top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-29

Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone

10 years ago

1085 upvotes – 381 comments

Infinit announces Project Dropboxe

http://blog.infinit.one/infinit-announces-project-dropboxe/

10 years ago

830 upvotes – 134 comments

DeepMind moves to TensorFlow

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/04/deepmind-moves-to-tensorflow.html

10 years ago

420 upvotes – 79 comments

Bitcoin's $137k Jackpot

http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/04/29/bitcoins-137k-jackpot/

10 years ago

299 upvotes – 150 comments

I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch

https://medium.com/tendigi-insights/i-installed-windows-95-on-my-apple-watch-589fda5e36d

10 years ago

287 upvotes – 51 comments

Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-myth-burn-calories?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

10 years ago

280 upvotes – 279 comments

ES6, ES7, and beyond

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/04/es6-es7-and-beyond.html

10 years ago

243 upvotes – 73 comments

Unmasking the Men Behind Zero Hedge

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-29/unmasking-the-men-behind-zero-hedge-wall-street-s-renegade-blog

10 years ago

227 upvotes – 167 comments

Hello Lua

http://haxe.org/blog/hello-lua

10 years ago

226 upvotes – 70 comments

GNU LibreJS

https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 159 comments

Infosec's Jerk Problem (2013)

http://adversari.es/blog/2013/06/19/cant-we-all-just-get-along/

10 years ago

210 upvotes – 130 comments

Research into the reasons for procrastination and how to stop

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/27/why-you-cant-help-read-this-article-about-procrastination-instead-of-doing-your-job/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

10 years ago

198 upvotes – 97 comments

Google rolls out “If This Then That” support for its $200 OnHub router

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/googles-onhub-router-finally-gets-some-smart-home-features-via-ifttt/

10 years ago

193 upvotes – 189 comments

Myths about Integer Overflow in Rust

http://huonw.github.io/blog/2016/04/myths-and-legends-about-integer-overflow-in-rust/

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 100 comments

Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 98 comments

Why is Amazon all of a sudden not re-investing all its profits?

https://earlymoves.com/2016/04/29/why-is-amazon-all-of-a-sudden-not-re-investing-all-its-profits/

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 114 comments

U.S. high court approves rule change to expand FBI hacking power

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-warrants-highcourt-idUSKCN0XP2XU

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 62 comments

Why Is Productivity So Weak? Three Theories

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/upshot/why-is-productivity-so-weak-three-theories.html?_r=0&referer=

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 115 comments

“Has something ever failed in the field due to a bug in a CAD tool?”

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/726140975530151936

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 88 comments

C++ Has Become More Pythonic (2014)

http://preshing.com/20141202/cpp-has-become-more-pythonic/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 121 comments

The Crime of Speech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/crime-speech

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 18 comments

Geolocation API removed from unsecured origins in Chrome 50

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/04/geolocation-on-secure-contexts-only

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 73 comments

Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartphone and tablet markets

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3063508/components/intel-is-on-the-verge-of-exiting-the-smartphone-and-tablet-markets-after-cutting-atom-chips.html

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 59 comments

Alternatives to Firing

http://www.askamanager.org/2007/09/alternatives-to-firing.html

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 80 comments

The Battle Over the Sea Monkey Fortune

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-battle-over-the-sea-monkey-fortune.html

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 39 comments

I'm Writing a Book on Security

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

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 16 comments

Yahoo – $8B or B/O (sunnyvale)

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/atq/5560593228.html

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 17 comments

Microsoft stops Google being used for Cortana searches

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36168857

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 118 comments

Can a single car break a traffic jam?

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160428-how-ai-will-solve-traffic-part-one

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 107 comments

WebExtensions in Firefox 48

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/04/29/webextensions-in-firefox-48/

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 69 comments

The Secrets of Medieval Fonts

https://medievalbooks.nl/2016/04/29/the-secrets-of-medieval-fonts/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 12 comments

Down and out in the magic kingdom – A tale of software consulting in the midwest

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11595120

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 126 comments

Beautiful minds, wasted: how not to squander the potential of autistic people

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21696944-how-not-squander-potential-autistic-people-beautiful-minds-wasted

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 70 comments

Things we learned by visualizing our work hours

https://reflect.io/blog/three-productivity-hacks-we-learned-by-visualizing-our-work-hours/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 27 comments

Supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman: Post-Quantum Curves [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/413.pdf

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments

Hiring Is Broken and Isn’t Worth Fixing

http://www.daedtech.com/hiring-is-broken/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 105 comments

New rail-based gravitational energy storage project begins in California

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/first-of-its-kind-rail-energy-storage-project-targets-role-in-caiso-ancilla/417817/

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 99 comments

Rackspace Interview Process

https://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2014/04/27/rackspce-interview-process/

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 76 comments

Instagram insists littergram app is renamed

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-36148093

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 87 comments

Challenges of Deployment to ECS

https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 37 comments

Android Studio 2.0 Is Google’s New, Improved Development Suite

http://www.zco.com/blog/android-studio-2-0/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 75 comments

Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/introducing-facebook-messenger-and-instagram-windows-apps/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 44 comments

Could Cats and Dogs Feel the Same Emotions We Do?

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/can-a-cat-have-an-existential-crisis

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 79 comments

Include Go binary only package

https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/22433/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 41 comments

Neuroscientists create ‘atlas’ showing how words are organised in the brain

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/27/brain-atlas-showing-how-words-are-organised-neuroscience

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

P2P DNS

https://github.com/Mononofu/P2P-DNS

10 years ago

★ 251 Python
69 upvotes – 21 comments

How Hyperconnected Cities Are Taking Over the World

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/04/cities-drive-the-new-world-order-parag-khanna-connectography-maps/480165/

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

FOUT is back in Chrome 50

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/kBzYJZV-qMM;context-place=topicsearchin/chrome/category$3Amac%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: How do you write concepts? (Structure / Tools / Howto)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11595129

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

Capistrano maintainers add new dependency to promote paid service

https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/issues/1655

10 years ago

★ 12.9k Ruby MIT
60 upvotes – 42 comments
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