top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-02

Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102063979260811

11 years ago

468 upvotes – 189 comments

What happens after you’re arrested at a protest in New York

https://medium.com/@noralev/what-happens-after-you-re-arrested-at-a-protest-in-new-york-975bb34fb47c

11 years ago

295 upvotes – 140 comments

Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner

http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/01/boeing-787-dreamliner-software-bug/

11 years ago

275 upvotes – 203 comments

Quadratic Voting (2014)

http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 151 comments

Embarrassing code I wrote under stress at a job interview

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/embarrassing-code-i-wrote-under-stress-at-a-job-interview

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 180 comments

Ask HN: What newsletters do you read every day or week?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476097

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 100 comments

Evaluation of C, Go, and Rust in the HPC environment [pdf]

http://octarineparrot.com/assets/mrfloya-thesis-ba.pdf

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 64 comments

Peter Thiel on what works at work (2014)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2014/10/10/peter-thiel-on-what-works-at-work/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 92 comments

Clusterize.js – Tiny plugin to display large data sets easily

http://nexts.github.io/Clusterize.js/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 50 comments

Seaborn: a high-level Python interface for drawing statistical graphics

https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn

11 years ago

★ 13.8k Python BSD-3-Clause
134 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: Efficiently searching compressed text files

https://github.com/mattgodbolt/zindex

11 years ago

★ 657 C BSD-2-Clause
125 upvotes – 35 comments

Let’s all laugh at my horrible 2006 post: “YouTube is not a real business”

http://calacanis.com/2015/04/30/lets-all-laugh-at-my-horrible-2006-post-youtube-is-not-a-real-business/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 62 comments

Taking control of a 36 year old NASA spacecraft using GNU radio

http://www.dodgycoder.net/2015/05/taking-control-of-36-year-old-nasa.html

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 7 comments

Dart for Android apps with 120fps

https://github.com/domokit/sky_sdk

11 years ago

★ 176.1k Dart BSD-3-Clause
115 upvotes – 64 comments

Elasticsearch node crashes can cause data loss

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/10933

11 years ago

★ 76.5k Java
112 upvotes – 50 comments

Meeting Snowden in Princeton

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2015/05/02/meeting-snowden-in-princeton/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 12 comments

Distributed Read-Write Mutex in Go

https://gist.github.com/jonhoo/05774c1e47dbe4d57169

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 17 comments

Cmder – Portable console emulator for Windows

http://gooseberrycreative.com/cmder/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 39 comments

U.S. Army Engineer School Commandant’s Reading List

http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/reading_list/29-u-s-army-engineer-school

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

How the language you speak changes your view of the world

https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/04/how-the-language-you-speak-changes-your-view-of-the-world/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 84 comments

Oracle latest to be sued for wage-fixing

http://pando.com/2014/10/21/oracle-latest-to-be-sued-for-silicon-valley-wage-fixing-following-pandos-reporting-on-their-involvement/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 53 comments

Run a Wi-Fi Network? HBO and Showtime Want to You to Police Your Users

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/run-wifi-network-hbo-and-showtime-want-you-police-your-users

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

What's wrong with finance

http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2015/05/finance-and-economics

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 68 comments

Gut Feelings: The “Second Brain” in Our Gastrointestinal Systems

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-feelings-the-second-brain-in-our-gastrointestinal-systems-excerpt/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of North America

https://www.dropbox.com/help/9063

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 55 comments

Congrats on the 10 Year Anniversary YouTube, Now Please Fix Content ID

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/congrats-10-year-anniversary-youtube-now-please-fix-content-id

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: 2D PID controller simulation

http://nikital.github.io/pid/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: How to avoid giving a scathing code review?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9477301

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 67 comments

Stanford – The Get Rich University (2012)

http://newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/30/get-rich-u

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 42 comments

EarthBound’s Copy Protection

http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/earthbounds-copy-protection/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

Vintage drum kits from the 1920s and 1930s

http://www.polarityrecords.com/vintage-drum-kits-1920s-and-30s.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Death to C

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/02/and-c-plus-plus-too/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 104 comments

Why I Quit Coffee and How That's Been Working Out

http://www.humansarenotbroken.com/why-i-quit-coffee-how-thats-been-working-out/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 70 comments

Erlang-OTP and the Parallella Board

https://www.parallella.org/2015/03/20/erlang-otp-and-the-parallella-board/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 12 comments

Energy Is Not Conserved (2010)

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-is-not-conserved/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Judge throws out United Airlines lawsuit against Skiplagged.com founder

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/01/investing/united-airlines-lawsuit-skiplagged/?iid=TL_Popular

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 18 comments

Elixir Style Guide

https://github.com/niftyn8/elixir_style_guide

11 years ago

★ 4.4k Elixir
56 upvotes – 7 comments

Mobile Justice – ACLU's app for recording police encounters

https://www.mobilejusticeca.org/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

Remembering Paul Hudak

http://rancher.com/remembering-paul-hudak/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 0 comments

Sunglasses that train your brain by dimming when you daydream

http://www.digitaltrends.com/wearable-reviews/narbis-hands-on/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments

Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems (2014)

http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 54 comments

Wearing a Suit Makes People Think Differently

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/wearing-a-suit-makes-people-think-differently/391802/?single_page=true

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 54 comments
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