top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-13

How We Built r/Place

https://redditblog.com/2017/04/13/how-we-built-rplace/

9 years ago

1152 upvotes – 242 comments

PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phantomjs/9aI5d-LDuNE

9 years ago

854 upvotes – 225 comments

Introducing Increment

https://stripe.com/blog/increment

9 years ago

574 upvotes – 106 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letter

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312517120198/d373368dex991.htm

9 years ago

547 upvotes – 256 comments

United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler

http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-united-low-priority-passenger-20170412-story.html

9 years ago

538 upvotes – 450 comments

Remove United from your flight results

http://dropunited.com/

9 years ago

535 upvotes – 277 comments

What made Xerox PARC special? Who else today is like them?

https://www.quora.com/What-made-Xerox-PARC-special-Who-else-today-is-like-them/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1

9 years ago

514 upvotes – 218 comments

Saturn moon 'able to support life'

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39592059

9 years ago

491 upvotes – 256 comments

Low-Level Programming University – A roadmap to becoming a low-level programmer

https://github.com/gurugio/lowlevelprogramming-university

9 years ago

★ 12.6k GPL-3.0
438 upvotes – 161 comments

Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/business/monsanto-roundup-safety-lawsuit.html?_r=0

9 years ago

405 upvotes – 243 comments

Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

https://blog.servo.org/2017/04/13/windows/

9 years ago

351 upvotes – 114 comments

Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/13/instagram-stories-bigger-than-snapchat/

9 years ago

330 upvotes – 190 comments

Historian: Because Please Stop Deleting My Bash History

https://undertitled.com/2017/04/12/historian-because-please-stop-deleting-my-bash-history.html

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 178 comments

Intel Haskell Research Compiler

https://github.com/IntelLabs/flrc

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 38 comments

Prettier 1.0

http://jlongster.com/prettier-1.0

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 76 comments

Mary Anderson, a Founder of the Outdoor Cooperative REI, Dies at 107

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/business/mary-anderson-died-co-founder-of-rei-cooperative.html

9 years ago

267 upvotes – 112 comments

Go compiler: Initial support for concurrent backend compilation

https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/40693/

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 89 comments

Udp.c in Linux kernel pre-4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10229#vulnDescriptionTitle

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 65 comments

New research says starting university classes at 11am would improve learning

https://qz.com/957858/let-them-sleep-in-university-students-learn-better-in-classes-starting-after-11am-neuroscience-research-shows/

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 155 comments

Mimicking an impact on Earth’s early atmosphere yields all 4 RNA bases

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/mimicking-an-impact-on-earths-early-atmosphere-yields-all-4-rna-bases/

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 56 comments

Adding a security key to Gmail

https://techsolidarity.org/resources/security_key_gmail.htm

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 123 comments

More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and bike to office jobs

https://qz.com/952961/remote-work-more-americans-now-work-full-time-from-home-than-walk-and-bike-to-their-jobs/

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 139 comments

Uber reportedly tracked Lyft drivers using a program named ‘Hell’

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/12/hell-o-uber/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 154 comments

Nintendo Discontinues the NES Classic Edition

http://ign.com/articles/2017/04/13/nintendo-discontinues-the-nes-classic-edition

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 159 comments

Ubuntu 17.04 Released

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/13/ubuntu-17-04-supports-widest-range-of-container-capabilities/?_ga=1.156580155.1890963078.1492100196

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 94 comments

Ownership is Theft: Experiences Building an Embedded OS in Rust (2015) [pdf]

https://sing.stanford.edu/site/publications/levy-plos15-tock.pdf

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 116 comments

The De-Electrification of the U.S. Economy

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-12/the-de-electrification-of-the-u-s-economy

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 156 comments

Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1047

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 130 comments

Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/its-like-tweeting-but-you-cant-use-the-letter-e

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 122 comments

Walking in L.A.

http://www.walkinginla.com/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 107 comments

Pitch decks we used to raise $1.1M

https://www.twine.fm/blog/pitch-deck-used-to-raise-a-million/

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 40 comments

Glimmer.js: What’s the Deal with TypeScript?

https://medium.com/@tomdale/glimmer-js-whats-the-deal-with-typescript-f666d1a3aad0

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 107 comments

Taking a Look at CLR Thread Pool 'Thread Injection' Algorithm

http://mattwarren.org/2017/04/13/The-CLR-Thread-Pool-Thread-Injection-Algorithm/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 16 comments

Building a Bank with Go [video]

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/bank-go

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 64 comments

Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn’t Seem O.K. With Google

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/business/burger-king-tv-ad-google-home.html

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 125 comments

The Elements of Bureaucratic Style

https://longreads.com/2017/04/12/the-elements-of-bureaucratic-style/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 40 comments

Micro-monolith anti-pattern

http://chi.pl/2017/01/30/Micro-monolith-Anti-pattern.html

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 69 comments

All You Zombies

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/all-you-zombies

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 37 comments

Humble People Make the Best Leaders

https://hbr.org/2017/04/if-humble-people-make-the-best-leaders-why-do-we-fall-for-charismatic-narcissists

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: What are your impressions of the HoloLens so far?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14106028

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 116 comments

A new vantage point: Canonical CEO Jane Silber to step down

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/12/a-new-vantage-point/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 78 comments

How Pushing to Extremes Led an Amateur Cyclist to Ventricular Tachycardia

https://cyclingtips.com/2017/04/book-excerpt-pushing-extremes-led-amateur-cyclist-ventricular-tachycardia/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 72 comments

Mailman – Find email newsletters you can sponsor to promote your product/service

http://hellomailman.com/?h

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 33 comments
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