-of-seniority

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 48 comments

Docker GitLab

https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab

11 years ago

★ 8k Shell MIT
50 upvotes – 24 comments
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