hackerNews

8

Eccentric axe uses physics to make splitting wood a lot easier. (www.vipukirves.fi)

534 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014042215 155 comments

18

Ask HN: Your favorite YouTube channels? (item?id=7609584)

286 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014042021 126 comments

4

SpaceX CRS-3 Mission (www.spacex.com)

264 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014042200 122 comments

13

How to exploit home routers for anonymity (danmcinerney.org)

181 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014042103 75 comments

1

Greed and the Wright Brothers (www.nytimes.com)

181 points first seen 2014041918 last seen 2014042200 90 comments

2

Why isn’t New Zealand richer and more productive? (marginalrevolution.com)

153 points first seen 2014041900 last seen 2014042012 156 comments

3

MorpHex, a hexapod robot (zentasrobots.com)

153 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014042112 18 comments

16

HabitRPG: A habit building app that treats your life like a game (habitrpg.com)

151 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014042103 47 comments

6

Airbnb closes $500M round of funding at a $10B valuation, led By TPG (techcrunch.com)

145 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014042109 102 comments

5

You Don't Read Code, You Explore It (prog21.dadgum.com)

145 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014042109 53 comments

7

Crate.io – Big Data SQL in real time (https://crate.io)

139 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014042103 76 comments

9

A powerful, precise language aptitude test is entering civilian life (nautil.us)

127 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014042106 60 comments

6

Computer Science from the Bottom Up (http://www.bottomupcs.com)

116 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014042006 44 comments

16

Joel Sposky's Take On Equity Allocation In A New Software Startup (2013) (money.stackexchange.com)

115 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014042009 64 comments

6

Ripple.js – a tiny foundation for building reactive views (ripplejs.github.io)

106 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014042103 26 comments

26

Processed foods that dilute protein content subvert our appetite control systems (www.nature.com)

98 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014042006 66 comments

11

How Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are rushing to cash in on cannabis (www.wired.com)

88 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014042021 71 comments

9

Growing-ups (aeon.co)

87 points first seen 2014041900 last seen 2014042012 73 comments

35

This May Hurt a Bit: Harvard medical student's blog (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

84 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014042000 23 comments

1

Employee Equity (blog.samaltman.com)

84 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2015112800 66 comments

22

Uber adds $1 “Safe Rides Fee” to UberX rides for background checks, insurance (thenextweb.com)

80 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014042009 81 comments

24

Linux /dev/urandom and concurrency (drsnyder.us)

77 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014042009 78 comments

6

Posical, the Positivist Calendar for Python (blog.zdsmith.com)

75 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014042009 74 comments

14

Whither print.css? A Rallying Cry for a Web That’s Fit to Print (2013) (www.modrenman.com)

70 points first seen 2014041900 last seen 2014042006 64 comments

72

Obama to hit Y Combinator headquarters in Mountain View on May 8 (blog.sfgate.com)

70 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014041915 67 comments

9

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 and 808 Processors (www.anandtech.com)

69 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014042100 45 comments

3

Mavericks as an iBeacon (www.blendedcocoa.com)

67 points first seen 2014041915 last seen 2014042106 5 comments

15

WebCL – Heterogeneous parallel computing in HTML5 web browsers (www.khronos.org)

63 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014042021 28 comments

4

Reactive UIs with React and Bacon (joshbassett.info)

63 points first seen 2014041921 last seen 2014042009 52 comments

27

Ask HN: Ex-Intuit Eng. Building Free Income Tax Software. Join Me? (item?id=7611878)

62 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014042006 56 comments

12

Unity 5 Feature Preview [video] (unity3d.com)

58 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014042021 43 comments

6

HMRC 'plans to share tax data with private firms' (www.bbc.co.uk)

49 points first seen 2014041921 last seen 2014042003 44 comments

17

C++14 and SDL2: Managing Resources (ericscottbarr.com)

48 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014042006 43 comments

0

How to exploit home routers for anonymity (danmcinerney.org)

43 points first seen 2014041900 last seen 2014041900 11 comments

23

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69 (1981) (www.theparisreview.org)

43 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014042009 2 comments

10

How to crash any media player on Android (felix.abecassis.me)

42 points first seen 2014041900 last seen 2014042006 26 comments

9

Comparision of different concurrency models: Actors, CSP, Disruptor and Threads (java-is-the-new-c.blogspot.ru)

39 points first seen 2014041921 last seen 2014042003 7 comments

14

Interpreting Noise (robjhyndman.com)

38 points first seen 2014041915 last seen 2014042012 31 comments

76

What should a self-taught programmer study? (item?id=7612783)

38 points first seen 2014041918 last seen 2014042000 52 comments

22

How Can I Invest in Microfinance? My Zidisha (YC 14) Experience (blog.microfinancetransparency.com)

37 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014042006 26 comments

31

Hacker News with a points threshold (news.ycombinator.com)

37 points first seen 2014041918 last seen 2014042003 18 comments

73

Write Better JavaScript with Promises (davidwalsh.name)

35 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041915 7 comments

23

Good and Bad Technical Debt (and how TDD helps) (blog.crisp.se)

32 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014042006 14 comments

19

Karl Polanyi Explains It All (prospect.org)

32 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041921 0 comments

27

Show HN: HeapSort – Jobs for Full Stack Software Engineers (http://www.heapsortjobs.com)

32 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014042006 32 comments

67

Reddit uses Adzerk API to improve native ad system (adzerk.com)

30 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014041906 18 comments

29

Attackers Exploit Heartbleed to Circumvent Multi-factor Authentication on VPNs (www.mandiant.com)

30 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014042009 6 comments

80

Programmers' Proverbs (I'd love some input) (github.com)

29 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014041906 51 comments

27

An experiment in iAd (blog.metarain.com)

27 points first seen 2014041900 last seen 2014042000 20 comments

28

Scalable Electronics Fabrication by CircuitHub (octopart.com)

25 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014042000 15 comments

44

The Quantified Other: Nest And Fitbit Chase A Lucrative Side Business (www.forbes.com)

24 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014042000 32 comments

72

The fuzzy math behind the search for MH370 (www.slate.com)

22 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041921 3 comments

13

VHDL Verification Course (www.stefanvhdl.com)

22 points first seen 2014041918 last seen 2014042012 11 comments

58

Ask HN: Spouse not on the same page (item?id=7611040)

20 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041921 18 comments

10

Show HN: Hummingbird - Preview Mockups on Devices in Realtime (blog.vivekpanyam.com)

20 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014042009 12 comments

69

Russian Spy Planes In US Skies (www.yahoo.com)

19 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014041906 14 comments

34

Lucrative Stardom in China, Using a Webcam and a Voice (www.nytimes.com)

19 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014042000 0 comments

66

Broker: A ridiculously fast data visualization platform. (broker.is)

17 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014041906 8 comments

41

Another TCP/32764 backdoor [pdf] (www.synacktiv.com)

17 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014042000 2 comments

30

Klout shuts down Cinch app with only 18 hours notice (thenextweb.com)

16 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014042000 5 comments

65

Are Hackathon Prizes The Worst Thing Since Moldy Sliced Bread? (mlh.io)

15 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041915 3 comments

0

Reactive Programming is the New OOP (dataflowbook.com)

14 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014041903 17 comments

0

Nest Uses Its Data To Turn Electric Utilities Into Cash Cows (techcrunch.com)

14 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014041903 6 comments

0

Urine in Portland reservoir: How dangerous is pee in drinking water? (www.slate.com)

14 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014041903 7 comments

0

Introducing the Snapdragon 810 and 808 Processors (www.qualcomm.com)

14 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041909 2 comments

0

F9R First Flight Test (www.youtube.com)

11 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041906 3 comments

48

Using Clang’s static analyzer to analyze your project (ivan.fomentgroup.org)

10 points first seen 2014041921 last seen 2014042009 0 comments

42

Dear Volunteer Web Developers: Thank You, You’re Awesome (www.eff.org)

9 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014042000 0 comments

0

Why we're not in a tech bubble (jackealtman.com)

8 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041906 0 comments

69

Don’t use casts (gustedt.wordpress.com)

7 points first seen 2014041900 last seen 2014041903 0 comments

79

Same Team, New Tricks (blog.carbonfive.com)

7 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014041906 0 comments

71

A Silicon Valley VC Firm That Dares to Invest in Diversity (www.wired.com)

7 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041918 0 comments

83

Mark Steyn: The slow death of free speech (fullcomment.nationalpost.com)

7 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041909 0 comments

0

With $4.6M In New Funding, Preact Helps Software Companies Keep Customers Happy (techcrunch.com)

7 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041906 0 comments

0

Show HN: Free continuous integration for Bitbucket and GitHub (item?id=7610053)

6 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041906 11 comments

75

Instarecs – instant recommendations using pairwise comparisons (github.com)

6 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041918 0 comments

0

Stacks – make it rain on your friends via Venmo (http://rainstacks.com)

6 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041909 2 comments

0

Does researching casual marijuana use cause brain abnormalities? (liorpachter.wordpress.com)

6 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014041912 0 comments

77

SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage appears to have executed a successful water landing (twitter.com)

6 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014041915 2 comments

81

Gillette’s Razor = Everything Wrong With America (nymag.com)

6 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014041918 0 comments

0

Windows Phone 8.1 has my attention now (www.hanselman.com)

6 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014041912 0 comments

34

License finder for Node.js (github.com)

6 points first seen 2014041921 last seen 2014042006 3 comments

65

MediaGoblin and FSF successfully raise funds for federation, privacy features (mediagoblin.org)

5 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014041909 0 comments

0

Behind the scenes at Stripe Checkout (medium.com)

5 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041906 0 comments

0

Show HN: Go for Glory – take the apibunny challenge (apibunny.com)

5 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041906 3 comments

60

Facebook Paper adds new Hacker News "cover" (www.facebook.com)

5 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041918 0 comments

0

Startup … I think we need to talk (startupsanonymous.com)

5 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041909 0 comments

0

Judge halts spread of zombie Nortel patents to Texas in Google trial (www.theregister.co.uk)

5 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014041912 0 comments

60

Update on Linksys WRT1900AC support (forum.openwrt.org)

5 points first seen 2014041918 last seen 2014042000 0 comments

0

How One Tiny Business is Dominating Social Media (www.inc.com)

4 points first seen 2014041900 last seen 2014041900 0 comments

0

How To Build A Super Car (McLaren Documentary) (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014041903 0 comments

0

Here's How The Taxi Industry Can Save Itself From Uber (www.businessinsider.com)

4 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041906 0 comments

0

T.E.C.H. Foundation and SVB happy hour featuring BUILD (item?id=7610241)

4 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041906 0 comments

77

Using Varnish with WordPress (ryanfrankel.com)

4 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041915 0 comments

85

NTP is broken under MacOS 10.9 (discussions.apple.com)

4 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041912 0 comments

0

Tidal Wave: Depression in the West – Calling for a new way of thinking (www.economist.com)

4 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041909 0 comments

0

Video of Falcon 9 Reusable (F9R) taking its first test flight (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041909 2 comments

0

One man’s journey to restore Star Trek’s bridge (arstechnica.com)

4 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041909 0 comments

0

Processing 2.1.2, now with Python mode. (twitter.com)

4 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041909 0 comments

0

HackCard: The world's first loyalty card for hackers (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041909 0 comments

0

"If you have tourists stay overnight, report this to the government" (www.deredactie.be)

4 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014041912 0 comments

73

USB attacks need physical access right? Not any more... (www.nccgroup.com)

4 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014041918 0 comments

80

Soylent to begin shipping on 4/25 (blog.soylent.me)

4 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014041915 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Do You Go Forward After Finding Very Similar Competition? (item?id=7612495)

4 points first seen 2014041918 last seen 2014041918 10 comments

0

TED-Ed,Lessons Worth Sharing (ed.ted.com)

3 points first seen 2014041900 last seen 2014041900 0 comments

0

"That's because you're still failing" (thestartuptoolkit.com)

3 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014041903 0 comments

0

Windows XP: How end of support sparked one organisation's shift from Microsoft (www.zdnet.com)

3 points first seen 2014041903 last seen 2014041903 0 comments

0

SpaceX Dragon CRS-3 successfully in orbit (item?id=7610879)

3 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041906 0 comments

89

Show HN: Kangaroo, smarter teams through anonymous feedback (http://Kangaroo.io )

3 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041912 0 comments

0

One in three Android apps on non-Google stores are malicious, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

3 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041909 2 comments

0

These 80 Android Devices could be vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug (www.digitaltrends.com)

3 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014041912 0 comments

0

Squarepusher x Z-Machines – The making of stupendous music machines (www.creativeapplications.net)

3 points first seen 2014041912 last seen 2014041912 0 comments

0

More than 100 hate-crime murders linked to single website (www.theguardian.com)

3 points first seen 2014041915 last seen 2014041915 0 comments

47

Clever (YC S12) is hiring engineers in San Francisco to hack education (item?id=7610093)

0 points first seen 2014041906 last seen 2014041915 0 comments

46

Medisas (YC W13) is hiring engineers to revolutionize hospital care (item?id=7611142)

0 points first seen 2014041909 last seen 2014041918 0 comments