top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-26

Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/05/web_vs_native_l.html

11 years ago

605 upvotes – 505 comments

Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/05/roboto-googles-signature-font-is-now.html

11 years ago

362 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: An Isomorphic JavaScript Framework Faster Than React

http://jsblocks.com

11 years ago

337 upvotes – 253 comments

The mystery of the power bank phone taking over Ghana

http://qz.com/411330/the-mystery-of-the-power-bank-phone-taking-over-ghana/

11 years ago

326 upvotes – 122 comments

Why PowerPoint should be banned

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/26/powerpoint-should-be-banned-this-powerpoint-presentation-explains-why/?tid=pm_pop_b

11 years ago

284 upvotes – 207 comments

Yagni

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Yagni.html

11 years ago

271 upvotes – 178 comments

The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150525-a-black-hole-would-clone-you

11 years ago

261 upvotes – 157 comments

Why investors don’t fund dating

http://andrewchen.co/why-investors-dont-fund-dating/

11 years ago

232 upvotes – 185 comments

Vox Media Acquiring ReCode

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/business/media/vox-media-acquiring-recode.html?smid=tw-share

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 75 comments

The Backing Up of the Internet Archive Continues

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4636

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 65 comments

Why do people waste so much time at work?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32829232

11 years ago

162 upvotes – 214 comments

Microsoft’s Cortana Headed to iPhone and Android Phones

http://blogs.wsj.com/personal-technology/2015/05/26/microsofts-cortana-headed-to-iphone-and-android-phones/?mod=WSJ_TechWSJD_NeedToKnow

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 67 comments

Hyperloop Gets Test Track in California

http://news.yahoo.com/ultra-fast-hyperloop-train-gets-test-track-california-130857490.html

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 109 comments

IRS says thieves stole tax info from 100,000

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/apnewsbreak-irs-says-thieves-stole-tax-info-from-100000/2015/05/26/ca17bcbc-03e2-11e5-93f4-f24d4af7f97d_story.html

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 97 comments

Mr. Rogers Introduces Kids to Experimental Electronic Music (1968)

http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/mr-rogers-introduces-kids-to-experimental-electronic-music.html

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 26 comments

Vibrant.js: Extract prominent colors from an image

https://jariz.github.io/vibrant.js/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 21 comments

My first job burnout

http://niki.zone/personal/my-first-job-burnout/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 90 comments

Turn any part of your screen into a playable level of Super Mario Bros

http://aaronrandall.com/blog/screentendo/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 28 comments

Emmy Noether changed the course of physics

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/the-female-mathematician-who-changed-the-course-of-physics-but-couldnt-get-a-job/1/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 31 comments

Fedora 22 released

http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-22-released/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 88 comments

Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software (2012)

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: IPC between multiple Java processes/JVMs with nanosecond latency

http://mappedbus.io

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 41 comments

John and Alicia Nash, 1928,1933-2015

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/john-and-alicia-nash-19281933-2015/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 13 comments

"Freelance" Spies In NYC Are Publishing Private Conversations

http://gothamist.com/2015/05/24/pro_bono_nsa_agents_are_listening_t.php

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

Macros in Python: quasiquotes, case classes, LINQ and more

https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy

11 years ago

★ 3.3k TSQL
93 upvotes – 18 comments

Woz on Snowden: "Total hero to me; total hero"

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/steve-wozniak-us-would-look-like-dubai-if-it-didn-t-spend-all-its-money-on-military--593703.html#.VWQXZ89VhBe

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 15 comments

How to Write Unmaintainable Code – Naming

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmainnaming.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

Your Instagram photos aren’t really yours: Someone else can sell them for $90k

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/05/25/a-reminder-that-your-instagram-photos-arent-really-yours-someone-else-can-sell-them-for-90000/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 46 comments

Why the Battle of Waterloo was fought

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/we-better-off-napoleon-never-lost-waterloo-180955298/?no-ist

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 31 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Character-Level Language Models

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/yoavg/d76121dfde2618422139

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Software developers, What happened when you were fired/laid off?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9605870

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 86 comments

Obama and Rand Paul Face Off Over the Patriot Act

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/05/26/267822/obama-and-rand-paul-face-off-over.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 108 comments

Haskell Programming

http://haskellbook.com/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Geeknet to be acquired by Hot Topic

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/geeknet-to-be-acquired-by-hot-topic-for-1750shr--quick-facts-20150526-00216

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 47 comments

One year with the Truly Ergonomic keyboard

http://blog.thecybershadow.net/2015/05/25/one-year-with-the-truly-ergonomic-keyboard/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 96 comments

Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices

https://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/05/26/your-windows-10-pc-will-love-all-the-devices-you-own/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 67 comments

Deutsche Bank Ignored Its CDS Problems Until They Went Away

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-26/deutsche-bank-ignored-its-cds-problems-until-they-went-away

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 51 comments

A major milestone has been reached in our Brain Preservation Prize

http://blog.brainpreservation.org/2015/05/26/may-2015-bpf-prize-update/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 57 comments

Light-Years of DNA

http://calculatedimages.blogspot.com/2015/04/light-years-of-dna.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 17 comments

The Globe in 3D

http://www.vricon.com/home/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Tock, a Time Tracking Tool by 18F

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/05/21/TockingTime/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 35 comments

Manipulate Clojure source code like the DOM

https://github.com/zcaudate/jai

11 years ago

★ 102 Clojure
61 upvotes – 6 comments

Things We Got Wrong in Fintech

https://www.regalii.com/blog/5-things-we-got-wrong-in-fintech

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Libor trial

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32879690

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Send more money (in Perl 6)

http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/send-more-money-in-perl6

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Smart, Connected Sit-To-Stand Desk from $299

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403524037/autonomous-desk-the-smartest-office-desk-yet-power

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 0 comments

Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999

http://andrewchen.co/mobile-app-startups-are-failing-like-its-1999/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 52 comments

The oldest person in the world never holds that title for very long

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-oldest-person-in-the-world-keeps-dying/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 52 comments

Maze Generator and Solver

http://golubitsky.github.io/maze_solver/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 41 comments

Superbad

http://superbad.com/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 19 comments

Announcing the Acquisition of Surreal Vision

https://www.oculus.com/blog/announcing-the-acquisition-of-surreal-vision/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 35 comments

Tetris Written in Go

http://www.jjinux.com/2015/05/tetris-written-in-go.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

Tracking Human Mobility using WiFi signals

http://sunelehmann.com/2015/05/26/tracking-human-mobility-using-wifi-signals/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments

Little Lisp interpreter

https://www.recurse.com/blog/21-little-lisp-interpreter

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

So, you need a statistically significant sample?

http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/05/26/significant-sample/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to build self-driving cars

http://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/5/19/8622831/uber-self-driving-cars-carnegie-mellon-poached

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 55 comments

The C++ tadpole operators explained

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/05/26/10617079.aspx

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments

A Game of Clones: Video Game Litigation Illustrated

http://adlervermillion.com/copyright-illustrated-video-game-clones/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments

Replicating Art with JS

http://jsart.co/11/replicating-art-with-js/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

Game systems integration

http://www.bonsai7.dk/game-systems-integration.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 17 comments

Greaseless ball bearings: A revolutionary spin

http://www.gizmag.com/greaseless-ball-bearings-coo-space-adb/37689/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 15 comments
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