top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-01

Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-japan-trains

9 years ago

959 upvotes – 322 comments

I’m a freelance copywriter

http://getcoleman.com/

9 years ago

788 upvotes – 113 comments

Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/

9 years ago

568 upvotes – 122 comments

Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012088.html

9 years ago

343 upvotes – 244 comments

Idris 1.0

https://www.idris-lang.org/idris-1-0-released/

9 years ago

324 upvotes – 65 comments

An Accident No One Talked About

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/fashion/modern-love-the-accident-no-one-talked-about.html

9 years ago

320 upvotes – 79 comments

AWS for Kids

http://awskids.club/

9 years ago

294 upvotes – 40 comments

Acme Klein Bottle

http://www.kleinbottle.com/

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 63 comments

Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/03/28/paleoburrows-south-america

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 29 comments

Input Mono – A Typeface for Code, from Font Bureau

http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/?size=20&language=python&theme=base16-dark&family=InputMono&width=300&weight=300&line-height=1.2&a=0&g=0&i=serif&l=serif&zero=slash&asterisk=height&braces=straight&preset=default&customize=please

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 30 comments

Google App Maker

https://developers.google.com/appmaker/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 80 comments

Fuzzing is magic – Or how I found a panic in Rust's regex library

https://www.nibor.org/blog/fuzzing-is-magic---or-how-i-found-a-panic-in-rusts-regex-library/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 63 comments

LastPass release fix for DOM manipulation vulnerability

https://blog.lastpass.com/2017/03/security-update-for-the-lastpass-extension.html/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 162 comments

How we exploited a code execution vulnerability in math.js

https://capacitorset.github.io/mathjs/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 29 comments

Spotify’s Love/Hate Relationship with DNS

https://labs.spotify.com/2017/03/31/spotifys-lovehate-relationship-with-dns/

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 34 comments

Why is my tcp not reliable? (2009)

https://blog.netherlabs.nl/articles/2009/01/18/the-ultimate-so_linger-page-or-why-is-my-tcp-not-reliable

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 14 comments

The F-35 still has a long way to go

https://warisboring.com/the-f-35-is-a-terrible-fighter-bomber-and-attacker-and-unfit-for-aircraft-carriers/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 233 comments

Async JavaScript Generators

https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/asyncing-feeling-about-javascript-generators/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 24 comments

Python Helped Me Write Again

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/62q2sm/python_helped_me_write_again/

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 3 comments

Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 11 comments

Xbox One Exploit Proof of Concept Released, Based on Chakra Exploit

http://wololo.net/2017/03/31/xbox-one-hack-xbox-one-exploit-proof-concept-released-based-chakra-exploit-unconfirmed/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 27 comments

Earth is a ‘dwarf planet’ because it has not cleared its orbit

https://medium.com/@mtanne/turns-out-earth-isnt-a-planet-c06f5208d36e

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 50 comments

The Shell Hater's Handbook (2010) [video]

http://confreaks.tv/videos/gogaruco2010-the-shell-hater-s-handbook

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

Filming mosquitoes reveals a new approach to flight

https://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2017/04/filming-mosquitoes-reveals-a-completely-new-approach-to-flight/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 6 comments

To Celebrate April Fools' Day, Slashdot Wears Hacker News' Attire

https://slashdot.org/story/17/04/01/1315227/telcos-gear-up-to-fight-facebook-and-google-over-how-you-log-into-websites

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 42 comments

Scaling to Millions of Users

https://blog.benroux.me/lessons-for-scaling-to-a-million-users/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Have you ever regretted hiring a developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14010324

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 110 comments

After All These Years, the World Is Still Powered by C Programming

http://tekhinnovation.blogspot.com/2017/03/after-all-these-years-world-is-still.html?m=1

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 44 comments

Paving the way for human-level sentence corrections

https://tech.grammarly.com/blog/paving-the-way-for-human-level-sentence-corrections

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

Athena regional stability simulator: model political, economic, military actors

https://github.com/AthenaModel/athena

9 years ago

★ 85 Tcl
72 upvotes – 20 comments
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