top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-12

Lily – Drone camera

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9532777

11 years ago

1397 upvotes – 480 comments

Be Kind

http://boz.com/articles/be-kind.html

11 years ago

1198 upvotes – 385 comments

Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it

http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/2bbbf21959178ef2f935e90fc60e5b6e368d27514fe305ca7dcecc32c0134838

11 years ago

803 upvotes – 165 comments

Wait, Google Sent Me

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wait-google-sent-me/igloabeeeiagmdkhellmibpnlnjdmdbb

11 years ago

502 upvotes – 237 comments

A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art

http://www.dinofarmgames.com/a-pixel-artist-renounces-pixel-art/

11 years ago

440 upvotes – 191 comments

FTC Officials Back Tesla’s Right to Sell Cars Direct to Consumers

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/11/ftc-officials-back-teslas-right-to-sell-cars-direct-to-consumers/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

11 years ago

428 upvotes – 207 comments

Guide for Technical Development

https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-technical-development.html

11 years ago

396 upvotes – 176 comments

Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B

http://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-buy-aol-for-4-4-billion-1431428458

11 years ago

298 upvotes – 226 comments

The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills

http://mosaicscience.com/story/male-suicide

11 years ago

291 upvotes – 344 comments

Why Billionaires Don't Pay Property Taxes in New York

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/05/why-billionaires-dont-pay-property-taxes-in-new-york/389886/?utm_source=SFTwitter

11 years ago

273 upvotes – 202 comments

Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/12/mozilla-launches-a-new-firefox-version-without-drm-support/#.4a6ylb:CFbt

11 years ago

259 upvotes – 212 comments

How Googlebot crawls JavaScript

http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascript-heres-learned-220157

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 109 comments

Why so many Dutch people work part time

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/05/economist-explains-12

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 181 comments

Temporary fork enables Node.js to optionally use the Chakra JavaScript engine

https://github.com/Microsoft/node

11 years ago

★ 1.9k JavaScript
170 upvotes – 97 comments

Think – Fast mobile whiteboarding

http://fiftythree.com/think

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 51 comments

Is it ASCII or Protobuf? The importance of types in cryptographic signatures

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-05-01-is-that-ascii-or-protobuf.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 33 comments

Keras: Fast Deep Learning Prototyping for Python

https://github.com/fchollet/keras/

11 years ago

★ 64k Python Apache-2.0
151 upvotes – 25 comments

Samsung is imploding in China

http://uk.businessinsider.com/samsung-china-sales-q1-apple-xiaomi-idc-plummet-2015-5

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 146 comments

Show HN: Recurrent neural net plays 'neural slime volleyball' in JavaScript

http://otoro.net/slimevolley

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 74 comments

Firefox 38 released

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/38.0/releasenotes/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 127 comments

Benchmarking JS

http://mrale.ph/talks/goto2015/#/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 31 comments

The Roland TR-808: the drum machine that revolutionised music

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/06/roland-tr-808-drum-machine-revolutionised-music

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 66 comments

An Overview of Ramanujan's Notebooks [pdf]

http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~berndt/articles/aachen.pdf

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 4 comments

Why the ruling against NSA’s phone records program could have huge implications

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/05/08/why-the-ruling-against-the-nsas-phone-records-program-could-have-huge-implications/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 38 comments

Jython 2.7.0 Final Released

http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2015/05/jython-270-final-released.html

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 33 comments

Frame-Based Editing

http://www.greenfoot.org/frames/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 25 comments

Disassembling the Amazon Dash

http://www.bitsofcents.com/post/118749233621/disassembling-the-dash

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 112 comments

Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds

http://www.nature.com/news/rogue-antimatter-found-in-thunderclouds-1.17526

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 31 comments

List of Unsolved Scientific Problems with Large Monetary Prizes

http://scienceprizes.org/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 41 comments

Gamer beats both Mega Man X and Mega Man X2 using the same controller

http://todayinawesome.com/blog/2015/5/11/gamer-miraculously-beats-both-mega-man-x-and-mega-man-x2-using-the-same-controller

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Pyre – A command-line interface for Tinder

https://github.com/zachlatta/pyre

11 years ago

★ 233 Go MIT
107 upvotes – 42 comments

Nepal earthquake, magnitude 7.3, strikes near Everest

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32701385

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 19 comments

Payments – Why we make you type "$0"

http://blog.elementary.io/post/110645528530/payments

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 133 comments

BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2015/05/12/bleep-private-messenger-now-on-all-major-platforms/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 70 comments

Introducing Xubuntu core

http://xubuntu.org/news/introducing-xubuntu-core/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 46 comments

What is money? (1913)

http://moslereconomics.com/mandatory-readings/what-is-money/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 67 comments

Toolz: A functional standard library for Python

https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz

11 years ago

★ 5.1k Python
84 upvotes – 27 comments

Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die

http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 83 comments

Sans Bullshit Sans

http://www.sansbullshitsans.com/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

Bangladesh blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32701001

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 83 comments

ZeroBrane Lua IDE v1.00 released

https://github.com/pkulchenko/ZeroBraneStudio/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

11 years ago

★ 2.7k Lua
74 upvotes – 32 comments

The big drug database in the sky: One firefighter’s year-long legal nightmare

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/the-big-drug-database-in-the-sky-one-firefighters-year-long-legal-nightmare/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 52 comments

Beware Simple Stories

http://www.macdrifter.com/2015/05/beware-simple-stories.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 42 comments

“It's like an OkCupid for voting” – the Finnish election engines

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2015-05-11-okcupid-for-voting-the-finnish-election-engines/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

Chicken embryos have been altered so that the birds grow dinosaur-like snouts

http://www.nature.com/news/dino-chickens-reveal-how-the-beak-was-born-1.17507

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Architecting Websites for the HTTP/2 Era

https://ma.ttias.be/architecting-websites-http2-era/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments

Has Cosmology Run into a Creative Crisis?

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/has-cosmology-run-into-a-creative-crisis/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Ruby: The Last Eight Years

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2350703

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

The Anglican Probabilistic Programming System

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~fwood/anglican/index.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

More Lenovo woes: security flaws, website clerical errors, maybe layoffs

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2920983/malware-vulnerabilities/more-lenovo-woes-3-security-flaws-website-clerical-errors-maybe-layoffs.html#tk.rss_all

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 45 comments

How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002)

http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 6 comments

“U Tr?”: Abbreviations Used by Early-20th-Century Telegraph Operators

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/05/11/history_of_telegraph_operators_abbreviations_used_by_telegraphers.html?wpsrc=fol_tw

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Knight Foundation invests $1M in podcast collective Radiotopia

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/05/knight-foundation-invests-1-million-in-creator-driven-podcast-collective-radiotopia/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments
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