top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-15

Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/vitaly/gone-in-six-characters-short-urls-considered-harmful-for-cloud-services/

10 years ago

The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores [pdf]

http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~sasha/papers/eurosys16-final29.pdf

10 years ago

A New Map for America

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/opinion/sunday/a-new-map-for-america.html

10 years ago

Study of non-programmers' solutions to programming problems [pdf]

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~ratana/PaneRatanamahatanaMyers00.pdf

10 years ago

Jeremy Guillory's Counter-Complaint against Cruise Automation

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6iN8SvXQGKYblBna1MwRHBseFU/view

10 years ago

Merkel allows prosecution of German comedian who mocked Turkish president

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/15/merkel-allows-prosecution-of-german-comedian-who-mocked-turkish-president/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world%3Ahomepage%2Fcard

10 years ago

House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/house-passes-bill-sabotage-net-neutrality

10 years ago

CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic started by UN peacekeepers

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2016/04/what_caused_haiti_s_cholera_epidemic_the_cdc_s_museum_knows_but_won_t_say.html

10 years ago

The engineer’s engineer: Computer industry luminaries salute Dave Cutler

http://news.microsoft.com/features/the-engineers-engineer-computer-industry-luminaries-salute-dave-cutlers-five-decade-long-quest-for-quality/

10 years ago

Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

https://blog.jupyter.org/2016/04/15/notebook-4-2/

10 years ago

Merkel Grants Turkish Request to Prosecute German Satirist

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-15/merkel-allows-probe-of-german-comedian-over-erdogan-satire

10 years ago

8-Bit and '8 Bitish' Graphics [video]

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023586/8-Bit-8-Bitish-Graphics

10 years ago

Modernizing AbiWord code

https://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2016/04/15/860-modernizing-abiword-code

10 years ago

New research shows brain is directly connected to the immune system

https://news.virginia.edu/illimitable/discovery/theyll-have-rewrite-textbooks

10 years ago

The Doom Movement Bible

https://www.doomworld.com/vb/post/1586811

10 years ago

Backing up 18 years in 8 hours

http://chromakode.com/post/18-years-in-8-hours

10 years ago

Ask HN: Best linux laptop right now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11503951

10 years ago

Hey Android, why no love for UTC?

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39099

10 years ago

The caffeine curse: why coffee shops have always signalled urban change

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/08/coffee-shops-gentrification-urban-change

10 years ago

RoboVM is winding down

https://robovm.com/robovm-winding-down/

10 years ago

Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it in a big way

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/04/14/universal_basic_income_this_nonprofit_is_about_to_test_it_in_a_big_way.html

10 years ago

Kestrel Computer Project

https://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/

10 years ago

Cheap Docker images with Nix

http://lethalman.blogspot.com/2016/04/cheap-docker-images-with-nix_15.html

10 years ago

Two-factor authentication for Apple ID

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915

10 years ago

San Francisco Home Prices Fell for the First Time in Four Years in March

https://www.redfin.com/blog/2016/04/march-national-housing-market-tracker.html

10 years ago

TIS-100: the Programming Game You Never Asked For

http://blog.codinghorror.com/heres-the-programming-game-you-never-asked-for/

10 years ago

Not Smart Is Not Stupid

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/not-smart-is-not-stupid

10 years ago

What US Software Companies Should Understand About the Rest of the World

https://medium.com/@did_78238/what-us-software-companies-should-understand-about-the-rest-of-the-world-783e8dbca758#.b2b3slmak

10 years ago

Renderings vs. Reality: The Improbable Rise of Tree-Covered Skyscrapers

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/renderings-vs-reality-rise-tree-covered-skyscrapers/

10 years ago

React/Redux Links: a curated list of tutorials for React, Redux, ES6, and more

https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links

10 years ago

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Top 1% of Income Earners pay 45% of California's Taxes

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article71944477.html

10 years ago

New effort to study astronomical ‘wow’ signal after almost 40 years

https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2016/apr/14/alien-wow-signal-could-be-explained-after-almost-40-years

10 years ago

How to ace a YC interview

https://medium.com/@jmilinovich/how-to-ace-your-yc-interview-5c078aea7908#.5ov602x8h

10 years ago

The Restart Page: rebooting experience from vintage operating systems

http://www.therestartpage.com/#

10 years ago

Ask HN: What are the challenges of building a personal assistant like Siri?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11503998

10 years ago

The Air Force Initiative to Replace the A-10 Warthog Is Vaporware

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-air-force-initiative-to-replace-the-a-10-warthog-is-1771018719

10 years ago

At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction

http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/food/farm-to-fable/restaurants/

10 years ago

DARPA-Funded Clojure – Probabalistic Modeling and Execution Learning

https://github.com/dollabs/pamela

10 years ago

★ 231 HTML Apache-2.0

How and why to make your software faster

http://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/how-to-make-software-faster.html

10 years ago

Let's Encrypt: Active Incident, DNS errors causing service disruption

https://letsencrypt.status.io/

10 years ago

The internet has been stolen from you. Take it back, nonviolently

https://medium.com/@flyingzumwalt/the-internet-has-been-stolen-from-you-take-it-back-nonviolently-248f8d445b87#.xjs07vyey

10 years ago

Introducing Tera, a template engine in Rust

https://blog.wearewizards.io/introducing-tera-a-template-engine-in-rust

10 years ago

Guillory, who says he was ousted as Cruise co-founder, files counter-complaint

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/14/jeremy-guillory-who-says-he-was-ousted-as-cruise-cofounder-files-counter-complaint-detailing-why/

10 years ago

The Quickest Way to Understand VC

http://blog.yesgraph.com/understand-vc-powerlaws/

10 years ago

VR is the opposite of cinema

http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=17118

10 years ago

OpenBSD 5.9

http://www.openbsd.org/59.html

10 years ago

The second annual F# survey

http://fsharpworks.com/survey.html

10 years ago

The idea of empathy for all ignores the limits of human psychology

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/no-you-cant-feel-sorry-for-everyone

10 years ago

How the law is tracking down high-tech prank callers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/15/swatting-law-teens-anonymous-prank-call-police

10 years ago

MATE Desktop Environment

http://www.mate-desktop.org/

10 years ago

USB 3.1 now has digital signatures: may force you to use vendor chargers only

http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/

10 years ago

Ask HN: Is any of Dave Cutler's code open source?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11506730

10 years ago

Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer (2006)

http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-learning-haskell-python-makes-you-a-worse-programmer/

10 years ago

IRS Security

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/04/irs_security.html

10 years ago