top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-17

Ask HN: Describe your first enterprise sale

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515307

10 years ago

496 upvotes – 96 comments

Ask HN: Can't concentrate to focus, until it's last minute or later

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514266

10 years ago

351 upvotes – 191 comments

Over $700k selling a premium mobile game

https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/4f74dv/quit_my_full_time_corporate_job_built_an_ios_game/

10 years ago

332 upvotes – 138 comments

Develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris

http://raganwald.com/2016/04/15/laziness-is-a-virtue.html

10 years ago

319 upvotes – 72 comments

Norway's $860B Fund Drops 52 Companies Linked to Coal

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-14/norway-s-860-billion-fund-drops-52-companies-linked-to-coal

10 years ago

229 upvotes – 121 comments

Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev” (2011)

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html?m=1

10 years ago

212 upvotes – 90 comments

Apple's amusingly round reuse figures

http://blog.jgc.org/2016/04/apples-amusingly-round-reuse-figures.html

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 91 comments

Grading Trudeau on quantum computing

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2694

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 119 comments

When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page

http://readcodelearn.com/notes/when-to-post-to-hn.html

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 61 comments

Dolphins as a model for alien intelligence

http://nautil.us/blog/dolphins-are-helping-us-hunt-for-aliens

10 years ago

196 upvotes – 88 comments

Why does Haskell, in your opinion, suck?

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4f47ou/why_does_haskell_in_your_opinion_suck/

10 years ago

196 upvotes – 204 comments

System Design Interview Cheatsheet

https://gist.github.com/vasanthk/485d1c25737e8e72759f

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 14 comments

Why aren’t we using SSH for everything? (2015)

https://medium.com/@shazow/ssh-how-does-it-even-9e43586e4ffc#.r9qzj6hhl

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 84 comments

The Ars guide to building a Linux router from scratch

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/the-ars-guide-to-building-a-linux-router-from-scratch/

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 88 comments

Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow

https://taihen.org/managing-dotfiles-with-gnu-stow/

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 66 comments

Study: people who grow up poor have a harder time regulating their food intake

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/12/the-crippling-thing-about-growing-up-poor-that-stays-with-you-forever/

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 96 comments

Background Music, an OS X audio utility

https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

10 years ago

★ 18.8k C++ GPL-2.0
160 upvotes – 37 comments

Shrink Go binaries 7x with this one weird trick

https://blog.filippo.io/shrink-your-go-binaries-with-this-one-weird-trick/

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 73 comments

Micro – a command line text editor in Go

https://github.com/zyedidia/micro

10 years ago

★ 28.4k Go MIT
146 upvotes – 26 comments

Org as a Word Processor

http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/orgmode-wordprocessor.html

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 17 comments

Why I am betting on Julia (2014)

http://www.evanmiller.org/why-im-betting-on-julia.html

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 109 comments

Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones

http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/01/28/falsehoods-programmers-date-time-zones.html

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 80 comments

Why Unix needs a standard way to deal with the file durability problem

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/WhyFileSyncStandardNeeded

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 36 comments

Deep Reinforcement Learning Explained

http://www.nervanasys.com/demystifying-deep-reinforcement-learning/

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 11 comments

What to do with the “rm -rf” hoax question

http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/8696/what-to-do-with-the-rm-rf-hoax-question

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 65 comments

Drone hits British Airways plane approaching Heathrow Airport

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36067591

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 99 comments

How I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-i-deal-with-harassment-abuse-and.html?m=1

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 90 comments

Skiena's Algorithms Video Lectures

http://www.algorist.com/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 23 comments

Linux-insides: Queued spinlocks in the Linux kernel

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/SyncPrim/sync-2.md

10 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
88 upvotes – 5 comments

X64 Deep Dive

http://www.codemachine.com/article_x64deepdive.html

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2016? AWS or GCE?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515505

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 76 comments

Runtime Compiled C++ for Rapid AI Development [pdf]

http://www.gameaipro.com/GameAIPro/GameAIPro_Chapter15_Runtime_Compiled_C++_for_Rapid_AI_Development.pdf

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

Language and Structure in Non-Programmers Solutions to Programming Problems [pdf]

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

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Snakes on a Hyperplane – A multiplayer 3D Snake game

http://tinyurl.com/snakesonahyperplane

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments
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