top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-10-07

YC Research

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-research

11 years ago

1776 upvotes – 370 comments

A Guide to Fast Page Loads

http://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/10/07/frontend-performance-chrome-timeline.html

11 years ago

597 upvotes – 163 comments

Amazon Snowball

http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

11 years ago

384 upvotes – 192 comments

Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/

11 years ago

344 upvotes – 147 comments

Staffpad: a new class of notation app

http://www.staffpad.net/

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 98 comments

React v0.14

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/10/07/react-v0.14.html

11 years ago

320 upvotes – 114 comments

Global eradication of wild poliovirus type 2 declared

http://www.polioeradication.org/mediaroom/newsstories/Global-eradication-of-wild-poliovirus-type-2-declared/tabid/526/news/1289/Default.aspx

11 years ago

239 upvotes – 77 comments

Basics of Space Flight: Orbital Mechanics

http://www.braeunig.us/space/orbmech.htm

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 57 comments

100M games played

http://en.lichess.org/blog/VgwCfhwAAB8AbzkK/100000000-games-played

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 72 comments

Volkswagen – detects when your tests are being run in CI, and makes them pass

https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen

11 years ago

★ 15.4k JavaScript MIT
195 upvotes – 20 comments

Such container

http://doger.io/

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 43 comments

Thank HN: for helping me get traction with DuckDuckGo and Traction book – AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10346268

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 80 comments

Differences Between Perl 5 and Perl 6

http://design.perl6.org/Differences.html

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 122 comments

FastMail is not required to implement the Australian metadata retention laws

http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/04/09/fastmail-is-not-required-to-implement-the-australian-metadata-retention-laws/

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 59 comments

Accelerated Mobile Pages Project

https://www.ampproject.org/

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 77 comments

Johnson and Johnson, America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/miracleindustry/americas-most-admired-lawbreaker/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 138 comments

Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/reddit-survived-meltdown-can-fix/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 414 comments

Memory and C++ Debugging at Electronic Arts [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KIvWJUYbDA

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 70 comments

League of Legends Chat Service Architecture

http://engineering.riotgames.com/news/chat-service-architecture-servers

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 81 comments

Jitterdämmerung

http://blog.metaobject.com/2015/10/jitterdammerung.html

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 108 comments

Nobel Prize goes to modest woman who beat malaria for China

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228382-000-the-modest-woman-who-beat-malaria-for-china/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 39 comments

Relax – A CMS on Top of React and Node.js

https://github.com/relax/relax

11 years ago

★ 8.1k JavaScript GPL-3.0
128 upvotes – 62 comments

Try out Stanford's CoreNLP natural language software

http://corenlp.run/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 35 comments

LibreStock – do-whatever-you-want stock photos

http://librestock.com/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 38 comments

Pandora Acquires TicketFly for $450M

http://start.ticketfly.com/blog/pandora-and-ticketfly-join-forces-to-create-the-worlds-most-powerful-music-platform/?utm_source=MEL&utm_medium=138881

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Venture Dealr – Visualize and turn the knobs on VC financing concepts

https://dlopuch.github.io/venture-dealr

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments

When the Steve Jobs movie came calling

http://scottknaster.blogspot.com/2015/10/when-steve-jobs-movie-came-calling.html

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Bort.io – Web application for website bookmarks and search

https://bort.io/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 38 comments

The Vigilantes Who Created 'Malware' to Secure 10,000 Routers

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/10/06/mystery-white-team-vigilante-hackers-speak-out/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

Search for $1B Stolen from Moldova Leads to Ex-Council Flat in Scotland

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34445201

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 25 comments

Former NSA Chief Disagrees with Current NSA Chief on Encryption

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/former-nsa-chief-strongly-disagrees-with-current-nsa-chief-on-encryption

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 10 comments

Microsoft is Dead (2007)

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 92 comments

Time Structured Merge Tree: From LSM Tree to B+Tree and Back Again

https://influxdb.com/docs/v0.9/concepts/storage_engine.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 28 comments

What is it like to have never felt an emotion?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150818-what-is-it-like-to-have-never-felt-an-emotion

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 92 comments

Developing with Docker at IFTTT

https://medium.com/@silvamerica/developing-with-docker-at-ifttt-5bd03b4e597c

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 28 comments

Everyday DSP for Programmers: Signal Envelopes

http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2015/10/everyday-dsp-for-programmers-signal.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 10 comments

JAI Primer: A Programming Language for Games

https://sites.google.com/site/jailanguageprimer/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 65 comments

Boring Crypto [pdf]

http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.10.05/slides-djb-20151005-a4.pdf

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

Amazon Kinesis Firehose – Simple and Scalable Data Ingestion

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-firehose-simple-highly-scalable-data-ingestion/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

The San Francisco Drug Economy

http://priceonomics.com/the-san-francisco-drug-economy/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

JFK: declassified documents reveal a cunning and cagey president

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/07/jfk-kennedy-declassified-documents-reveal-a-cunning-and-cagey-president

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 4 comments

Shinichi Mochizuki and the impenetrable proof

http://www.nature.com/news/the-biggest-mystery-in-mathematics-shinichi-mochizuki-and-the-impenetrable-proof-1.18509

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 69 comments

Grace Lee Boggs, Human Rights Advocate for 7 Decades, Dies at 100

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/us/grace-lee-boggs-detroit-activist-dies-at-100.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 3 comments

There is no such thing as a city that has run out of room

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/06/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-city-that-has-run-out-of-room/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 99 comments

Letter from Transnistria

http://calvertjournal.com/articles/show/4781/letter-from-transnistria-tiraspol-independence-day

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Wright Magazine – 80s and 90s gaming implemented from scratch

http://www.kesiev.com/wright/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

Cuba: a nation gets connected

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article38012694.html

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 36 comments

Refactoring to a Happier Development Team

http://blog.fogcreek.com/refactoring-to-a-happier-development-team-interview-with-coraline-ada-ehmke/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

The enigma behind America's 20-year lobster boom

http://qz.com/506376

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 26 comments

Building Web Applications with Make

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/10/building-web-applications-with-make/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Riak for Time Series

http://basho.com/products/riak-ts/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Why We Mostly Stopped Messing with Shakespeare's Language

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-we-mostly-stopped-messing-with-shakespeares-language

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

Beyond Resveratrol: The Anti-Aging NAD Fad

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/beyond-resveratrol-the-anti-aging-nad-fad/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 44 comments

Chatroom.horse

http://chatroom.horse/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 34 comments

Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (1978) [pdf]

http://amturing.acm.org/p558-lamport.pdf

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

Batteries for homes and businesses could already make economic sense

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/07/how-installing-batteries-in-homes-and-businesses-could-already-make-economic-sense/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments
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