top 50% 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

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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

How a Car Engine Works

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

10 years ago

Frog and Toad are Cofounders

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

10 years ago

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

Metal foam obliterates bullets

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

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Parody O'Reilly book covers

http://imgur.com/gallery/vqUQ5

10 years ago

Mathics: A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica

https://mathics.github.io/

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

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

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SpaceX makes breakthrough by landing rocket at sea

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

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Knuth versus Email (1999)

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

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Wire of Death

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

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Swim. Bike. Cheat?

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

10 years ago

Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

https://booleans.io

10 years ago

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

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

10 years ago

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

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

10 years ago

Support of OpenBSD pledge(2) in programming languages

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

10 years ago

PostgreSQL Query Optimization

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

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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

When Free Software Depends on Nonfree

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

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STOMP – The Simple Text Oriented Messaging Protocol

http://stomp.github.io

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AngularJS project structure

http://www.davecooper.org/angular-project-structure

10 years ago

How to Avoid Empathy Burnout

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/how-to-avoid-empathy-burnout

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Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, broken down by gender and age

http://polygraph.cool/films/index.html

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Machine Learning Meets Economics

http://blog.mldb.ai/blog/posts/2016/01/ml-meets-economics/

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School Is to Submit

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/04/school-is-to-submit.html

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Facebook Live: Now You Can Never Leave

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/facebook-live-now-you-can-never-leave

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Aetna's CEO pays workers up to $500 to sleep

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/05/why-aetnas-ceo-pays-workers-up-to-500-to-sleep.html

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Efficient Integer Overflow Checking in LLVM

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1384

10 years ago

The rotational North Pole is moving east at 14 cm per year

http://gizmodo.com/we-finally-know-why-the-north-pole-is-moving-east-1769588584?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

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Google Doorman: Global Distributed Client Side Rate Limiting

https://github.com/youtube/doorman

10 years ago

★ 1.9k Go Apache-2.0

The remarkable accuracy of the Trinity College clock

https://theconversation.com/the-remarkable-accuracy-of-the-trinity-college-clock-and-what-makes-it-tick-57195

10 years ago

Regarding JavaScript trailing commas

http://dontkry.com/posts/code/trailing-commas.html

10 years ago

Rendering React without browser JavaScript

https://medium.com/@firasd/quick-start-tutorial-universal-react-with-server-side-rendering-76fe5363d6e

10 years ago

Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/04/07-panama-papers-putin-gaddy

10 years ago

Almost complete guide to flexbox (without flexbox)

http://kyusuf.com/post/almost-complete-guide-to-flexbox-without-flexbox

10 years ago

Terrifyingly Convenient

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/cover_story/2016/04/alexa_cortana_and_siri_aren_t_novelties_anymore_they_re_our_terrifyingly.html

10 years ago

Effeckt.css – Performant CSS transitions and animations

http://h5bp.github.io/Effeckt.css/

10 years ago

Reverse engineering the popular 555 timer chip: CMOS version

http://www.righto.com/2016/04/teardown-of-cmos-555-timer-chip-how.html

10 years ago

Canadians may soon need a visa to enter the EU

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eu-visa-romania-bulgaria-trade-ceta-1.3526513

10 years ago

Declaring Reality: An Introduction to Datalog

http://zef.me/blog/4955/declaring-reality-an-introduction-to-datalog-part-i

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