top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-09

How to Build a Unicorn and Walk Away with Nothing

http://heidiroizen.tumblr.com/post/118473647305/

11 years ago

341 upvotes – 131 comments

Under the hood: Facebook’s cold storage system

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1433093613662262/-under-the-hood-facebook-s-cold-storage-system-/?hn=1

11 years ago

306 upvotes – 89 comments

A re-introduction to JavaScript

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript

11 years ago

290 upvotes – 109 comments

UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rights

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/how-tpp-and-fast-track-threaten-human-rights

11 years ago

271 upvotes – 80 comments

React JS Best Practices

http://blog.siftscience.com/blog/2015/react-applications-that-scale

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 89 comments

Computational Hydrographic Printing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUhPrAqiY0

11 years ago

225 upvotes – 32 comments

Stupid certificate tricks

https://rya.nc/cert-tricks.html

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 25 comments

Code Review Best Practices

http://kevinlondon.com/2015/05/05/code-review-best-practices.html

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 92 comments

Harvard engineering students devise BBQ smoker

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/05/05/harvard-class-cooks-ultimate-bbq-smoker/0O4fLQ0rbt9qMGsllPoTjK/story.html?p1=Article_Trending_Most_Viewed#

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 55 comments

Implementing a Virtual Machine in C

http://www.blog.felixangell.com/virtual-machine-in-c/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 50 comments

CλaSH – From Haskell to Hardware

http://www.clash-lang.org/

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 55 comments

Gonix – Unix tools written in Go

https://github.com/polegone/gonix

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 82 comments

In Mathematics, Mistakes Aren’t What They Used to Be

http://www.nautil.us/issue/24/error/in-mathematics-mistakes-arent-what-they-used-to-be

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 53 comments

There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: How much money does an average VC make?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9517069

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 61 comments

EFF Asks Patent Office to Focus on Protecting Public from Bad Patents

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/eff-asks-patent-office-focus-protecting-public-bad-patents

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 3 comments

FFI from Go to Rust

https://github.com/medimatrix/rust-plus-golang

11 years ago

★ 786 Makefile MIT
87 upvotes – 11 comments

Python 3 in Science: the great migration has begun

http://astrofrog.github.io/blog/2015/05/09/2015-survey-results/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 91 comments

In Getting Work by Ella Frost, We Ate Our Own Dog Food

http://blog.ascribe.io/we-just-ate-our-own-dog-food/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 29 comments

Hasura – A Batteries-included App Development Platform

http://hasura.io/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

How New York and San Francisco's Tight Housing Markets Are Hurting the Economy

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/here-s-how-much-new-york-and-san-francisco-s-tight-housing-markets-are-hurting-the-economy

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 104 comments

Output of Dutch solar bike lane exceeds expectations

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F102994%2Fopbrengst-fietspad-met-geintegreerde-zonnepanelen-is-boven-verwachting.html&edit-text=

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 94 comments

How I Got Converted to G.M.O. Food

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/opinion/sunday/how-i-got-converted-to-gmo-food.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 108 comments

Ubuntu testing Snappy for Desktop Next

https://plus.google.com/+WillCooke/posts/AxfoU3N1Ezo

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 66 comments

Fast Approximate Logarithms, Part I: The Basics

http://www.ebaytechblog.com/2015/05/01/fast-approximate-logarithms-part-i-the-basics/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

Julia founders commercialize language, create new startup

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/julia-founders-commercialise-language-create-new-startup/articleshow/47211869.cms

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 39 comments

Without Systemd

http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 88 comments

In the Tenderloin

https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-05-03/in-the-tenderloin/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Chemicals in plastics alter the brains of baby boys, making them “more feminine”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8361863.stm

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: I feel like I'm in a filter bubble. How can I “expand my horizons”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9517790

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 52 comments

The first news article ever written about Apple

http://www.businessinsider.com/first-article-ever-written-about-apple-kilobaud-sheila-clarke-craven-2015-5

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Floating Point Routines for the 6502 (1976)

http://www.6502.org/source/floats/wozfp1.txt

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments

Under the Hood of Xcode Server

http://honzadvorsky.com/blog/2015/5/4/under-the-hood-of-xcode-server

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

Are There Deep Reasons Underlying the Pathologies of Deep Learning Algorithms? [pdf]

http://goertzel.org/DeepLearning_v1.pdf

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 16 comments

UK Election: What difference would proportional representation have made?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32601281

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 97 comments

A digital skeleton key to access any website

http://docs.higg.so/2015/03/10/a-digital-skeleton-key-for-accessing-any-website-proposal/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 47 comments
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