top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-25

Painting with Code: Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app

http://airbnb.design/painting-with-code/

9 years ago

787 upvotes – 95 comments

Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job

https://80000hours.org/career-guide/how-to-be-successful/

9 years ago

693 upvotes – 246 comments

How to Become Well-Connected

http://firstround.com/review/how-to-become-insanely-well-connected/

9 years ago

573 upvotes – 140 comments

Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14191161

9 years ago

486 upvotes – 183 comments

Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?

https://priceonomics.com/is-every-speed-limit-too-low/

9 years ago

471 upvotes – 725 comments

A Primer on Bézier Curves

https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo#preface

9 years ago

398 upvotes – 61 comments

Experimental Nighttime Photography with Nexus and Pixel

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/experimental-nighttime-photography-with.html

9 years ago

380 upvotes – 74 comments

Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-25/alphabet-s-self-driving-cars-to-get-their-first-real-riders

9 years ago

323 upvotes – 402 comments

Windows Is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/109962/windows-bloated-thanks-adobes-extensible-metadata-platform

9 years ago

321 upvotes – 180 comments

Exercise 'keeps the mind sharp' in over-50s, study finds

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39693462

9 years ago

317 upvotes – 244 comments

States are moving to cut college costs by introducing open-source textbooks

https://qz.com/962487/states-are-moving-to-cut-college-costs-by-introducing-open-source-textbooks/

9 years ago

314 upvotes – 179 comments

Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/25/uber-must-turn-over-information-about-its-acquisition-of-otto-to-waymo-court-rules/

9 years ago

297 upvotes – 121 comments

Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am an Engineer' in an Email to the Gov't

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/man-fined-dollar500-for-crime-of-writing-i-am-an-engineer-in-an-email-to-the-government

9 years ago

289 upvotes – 237 comments

Why don't schools teach debugging? (2014)

https://danluu.com/teach-debugging/

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 168 comments

In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income”

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/22/in-costly-bay-area-even-six-figure-salaries-are-considered-low-income/

9 years ago

256 upvotes – 409 comments

How Yahoo Killed Flickr (2012)

https://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 179 comments

Go programming language secure coding practices guide

https://github.com/Checkmarx/Go-SCP

9 years ago

★ 5.2k Go CC-BY-SA-4.0
225 upvotes – 17 comments

Uber employees 'spied on ex-partners, politicians and Beyoncé' (2016)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/13/uber-employees-spying-ex-partners-politicians-beyonce

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 89 comments

Identify Plants with an App

http://www.plantsnap.net/

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 111 comments

Oj – Optimized JSON in Ruby

http://www.ohler.com/oj/index.html

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 27 comments

Nginx 1.13 released with TLS 1.3 support

http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2017/000195.html

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 81 comments

Linkerd 1.0

https://blog.buoyant.io/2017/04/25/announcing-linkerd-1.0/index.html

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 56 comments

Envoy: 7 months later

https://eng.lyft.com/envoy-7-months-later-41986c2fd443

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 46 comments

JPEG Huffman Coding Tutorial

http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/jpeg-huffman-coding.html

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 14 comments

Geological Insights from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search

https://eos.org/project-updates/geological-insights-from-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-search

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 38 comments

Shutting down public FTP services

https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2017/msg00001.html

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 126 comments

The cost of using different sites on mobile networks around the world

https://whatdoesmysitecost.com

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 90 comments

Access Now and EFF Condemn the Arrest of Tor Node Operator Dmitry Bogatov

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/access-now-and-eff-condemn-arrest-tor-node-operator-dmitry-bogatov-russia

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 38 comments

Feynman Algorithm (2014)

http://wiki.c2.com/?FeynmanAlgorithm

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 96 comments

How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language (2015)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/toki-pona-smallest-language/398363/?single_page=true

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 102 comments

Hackpad shutting down

https://hackpad.com/

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 79 comments

An extra-uterine system to physiologically support the extreme premature lamb

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 79 comments

Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer to Make $186M from Verizon Deal

https://www.wsj.com/articles/yahoos-marissa-mayer-to-make-186-million-from-verizon-deal-1493103650

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 193 comments

NSA Blimp Spied in the United States

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/24/nsa-blimp-spied-in-the-united-states/

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 39 comments

The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/04/21/science.aal4617.full

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 111 comments

A Seven Dimensional Analysis of Hashing Methods [pdf]

http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p96-richter.pdf

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 5 comments

Yad Vashem's database of Holocaust victims' names

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39062221

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 229 comments

“Mindless Eating,” or how to send an entire life of research into question

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/the-peer-reviewed-saga-of-mindless-eating-mindless-research-is-bad-too/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 80 comments

Remote work statistics for April 2017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14191732

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 53 comments

Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/cormac-mccarthy-explains-the-unconscious

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: React Timekeeper – Time picker based on the style of Google Keep

https://catc.github.io/react-timekeeper/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

Is Facebook capable of adapting to the world it created?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/magazine/can-facebook-fix-its-own-worst-bug.html

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 77 comments

Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress, racism

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Suicide-of-an-Uber-engineer-widow-blames-job-11095807.php

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 48 comments

Tell HN: Discord is violating open source licenses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14194460

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 46 comments

Japanese Education: Amae, Stress, and Perseverence

http://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-education/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments

The legend of the Legion

https://aeon.co/essays/why-young-men-queue-up-to-die-in-the-french-foreign-legion

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 18 comments

Best Linux Distros for Gaming in 2017

https://thishosting.rocks/best-linux-distros-for-gaming/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 50 comments

A practitioner’s guide to hedonism (2007)

https://www.1843magazine.com/story/a-practitioners-guide-to-hedonism

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 50 comments

Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber rivals consolidate

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/25/gett-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-juno-for-250m-as-uber-rivals-consolidate/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

Emojipedia.org

http://emojipedia.org/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 57 comments

Tamper Chrome extension to modify requests in flight

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tamper-chrome-extension/hifhgpdkfodlpnlmlnmhchnkepplebkb/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: TARDIS – Warp a process's perspective of time by hooking syscalls

https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/TARDIS

9 years ago

★ 160 C MIT
77 upvotes – 28 comments

Consciousness as a State of Matter (2014)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1219

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 52 comments

Xenko Game Engine 2.0 released

http://xenko.com/blog/release-xenko-2-0-0/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 75 comments

Cracking the Mystery of Labor's Falling Share of GDP

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-24/cracking-the-mystery-of-labor-s-falling-share-of-gdp

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: JSONSchema to TypeScript compiler

https://github.com/bcherny/json-schema-to-typescript

9 years ago

★ 3.2k TypeScript MIT
72 upvotes – 34 comments

Implementing a Fast Research Compiler in Rust

http://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/blog/weld.html

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 3 comments
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