hackerNews

1

Choosing Minecraft over Disney (medium.com)

493 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052221 184 comments

1

jq - like sed for JSON data (stedolan.github.io)

444 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2015042921 89 comments

2

Statistical Formulas For Programmers (www.evanmiller.org)

375 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052221 64 comments

1

Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

301 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052121 298 comments

6

Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap (simonsfoundation.org)

267 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052203 93 comments

2

Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using (leanstack.io)

245 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052200 87 comments

7

\d less efficient than [0-9] (stackoverflow.com)

243 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052200 75 comments

2

A Hacker News For Ideas (firespotting.com)

241 points first seen 2013052000 last seen 2013052106 71 comments

5

Mercury Colonization (einstein-schrodinger.com)

221 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052200 123 comments

2

The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr (twitter.com)

192 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052100 174 comments

7

What are your top 100 unix commands? (for science) (docs.google.com)

149 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052121 77 comments

8

Wikileaks Release: Anakata Docs (wikileaks.org)

149 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052200 35 comments

10

Functional Programming in 5 Minutes (slid.es)

147 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052106 81 comments

11

Native equivalents of jQuery functions (www.leebrimelow.com)

141 points first seen 2013052021 last seen 2013052200 93 comments

4

The feds are making it hurt in every way for Weev, but for what? (motherboard.vice.com)

140 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052200 122 comments

6

Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim (fredkschott.com)

117 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052106 23 comments

34

Poll: Which is your primary text editor? (news.ycombinator.com)

106 points first seen 2013052021 last seen 2013052106 128 comments

4

Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone With Customisable Shells (techcrunch.com)

105 points first seen 2013052021 last seen 2013052200 56 comments

14

I know who 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is, says Ted Nelson (www.theregister.co.uk)

99 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052018 75 comments

18

Ex-Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance Schemes (techcrunch.com)

93 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052103 55 comments

11

Bootstrap 3 is mobile-first (github.com)

92 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052106 28 comments

8

CSS Tube Map (www.csstubemap.co.uk)

92 points first seen 2013052021 last seen 2013052121 44 comments

16

Why use a database instead of just saving your data to disk? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

88 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052100 87 comments

12

The SEO Mistake That Wiped Out 80% of My Traffic (www.ecommercefuel.com)

88 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052106 50 comments

12

NetBSD 6.1 is Relased (www.netbsd.org)

82 points first seen 2013052000 last seen 2013052100 17 comments

5

Call me maybe: MongoDB (aphyr.com)

80 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2014070700 72 comments

3

Inside AT&T’s 83GB/hour mobile cell tower. (9to5mac.com)

80 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052109 46 comments

10

U.S. Software developer wages fall 2% as workforce expands (www.computerworld.com)

74 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052103 54 comments

17

Customers won't give you money unless you ask (blog.downie.com.au)

74 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052106 24 comments

8

Release of Diaspora v0.1.0.0 (joindiaspora.com)

72 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052103 58 comments

5

A Better Way to Manage the Rails Secret Token (daniel.fone.net.nz)

72 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052109 56 comments

21

First Glimpse into the Soul of a Tamagotchi (www.kwartzlab.ca)

68 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052106 10 comments

15

Explaining to my Dad why I quit my job (joshaust.in)

66 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052103 35 comments

6

Sponsor Me, If You Will (malone.cc)

66 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052103 25 comments

18

Stumbling Into the Cold Expanse of Real Programming (prog21.dadgum.com)

63 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052121 4 comments

17

Techu - RESTful full-text searches with Sphinx, Redis, Nginx & Django (georgepsarakis.github.io)

62 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052103 17 comments

26

Why 2.4GHz? Chasing wireless history (www.indiegogo.com)

61 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052109 3 comments

11

Yahoo, please start with a Vulnerability Reward Program (www.nilsjuenemann.de)

58 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052100 19 comments

62

The myth of Nazi efficiency (coffeecuphistory.wordpress.com)

55 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052009 85 comments

25

Samsung swipes 95 percent of total industry profits earned from Android phones (www.digitaltrends.com)

53 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052106 23 comments

22

Steve Jobs capped many of the teams in Cupertino (minimalmac.com)

50 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052106 14 comments

25

Is Tumblr the new Geocities? (www.forbes.com)

45 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052103 25 comments

24

Zedboard, dual ARM cores with an FPGA attached (zedboard.org)

44 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052103 13 comments

17

The Feds Are Cracking Down On Mt. Gox (Not On Bitcoin) (www.forbes.com)

43 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052118 18 comments

48

Tesla Rides High, But Faces Formidable Foe: Car Dealers (www.npr.org)

41 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052021 50 comments

25

H-1B Fashion Models Strut Into U.S. as Programmers Pray for Help (www.bloomberg.com)

39 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052103 35 comments

66

Ask HN: What are some 'startup lingo' you didn't know before? (news.ycombinator.com)

37 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052009 44 comments

20

Repository redirects are here (github.com)

36 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052106 12 comments

39

A report on our outrageous, shameless, and out-of-control bad-boy "brogrammers" (www.marieclaire.com)

36 points first seen 2013052021 last seen 2013052103 26 comments

26

7 open source projects to cut your teeth on (and the ones to avoid) (www.itworld.com)

34 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052021 24 comments

51

Understand How It Works (martinrue.com)

33 points first seen 2013052021 last seen 2013052103 12 comments

11

How Stuff Spreads #1: Gangnam Style vs Harlem Shake (www.facegroup.com)

32 points first seen 2013052000 last seen 2013052018 13 comments

69

Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License (en.wikipedia.org)

31 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052006 55 comments

29

Ask HN: Would you sign up for a "Hire-a-HN-Hacker" board? (news.ycombinator.com)

30 points first seen 2013052000 last seen 2013052012 25 comments

19

From Web to Native: A Journey in Interface Design (medium.com)

30 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052100 2 comments

20

Google IO 2013 – Google Glass Sessions (glass-apps.org)

29 points first seen 2013052000 last seen 2013052018 20 comments

24

Introduction to Map Projection (www.colorado.edu)

29 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052100 6 comments

21

Real-time UK Bus Data Ruby Gem (github.com)

22 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052021 22 comments

30

Japan Starts to Recharge After Two Lost Economic Decades (www.nytimes.com)

22 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052018 39 comments

17

Embedded Database Engine Written in Python (github.com)

21 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2015101903 16 comments

48

On Hong Kong Shelves, Illicit Dirt on China’s Elite (www.nytimes.com)

21 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052103 6 comments

23

Yahoo 'to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn' (bbc.co.uk)

19 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052100 9 comments

36

Analytics for Tumblr - MountainMetrics.com (www.mountainmetrics.com)

17 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052021 15 comments

85

How I could log in to Yahoo Mail with any password (nick.malcolm.net.nz)

17 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052015 5 comments

13

Hacker News Kansai: Next Meetup in Kobe, Japan on 31st of May (hnkansai.doorkeeper.jp)

17 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052100 7 comments

31

OpenStack and Ceph integration (www.techbar.me)

16 points first seen 2013052000 last seen 2013052012 3 comments

0

On Hong Kong Shelves, Illicit Dirt on China’s Elite (www.nytimes.com)

15 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052015 4 comments

62

Deploying a Web app in 14 days, No HTML (korynunn.wordpress.com)

15 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052100 8 comments

37

Improving options for unlocking your graph data (strata.oreilly.com)

14 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052015 0 comments

0

Police Response to School Water Balloon Fight: Violence and Arrests (reason.com)

14 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052009 6 comments

71

Simulating Network Partitions on a Riak Cluster (aphyr.com)

13 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052012 4 comments

41

Ask HN: Would someone pay for managing their FB/Twitter feed? (news.ycombinator.com)

12 points first seen 2013052000 last seen 2013052009 25 comments

35

Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion (online.wsj.com)

12 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052015 3 comments

44

Be humble. (nathanclark.me)

12 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052015 7 comments

77

From iPhoto to Dropbox: from feature rich to future proof. (blog.vrypan.net)

11 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052012 6 comments

81

2013 VPS Benchmarks - Linode, Digital Ocean and Hot Drupal (www.midwesternmac.com)

11 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052012 5 comments

73

How Plus Will Become The Next Google Reader (technorati.com)

11 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052018 6 comments

68

Go: The game to beat all games (www.economist.com)

11 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052021 7 comments

32

5M users in 4 months. How hike plans to win the global messaging space (techcrunch.com)

10 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052015 18 comments

0

Show HN: Conway's Game of Life JS implementation (54.247.181.15)

10 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052009 10 comments

47

The Design Koans (www.64notes.com)

10 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052100 2 comments

70

5 reasons why Yahoo is making a $1.1 billion mistake (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

10 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052021 3 comments

57

No rules in this game (sivers.org)

10 points first seen 2013052021 last seen 2013052103 0 comments

82

Ask HN: Anyone in a need of a python/django guru? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2013052000 last seen 2013052003 6 comments

46

Working as a CEO, being and entrepreneur (tumblr.bjornjeffery.com)

9 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052012 6 comments

64

Ask HN: Why are many software engineers on a "later" schedule? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052018 12 comments

42

Building Firefox OS apps using ClojureScript (www.b2geek.net)

9 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052100 0 comments

66

Ask HN: Best way to teach programming to a person with Asperger+ADD? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2013052000 last seen 2013052006 3 comments

68

Ask HN: Would you use a service that sent you customized spoken information? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052006 24 comments

76

Ask HN: How do you protect yourself from bank fraud? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052009 6 comments

62

Ask HN: Why am I not permitted to crawl HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052018 4 comments

0

State Drops Charges Against High School Student Arrested For Science Experiment (www.popsci.com)

8 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052015 0 comments

88

Blank comments in Facebook (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052009 2 comments

40

Financial Times’ Twitter, tech blog hijacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (arstechnica.com)

7 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052021 0 comments

45

An app to browse your friends' trips (blog.zetrip.com)

7 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052100 5 comments

49

Innovation Lessons from the Rise of Tesla Motors (timkastelle.org)

7 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052100 0 comments

71

What if I only have an idea? (www.steqheu.com)

7 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052100 0 comments

43

Soccerpunch - Creating a 3D mini-game in 48h [Livestream] (forum.minko.io)

6 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052012 0 comments

0

Google "Atari Breakout" and switch to image search (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052006 0 comments

82

Ask HN: What do you guys think of codeschool.com's ruby course? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052015 3 comments

0

NoSQL Distilled to an hour - Martin Fowler (vimeo.com)

5 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052006 0 comments

0

Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

5 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052006 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How often do salary expectations not match up? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052006 7 comments

0

Ask HN: Getting into Data Science/Stat/Marketing? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052006 0 comments

90

Ask HN: Why do people worry about scaling before they actually scale? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052912 6 comments

60

6000 mile-long panoramic photo shot from orbit (petapixel.com)

5 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052100 0 comments

63

Latest Dart VM Beats JVM in DeltaBlue Benchmark (May 11th) (www.infoq.com)

5 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052100 0 comments

81

Determine handedness of a pinch gesture (github.com)

5 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052100 0 comments

0

Reddit secret plan for world domination (de.slideshare.net)

4 points first seen 2013052000 last seen 2013052000 2 comments

56

Should You Consider Replacing Yourself as CEO? (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

4 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052012 0 comments

0

Embed the Chicken Scheme runtime into a FastCGI module hosted by Apache server (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052006 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How do I get into consulting coming from a finance background? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052006 6 comments

66

Teen's Inexpensive Self-Driving Tech Takes Home $75K Intel Prize (www.pcmag.com)

4 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052012 0 comments

0

Google Sensors Are Data Mining I/O Attendees - And They Don't Care (readwrite.com)

4 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052009 0 comments

90

"This would be better without feature X"--said no one, ever. (yarianluis.com)

4 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052012 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Which other large tech companies should Yahoo buy? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052009 0 comments

0

Why we are going to be like our parents, and why that’s ok (danielflopes.com)

4 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052012 2 comments

0

Hollywood Studios Censor Pirate Bay Documentary (torrentfreak.com)

4 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052012 0 comments

71

Using Docker to Build Firefox (gregoryszorc.com)

4 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052018 0 comments

59

We made it easier to offer help at Mentii (evolution.mentii.com)

4 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052100 0 comments

88

There’s A WiFi-Enabled Arduino Now (techcrunch.com)

4 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052021 0 comments

0

Mine seeking dolphins find historic torpedo (www.dvice.com)

4 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052018 0 comments

0

Aaron Levie: Not your typical multimillionaire (www.bbc.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2013052021 last seen 2013052021 0 comments

90

Humans of New York in Tehran - Stopping Strangers on the Streets of Iran (betterymagazine.com)

3 points first seen 2013052000 last seen 2013052003 0 comments

0

Please Don't 'Like' This Post (And I Really Mean It This Time) (readwrite.com)

3 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052003 0 comments

0

Psychological Pitfalls And Lessons of A Designer-Founder (www.azarask.in)

3 points first seen 2013052003 last seen 2013052003 0 comments

0

Google I/O 2013 - Fireside Chat with the Go Team (m.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052006 0 comments

0

Google I/O 2013 - Fireside Chat with the Go Team (youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052006 0 comments

0

SpaceX satellite fairing tested in world's largest vacuum chamber (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052006 3 comments

0

Reddit launches an "about" page to help new users understand it (www.reddit.com)

3 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052006 3 comments

0

Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity? (www.theatlantic.com)

3 points first seen 2013052006 last seen 2013052006 0 comments

89

What do you use to keep notes as a developer? (www.stackprinter.com)

3 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052012 2 comments

0

Tumblr posts tagged with yahoo (www.tumblr.com)

3 points first seen 2013052009 last seen 2013052009 0 comments

0

Design doesn't matter (medium.com)

3 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052012 0 comments

0

The mathematics of team productivity (plusbryan.com)

3 points first seen 2013052012 last seen 2013052012 0 comments

0

Reverse Engineering Financial Data Sources (joshvarty.wordpress.com)

3 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052015 0 comments

0

Show HN: 500 Years of Witnessed Meteors w/ d3.js (roadtolarissa.com)

3 points first seen 2013052015 last seen 2013052015 0 comments

72

Yahoo Japan says 22 mn user IDs may have been leaked (www.firstpost.com)

3 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052021 0 comments

82

More is not better (medium.com)

3 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052021 0 comments

0

Lock your script (against parallel run) (wiki.bash-hackers.org)

3 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052018 2 comments

0

Hackers and canvas (www.evanmiller.org)

3 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052018 0 comments

0

RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH Theatrical Release (www.kickstarter.com)

3 points first seen 2013052018 last seen 2013052018 0 comments

0

Jolla prices first Sailish OS smartphone at €399 for a 2013 launch (www.theverge.com)

3 points first seen 2013052021 last seen 2013052021 0 comments