top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-04-09

Congratulations You’ve Been Fired

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/opinion/sunday/congratulations-youve-been-fired.html?smid=tw-share&referer=https://t.co/GST3iLv3Zn

10 years ago

679 upvotes – 429 comments

The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/08/473548674/why-the-fbi-director-puts-tape-over-his-webcam

10 years ago

581 upvotes – 209 comments

How a Car Engine Works

http://animagraffs.com/how-a-car-engine-works/

10 years ago

404 upvotes – 123 comments

Frog and Toad are Cofounders

https://medium.com/frog-and-toad-are-cofounders

10 years ago

387 upvotes – 34 comments

SpaceX just landed a rocket on a drone ship for the first time

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/08/spacex-just-landed-a-rocket-on-a-drone-ship-for-the-first-time/

10 years ago

337 upvotes – 139 comments

Metal foam obliterates bullets

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-metal-foam-obliterates-bullets.html

10 years ago

327 upvotes – 87 comments

Parody O'Reilly book covers

http://imgur.com/gallery/vqUQ5

10 years ago

222 upvotes – 32 comments

Mathics: A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica

https://mathics.github.io/

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 73 comments

Study: Students who take notes by hand outperform students who type

http://www.wsj.com/articles/can-handwriting-make-you-smarter-1459784659

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 105 comments

SpaceX makes breakthrough by landing rocket at sea

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0X5228

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 18 comments

Knuth versus Email (1999)

http://cs.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 128 comments

Wire of Death

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

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 75 comments

Swim. Bike. Cheat?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/sports/julie-miller-ironman-triathlon-cheat.html

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

https://booleans.io

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 124 comments

The Blue State Model: How the Democrats Created a "Liberalism of the Rich"

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176121/

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 211 comments

Ask HN: Is it worth paying for a Coursera course?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11461370

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 110 comments

Support of OpenBSD pledge(2) in programming languages

https://gist.github.com/ligurio/f6114bd1df371047dd80ea9b8a55c104

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 52 comments

PostgreSQL Query Optimization

http://jinchengli.me/post/postgres-query-opt/

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 12 comments

Alphabet X new bipedal robot can climb stairs and overcome obstacles

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/148771/20160409/alphabet-x-showcases-new-bipedal-robot-that-can-climb-stairs-and-overcome-obstacles.htm

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 34 comments

When Free Software Depends on Nonfree

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/when-free-depends-on-nonfree

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 91 comments
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