top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-19

Get Your Shit Together

http://getyourshittogether.org/

11 years ago

635 upvotes – 144 comments

Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/internetorg-not-neutral-not-secure-and-not-internet

11 years ago

633 upvotes – 161 comments

Popcorn Time in Your Browser

http://popcorninyourbrowser.net

11 years ago

349 upvotes – 254 comments

RadioShack Sold Consumer Data to Pay Off Its Debts

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/05/18/ftc_radioshack_consumer_privacy_letter_court_should_protect_people_s_data.html

11 years ago

299 upvotes – 147 comments

Meteor Raises $20M

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/19/meteor-raises-20m-to-build-the-one-javascript-stack-to-rule-them-all

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 155 comments

WooThemes joins Automattic

http://www.woothemes.com/2015/05/woothemes-joins-automattic/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 151 comments

Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire?

http://www.damninteresting.com/who-wants-to-be-a-thousandaire/

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 114 comments

Just Don't Hire 0x Engineers

http://zachholman.com/posts/0x-engineers/

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 168 comments

Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/six-men-spent-520-days-locked-in-a-room-to-see-if-we-could-live-on-mars

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 130 comments

I Want Your AOL CDs

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4624

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 52 comments

Browser Monitoring for GitHub.com

http://githubengineering.com/browser-monitoring-for-github-com/

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 25 comments

Look Before You Leap – The Coming Leap Second and AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/look-before-you-leap-the-coming-leap-second-and-aws/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 65 comments

A Curious Property of 82000

https://plus.google.com/101584889282878921052/posts/Fni6x2TTeaS

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 44 comments

Clear Linux Project

https://clearlinux.org

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 56 comments

Asmttpd – Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly

https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd

11 years ago

★ 3.1k Assembly GPL-2.0
159 upvotes – 95 comments

Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent

https://instant.io/#c6642b73cf82dc52b5d538fabfdf9c8e3d9e850f

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Am I missing out by not being in sillicon valley?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9572288

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 167 comments

Ask HN: How do I get my first contracting client?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9568989

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 92 comments

Pragmatic Bare Metal Rust

http://www.hashmismatch.net/2015/05/18/pragmatic-bare-metal-rust.html

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 33 comments

Sprite: a different drone

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ascentaerosystems/sprite-the-portable-rugged-totally-different-small

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 107 comments

A400M Airbus Flier crashed because of software issues

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/airbus-a400m-militaermaschine-stuerzte-wegen-software-problemen-ab-a-1034421.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 122 comments

Teen invents a system to keep germs from spreading on airplanes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/05/15/meet-the-teen-who-just-won-75000-for-inventing-a-system-to-keep-germs-from-spreading-on-airplanes/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 96 comments

Coinado – Cloud torrenting for command line fans

https://coinado.io/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 24 comments

Build Apps for Cars on the New Automatic Developer Platform

https://developer.automatic.com/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

How to Write with Style (1985)

http://peterstekel.com/PDF-HTML/Kurt%20Vonnegut%20advice%20to%20writers.htm

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 17 comments

Apache Drill 1.0 – Schema-Free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop and NoSQL

http://drill.apache.org/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 30 comments

CoreOS and the the Future of the Internet

https://www.packet.net/blog/coreos-and-the-the-future-of-the-internet/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 45 comments

Letters of an Army doctor who helped free the Dachau concentration camp in 1945

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121779/liberator-never-free

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 42 comments

The Sound of TED: A Case for Distaste

http://theamericanreader.com/the-sound-of-ted-a-case-for-distaste/

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 71 comments

Source Code in TV and Films

http://moviecode.tumblr.com/?og=1

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 28 comments

“Profession” (1957)

http://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 22 comments

Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150519-will-computers-redefine-the-roots-of-math/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 50 comments

H2O – an optimized HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2

https://github.com/h2o/h2o

11 years ago

★ 11.4k C MIT
104 upvotes – 12 comments

$34 Smartphone Part II – Teardown

http://projectgus.com/2015/05/34-dollar-smartphone-part-ii-teardown/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

E. W. Dijkstra Archive: “Why is software so expensive?” (2009)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD648.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 63 comments

Chinese Men Indicted in Theft of Code from U.S. Tech Companies

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/technology/6-chinese-men-indicted-in-theft-of-code-from-us-tech-companies.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 73 comments

When You Should Quit a Startup Job

http://rogerhuang.co/when-you-should-quit-a-startup-job/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 55 comments

Why We Age

http://mitchkirby.com/2015/05/19/why-we-age/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 36 comments

Apple Releases new MacBook Pros with Force Touch Trackpad

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 125 comments

JSON Support in SQL Server 2016

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jocapc/archive/2015/05/16/json-support-in-sql-server-2016.aspx

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 41 comments

Processing Billion-Node Graphs on an Array of Commodity SSDs

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/5/19/paper-flashgraph-processing-billion-node-graphs-on-an-array.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 6 comments

How to manipulate standards

https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html#bernstein

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 11 comments

Stripe enters Asia with Japan beta launch

https://www.techinasia.com/stripe-japan-private-beta-launch/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

AMD's high-bandwidth memory explained

http://techreport.com/review/28294/amd-high-bandwidth-memory-explained

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

Ada 2012: A New Language for Safe and Secure Software (2012)

http://cotsjournalonline.com/articles/view/102810

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 42 comments

New study suggests people use “constructive noncompliance” to enact change

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/citizens-disobey-enact-change-0519

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

A simple UI framework for Rust

https://github.com/cybergeek94/kiss-ui

11 years ago

★ 344 Rust MIT
69 upvotes – 31 comments

Ira Glass: Public radio can capitalize on its popularity without selling out

http://current.org/2015/05/ira-glass-public-radio-can-capitalize-on-its-popularity-without-selling-out-its-mission/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 53 comments

PyCruise 2016

http://www.pycruise.com/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 49 comments

Gallery of Concept Visualization

http://conceptviz.github.io/#/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 3 comments

Iowa Spent $50M to Lure IBM. Then the Firings Started

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-19/iowa-spent-50-million-to-lure-ibm-then-the-firings-started

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 69 comments

The Transition to Ember 2.0 in Detail

http://emberjs.com/blog/2015/05/10/run-up-to-two-oh.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

Microsoft Band SDK Release and Band Studio Introduction

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Microsoft-Band-SDK-Release-and-Band-Studio-Introduction

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

Domain-Specific Languages vs. Notation

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/05/19/domain-specific-vs-notation/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 46 comments

Europe Is Struggling to Foster a Startup Culture

http://on.wsj.com/1FvEGtI

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 86 comments

How Symantec upsells Internet Explorer 5 SSL support in 2015

https://certsimple.com/blog/sgc-ssl-certificates

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

GitHub's Engineering Blog

http://githubengineering.com/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Apple Debuts New 15-Inch MacBook Pro and $1,999 27-Inch Retina iMac

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/19/apple-debuts-new-15-inch-macbook-pro-with-force-touch-and-1999-27-inch-retina-imac/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 54 comments

Uber Tests 30% Fee, Its Highest Yet

http://on.wsj.com/1EU9lu5

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 75 comments

My Ukraine

http://www.brookings.edu/research/essays/2015/myukraine

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 69 comments

UTC might be redefined without Leap Seconds

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 50 comments

A DSL with a View

http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-dsl-with-view.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Babel Matters

http://codemix.com/blog/why-babel-matters

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 28 comments

Alan Turing: The Applications of Probability to Cryptography [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.04714v1.pdf

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 3 comments

IPsec Vulnerabilities and Software Security Prediction

https://www.altsci.com/ipsec/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 40 comments

Man’s Claims of Hacking Plane Discredited by Law Enforcement

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-18/hacker-claims-of-plane-takeover-aren-t-credible-official-says

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 24 comments

Tone: An experimental Chrome extension for instant sharing over audio

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/05/tone-experimental-chrome-extension-for.html

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 14 comments
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