top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-18

Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet

https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/622079372367781888

11 years ago

699 upvotes – 479 comments

“Let's talk about a hypothetical public-facing service”

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3do9k0/sourceforge_is_down_due_to_storage_problems_no_eta/ct77o49

11 years ago

439 upvotes – 67 comments

Rockstar lib will make you a Rockstar programmer in 2 lines of code

https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar

11 years ago

★ 4.1k Python MIT
327 upvotes – 53 comments

Docker on FreeBSD

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker

11 years ago

232 upvotes – 66 comments

A subsystem to restrict programs into a “reduced feature operating model”

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143725996614627&w=2

11 years ago

230 upvotes – 96 comments

Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention

http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2015/07/14/4273200.htm

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 159 comments

Introducing Incremental

https://blogs.janestreet.com/introducing-incremental/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introducing-incremental

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 50 comments

Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 56 comments

Intellectual pursuits may buffer the brain against addiction

http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/07/13/brain-addiction/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 56 comments

USA tops International Math Olympiad for first time in 21 years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/17/winning-formula-usa-tops-international-math-olympiad-for-first-time-in-21-years/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 102 comments

Stochastic rain generator from the author of myNoise.net

http://rain.today/?

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 35 comments

New Macbook overheats in Hangouts and Skype, microphone input garbled

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7048457

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 110 comments

How to Find the Wi-Fi Password of Your Current Network

http://www.labnol.org/software/find-wi-fi-network-password/28949/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

50 years of Fortran at CERN (2007)

http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/30873

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: What equivalents of Erlang/OTP exist for other languages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907310

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 105 comments

Animal Domestication: Taming the Wild

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/taming-wild-animals/ratliff-text

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

Allen Curve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_curve

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Airless Tires Roll Towards Consumer Vehicles

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/advanced-cars/airless-tires-roll-towards-consumer-vehicles

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 55 comments

On the Foundations of Geometry by Henri Poincaré (1898)

https://archive.org/stream/jstor-27899007/27899007_djvu.txt

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments

Democratized management could become a major recruiting advantage

http://blog.jaredfriedman.com/2015/07/18/how-the-no-management-trend-could-disrupt-everything/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 51 comments

The Vegetable Detective

http://craftsmanship.net/the-vegetable-detective/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

How to Co-Op: Salaries and Reviews

http://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2015/06/30/how-to-co-op-salaries-reviews/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

Types for an Untyped World: Bracha vs. Felleisen [video]

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

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: What is it like working at Netflix?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9908853

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 71 comments
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