top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-29

GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub

http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github/

11 years ago

1038 upvotes – 169 comments

Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/nyregion/ross-ulbricht-creator-of-silk-road-website-is-sentenced-to-life-in-prison.html

11 years ago

623 upvotes – 609 comments

Project Jacquard

https://www.google.com/atap/project-jacquard/

11 years ago

531 upvotes – 153 comments

MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luhn7TLfWU

11 years ago

506 upvotes – 206 comments

Goodbye, Sourceforge

http://helb.github.io/goodbye-sourceforge/

11 years ago

459 upvotes – 155 comments

Antimony – A fresh look at CAD software

http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/

11 years ago

357 upvotes – 119 comments

Google’s Project Vault Is a Computing Environment on a Micro SD Card

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/29/googles-project-vault-is-a-secure-computing-environment-on-a-micro-sd-card-for-any-platform/

11 years ago

249 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool

https://percy.io/

11 years ago

249 upvotes – 52 comments

A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan

http://luckypeach.com/a-guide-to-the-regional-ramen-of-japan/

11 years ago

239 upvotes – 81 comments

Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg/

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 122 comments

Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary

http://mario30.nintendo.co.uk/

11 years ago

206 upvotes – 112 comments

Why firewalls won’t matter in a few years

http://etherealmind.com/why-firewalls-wont-matter-in-a-few-years/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 131 comments

My Title IX Inquisition

http://chronicle.com/article/My-Title-IX-Inquisition/230489/?key=S25xdAJqZHweM35rZm0VNzsAPSY8Mkl5MHpPaipybltcGQ==

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 106 comments

UDP and me

http://www.reed.com/blog-dpr/?page_id=6

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 35 comments

Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Does Cool Stuff, Dissolves into Nothing

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/origami-robot-folds-itself-up-does-cool-stuff-dissolves-into-nothing

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 29 comments

RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor

https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

11 years ago

★ 45.2k TypeScript
155 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Startup Jobs for Developers

https://startupdeveloperjobs.com

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 45 comments

Dear AirBNB, No Thank You for the XXX Freak Fest

http://dearairbnb.tumblr.com/post/120063930038/i-am-homeless-because-of-airbnbs-xxx-freak-fest

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 140 comments

Hyper – Hypervisor-agnostic Docker engine

https://hyper.sh/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 78 comments

Vinod Khosla: I believe 70% of VCs reduce the potential of a company

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/vinod-khosla-be-wary-stupid-advice

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 94 comments

How Math's Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/how-maths-most-famous-proof-nearly-broke

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

Creationism Banned from Science Classes by Scottish Government

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/creationism-banned-science-classes-scottish-government

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 112 comments

Shutting Down a Service with 500M Requests per Month

http://danielamitay.com/blog/2015/5/29/shutting-down-a-500mm-requestsmonth-api

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 57 comments

TremulaJS

http://garris.github.io/TremulaJS/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 54 comments

The Supercomputer In Your Pocket: Metal and Swift

https://realm.io/news/swift-summit-simon-gladman-metal/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 37 comments

Mail-in-a-Box Security Guide

https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/blob/master/security.md

11 years ago

★ 15.2k Python CC0-1.0
97 upvotes – 39 comments

Maud: a fast, safe template engine for Rust

http://lfairy.gitbooks.io/maud/content/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 15 comments

How to learn 30 languages

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150528-how-to-learn-30-languages

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 51 comments

U.S. GDP Shrank in Q1 2015

http://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2015/05/29/why-u-s-gdp-shrank-at-a-glance/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 202 comments

Haskell Communities and Activities Report, May 2015

https://www.haskell.org/communities/05-2015/html/report.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

Scaling Wix to 60M Users – From Monolith to Microservices

http://stackshare.io/wix/scaling-wix-to-60m-users---from-monolith-to-microservices

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 24 comments

A one-of-a-kind trove reveals what rural 19th-century American boyhood was like

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015/05/nelson_archive_at_amherst_a_one_of_a_kind_trove_reveals_what_rural_19th.single.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 5 comments

Esperanto is finding new life online

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/29/8672371/learn-esperanto-language-duolingo-app-origin-history

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 88 comments

US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32926821

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

F*** those popups – signing up those who deserve it

http://thosefuckingpopups.tumblr.com/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 138 comments

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge

http://cybergrandchallenge.com/

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments

Let’s Take This Open Floor Plan to the Next Level

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/lets-take-this-open-floor-plan-to-the-next-level

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Daum Kakao Will Acquire the Path and Path Talk Apps

https://medium.com/the-road/a-new-chapter-for-path-c521e039f261

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

Can Reddit interview presidential candidates better than traditional media?

https://medium.com/backchannel/can-a-random-group-of-people-on-the-internet-interview-a-candidate-better-than-the-pros-9fb90d2f29f3

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 66 comments

The parable of the parking lots (1971) [pdf]

http://www.nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20080523_197102302theparableoftheparkinglotshenrygmanne.pdf

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Monsti – a free and open source CMS written in Go

http://www.monsti.org/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 45 comments

The File System Paradox (2007)

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.11.windowsconfidential.aspx

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 34 comments

Animal behaviour: Inside the cunning, caring and greedy minds of fish

http://www.nature.com/news/animal-behaviour-inside-the-cunning-caring-and-greedy-minds-of-fish-1.17614

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 5 comments

Facebook raises minimum pay for contractors to $15 per hour

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/14/us-facebook-wages-contractors-idUSKBN0NZ00C20150514

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 65 comments

Beej's Guide to Network Programming

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

Virtual Structs Part 2: Classes Strike Back

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/05/29/classes-strike-back/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

Beat Detection Algorithms, Part 1

http://mziccard.me/2015/05/28/beats-detection-algorithms-1/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

How the compact disc lost its shine

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/28/how-the-compact-disc-lost-its-shine

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 52 comments

CEO of Mandriva says employee lawsuits put the company out of business

http://www.businessinsider.com/ceo-employee-lawsuits-killed-mandriva-2015-5

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 55 comments

What’s new in Play 2.4

https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.4.x/Highlights24

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 34 comments

Critical Vulnerabilities in JSON Web Token Libraries

https://www.timmclean.net/2015/03/31/jwt-algorithm-confusion.html

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

In Europe, Fake Jobs Can Have Real Benefits

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/business/international/in-europe-fake-jobs-can-have-real-benefits.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 102 comments

Google ATAP: Welcome to Project Soli [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments
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