top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-30

Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

https://messages.yale.edu/messages/University/univmsgs/detail/121669

11 years ago

1014 upvotes – 89 comments

Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it

http://www.dominik-schwarz.net/potpourri/worldmap/

11 years ago

919 upvotes – 220 comments

Agar.io

http://agar.io

11 years ago

528 upvotes – 219 comments

Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/30/deprecating-non-secure-http/

11 years ago

340 upvotes – 304 comments

Slovak Constitutional Court cancels mass surveillance of citizens

http://www.eisionline.org/index.php/sk/projekty-m-2/ochrana-sukromia/109-the-slovak-constitutional-court-cancelled-mass-surveillance-of-citizens

11 years ago

282 upvotes – 55 comments

Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 released

https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2015/04/msg00047.html

11 years ago

250 upvotes – 46 comments

Microsoft makes it easier to build Minecraft Mods using Visual Studio

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/04/30/hello-minecraft-modders-visual-studio-loves-minecraft.aspx

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 78 comments

Open Sourcing Visual Studio’s GDB/LLDB Debug Engine

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/04/29/open-sourcing-visual-studio-s-gdb-lldb-debug-engine.aspx

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 41 comments

Mark Zuckerberg appears on CNBC to discuss a social network (2004) [video]

https://www.facebook.com/cnbc/videos/vb.97212224368/10153395251424369/?type=2&theater

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 80 comments

Apache Zeppelin – Interactive analytics on Spark

http://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org/

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 33 comments

Four MLs (and a Python)

http://thebreakfastpost.com/2015/04/22/four-mls-and-a-python/

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 72 comments

Mercurial: Onward and upward

https://blog.bitbucket.org/2015/04/30/mercurial-onward-and-upward/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 132 comments

Nim Programming Language 0.11.0 released

http://nim-lang.org/news.html#Z2015-04-30-version-0-11-0-released

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 128 comments

Introducing F# 4.0

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/FSharp-4

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 69 comments

Blue Origin: Images and Videos from Our First Flight

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/multimedia/images-and-videos-from-our-first-flight

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 74 comments

The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, but More Must Be Done

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/new-usa-freedom-act-step-right-direction-more-must-be-done

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 39 comments

PostgreSQL vs. MS SQL Server

http://www.pg-versus-ms.com/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 135 comments

Microsoft and Arduino Announce Partnership

http://blog.arduino.cc/2015/04/30/microsoft-and-arduino-new-partnership/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 40 comments

The Problem with Mobile Phones

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/problem-mobile-phones

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 48 comments

Outschooling in the Bay Area

http://amir.io/outschooling-in-the-bay-area

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 86 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

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 69 comments

OpenBSD 5.7 Released

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=143043178115828

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 22 comments

Mountains of Mouthness – WebGL Experiment

http://www.mountainsofmouthness.com/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 34 comments

Improving the GitHub Workflow for the Microsoft Community

https://github.com/blog/1989-improving-the-github-workflow-for-the-microsoft-community

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 33 comments

An introduction to JavaScript-based DDoS

https://blog.cloudflare.com/an-introduction-to-javascript-based-ddos/

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 30 comments

How Old Do I Look?

http://how-old.net/#

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 80 comments

Why we made Vorlon.js and how to use it to debug your JavaScript remotely

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2015/04/30/why-we-made-vorlon-js-and-how-to-use-it-to-debug-your-javascript-remotely.aspx

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 36 comments

Uber Is Testing a Massive Merchant Delivery Program

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/uber-is-quietly-testing-a-massive-merchant-delivery-program/#.up0lhs:ihj8

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 71 comments

Finnegans Wake: the book the web was invented for

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/apr/28/finnegans-wake-james-joyce-modern-interpretations

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 35 comments

Corrupted Blood Incident

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

Project Oxford – An evolving set of APIs for natural data processing

https://www.projectoxford.ai/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 4 comments

David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on-baltimore-s-anguish

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 41 comments

Hiking the 2,650-Mile Pacific Crest Trail

http://priceonomics.com/hiking-the-2650-mile-pacific-crest-trail/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 51 comments

Fuzzing Nginx – Hunting vulnerabilities with afl-fuzz

https://lolware.net/2015/04/28/nginx-fuzzing.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

Experimental Australian scheme to eradicate long-term homelessness

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/30/experimental-victorian-scheme-could-virtually-eradicate-homelessness

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

The Dual Optimization of Air Freight: How Many iPhones Fit in a 747?

http://learn.flexport.com/how-many-iphones-can-fit-in-a-747/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 52 comments

The Cause of the Knuckle-Cracking Sound

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0119470

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 50 comments

Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg

http://www.nature.com/news/statistics-p-values-are-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-1.17412?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20150430

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 31 comments

When Daydreaming Replaces Real Life

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/when-daydreaming-replaces-real-life/391319/?single_page=true

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

Will there ever be another Red Hat?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2015/04/28/will-there-ever-be-another-red-hat/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 63 comments

Follow the White Ball: The torments of snooker’s greatest player

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/follow-the-white-ball

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

Apple Invites Developers to Test Its New “App Analytics” Service

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/30/apple-invites-developers-to-test-its-new-app-analytics-service/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

Crystal 0.7.0 released

http://crystal-lang.org/2015/04/30/crystal-0.7.0-released.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments

ToroDB: A MongoDB-compatible, document-oriented database on top of PostgreSQL

http://www.8kdata.com/torodb/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

How a Vietnamese helicopter pilot saved his family

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/29/us/vietnam-sea-rescue/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

ZPM Espresso and the Rage of the Jilted Crowdfunder

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/zpm-espresso-and-the-rage-of-the-jilted-crowdfunder.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 23 comments

Unintended Affordances (or why I believe encrypting everything is a bad idea)

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/4/28/unintended-affordances/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 128 comments

Leaked Lyft Document Reveals a Costly Battle with Uber

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-30/leaked-lyft-document-reveals-a-costly-battle-with-uber

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

Using least squares regression to calculate a circle from a freehand drawing

http://vladgotlib.com/circular/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

New Apple Watch Has Lowest Ratio of Hardware Costs to Retail Price

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150430006412/en/Apple-Watch-Lowest-Ratio-Hardware-Costs-Retail

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 40 comments

Singapore's Smart Nation Minister

http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/6488-exclusive-interview-singapores-smart-nation-minister

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments

John Walker's history of Autodesk (1994)

https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/autofile.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 16 comments

The Tablet Is Being Squeezed Out

http://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2015/04/29/the-tablet-is-being-squeezed-out/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 81 comments

Twitter has a huge problem, and it’s in your head

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04/29/twitter-has-a-huge-problem-and-its-all-in-your-head/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 69 comments

Giving Everyone in the World an Address

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32444811

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 40 comments

Chicago undergraduate mathematics bibliography

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 4 comments
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