top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-28

The Hacker Shelf: Collection of free books for the intellectually curious

http://hackershelf.com/browse/?popular=1

11 years ago

483 upvotes – 98 comments

Jump – Experiences like you're actually there

http://www.google.com/get/cardboard/jump/

11 years ago

445 upvotes – 191 comments

Why I Sold My Company and Didn't Tell Anyone for a Year

http://amitgupta.com/something-happened

11 years ago

363 upvotes – 63 comments

Amazon launches same day delivery for Prime customers

http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=br_imp_ara-1?_encoding=UTF8&node=8729023011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-hero-A&pf_rd_r=17G0FQ73T3JJQA2N0T74&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2097006022&pf_rd_i=desktop

11 years ago

318 upvotes – 240 comments

When will we stop using Facebook?

http://www.thepinchandzoom.com/blog/2015/5/14/facebook-stop

11 years ago

305 upvotes – 243 comments

Google Design

http://www.google.com/design/#

11 years ago

293 upvotes – 188 comments

Accounting for Developers

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HDLRa6vKpclO1JtxbGB5NeAYWf8cf1UMGy22o8OZZq4

11 years ago

285 upvotes – 126 comments

How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010)

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil

11 years ago

261 upvotes – 154 comments

Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/consciousness-began-when-the-gods-stopped-speaking

11 years ago

241 upvotes – 236 comments

GIMP-Win project wasn’t hijacked, just abandoned

https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned/

11 years ago

228 upvotes – 201 comments

Submit.co – Where to get press coverage for your startup

http://submit.co

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 37 comments

Android M Developer Preview and Tools

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/05/android-m-developer-preview-tools.html

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 151 comments

Avago to buy Broadcom for $37B in biggest-ever chip deal

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/28/us-broadcom-m-a-avago-idUSKBN0OD18120150528

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 89 comments

Go 1.5 max procs default

https://golang.org/s/go15gomaxprocs

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 140 comments

You Draw It: How Family Income Affects College Chances

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/28/upshot/you-draw-it-how-family-income-affects-childrens-college-chances.html

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 94 comments

Stanford engineers' breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers

http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-engineers-breakthrough-heralds-super-efficient-light-based-computers

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 44 comments

Why Should We Support the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income?

https://medium.com/working-life/why-should-we-support-the-idea-of-an-unconditional-basic-income-8a2680c73dd3

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 203 comments

Android Pay is coming

https://stripe.com/android-pay

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 46 comments

Beej's Guide to Unix IPC (2010)

http://beej.us/guide/bgipc/output/html/multipage/index.html

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 31 comments

The Fallen of World War II – An Interactive, Data-Driven Documentary

http://www.fallen.io/ww2/

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 40 comments

Google I/O 2015 – Keynote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V-fIGMDsmE&feature=youtu.be

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 119 comments

ES6 in Depth: Destructuring

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/05/es6-in-depth-destructuring/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 96 comments

Optimizing Python – A Case Study

https://www.airpair.com/python/posts/optimizing-python-code

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 43 comments

Data furnaces arrive in Europe: Free heating, if you have fibre Internet

http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/05/data-furnaces-arrive-in-europe-free-heating-if-you-have-fibre-internet/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 72 comments

Calculus for mathematicians (1997) [pdf]

http://cr.yp.to/papers/calculus.pdf

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 86 comments

The Mary Meeker Internet Trends 2015 Report

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/27/the-mary-meeker-internet-trends-2015-report/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 40 comments

Docker Bench for Security

https://github.com/diogomonica/docker-bench-security

11 years ago

★ 22 Shell Apache-2.0
98 upvotes – 8 comments

Harry Potter in Ancient Greek

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/harry_potter.htm

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: Those who hired bootcamp graduates, would you hire them again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9616691

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Me API – turn yourself into an open API

https://github.com/danfang/me-api

11 years ago

★ 839 JavaScript MIT
91 upvotes – 29 comments

AdBlock Plus wins in court

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32903235

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 112 comments

Unsafe Rust: An Intro and Open Questions

http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/rust-unsafe-intro/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments

Cssnext: use tomorrow’s CSS syntax, today

http://cssnext.io/

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Will Launch Google Photos, a Photo Host With “Unlimited Storage”

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/28/confirmed-google-will-launch-google-photos-a-standalone-photo-host-with-unlimited-storage/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 87 comments

Restarting the LHC: Why 13 Tev?

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/engineering/restarting-lhc-why-13-tev

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 27 comments

Three Years of Logging My Inbox Count

http://warkmilson.com/2015/05/15/three-years-of-logging-my-inbox-count.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

Radio hams do battle with 'Russian Woodpecker' (1982)

http://www.qsl.net/n1irz/woodpeck.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

Thinking of using Stripe for your startup? Think again

https://ultimatemember.com/startups-avoid-stripe/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

Using JSON Web Tokens to Authenticate JavaScript Front-Ends on Rails

http://zacstewart.com/2015/05/14/using-json-web-tokens-to-authenticate-javascript-front-ends-on-rails.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

VerneMQ – An Erlang powered MQTT message broker for the IoT

https://verne.mq

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 13 comments

The Truth about SSD Data Retention

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retention

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 17 comments

Git-hub – Do GitHub operations from the git command

https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-hub

11 years ago

★ 791 Shell MIT
71 upvotes – 23 comments

I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

InfraRuby 3.7 – Compiler and runtime for statically-typed Ruby

http://infraruby.com/blog/infraruby-3-7-released

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Recalll – Search Engine for programmers and developers

https://recalll.co/app/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 39 comments

The Great Decoupling

http://avc.com/2015/05/the-great-decoupling

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 66 comments

Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Government Raid

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-affaires-criminelles/actualites-judiciaires/201505/26/01-4872822-saisie-chez-uber-des-donnees-auraient-ete-modifiees-a-distance.php

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 41 comments

Worker-owned tech cooperatives find a niche near Silicon Valley

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/5/26/worker-owned-tech-cooperatives-find-a-niche-near-silicon-valley.html?

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 43 comments

Hub Git Wrapper

https://github.com/github/hub

11 years ago

★ 22.9k Go MIT
63 upvotes – 21 comments

Being a Better Online Reader

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/being-a-better-online-reader

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

The Triumph and Failure of John Nash’s Game Theory

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/the-triumph-and-failure-of-john-nashs-game-theory

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 14 comments

Polymer 1.0

https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 18 comments

My Experience in Tech and Its Reflection on Women in Tech in India

http://www.minvolai.com/blog/2015/05/My-Experience-in-Tech-and-its-reflection-on-Women-in-Tech-in-India/2015-5-21-My-Experience-in-Tech/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 46 comments

Eden (YC S15) Launches to Offer On-Demand Electronics Repair and Installation

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/28/yc-backed-eden-launches-to-offer-on-demand-electronics-repair-and-installation/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments

Jawbone Accuses Fitbit of Stealing Information by Hiring Workers Away

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/business/dealbook/jawbone-sues-fitbit-over-data-plundering-by-ex-employees.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 42 comments

Ford follows Tesla’s lead and opens all their electric vehicle patents

http://electrek.co/2015/05/28/ford-follow-teslas-lead-and-open-all-their-electric-vehicles-patents/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

The Grand Illusion: Why consciousness exists only when you look for it (2002)

http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/journalism/ns02.htm

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 45 comments

Interview with Casey Muratori

http://blog.fogcreek.com/dev-life-interview-with-casey-muratori/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

The Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age (2007)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/business/15gilded.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

BeeWare – The IDEs of Python

http://pybee.org/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 28 comments

Your Brain Can’t Handle the Moon

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/your-brain-cant-handle-the-moon-rp

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 22 comments

The Newspeak Programming Language

http://www.newspeaklanguage.org/home

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 14 comments
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