top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-14

Show HN: Twenty

http://twenty.frenchguys.net

11 years ago

666 upvotes – 167 comments

Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-elon-musk-spacex/

11 years ago

503 upvotes – 176 comments

Microsoft TouchDevelop

https://github.com/Microsoft/TouchDevelop

11 years ago

★ 1.3k TypeScript
500 upvotes – 71 comments

My Dad Tried to Kill Me with an Alligator

http://www.outsideonline.com/1979226/once-more-lakemonster

11 years ago

345 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: How do I put together a computer for my blind mom?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546311

11 years ago

339 upvotes – 78 comments

In Flight

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/14/opinion/14-in-flight-mark-vanhoenacker.html

11 years ago

318 upvotes – 77 comments

A Taste of Rust

http://www.evanmiller.org/a-taste-of-rust.html

11 years ago

235 upvotes – 80 comments

RFC 7540 – HTTP2

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7540.txt

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 52 comments

Hyperlapse makes first-person videos smooth and speedy

http://news.microsoft.com/features/microsoft-hyperlapse-makes-first-person-videos-smooth-and-speedy/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 65 comments

How is Javascript used within the Spotify desktop application?

http://www.quora.com/How-is-Javascript-used-within-the-Spotify-desktop-application/answer/Mattias-Petter-Johansson?share=1

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 96 comments

Error handling in Rust

http://blog.burntsushi.net/rust-error-handling/

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 139 comments

Visual Rust 0.1 is out

http://blog.piston.rs/2015/05/14/Visual-Rust-0.1/

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 52 comments

Wego: a weather app for the terminal

https://github.com/schachmat/wego/

11 years ago

★ 8.4k Go ISC
153 upvotes – 37 comments

GoPro's CEO honors a costly promise

http://fortune.com/2015/05/14/gopro-ceo-woodman-promise/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac

http://monodraw.com

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 53 comments

Meet: Fast way to schedule a one-to-one on the go

http://blog.sunrise.am/post/118691977104/introducing-meet-the-fastest-way-to-schedule-a

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 35 comments

Why your 'A' grade SSL is 'outdated cryptography' on Chrome

https://certsimple.com/blog/chrome-outdated-cryptography

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 83 comments

Anatomy of Error: A surgeon remembers his mistakes

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/anatomy-of-error

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Realtime Server-Sent Events in Go

http://sse.getgin.io

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 37 comments

Perfect Security

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/perfect-security/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

Do you really know why you prefer REST over RPC?

http://apihandyman.io/do-you-really-know-why-you-prefer-rest-over-rpc/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 118 comments

Housing.com CEO gives his entire stake to employees

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Housing-com-CEO-Rahul-Yadav-gives-away-his-entire-stake-worth-Rs-200-crore-to-employees/articleshow/47272859.cms?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=TOI

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: I just got $100k in AWS credits, how should I use it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546609

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 156 comments

Top Design Flaws in the Human Body: Our bodies are full of hack solutions

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/top-10-design-flaws-in-the-human-body

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 97 comments

The Machine Stops

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

Hacking java bytecode

http://cory.li/bytecode-hacking/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

https://www.snappymob.com/blog/2015-05-14-akepa-has-landed/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 85 comments

Mathematical Theory of Claude Shannon (2001) [pdf]

http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2001/Shannon1.pdf

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 2 comments

A book on the persistence of elites is an unexpected guide to getting a good job

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21651207-book-persistence-elites-unexpected-guide-getting-good-job-how-join

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 63 comments

The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 2: The Fall

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-2/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 44 comments

Scientists have discovered a warm-blooded fish

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/05/14/scientists-have-discovered-the-first-warm-blooded-fish/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 7 comments

Information Geometry

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/information/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 20 comments

Ambitious teenagers are flooding into San Francisco

https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-06-07/real-teenagers-silicon-valley

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 75 comments

Bureaucracy Isn’t Inevitable – How Airbnb Beat It

http://firstround.com/review/bureaucracy-isnt-inevitable-heres-how-airbnb-beat-it/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 16 comments

The Kinetic Wood Sculptor

http://priceonomics.com/the-kinetic-wood-sculptor/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 4 comments

Grade Inflation at American Colleges and Universities

http://www.gradeinflation.com/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 99 comments

Pycket: A Tracing JIT for a Functional Language

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5152

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

A 2-Minute Walk May Counter the Harms of Sitting

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/a-2-minute-walk-may-counter-the-harms-of-sitting/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 36 comments

Against the definition of types

http://tomasp.net/blog/2015/against-types/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

The Data That Threatened to Break Physics

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/the-data-that-threatened-to-break-physics

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 4 comments

Rspamd – Fast, free and open-source spam filtering system

https://rspamd.com

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

A Week of Mining Seattle’s Craigslist Apartment Pricing

https://racketracer.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/a-week-of-seattles-craigslist-apartment-pricing/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Why I’m breaking up with Google Chrome

http://thenextweb.com/opinion/2015/05/14/why-im-breaking-up-with-google-chrome/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 99 comments

Mark Twain's Friendship with Hellen Keller

http://www.openculture.com/2015/05/mark-twain-helen-kellers-special-friendship.html

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 1 comments

How I found glaring errors in Einstein's calculations (2009)

http://www.cognitionandculture.net/home/blog/35-pascals-blog/435-how-i-found-glaring-errors-in-einsteins-calculations

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 94 comments

Bing Webmaster Tools does not support HTTPS SNI

https://github.com/tkrotoff/osteo15.com/issues/16

11 years ago

★ 4 HTML
54 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Why don't websites have 'text only' backup versions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9544259

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 59 comments

Please help my country Nepal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545793

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments

Inside the D-Wave Fridge [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfxNdBTH8wY

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 14 comments

Eve: the dev diary of a programming environment aimed at non-programmers

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5156

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 27 comments

Manual Memory Management in Go

https://deferpanic.com/blog/manual-memory-management-in-go/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

A Sharp Spike in Honeybee Deaths Deepens a Worrisome Trend

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/us/honeybees-mysterious-die-off-appears-to-worsen.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 29 comments

BPF – In-kernel virtual machine [pdf]

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/bpf_collabsummit_2015feb20.pdf

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Watermark.js – Functional ES6 lib for watermarking in the browser

http://brianium.github.io/watermarkjs/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 26 comments

GNU Guix 0.8.2 released

https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8273

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

Google's Corporate Login

https://login.corp.google.com/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 29 comments

How to Find, Hire, and Retain Developers – Interview with Cal Evans

http://blog.fogcreek.com/how-to-find-hire-and-retain-developers-interview-with-cal-evans/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 47 comments
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