top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-23

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10 years ago

411 upvotes – 109 comments

Bots won't replace apps, only better apps will replace apps

http://dangrover.com/blog/2016/04/20/bots-wont-replace-apps.html

10 years ago

260 upvotes – 67 comments

The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/22/prince-death-wikipedia/

10 years ago

253 upvotes – 101 comments

AMD stock up 52%

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amd

10 years ago

242 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: QBE – a new compiler back end

http://c9x.me/compile/

10 years ago

241 upvotes – 68 comments

When to Rewrite from Scratch – Autopsy of Failed Software

http://codeahoy.com/2016/04/21/when-to-rewrite-from-scratch-autopsy-of-a-failed-software/

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 106 comments

Reversing the Petya ransomware with constraint solvers

http://0xec.blogspot.com/2016/04/reversing-petya-ransomware-with.html

10 years ago

227 upvotes – 41 comments

Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind

https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-feels-to-be-blind-in-your-mind/10156834777480504

10 years ago

194 upvotes – 202 comments

Windows Subsystem for Linux Architectural Overview

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subsystem-for-linux-overview/

10 years ago

193 upvotes – 40 comments

Interview with Scott Aaronson

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/scott-aaronson-answers-every-ridiculously-big-question-i-throw-at-him/

10 years ago

192 upvotes – 82 comments

The Heart of Deterrence (2012)

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/09/19/the-heart-of-deterrence/

10 years ago

181 upvotes – 187 comments

Why Uber Won

https://news.greylock.com/why-uber-won-5598a2a66561#.hz33sst9k

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 143 comments

Sorry ARIMA, but I’m Going Bayesian

http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/04/21/forget-arima/

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 34 comments

Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/04/22/fired-reddit-exec-quietly-launches-izzy-a-warmer-fuzzier-reddit/

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 365 comments

V8 Release 5.1

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/04/v8-release-51.html

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 56 comments

Doom as a tool for system administration (1999)

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 39 comments

Java garbage collection can be really slow

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/04/22/java-garbage-collection-can-be-really-slow/

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 181 comments

Victorians who flew as high as jumbo jets

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160419-the-victorians-who-flew-as-high-as-jets

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 37 comments

Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza

http://boingboing.net/2010/08/10/yakuza-3-review.html

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 24 comments

Not All Practice Makes Perfect

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/not-all-practice-makes-perfect

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 61 comments

The Rise of Pirate Libraries

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-rise-of-illegal-pirate-libraries?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 35 comments

Opera VPN behind the curtains is just a proxy

https://gist.github.com/spaze/558b7c4cd81afa7c857381254ae7bd10

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 47 comments

Making 1M requests with Python-aiohttp

http://pawelmhm.github.io/asyncio/python/aiohttp/2016/04/22/asyncio-aiohttp.html

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 81 comments

The Chaos and the Craftsmanship of Shenzhen

http://rexstjohn.com/the-chaos-and-the-craftsmanship-of-shenzhen-part-ii/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 42 comments

William Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet, Is Dead at 52

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/23/arts/shakespeare-obituary.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 73 comments

Clang emits memcpy for std::swap, which can introduce undefined behavior

https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27498

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 80 comments

FPGA expansion board for the Amiga 500: SDRAM, microSD mass storage and Ethernet

https://github.com/endofexclusive/greta

10 years ago

★ 107 VHDL
105 upvotes – 16 comments

The Paradox of the Elephant Brain

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/the-paradox-of-the-elephant-brain

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 58 comments

My experience being a developer with no developer community

https://medium.com/@Shruubi/my-experience-being-a-developer-with-no-developer-community-97e05834b727#.sf5nmq7g8

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 65 comments

How the Apocalypse Will Bring Out the Best in People

https://psmag.com/how-the-apocalypse-will-bring-out-the-best-in-people-56f51136e770#.oegshdfkk

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 72 comments

H.P. Lovecraft – Against the World, Against Life (2004) [pdf]

https://web.archive.org/web/20060507063256/http://blog.urbanomic.com/dread/archives/houellebecq-lovecraft.pdf

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

To win at Starcraft, machines need to figure out how to lie

http://www.wsj.com/articles/computers-that-crush-humans-at-games-might-have-met-their-match-starcraft-1461344309

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 75 comments

EFF and ACLU Expose Government’s Secret Stingray Use in Wisconsin Case

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/eff-and-aclu-expose-governments-secret-stingray-use-wisconsin-case

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

Surprising, Vibrant Reef Discovered in the Muddy Amazon

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/220416-Amazon-coral-reef-Brazil-ocean-river-fish/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

UK 'a tax haven for multinationals' (2014)

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27187398

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 52 comments

Scala vs. Node.js as a RESTful back end server (2015)

http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/04/22/scala-vs-node-js-as-a-restful-backend-server/

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 49 comments

Year of the OpenBSD desktop

http://blog.tintagel.pl/2016/04/22/year-of-the-openbsd-desktop.html

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

Goodbye Boost VC – Thank you Tribe 7

http://blog.payload.tech/2016/04/23/thank-you-boost-vc-tribe-7/

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

HTTP/2 Adoption Stats

http://isthewebhttp2yet.com/measurements/structure.html

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 31 comments
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