top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-06

My Biggest Regret as a Programmer

http://thecodist.com/article/my-biggest-regret-as-a-programmer

10 years ago

1296 upvotes – 618 comments

Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627

10 years ago

867 upvotes – 286 comments

20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=132

10 years ago

545 upvotes – 157 comments

Apply HN: Pinboard – Make Y Combinator Great Again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441480

10 years ago

409 upvotes – 59 comments

The Illegal Map of Swedish Art

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-illegal-map-of-swedish-art.html

10 years ago

356 upvotes – 95 comments

WebTorrent Desktop – Open source streaming torrent client

https://webtorrent.io/desktop

10 years ago

337 upvotes – 80 comments

More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments

http://www.wsj.com/articles/more-than-40-of-student-borrowers-arent-making-payments-1459971348?mod=e2fb

10 years ago

321 upvotes – 423 comments

Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most common words in English

https://github.com/mortenjust/cleartext-mac/blob/master/README.md

10 years ago

★ 3.2k Swift GPL-3.0
314 upvotes – 216 comments

Classism in America

http://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light

10 years ago

307 upvotes – 333 comments

Now: realtime Node.js deployments

https://zeit.co/now

10 years ago

288 upvotes – 115 comments

How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography prosecution

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-national-security-powers-are-underpinning-some-ordinary-criminal-cases/2016/04/05/1a7685f4-fa36-11e5-80e4-c381214de1a3_story.html

10 years ago

258 upvotes – 169 comments

Easy Scalable Text Rendering on the GPU

https://medium.com/@evanwallace/easy-scalable-text-rendering-on-the-gpu-c3f4d782c5ac

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 39 comments

RISC-V Offers Simple, Modular ISA

http://riscv.org/2016/04/risc-v-offers-simple-modular-isa/

10 years ago

211 upvotes – 157 comments

RethinkDB 2.3: user accounts, network encryption, Windows support

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.3-release/

10 years ago

208 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook’s automatic alt-text for images

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/10102762457220381/

10 years ago

196 upvotes – 77 comments

HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions (2011)

http://vis4.net/blog/posts/avoid-equidistant-hsv-colors/

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 43 comments

How Software Gets Bloated: From Telephony to Bitcoin

http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/04/05/how-software-gets-bloated/

10 years ago

179 upvotes – 54 comments

Segment Sources – Load Salesforce, Zendesk, Stripe into Redshift and Postgres

https://segment.com/sources

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 37 comments

Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/discovery-vikings-newfoundland-canada-history-norse-point-rosee-l-anse-aux-meadows-a6965126.html

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Popper.js, a 3KB library to manage tooltips and popovers

https://github.com/fezvrasta/popper.js

10 years ago

★ 32.5k TypeScript MIT
169 upvotes – 59 comments

Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/04/lessons-from-a-Google-App-Engine-SRE-on-how-to-serve-over-100-billion-requests-per-day.html

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 25 comments

How We Saved $132k a Year With an IT Infrastructure Audit

https://overflow.buffer.com/2016/03/31/how-we-saved-132k-a-year-by-spring-cleaning-our-back-end/

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 110 comments

Introducing Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Apache Flink

http://flink.apache.org/news/2016/04/06/cep-monitoring.html

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 15 comments

Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps

http://blog.naytev.com/facebook-is-king/

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 137 comments

OpenPGP best practices

https://help.riseup.net/en/security/message-security/openpgp/best-practices

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 51 comments

RubyGems.org gem replacement security vulnerability and mitigation

http://blog.rubygems.org/2016/04/06/gem-replacement-vulnerability-and-mitigation.html

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 22 comments

VersionPress goes open source

https://blog.versionpress.net/2016/04/going-open-source/

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 20 comments

Five hundred days using Ubuntu Phone

http://bobthegnome.blogspot.com/2016/04/five-hundred-days-using-ubuntu-phone.html

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 87 comments

Pfizer to Terminate $160B Merger with Allergan

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-06/pfizer-to-terminate-160-billion-merger-with-allergan

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 83 comments

Sandstorm for Work Beta: LDAP, SAML, Organization Management

https://sandstorm.io/news/2016-04-06-sandstorm-for-work

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 17 comments

Seattle is putting up $50B for transit

http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2016/04/06/youve-got-50-billion-for-transit-now-how-should-you-spend-it/

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 201 comments

Vivaldi Browser 1.0

https://vivaldi.net/en-US/teamblog/102-vivaldi-finale-1-0

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 93 comments

TextExpander 6 or How Not to Launch Your SaaS

http://rhymeswithdiploma.com/post/142315992434/textexpander-6-or-how-not-to-launch-your-saas

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 80 comments

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 Released

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/04/06/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-14316/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 88 comments

Subscription Pricing Is for Stagnating Products

http://jakobegger.at/2016/04/06/subscription-pricing-is-for-stagnating-products/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 58 comments

Wind and solar are attracting the most funding

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-06/wind-and-solar-are-crushing-fossil-fuels

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 82 comments

Getting root access on a Tesla Model S

http://www.su-tesla.space/

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 36 comments

How Secure is TextSecure?

http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/904

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Running Emacs on Android

http://endlessparentheses.com/running-emacs-on-android.html

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 20 comments

Lyft’s Logan Green on Building Uber’s ‘Happier’ U.S. Rival

http://www.wsj.com/articles/boss-talk-lyfts-logan-green-on-building-ubers-happier-u-s-rival-1459873960

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 63 comments

Let's Make a Voxel Engine (2013)

https://sites.google.com/site/letsmakeavoxelengine/home

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

We’re not leaving this bar til we’ve got such a great idea that I can’t sack you

https://medium.com/storythings-ltd/we-re-not-leaving-this-bar-until-we-ve-come-up-with-such-a-great-idea-that-i-can-t-sack-you-b12ddfd53fa8#.relt72qwc

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 4 comments

Apply HN: Brightwork – Making APIs More Intelligent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11442102

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 54 comments

One Billion Files: Scalability Limits in Linux File Systems (2010) [pdf]

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/slides/2010/linuxcon2010_wheeler.pdf

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Spies and shadowy allies lurk in secret, thanks to firm’s bag of tricks

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article70044452.html

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 1 comments

Analyzing the NPM Dependency Network

https://medium.com/graph-commons/analyzing-the-npm-dependency-network-e2cf318c1d0d#.60p3k87rp

10 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words/blob/master/en

10 years ago

★ 3.3k CC-BY-4.0
54 upvotes – 66 comments
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