top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-11

Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/

9 years ago

1519 upvotes – 996 comments

IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe

https://www.indiehackers.com/blog/acquired-by-stripe

9 years ago

1000 upvotes – 235 comments

Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications

https://dave.cheney.net/2017/04/11/why-slack-is-inappropriate-for-open-source-communications

9 years ago

847 upvotes – 521 comments

Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone

https://www.blog.google/topics/machine-learning/fast-drawing-everyone/

9 years ago

732 upvotes – 143 comments

Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards

http://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/04/10/opinion/atmospheric-co2-levels-accelerate-upwards-smashing-records

9 years ago

499 upvotes – 504 comments

TypeScript at Slack

https://slack.engineering/typescript-at-slack-a81307fa288d#1

9 years ago

440 upvotes – 263 comments

Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident

https://thenextweb.com/twitter/2017/04/11/twitter-delete-united-airlines-tweets/#.tnw_NIWU4Eup

9 years ago

433 upvotes – 321 comments

Fourier transform – A math tool used in optics, MP3s, JPEGs and more (2013)

http://nautil.us/blog/the-math-trick-behind-mp3s-jpegs-and-homer-simpsons-face

9 years ago

417 upvotes – 83 comments

Material Design Color Tool

https://material.io/color/

9 years ago

372 upvotes – 88 comments

Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done

http://www.theminimalists.com/internet/

9 years ago

355 upvotes – 269 comments

Cello – A library that brings higher level programming to C

http://libcello.org/

9 years ago

348 upvotes – 151 comments

Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14086259

9 years ago

320 upvotes – 133 comments

Uber's head of communications is leaving the company

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/11/uber-head-of-comms-rachel-whetstone-is-leaving-the-company/

9 years ago

319 upvotes – 309 comments

Anbox – Android in a Box

https://mm.gravedo.de/blog/posts/2017-04-10-introducing-anbox/

9 years ago

317 upvotes – 62 comments

How to Study (2016)

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtostudy.html

9 years ago

314 upvotes – 71 comments

The way people tilt their smartphone 'can give away passwords and pins'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39565372/the-way-people-tilt-their-smartphone-can-give-away-passwords-and-pins

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 125 comments

AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11244/the-amd-ryzen-5-1600x-vs-core-i5-review-twelve-threads-vs-four

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 165 comments

OpenBSD 6.1 released

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=149191695821636&w=2

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 80 comments

The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains visceral and urgent

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/04/10/worst-case-scenario/

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 200 comments

In the Videogame Industry, Hiring People Is a Last Resort

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-a-75-billion-business-is-getting-out-of-the-hiring-game-1491838235

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 207 comments

Amazon's Sick New Sick Policy

https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/home/sick-new-sick-policy

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 167 comments

Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux

http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/11/testing-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 135 comments

The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)

http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 83 comments

Tesla unveils its new ‘sleek and low-profile’ solar panel made by Panasonic

https://electrek.co/2017/04/09/tesla-solar-panel-panasonic/

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 112 comments

Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack (Part 2)

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_11.html

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 27 comments

A note-taking app for technical teams

https://memo.ai/

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 44 comments

Leaked email from United Airlines CEO blames passenger for violent removal

http://resistancereport.com/class-war/united-airlines-ceo-blames-passenger/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 264 comments

Why Is the Pentagon a Pentagon?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-pentagon-pentagon-180962719/?no-ist

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 129 comments

How Google Book Search Got Lost

https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 80 comments

AIGrant: Get $5,000 for your open source AI project

https://nat.org/aigrant-get-5-000-for-your-open-source-ai-project-1118dd7db083

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 37 comments

Umberto Eco's Anti-Library (2015)

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 48 comments

Introducing paid subscriptions on GitLab.com

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/04/11/introducing-subscriptions-on-gitlab-dot-com/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 78 comments

Host Your Own Content

https://rempel.world/posts/host-your-own.html

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 83 comments

Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

https://searchenginewatch.com/2016/02/25/say-goodbye-to-google-14-alternative-search-engines/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 83 comments

LOT – A subscription-based service which distributes a basic set of clothing

https://www.lot2046.com/

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 146 comments

Ask HN: What are some great “Free” services provided by IBM, Amazon, etc.?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14087880

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 51 comments

Teleport 2.0 Released: Modern SSH for clusters and teams

http://gravitational.com/blog/teleport_2.0_released/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 72 comments

DeepstreamHub: a faster Firebase with an open core

https://deepstreamhub.com/#main

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 42 comments

Inside Blue Apron’s Meal Kit Machine

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-10/inside-blue-apron-s-meal-kit-machine

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 102 comments

Assemblers and Loaders (1993) [pdf]

http://www.davidsalomon.name/assem.advertis/asl.pdf

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 4 comments

Cargo Cult Agile (2008)

http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Cargo-Cult-Agile.html

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 109 comments

Lyft Closes $600M round at $7.5B Valuation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-11/kkr-among-lyft-investors-at-7-5-billion-valuation-for-startup

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: A simple way to get options prices for free

http://www.strategic-options.com/insight/how-to-get-option-prices-for-free-api-yahoo/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 26 comments

Toshiba warns it may not be able to continue as a going concern

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-11/toshiba-reports-earnings-without-auditor-s-approval-after-delays

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 82 comments
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