top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-27

Console.mihai();

http://incompleteness.me/blog/2015/02/09/console-dot-mihai/

11 years ago

1445 upvotes – 50 comments

Under Pressure

http://minusbat.livejournal.com/180556.html

11 years ago

494 upvotes – 96 comments

Jq – A Command-line JSON processor

http://stedolan.github.io/jq/

11 years ago

451 upvotes – 91 comments

Disque – a distributed message broker

https://github.com/antirez/disque

11 years ago

★ 8k C BSD-3-Clause
420 upvotes – 91 comments

EU study recommends OpenBSD

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150427093546

11 years ago

352 upvotes – 150 comments

Kerbal Space Program Launches Version 1.0

https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/en/

11 years ago

326 upvotes – 52 comments

Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/exnasa-man-to-plant-one-billion-trees-a-year-using-drones-10160588.html

11 years ago

315 upvotes – 139 comments

Race conditions on Facebook, DigitalOcean and others (fixed)

http://josipfranjkovic.blogspot.com/2015/04/race-conditions-on-facebook.html

11 years ago

294 upvotes – 88 comments

Take Nothing, Leave Nothing: On being banned from the world’s most remote island

http://laphamsquarterly.org/travel/take-nothing-leave-nothing

11 years ago

280 upvotes – 110 comments

FIFA 2014 World Cup live stream architecture

http://leandromoreira.com.br/2015/04/26/fifa-2014-world-cup-live-stream-architecture/

11 years ago

258 upvotes – 29 comments

The Engineer’s Lament

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/the-engineers-lament

11 years ago

248 upvotes – 144 comments

This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-pace-of-social-change/

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 113 comments

Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/inside-popcorn-time-piracy-party-hollywood-cant-stop/

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 267 comments

Ask HN: How do you log application events?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9444470

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 109 comments

The People Who Risk Jail to Maintain the Tor Network

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-operators

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 72 comments

Ghostery and NoScript-like add-ons frequently phone home

https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2015-April/015236.html

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 107 comments

China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour

http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/china-rates-its-own-citizens-including-online-behaviour~a3979668/

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 155 comments

Reenix: Implementing a Unix-Like Operating System in Rust [pdf]

http://scialex.github.io/reenix.pdf

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 21 comments

Beej's Guide to Network Programming (2012)

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/index.html

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 31 comments

Six works of Computer Science-Fiction

http://blog.fogus.me/2015/04/27/six-works-of-computer-science-fiction/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 84 comments

FOAM: New JavaScript Framework by Google Engineers

https://github.com/foam-framework/foam

11 years ago

★ 786 JavaScript Apache-2.0
145 upvotes – 109 comments

SpaceX Stats

http://spacexstats.com/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 44 comments

Pre-Pooping Your Pants with Rust

http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/everyone-poops/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 97 comments

Functional Programming in Haskell by Examples

https://github.com/caiorss/Functional-Programming

11 years ago

★ 2.6k Haskell Unlicense
128 upvotes – 25 comments

Random Points on a Sphere

https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/random-points/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Startup Timelines

http://bakztfuture.github.io/startuptimelines/index.html

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 26 comments

Avoid the “Apply to Present” and “Angel Pitch Contest” Event Scams

http://calacanis.com/2015/04/24/warning-avoid-the-apply-to-present-angel-pitch-contest-event-scams/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 47 comments

Amateur Radio in Play in Aftermath of Nepal Earthquake

http://www.arrl.org/news/view/amateur-radio-in-play-in-aftermath-of-nepal-earthquake

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 63 comments

White House Takes Security Pitch to Silicon Valley

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/us/white-house-takes-cybersecurity-pitch-to-silicon-valley.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 58 comments

'Hush,' anonymous messaging app from developers in Myanmar

http://www.globalpost.com/article/6529176/2015/04/26/myanmars-new-anonymous-messaging-app-kind-revolutionary

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

What If Students Could Fire Their Professors?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2015/04/26/401953167/what-if-students-could-fire-their-professors

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 184 comments

Pingo: Plugins for Go

https://github.com/dullgiulio/pingo

11 years ago

★ 667 Go MIT
82 upvotes – 21 comments

Encrypting Your Laptop Like You Mean It

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/27/encrypting-laptop-like-mean/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 49 comments

Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (2013)

http://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 49 comments

When is proof by contradiction necessary?

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/when-is-proof-by-contradiction-necessary/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 57 comments

Why do women have periods when most animals don't?

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150420-why-do-women-have-periods

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 61 comments

Redis author just released Disque, a distributed message queue

https://github.com/antirez/disque#readme

11 years ago

★ 8k C BSD-3-Clause
77 upvotes – 2 comments

Is the Universe a Hologram?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150427101633.htm

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

Messenger Orbiter Comes to a Crashing End on Thursday

http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/messenger-comes-crashing-end-thursday-180955098/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Less is Moore

https://samgentle.com/posts/2015-04-26-less-is-moore

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

Why would an animal lose its brain?

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150424-animals-that-lost-their-brains

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

Death for stealing candles

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?foo=bar&path=sessionsPapers/17160113.xml&div=t17160113-13

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone have an old computer laying around unused in Brisbane, AU?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9444730

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 35 comments

Lynis – Security auditing tool for Unix/Linux systems

https://cisofy.com/lynis/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Linux-running MIPS CPU available for free to universities – full Verilog code

http://blog.imgtec.com/mips-processors/mipsfpga-opens-up-the-mips-architecture-to-universities-worldwide

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 25 comments

DNA is a fractal antenna in electromagnetic fields (2011)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21457072

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 46 comments

The Troubling Reality of Forensic “Science”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/24/badforensics/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

F-35 Engines from United Technologies Called Unreliable by GAO

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-27/f-35-engines-from-united-technologies-called-unreliable-by-gao

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 76 comments

Why Do You Need PGP? (1994)

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/zimmermann-why-pgp.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

Automated code review for Python, Django, etc.

https://www.quantifiedcode.com

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 40 comments

On Haskell, Ruby, and Cards Against Humanity

http://www.drmaciver.com/2015/04/on-haskell-ruby-and-cards-against-humanity/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 61 comments

Help kids from low income communities access careers in tech by hiring them

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9446355

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

The Future Postponed – Declining Investment in Basic Research [pdf]

http://dc.mit.edu/sites/default/files/innovation_deficit/Future%20Postponed.pdf

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 25 comments

Bimodal Salary Distribution for New Law School Graduates

http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 54 comments

The Geek Code

http://www.geekcode.com/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

Apple Reports Record Second Quarter Results

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/04/27Apple-Reports-Record-Second-Quarter-Results.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 63 comments

An open API for company SEC filings

http://kimonolabs.com/sec/explorer

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 13 comments
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