top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-29

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-shocks-the-world-with-visual-studio-code-a-free-code-editor-for-os-x-linux-and-windows/

11 years ago

1608 upvotes – 543 comments

Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-launches-its-net-distribution-for-linux-and-mac/

11 years ago

915 upvotes – 237 comments

Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

http://www.hostmeinca.com

11 years ago

533 upvotes – 240 comments

Secret Shuts Down

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/psst/

11 years ago

417 upvotes – 240 comments

NoTCP

http://notcp.io/

11 years ago

365 upvotes – 163 comments

Introducing PackageManagement in Windows 10

http://blogs.technet.com/b/packagemanagement/archive/2015/04/29/introducing-packagemanagement-in-windows-10.aspx

11 years ago

361 upvotes – 218 comments

Show HN: Ramjet.js – Morph DOM elements into each other

http://www.rich-harris.co.uk/ramjet/

11 years ago

309 upvotes – 35 comments

Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-makes-it-easier-for-developers-to-bring-their-android-and-ios-apps-to-windows-10/

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 85 comments

Microsoft Announces Continuum, Turning Windows 10 Phones into Desktops

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-announces-continuum-turning-windows-10-phones-into-desktops/

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 83 comments

Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks

https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-some-men-pretend-to-work-80-hour-weeks

11 years ago

259 upvotes – 213 comments

There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/02/chrome_continue.html

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 122 comments

Reproducible Builds in Go

http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/davecheney/presentations/reproducible-builds.slide

11 years ago

233 upvotes – 69 comments

Category Theory for Programmers

http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 28 comments

Aaron’s Law Reintroduced: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Didn’t Fix Itself

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/aarons-law-reintroduced-cfaa-didnt-fix-itself

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 26 comments

Subtle Mid-Stage Startup Pitfalls

http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/subtle-mid-stage-pitfalls

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 24 comments

Learn you an Agda

http://learnyouanagda.liamoc.net/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 24 comments

Comparison of Doom 1, Quake, and Doom 3 entity references system

http://blog.noctua-software.com/entity-references.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 16 comments

Stop Misquoting Donald Knuth

http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?m=201501

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 54 comments

Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pilots’ iPads crashed

http://qz.com/393909/american-airlines-planes-are-grounded-because-their-pilots-ipads-have-crashed/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 119 comments

Query your local network for Chromecasts and have them play media

https://github.com/mafintosh/chromecasts

11 years ago

★ 1.4k JavaScript MIT
128 upvotes – 28 comments

How Bitcoin Is Disrupting Argentina’s Economy

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/how-bitcoin-is-disrupting-argentinas-economy.html

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 40 comments

Want a Steady Income? There’s an App for That

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/want-a-steady-income-theres-an-app-for-that.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150429&nlid=66702700&tntemail0=y&_r=0

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 105 comments

Waiting for Dark: Inside Two Anarchists' Quest for Untraceable Money

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/inside-dark-wallet/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 34 comments

Friends: a p2p, decentralized, secure messaging platform

https://moose-team.github.io/friends/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 45 comments

Darpa Seeks to Create Software Systems That Could Last 100 Years

http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2015/04/08.aspx

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 58 comments

'I've never seen anything like it': Airbnb renters leave Calgary home trashed

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/i-ve-never-seen-anything-like-it-airbnb-renters-leave-calgary-home-trashed-1.2351001

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 94 comments

Graphical Linear Algebra

http://graphicallinearalgebra.net

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 7 comments

C++11/14/17 Features in VS 2015 RC

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/04/29/c-11-14-17-features-in-vs-2015-rc.aspx

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

Why Mental Health Disorders Emerge in Your Early 20s

http://www.vice.com/read/why-mental-health-disorders-emerge-in-your-early-20s

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

How to Generate Millions of HTTP Requests (2012)

http://dak1n1.com/blog/14-http-load-generate

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Hacker Implants NFC Chip in His Hand to Bypass Security Scans and Exploit Android

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/04/27/implant-android-attack/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 51 comments

Paul Krugman: The austerity delusion

http://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/apr/29/the-austerity-delusion

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 94 comments

How we're using git-annex to make a backup of the Internet Archive

https://git-annex.branchable.com/design/iabackup/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9457973

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 79 comments

Node and ARM

https://medium.com/@nodesource/node-and-arm-b5e3eebf449

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 46 comments

Microsoft’s New Browser Will Be Called Microsoft Edge

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/microsofts-new-browser-will-be-called-microsoft-edge/#.ej0rsm:dO0p

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 51 comments

Skype Developer Platform

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt124990.aspx

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

Valve CEO: 'Pissing off the Internet costs you a million bucks in just 2 days'

http://uk.businessinsider.com/valve-ends-paid-skyrim-mods-2015-4?r=US

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 64 comments

Electronics for the JavaScript Developer Using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE

https://dev.opera.com/articles/wifi-ble-javascript/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 11 comments

Tux3 Report: How fast can we fsync?

http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1977366.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 8 comments

Microsoft Announces Azure Data Lake, a Data Repository for Big Data Analytics

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-announces-azure-data-lake-a-data-repository-for-big-data-analytics/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9458259

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 80 comments

How one tweet wiped $8bn off Twitter's value

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32511932

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 56 comments

We're Entering a Golden Era of Quantum Computing Research

http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2015/04/golden-era-quantum-computing.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

Can Your Static Type System Handle Linear Algebra? (2014)

http://yosefk.com/blog/can-your-static-type-system-handle-linear-algebra.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 65 comments

TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac

http://textnutwriter.com

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 45 comments

Thinking About Performance

http://chadaustin.me/2015/04/thinking-about-performance/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Effective java – A tool to explore your Java code written in Clojure

https://github.com/ftomassetti/effectivejava

11 years ago

★ 506 Java Apache-2.0
60 upvotes – 21 comments

Scroll: Console game that is also a Unix file pager

http://joeyh.name/code/scroll/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

Preparing for Warfare in Cyberspace

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/opinion/preparing-for-warfare-in-cyberspace.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 55 comments

Nepal Earthquake: Report from OpenStreetMap Situation Room, Day 3

http://kathmandulivinglabs.org/blog/nepal-earthquake-report-from-openstreetmap-situation-room-day-3-april-28/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 3 comments

C to Java Translation. Automatic, Complete, Correct. Free for Open-Source.

https://www.mtsystems.ch/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 54 comments
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