top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-28

The days are long but the decades are short

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short

11 years ago

1163 upvotes – 387 comments

Vault – A tool for managing secrets

https://hashicorp.com/blog/vault.html

11 years ago

440 upvotes – 107 comments

A Rust Contributor Tries Their Hand at Go

http://www.polyglotweekly.com/2015/04/24/thoughts-of-a-rustacean-learning-go.html

11 years ago

415 upvotes – 213 comments

NES graphics – Part 1

http://www.dustmop.io/blog/2015/04/28/nes-graphics-part-1/

11 years ago

303 upvotes – 26 comments

“DBus is seriously screwed up”

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1930358/focus=1939166

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 199 comments

Lake Michigan Is So Clear Right Now Its Shipwrecks Are Visible from the Air

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sunken-ships-lake-michigan-are-visible-ghostly-blue-180955108/

11 years ago

243 upvotes – 41 comments

Python without an operating system

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/641244/5d1d6d20aeb0a647/

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Caddy, a cross-platform HTTP/2 web server

https://caddyserver.com

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 87 comments

Tor Browser 4.5 is released

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-45-released

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 17 comments

Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later

https://medium.com/on-blendle/blendle-a-radical-experiment-with-micropayments-in-journalism-365-days-later-f3b799022edc

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 63 comments

Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering (2001) [pdf]

http://www.kictanet.or.ke/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Forgotten-Fundamentals-IEEE-Software-May2001.pdf

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 73 comments

Valve shuts down paid mod system after pressure from gamers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32493895

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 269 comments

Tesla Plans to Open Car Doors to All Hackers This Summer

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/04/28/tesla-opening-car-to-hackers/

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 143 comments

Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-28/twitter-falls-short-on-promise-to-speed-up-user-growth

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 143 comments

Surveillance forces journalists to think and act like spies

https://cpj.org/2015/04/attacks-on-the-press-surveillance-forces-journalists-to-think-act-like-spies.php

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 65 comments

Facebook Is Shutting Down Its API for Giving Your Friends’ Data to Apps

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/facebook-api-shut-down/?ncid=rss

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 61 comments

Amazon Business

http://www.amazon.com/business

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 52 comments

Apple Watch – What can you do with it?

http://madebymany.com/blog/apple-watch-what-can-you-do-with-it

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 120 comments

Removing EU roaming charges is a big deal (2014)

http://sveme.org/removing-eu-roaming-charges-is-a-big-deal.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 75 comments

How does the calculator percent key work? (2008)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/01/10/7047497.aspx

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 57 comments

End of the car age: how cities are outgrowing the automobile

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/28/end-of-the-car-age-how-cities-outgrew-the-automobile

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 89 comments

Tiny robots climb walls carrying more than 100 times their weight

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27413-tiny-robots-climb-walls-carrying-more-than-100-times-their-weight.html#.VT74aqNVhBc

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 15 comments

Project: A Simple Operating System

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9242/14/project/index.shtml#project-a-simple-operating-system

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 42 comments

EFF's Updated SSL Configuration

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/effs-updated-ssl-configuration

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 18 comments

Building a ‘People Who Like This Also Like’ Feature

http://www.benfrederickson.com/distance-metrics/?hn=1

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 17 comments

MicroTugs

http://bdml.stanford.edu/Main/MicroTugs

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 6 comments

Big-Endian “is effectively dead”

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1930358/focus=1937733

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 108 comments

Release proposal: v2.0.0 (io.js)

https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1532

11 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
98 upvotes – 11 comments

Ketchapp stole my iPhone game

https://medium.com/ios-game-development/the-2048-guys-stole-my-iphone-game-5ba541283c4d

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Texas college professor tries to flunk his whole class

http://washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/28/texas-college-professor-tries-to-flunk-his-whole-class/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 64 comments

The Rise and Fall of Silk Road

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Revisiting the Intel 432 (2008)

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/07/18/revisiting-the-intel-432/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

Nagios vs Icinga: the story of one of the most heated forks in free software

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/nagios_and_icinga

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 49 comments

CloudFlare's New Dashboard

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-new-control-panel/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150428-how-quantum-pairs-stitch-space-time/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

Google Patent Purchase Promotion

http://www.google.com/patents/licensing/#tab=pp

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 41 comments

Lenin's Body Improves with Age

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lenin-s-body-improves-with-age1/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 71 comments

How Sift Science Rebuilt Its App on React and DropWizard

http://blog.siftscience.com/blog/2015/how-we-built-it

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

OpenBSD's new file(1) is now priv-separated

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=143014276127454&w=2

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Metaprogramming custom control structures in C

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/mp/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 7 comments

Quicklisp library bundles

http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/bundles.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

Project Tungsten: Bringing Spark Closer to Bare Metal

https://databricks.com/blog/2015/04/28/project-tungsten-bringing-spark-closer-to-bare-metal.html?utm_content=14636812&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

SSL revisited

https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/ssl_again.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 67 comments

Living with Being Dead

https://medium.com/matter/living-with-being-dead-844b4b1e668

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Google offers cash support to Europe's news groups

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32486019

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments

We Are Closing Down the CppCat Project

http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0320/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away Ingredients

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/04/27/402632212/chipotle-says-adios-to-gmos-as-food-industry-strips-away-ingredients

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 136 comments

Welcoming TellApart to Twitter

https://blog.twitter.com/2015/accelerating-direct-response-advertising-welcoming-tellapart-to-twitter

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments

Monadic IO: Laziness Makes You Free

http://underscore.io/blog/posts/2015/04/28/monadic-io-laziness-makes-you-free.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 35 comments

Vivaldi Browser Now Features Improved Support for Large Screens, Mouse Gestures

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/27/vivaldi-browser-now-features-improved-support-for-large-screens-mouse-gestures-and-more/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 26 comments

MEGA65 – Open 8-Bit Computer

http://mega65.org/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

Interview with Brunello Cucinelli, King of Cashmere

http://pi.co/brunello-cucinelli-2/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 13 comments

Are we all born with perfect pitch?

https://medium.com/cuepoint/your-baby-knows-music-better-than-most-adults-e34bb619e860

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Reddit vs. HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9452320

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 79 comments

Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/mashape-open-sources-its-kong-api-management-platform/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 23 comments

Montreal cracks down on UberX; seizes 40 cars and fines drivers

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/city-seizes-40-cars-in-crackdown-against-uberx

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 70 comments

Baltimore Residents Begin Clearing Debris After Night of Riots

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/us/baltimore-riots.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 104 comments

A Day in the Life of a Stolen Healthcare Record

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/04/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-stolen-healthcare-record/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 6 comments

Blinking LED Using Elixir Embedded Image on Raspberry Pi

http://www.zohaib.me/blinking-led-using-elixir-embedded-image-for-raspberry-pi/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

CueKeeper: Gitting Things Done in the Browser

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2015/04/28/cuekeeper-gitting-things-done-in-the-browser/

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 1 comments
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