top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-25

Unhappy Birthday

http://www.unhappybirthday.com/

11 years ago

479 upvotes – 172 comments

EU dropped plans for safer pesticides because of TTIP and pressure from US

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/05/eu-dropped-plans-for-safer-pesticides-because-of-ttip-and-pressure-from-us/

11 years ago

428 upvotes – 143 comments

JavaScript GameBoy Advance Emulator

http://jsemu.github.io/gba/

11 years ago

323 upvotes – 52 comments

BingoCardCreator.com Sale Page

http://feinternational.com/buy-a-website/3745-software-business-in-education-niche-25k-gross-mo

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 191 comments

How to name things in programming

http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/pirhilton/how-to-name-things-the-hardest-problem-in-programming

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 171 comments

Nom, a byte oriented, streaming, zero copy, parser combinators library in Rust [pdf]

http://spw15.langsec.org/papers/couprie-nom.pdf

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 28 comments

How to Install Ubuntu Linux on your Dell PC

http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/SLN151664/en

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 122 comments

Ricochet: An encrypted, anonymous IM client built on Tor hidden services

https://ricochet.im/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 56 comments

Metascala – A JVM written in Scala

https://github.com/lihaoyi/Metascala

11 years ago

★ 1.1k Scala
139 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Typedetail.com – featuring Apple's new typeface San Francisco

http://typedetail.com/san-francisco.html

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 76 comments

Mozilla overhauls Firefox smartphone plan to focus on quality, not cost

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/mozilla-overhauls-firefox-smartphone-plan-to-focus-on-quality-not-cost/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 112 comments

Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Gentle Introduction – Part II

http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/23/elliptic-curve-cryptography-finite-fields-and-discrete-logarithms

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 11 comments

World without end

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/world-without-end-raffi-khatchadourian

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

New C++ experimental feature: The tadpole operators

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/05/25/10616865.aspx

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 62 comments

1 second per second is harder than it sounds (2014)

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2014/06/14/time/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Compass that points you to a photo's EXIF location

http://www.getphotofind.com/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 47 comments

What Comes After MVC

https://push.cx/2015/railsconf

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 40 comments

Critical fix for a potential data corruption issue in PostgreSQL 9.3 and 9.4

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1587/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 2 comments

TLA+

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 21 comments

Rust traits for developer friendly libraries

http://benashford.github.io/blog/2015/05/24/rust-traits-for-developer-friendly-libraries/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Why is it so hard to find remote jobs in Europe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9599292

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 93 comments

Why are more than 10M homes vacant in India?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-32644293

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 62 comments

Chomsky on the current media landscape

http://www.alternet.org/media/noam-chomsky-why-internet-hasnt-freed-our-minds-propaganda-continues-dominate

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 5 comments

500 years ago, a German abbot wrote a book on communication with spirits (1998)

http://cryptome.org/jya/tri-crack.htm

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 13 comments

Uber Closes in on Its Last Frontier: Airports

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/business/uber-closes-in-on-its-last-frontier-airports.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 77 comments

Privacy Behaviors After Snowden

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/5/186025-privacy-behaviors-after-snowden/fulltext

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

Infection inflicts a persistent decrease in IQ: study with 180,000 participants

http://www.brainprotips.com/infection-inflicts-a-persistent-decrease-in-iq-a-danish-study-with-180000-participants/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 60 comments

Interpreter, Compiler, JIT

https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2015/05/25/interpreter-compiler-jit/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 38 comments

Apple Names Jony Ive Chief Design Officer

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/25/apple-names-jony-ive-chief-design-officer/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 83 comments

How to Make an Open Plan Office Suck Less

http://www.mattblodgett.com/2015/05/open-plan-office-suck-less.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 45 comments

Understanding Elm

http://www.srid.ca/posts/2015-05-24-understanding-elm.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Philip Zimmermann's fears for privacy

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/25/philip-zimmermann-king-encryption-reveals-fears-privacy

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

Here’s how much of your life the United States has been at war

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/05/18/heres-how-much-of-your-life-the-united-states-has-been-at-war/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 89 comments

Snapshot Compression

http://gafferongames.com/networked-physics/snapshot-compression/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 2 comments

A distributed supercomputer using Parallella boards

http://supercomputer.io/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 44 comments

Nirvana Engine for ZX Spectrum (2013)

http://irrlichtproject.blogspot.com/2013/11/bye-bye-8x8-color-grid-nirvana-engine.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

Relicensing Dolphin: The long road to GPLv2+

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2015/05/25/relicensing-dolphin/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 67 comments

An Apple ][ Emulator in JavaScript

https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 10 comments

Why are there few courses in Soviet literature at American universities? (2014)

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07/03/thawing-out/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 53 comments

Charter Said to Be Near Deal to Buy Time Warner Cable

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/business/dealbook/charter-time-warner-cable-deal.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Spanish election results – D3 newsapp

http://resultados24m.elespanol.com/app/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

The Arbitrary Logo

http://blog.arbitrary.io/the-arbitrary-logo/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 32 comments

My experience of using NixOps as an Ansible user

https://blog.wearewizards.io/my-experience-of-using-nixops-as-an-ansible-user

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

The Pmarca Guide to Startups (2007)

http://pmarchive.com/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

Vitesse X – A PostgreSQL extension module for faster queries

http://www.vitessedata.com/vitesse-x

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

MobaXterm free Xserver and tabbed SSH client for Windows

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Reasons to use dot graphs

http://www.maartenlambrechts.be/to-the-point-7-reasons-you-should-use-dot-graphs/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Vietnam 40 years on: how a communist victory gave way to capitalist corruption

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/22/vietnam-40-years-on-how-communist-victory-gave-way-to-capitalist-corruption

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 23 comments

General Motors Is Set to Face Criminal Charges Over Ignition Switches

http://www.wsj.com/articles/gm-is-set-to-face-criminal-charges-over-ignition-switches-1432393035

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 36 comments

Balancing Multiplayer Competitive Games (2009) [pdf]

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50f14d35e4b0d70ab5fc4f24/t/53ef1dbae4b0a6d424125a6f/1408179642248/GDC+2009+sirlin+handout6.pdf

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 30 comments

CAP Theorem: if all you have is a timeout, everything looks like a partition

http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/05/CAP-theorem-partition-timeout-zookeeper.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Parse and output TODOs and FIXMEs from comments in your files

https://github.com/pgilad/leasot

11 years ago

★ 818 TypeScript MIT
49 upvotes – 43 comments

Sony Terms with Spotify Uncovered in Contract

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/business/media/sony-terms-with-spotify-uncovered-in-contract.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 31 comments

Time and time correction in Erlang

http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/time_correction.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 2 comments

When Stephen Fry Met Jony Ive

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/11628710/When-Stephen-Fry-met-Jony-Ive-the-self-confessed-fanboi-meets-Apples-newly-promoted-chief-design-officer.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 21 comments
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