2014-05-31 front | Hacker News

Stories from May 31, 2014

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.

1.		Who or What Broke My Kids? (powersfulmath.wordpress.com)
		177 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2014 \| 198 comments
2.		LAPD adds drones to arsenal, says they'll be used sparingly (latimes.com)
		153 points by radley on May 31, 2014 \| 110 comments
3.		How to get business ideas – remove steps (ninjasandrobots.com)
		147 points by nate on May 31, 2014 \| 71 comments
4.		Justin.tv ending archiving, deleting all archived videos after June 14 (justin.tv)
		149 points by makomk on May 31, 2014 \| 74 comments
5.		Universities can’t fulfil the myth, but can’t become vocational schools either (arstechnica.com)
		146 points by whyenot on May 31, 2014 \| 64 comments
6.		How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) (norvig.com)
		144 points by yankoff on May 31, 2014 \| 41 comments
7.		Mt Everest in 3D: Everest Avalanche Tragedy (everestavalanchetragedy.com)
		135 points by njsubedi on May 31, 2014 \| 47 comments
8.		Pointers Gone Wild (ucsd.edu)
		132 points by lelf on May 31, 2014 \| 65 comments
9.		Don't buy the IEEE edition of my book (plus.google.com)
		121 points by geekam on May 31, 2014 \| 33 comments
10.		Software Foundations (upenn.edu)
		114 points by luu on May 31, 2014 \| 14 comments
11.		Edward Snowden responds to release of e-mail by U.S. officials (washingtonpost.com)
		109 points by ChrisAntaki on May 31, 2014 \| 39 comments
12.		An upgrade to attoparsec, Haskell parsing library: more speed, more power (serpentine.com)
		105 points by jcurbo on May 31, 2014 \| 11 comments
13.		It's the Latency, Stupid (1996) (stanford.edu)
		101 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2014 \| 52 comments
14.		Startup vs. Corporate Life (lawnstarter.com)
		101 points by stevencorcoran on May 31, 2014 \| 81 comments
15.		Linux Mint 17 “Qiana” Cinnamon released (linuxmint.com)
		95 points by Akhilan on May 31, 2014 \| 28 comments
16.		Show HN: FiveStar.io – The best Amazon products, by budget (fivestar.io)
		75 points by Shrugs on May 31, 2014 \| 46 comments
17.		This Guy Trademarked the Symbol for Pi and Took Away Our Geeky T-Shirts (wired.com)
		79 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2014 \| 21 comments
18.		The tech boom in Seattle is bringing in droves of successful, insufferable guys (salon.com)
		72 points by ForHackernews on May 31, 2014 \| 45 comments
19.		The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers (niemanlab.org)
		67 points by Brajeshwar on May 31, 2014 \| 28 comments
20.		German foreign intelligence agency wants to access social media in realtime (dw.de)
		71 points by rosser on May 31, 2014 \| 31 comments
21.		Ask HN: Open Courses vs. Master degrees value in the IT market
		63 points by atmosx on May 31, 2014 \| 47 comments
22.		A startup postmortem with a happy ending (fridriksson.tumblr.com)
		62 points by watson on May 31, 2014 \| 30 comments
23.		Google to close Motorola smartphone factory in Texas (bbc.com)
		60 points by oori on May 31, 2014 \| 44 comments
24.		The Pocket Handbook of Image Processing Algorithms in C (1993) [pdf] (umich.edu)
		61 points by StandardFuture on May 31, 2014 \| 14 comments
25.		It’s Still the Latency, Stupid (2007) (edgeblog.net)
		57 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2014 \| 5 comments
26.		Ask HN: Mentor Saturday
		61 points by eatitraw on May 31, 2014 \| 41 comments
27.		Diversity and Feedback at GitHub (github.com/blog)
		56 points by akerl_ on May 31, 2014 \| 55 comments
28.		How to spot first stories on Twitter using Storm (micvog.com)
		53 points by nkurz on May 31, 2014 \| 6 comments
29.		Ask HN: How bad is it to use a self-signed SSL certificate?
		56 points by mark_l_watson on May 31, 2014 \| 115 comments
30.		Malcolm Gladwell ‘Surprised’ to Become an Amazon Bargaining Chip (nytimes.com)
		52 points by denismars on May 31, 2014 \| 44 comments
		More

HN For You