top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-30

Lavabit code open sourced

https://github.com/lavabit

10 years ago

458 upvotes – 60 comments

You probably don't need a JavaScript framework

https://slack-files.com/T03JT4FC2-F151AAF7A-13fe6f98da

10 years ago

452 upvotes – 347 comments

Ask HN: Can the “Who is Hiring?” post include a bit about the interview process?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11599991

10 years ago

328 upvotes – 109 comments

Simon Peyton Jones Elected into the Royal Society Fellowship

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5332

10 years ago

297 upvotes – 31 comments

Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently

http://codeahoy.com/2016/04/30/do-experienced-programmers-use-google-frequently/

10 years ago

291 upvotes – 174 comments

Automated Testing for League of Legends

https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/automated-testing-league-legends

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 74 comments

Neural Networks Are Impressively Good at Compression

https://probablydance.com/2016/04/30/neural-networks-are-impressively-good-at-compression/

10 years ago

244 upvotes – 64 comments

Intel's Changing Future: Smartphone SoCs Broxton and SoFIA Officially Cancelled

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10288/intel-broxton-sofia-smartphone-socs-cancelled

10 years ago

217 upvotes – 118 comments

Microsoft Flow

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 94 comments

Hogwatch – a bandwidth monitor that shows per process network transfer

https://github.com/akshayKMR/hogwatch

10 years ago

★ 1.2k JavaScript MIT
195 upvotes – 52 comments

Immortality Begins at Forty

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/04/28/immortality-begins-at-forty/

10 years ago

190 upvotes – 137 comments

Snowden’s Rubik’s Cube

https://da5is.com/snowdens-rubik-s-cube-79274593806b

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 83 comments

Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/software-error-doomed-japanese-hitomi-spacecraft/?print=true

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 64 comments

A Path to Programming Language Theory

https://github.com/steshaw/plt

10 years ago

★ 5.3k CSS
174 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Do So Many Zippers Say YKK? (2012)

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/branded/2012/04/ykk_zippers_why_so_many_designers_use_them_.html

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 60 comments

Taskwarrior – intelligent TODO list

https://taskwarrior.org/

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 80 comments

Warn HN: stacks made executable on GNU by mere presence of assembly code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11599909

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Task-Based Electron Web Browser

http://alloy.simoncaminada.ch

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 29 comments

Linux greybeards release beta of systemd-free Debian fork

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/29/systemd_free_debian_fork_devuan_reaches_beta/

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 188 comments

Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-0429-tn-marissa-mayer-severance-20160429-story.html

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 261 comments

Claude Shannon Turns 1100100

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/claude-shannon-the-father-of-the-information-age-turns-1100100

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 44 comments

How Russia Works on Intercepting Messaging Apps

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2016/04/30/russia-telegram-hack/

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: TeachCraft – Learning Python Through Minecraft

https://github.com/teachthenet/TeachCraft-Challenges?

10 years ago

★ 465 Python Apache-2.0
129 upvotes – 26 comments

Andrei Tarkovsky – Poetic Harmony [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak6rI-j07QU

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 18 comments

Why the NRA hates smart guns

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/30/why-the-nra-hates-smart-guns/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 309 comments

How Plutocrats Cripple the IRS: You pay more because elites pay less

http://prospect.org/article/how-plutocrats-cripple-irs

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 139 comments

Why Aren’t There More Scientists? Money

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/29/why-we-dont-produce-more-scientists-a-one-word-explanation/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 85 comments

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/an-excerpt-from-it-didnt-start-with-you-how-inherited-family-trauma-shapes-who-we-are-and-how-to-end-the-cycle-viking-april-2016-by-mark-wolynn/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

If you use Tor, the FBI just labelled you a criminal

http://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/constitutional-rights/fbi-labled-tor-browser-users-criminals/

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 18 comments

The Professor Has a Daring Past

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/nyregion/professor-justus-rosenberg-has-a-past.html

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 3 comments

The curse of the potato

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/25/the-secret-ancient-history-of-the-potato-that-could-change-the-story-of-civilization/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

The Legend of Prince’s Special Custom-Font Symbol Floppy Disks

http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/04/princes-legendary-floppy-disk-symbol-font.html

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

Silhouettes of the bomb: what can we learn from the shapes of atomic weapons?

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/04/22/bomb-silhouettes/

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 34 comments

What's coming in Elixir 1.3

http://tuvistavie.com/2016/elixir-1-3

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 16 comments

Strategic Scala Style: Practical Type Safety

http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/StrategicScalaStylePracticalTypeSafety.html

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

This Is Your Brain on Podcasts

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/science/this-is-your-brain-on-podcasts.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 41 comments

An end to ‘bill shock’ as EU mobile roaming charges are slashed

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/apr/30/end-bill-shock-eu-mobile-roaming-charges-slashed-phone

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 77 comments
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