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

Death of a Programmer, Life of a Farmer

http://hello-world.io/death-of-a-programmer

11 years ago

698 upvotes – 341 comments

Call me maybe: Aerospike

https://aphyr.com/posts/324-call-me-maybe-aerospike

11 years ago

383 upvotes – 124 comments

Well, We Failed – Wattage is shutting down

https://medium.com/inside-wattage/well-we-failed-77e795e16ecf

11 years ago

328 upvotes – 157 comments

Touch Pianist – Tap in Rhythm and Perform Your Favourite Music

http://touchpianist.com/

11 years ago

320 upvotes – 100 comments

Io.js 2.0.0 Released

https://iojs.org/en/index.html?2.0.0

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 94 comments

Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their country may have helped

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nsa-scandal-rekindles-in-germany-with-an-ironic-twist/2015/04/30/030ec9e0-ee7e-11e4-8050-839e9234b303_story.html

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 176 comments

A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves

http://www.curvytron.com/

11 years ago

212 upvotes – 98 comments

Creator of Raft Algorithm introduces LogCabin

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/118135010314

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 52 comments

How the NSA converts spoken words into searchable text

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/05/nsa-speech-recognition-snowden-searchable-text/

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 22 comments

Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/world/europe/french-legislators-approve-sweeping-intelligence-bill.html?src=twr&_r=0

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 99 comments

Ripple fined for acting as a money services business without registration

http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/nr/pdf/20150505.pdf

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 154 comments

Look Ma, no OS

http://slides.com/technolo-g/intro-to-unikernels-and-erlang-on-xen-ling-demo#/

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 88 comments

The Secret Lives of Homeless Students

https://medium.com/bright/the-secret-lives-of-homeless-students-a4b506ded525

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 30 comments

Berlin 1945 and Today

http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/berlin-1945-2015/

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 43 comments

Org-trello: Trello for org-mode

http://org-trello.github.io/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 36 comments

What every computer science major should know (2011)

http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 95 comments

The Single Founder Handbook

http://www.singlefounderhandbook.com/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 54 comments

Ways to manage conflicts with cops in a medical emergency

http://www.ems1.com/ems-advocacy/articles/1476128-5-ways-to-manage-conflicts-with-cops-in-a-medical-emergency/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 139 comments

Prenda Law and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Appellate Argument

http://popehat.com/2015/05/04/prenda-law-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-appellate-argument/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 25 comments

Why Do We Play Video Games That Feel Like Work?

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-do-we-play-video-games-that-simulate-work

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 98 comments

“Information asymmetry” cuts both ways

http://yosefk.com/blog/information-asymmetry-cuts-both-ways.html

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 44 comments

Mark Twain stories, 150 years old, uncovered by Berkeley scholars

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/04/mark-twain-cache-uncovered-berkeley

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 16 comments

Radium – The Music Editor

http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 62 comments

A small kernel written in Nim

https://github.com/dom96/nimkernel

11 years ago

★ 622 Nim
111 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Should I consider a startup based on scraped data?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9493206

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 70 comments

About Coding House (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9492381

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 61 comments

Programmer Tooling Beyond Plain Text

http://joelburget.com/plaintext/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 69 comments

The JustDecompile .NET decompiler engine has been open-sourced

https://github.com/telerik/JustDecompileEngine

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 19 comments

A cursory look at meta-programming in Nim

http://blog.ldlework.com/2015/05/01/a-cursory-look-at-meta-programming-in-nim/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 29 comments

Virtual Structs Part 1: Where Rust’s Enum Shines

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/05/05/where-rusts-enum-shines/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 30 comments

Castles That Are Cheaper Than an Apartment in San Francisco

http://www.upout.com/blog/san-francisco-3/5-castles-that-are-cheaper-than-an-apartment-in-san-francisco

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

Let It Crash the Right Way (2009)

https://mazenharake.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/let-it-crash-the-right-way/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Build and Deploy Heroku Apps with Docker

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/5/5/introducing_heroku_docker_release_build_deploy_heroku_apps_with_docker

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 13 comments

Elance-oDesk Rebrands As Upwork, Debuts Slack-Like Chat Platform

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/05/elance-odesk-rebrands-as-upwork-debuts-slack-like-chat-platform

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 69 comments

How the Languages in Game of Thrones, Defiance, and Thor Were Created

http://nautil.us/blog/how-the-languages-in-game-of-thrones-defiance-and-thor-were-created

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 52 comments

Node.js Foundation – Node.js and Io.js Convergence Repo

https://github.com/jasnell/node.js-convergence

11 years ago

★ 1.8k JavaScript
79 upvotes – 14 comments

What Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Future of Work

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/magazine/what-hollywood-can-teach-us-about-the-future-of-work.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Filter and read Hacker News by category

https://blog.monkeylearn.com/hacker-news-categorizer-with-monkeylearn/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Andrew Ng: Why 'Deep Learning' Is a Mandate for Humans, Not Just Machines

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/andrew-ng-deep-learning-mandate-humans-not-just-machines/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 51 comments

The Connection Between Color and the Existence of Life

http://mitchkirby.com/2015/05/04/color-and-existence-of-life/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

Use Negative Keywords

https://ameetkhabra.com/2015/05/negative-keywords/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 13 comments

The End of the War on Drugs and the Emergence of the Cannabis Industry

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/04/the-end-of-the-war-on-drugs-and-the-emergence-of-the-venture-backed-cannabis-industry/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 65 comments

Working Capital Optimization Trade-Offs: Does Apple Ship iPhones by Air or Sea?

http://learn.flexport.com/does-apple-ship-iphones-by-air-or-ocean/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

Court says Skype's name is too similar to Sky's

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32593735

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 62 comments

Internal value representation in PHP 7, part 1

http://nikic.github.io/2015/05/05/Internal-value-representation-in-PHP-7-part-1.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

Microsoft Is Said to Evaluate Possible Bid for Salesforce.com

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-05/microsoft-is-said-to-evaluate-possible-bid-for-salesforce-com

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 73 comments

Mysos – MySQL on Mesos

https://github.com/twitter/mysos

11 years ago

★ 585
59 upvotes – 15 comments

DIY Iron Man Arc Reactor and Repulsor

http://blog.spark.io/2015/05/05/spark-reactor/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 1 comments

Intent to Implement: SIMD.js

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/2PIOEJG_aYY

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

Amazon drops gendered categories for toys

http://kottke.org/15/05/amazon-drops-gendered-categories-for-toys

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 63 comments

Cognitive Distortion

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

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Does the valley really have Engineer shortage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9491269

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 62 comments

Virgin Media stores user passwords in plaintext?

https://twitter.com/virginmedia/status/595135419152474112

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 31 comments

Compressing PostgreSQL JSONB data 12x using cstore_fdw

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/14-marco/156-compressing-jsonb-using-cstore-fdw

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments

Malta Offers Citizenship and All Its Perks for a Price

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/business/dealbook/malta-offers-citizenship-and-all-its-perks-for-a-price.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 56 comments

The Ultimate Guide to Pinball

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/pop-stuff/213447-the-ultimate-guide-to-pinball

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 22 comments

Interview with Audrey Tang, part 1

http://perlhist.com/perl6/audrey-tang-1

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 1 comments

The Farmer's Dilemma

http://reasonableapproximation.net/2015/05/05/farmers-dilemma.html

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 28 comments

Glimmer rendering engine is landing in Ember Canary today

http://emberjs.com/blog/2015/05/05/glimmer-merging.html

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 4 comments

The Fake 'Asian' Who Fooled 18th-Century London

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/04/london-forgotten-aryan-asian-fraudster/361035/?single_page=true

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Dextro Stream – Periscope livestream discovery with computer vision

http://stream.dextro.co/

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 5 comments

Macbook and USB-C Review

http://ma.tt/2015/05/macbook-usb-c-review/

11 years ago

42 upvotes – 72 comments

Atomics in Objective-C

http://biasedbit.com/blog/objc-atomics/

11 years ago

41 upvotes – 20 comments

How to Write a Rust Syntax Extension

http://brodoyouevencode.com/posts/how-to-write-a-rust-syntax-extension/

11 years ago

41 upvotes – 26 comments
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