top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-04

Fractal Lab

http://sub.blue/fractal-lab

11 years ago

900 upvotes – 147 comments

The programming talent myth

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/641779/474137b50693725a/

11 years ago

510 upvotes – 341 comments

Test drive of a petrol car

http://teslaclubsweden.se/test-drive-of-a-petrol-car

11 years ago

401 upvotes – 263 comments

Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9487903

11 years ago

308 upvotes – 237 comments

Call me maybe: Elasticsearch 1.5.0

https://aphyr.com/posts/323-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch-1-5-0

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 66 comments

PHP: md5('240610708') == md5('QNKCDZO')

http://3v4l.org/tT4l8

11 years ago

240 upvotes – 175 comments

The Data Science Handbook

http://www.thedatasciencehandbook.com/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 57 comments

Artificial-Intelligence Experts Are in High Demand

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/artificial-intelligence-experts-are-in-high-demand-1430472782-lMyQjAxMTA1MzA2MTMwNTEyWj

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 111 comments

PM of Singapore Shares His C++ Sudoku Solver Source Code

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2G2LjIu7WbdfjhaUmVzc1lCR2hUdk5fZllCOHdtbFItbU5qYzdqZGVxdmlnRkJyYVQ4VU0&usp=sharing&usp=sharing&urp=https://drive.google.com/folderview?id%3D0B2G2LjIu7W#list

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 150 comments

Three Tales of Second System Syndrome

http://blog.brentlaabs.com/2015/05/three-tales-of-second-system-syndrome.html

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 137 comments

The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up in the U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/03/upshot/the-best-and-worst-places-to-grow-up-how-your-area-compares.html

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 87 comments

Manifold.js – Create mobile apps from websites

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/johnshews_blog/archive/2015/04/30/build-2015-and-manifoldjs.aspx

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 61 comments

School of Haskell 2.0

https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/05/school-of-haskell-2

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 14 comments

SpaceX’s Pad Abort Test

http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/05/04/5-things-know-about-spacexs-pad-abort-test

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 68 comments

Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Literature”

http://edge.org/response-detail/25514

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 85 comments

CVE-2015-3459 – Hospira Lifecare PCA Infusion Pump

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-3459

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 82 comments

Nim binary size from 160 KB to 150 Bytes

http://hookrace.net/blog/nim-binary-size/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 66 comments

The dangers of resetting everything at once

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2015/05/02/lockstep/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 46 comments

Rent-a-Foreigner in China

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/opinion/rent-a-foreigner-in-china.html

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 124 comments

The compiler flag that time forgot

http://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2013/10/19/no-cpp-precomp-the-compiler-flag-that-time-forgot/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 84 comments

Firefox OS for TV: UX Overview

https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2015/04/firefox-os-for-tv-ux-overview/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 65 comments

Welcoming Timeful to Google

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/time-is-on-your-sidewelcoming-timeful.html

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Parsing CSV files with GPU

https://github.com/antonmks/nvParse

11 years ago

★ 564 Cuda Apache-2.0
123 upvotes – 60 comments

How I Hacked My Way from TC to YC

https://medium.com/@sayangel/how-i-hacked-my-way-from-tc-to-yc-73bc719c6792

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 28 comments

“Flower of Battle,” a combat manual created in the first decade of the 1400s

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2015/03/fiore-dei-liberi.html

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 30 comments

The Haskell School of Music – From Signals to Symphonies

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/?post_type=publication&p=112

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 21 comments

Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/04/microsoft-wants-to-bring-azure-to-your-data-center/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 44 comments

How Sustainable Is Stored Sunlight?

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/05/sustainability-off-grid-solar-power.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 81 comments

CSRF protection bypass due to Google analytics and weird server cookie parsing

https://hackerone.com/reports/14883

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 39 comments

ClojureScript Unraveled

http://funcool.github.io/clojurescript-unraveled

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 28 comments

Goldman's Self-Defeating Case Against a Programmer

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-04/goldman-s-self-defeating-case-against-serge-aleynikov

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 81 comments

40 Busy Years Later, Paul Allen, a Microsoft Founder, Considers His Creation

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/40-busy-years-later-a-microsoft-founder-considers-his-creation/?_r=0

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

The Psychology of UX

http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=126

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

AltSchool, an Experiment in Education, Raises $100M

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/altschool/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 37 comments

The Lux Programming Language

https://github.com/LuxLang/lux

11 years ago

★ 1.7k Emacs Lisp Apache-2.0
85 upvotes – 45 comments

Reconsidering Functional Programming

http://prog21.dadgum.com/207.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 113 comments

Kubernetes is going to support rkt

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/google-backs-alternative-docker-cloud-computing-s-next-big-idea/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

The Myth of Equity as Motivation

http://rkoutnik.com/articles/The-Myth-of-Equity-as-Motivation.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments

Police Start to Reconsider Longstanding Rules on Using Force

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/us/police-start-to-reconsider-longstanding-rules-on-using-force.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 83 comments

Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 44 comments

Mixed Signals: Why People Misunderstand Each Other

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/mixed-signals-why-people-misunderstand-each-other/391053/?single_page=true

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

HyperLogSandwich

https://github.com/chanian/hyperlogsandwich/wiki

11 years ago

★ 171 JavaScript Apache-2.0
75 upvotes – 5 comments

Building an Infinite Procedurally-Generated World

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/05/03/infinite-procedurally-generated-world/#.VUethn2JVgY.hackernews

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

Introducing FIDO: Automated Security Incident Response

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/05/introducing-fido-automated-security.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Facebook Opens Internet․Org to All Developers Due to Net Neutrality Concerns

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/04/facebooks-internet-org-project-is-now-a-platform/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 77 comments

De Blasio Makes $70M Commitment Toward Universal Broadband In NYC

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/04/de-blasio-broadband

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: How to cope with depression

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9488368

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 116 comments

Sixth DNA base discovered?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150504101254.htm

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 38 comments

Why Topological Data Analysis Works

http://www.ayasdi.com/blog/bigdata/why-topological-data-analysis-works/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 10 comments

Someone Has Domain for Carly Fiorina’s Name and Is Pretty Upset with Her Layoffs

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/04/someone-has-a-domain-for-carly-fiorinas-name-and-is-pretty-upset-with-her-layoffs-while-at-hp/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments

Photos Apple's first employees showed us from the company's earliest days

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/These-photos-Apple-s-first-employees-showed-us-6238666.php

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Facebook opens up Internet.org amidst net neutrality row

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32580586

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 55 comments

What afl-fuzz is bad at

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1238

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments
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