top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-06

I would have hired Doug, but...

http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHiredDougBut.html

11 years ago

505 upvotes – 238 comments

Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/dissolve-my-nobel-prize-fast-a-true-story

11 years ago

462 upvotes – 81 comments

PyPy.js: A fast, compliant Python implementation for the web

http://pypyjs.org/

11 years ago

461 upvotes – 134 comments

The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies

http://www.nickkolenda.com/psychological-pricing-strategies/

11 years ago

418 upvotes – 81 comments

Racking Mac Pros

http://photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros

11 years ago

388 upvotes – 316 comments

First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016

https://www.oculus.com/blog/first-look-at-the-rift-shipping-q1-2016/

11 years ago

305 upvotes – 138 comments

Leaving Stripe

https://blog.gregbrockman.com/leaving-stripe

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 70 comments

Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/537301/spiders-ingest-nanotubes-then-weave-silk-reinforced-with-carbon/

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 79 comments

Announcing Google Cloud Bigtable

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/05/introducing-Google-Cloud-Bigtable.html

11 years ago

257 upvotes – 151 comments

Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/05/06/how-to-commit-suicide/?utm_content=buffer7da00&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 160 comments

I was an undercover Uber driver

http://citypaper.net/uberdriver/

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 165 comments

Weave is kinda slow

http://www.generictestdomain.net/docker/weave/networking/stupidity/2015/04/05/weave-is-kinda-slow/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 157 comments

GitHub's down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9497821

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 146 comments

MIT alumni in their 50s

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/04/

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 151 comments

Tarsnap performance issues in late March, most of April

http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-announce/msg00031.html

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 113 comments

Lawyers threaten researcher over key-cloning bug in high-security lock

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/05/lawyers-threaten-researcher-over-key-cloning-bug-in-high-security-lock/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: Programmers Above 50, Is It Possible to Have a Career Past Your 50s?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9497721

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 133 comments

Neural network chip built using memristors

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/neural-network-chip-built-using-memristors/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 61 comments

IBM's Watson will be used to make decisions about cancer care in 14 hospitals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32607688

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: kiUi – Lightweight auto-layout stylable UI toolkit

http://novembermonk.github.io/kiui/article.html

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 39 comments

Negative Interest Rates May Spark Existential Crisis for Cash

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-23/negative-interest-rates-may-spark-existential-crisis-for-cash

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 142 comments

Group Currency

http://groupcurrency.org/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 69 comments

Ccat – syntax highlighting cat

https://github.com/jingweno/ccat

11 years ago

★ 3.2k Go MIT
127 upvotes – 45 comments

The Lessons Google Ventures Learned from Secret

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2015/05/05/the-lessons-google-ventures-learned-from-secret/?referrer=

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 70 comments

6 Words: 'My Name Is Jamaal I'm White'

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/06/404432206/six-words-my-name-is-jamaal-im-white

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 179 comments

Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf]

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pdf

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 139 comments

Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32607618

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 110 comments

Google Ends Page Speed Service

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service/Deprecation

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

Why Ken Jennings’s ‘Jeopardy’ Streak Is Nearly Impossible to Break

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ken-jenningss-jeopardy-streak-is-safe-for-the-rest-of-time/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 57 comments

Zenefits (YC W13) Just Raised $500M at a $4.5B Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/06/zenefits-rising-hrs-hottest-startup-just-raised-500-million-at-a-4-5-billion-valuation/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 85 comments

Grepping logs is terrible

http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2015/05/05/grepping-logs-is-terrible/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 102 comments

AMD's next-gen Zen CPU heading to desktops, servers in 2016

http://techreport.com/review/28228/amd-zen-chips-headed-to-desktops-servers-in-2016

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 74 comments

Google Says More Searches Now on Mobile Than on Desktop

http://searchengineland.com/its-official-google-says-more-searches-now-on-mobile-than-on-desktop-220369

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

Applebot, the web crawler for Apple

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204683

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 90 comments

What Two Programmers Have Revealed About Seattle Police Officers

http://www.thestranger.com/news/feature/2015/05/06/22172178/what-two-programmers-have-revealed-so-far-about-seattle-police-officers-who-are-still-in-uniform

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 62 comments

Java Mutation Testing

http://pitest.org/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 30 comments

Launching a weather balloon, a camera and a Raspberry Pi to the stratosphere

https://blog.pinterjann.is/?p=504

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 35 comments

Orson Welles, one of history's great workaholics

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/6/8554571/orson-welles-work-ethic

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 23 comments

Cheap Centimeter-Precision GPS for Cars, Drones, Virtual Reality

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/transportation/self-driving/cheap-centimeterprecision-gps-for-cars-and-drones

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Curl User Poll

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/05/06/curl-user-poll-2015/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

Yellen cites 'potential dangers' in U.S. stock valuations

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/06/us-usa-fed-yellen-idUSKBN0NR1JI20150506

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 81 comments

Uber leaves Kansas after lawmakers demand background checks and more insurance

http://pando.com/2015/05/06/not-in-kansas-anymore-uber-leaves-kansas-after-lawmakers-demand-background-checks-and-more-insurance/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 139 comments

Pixie Pi

http://stuarth.github.io/pixie/pixie-pi

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

The Hezbollah Connection

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-hezbollah-connection.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: 4m-accuracy Indoor Location with Beacons

http://blog.estimote.com/post/118294444205/super-simple-and-accurate-indoor-positioning-with

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Max Levchin’s Affirm Raises $275M to Make Loans

http://recode.net/2015/05/06/max-levchins-affirm-raises-275-million-to-make-loans/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 38 comments

Delegation Is the Cornerstone of Civilization: Sharing in Sandstorm.io

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-05-05-delegation-is-the-cornerstone-of-civilization.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Creative computing with Clojure

http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/05/creative-computing-with-clojure.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

Why React Native Is Different

http://jlongster.com/Why-React-Native-is-Different

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 66 comments

Can Algorithms Form Price-Fixing Cartels?

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/when-bots-collude

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 27 comments

Highest voted recent links

https://news.ycombinator.com/best

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Getting in front of people

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9499433

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

Project Panama: Interconnecting JVM and Native Code

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments

Valuation as a Scorecard

http://avc.com/2015/05/valuation-as-a-scorecard/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Haskell Web Server in a 5MB Docker Image

https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/05/haskell-web-server-in-5mb

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 7 comments

Lispworks 7.0 with Mobile (iOS, Android) Runtime

http://www.lispworks.com/products/lw4mr.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 33 comments

How Airbnb Rewrote Its Recruiting Playbook

http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2015/05/06/airbnbs-5-star-recruiting-twist-the-competitive-power-of-nice/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 31 comments

Deprecating the Sync and Datastore APIs

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2015/04/deprecating-the-sync-and-datastore-apis

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments

Microwave Ovens Posing as Astronomical Objects

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/astrophysics/microwave-ovens-posing-as-astronomical-objects

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to practice coding interviews together?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9500037

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Onboarded – User Onboarding as a Service

https://www.getonboarded.com/?utm_source=hn

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 37 comments

NSA 2014 Technology Catalog – Tech Transfer Program [pdf]

http://m.nsa.gov/research/_files/tech_transfers/nsa_technology_transfer_program.pdf

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 17 comments

World's Oldest Blood Found in Famed “Iceman” Mummy

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120502-oldest-blood-otzi-iceman-mummy-oetzi-zink-science/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 7 comments
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