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<h1 style="text-align: center;">best of hacker news</h1>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">2016-04-23</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>] by Don Sagrott founder@sospep.com - a selection of the best posts from the hacker news(HN) community(news.ycombinator.com)&nbsp;during this period,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] the article title is linked to the original(source) article,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] the comments are linked to the hacker news comments section for each article.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] The date is linked to&nbsp;<a href="http://jonathandub.in/" target="_blank">Jonathan Dubin's</a> site, <a href="http://waybackhn.com/" target="_blank">Wayback HN</a> which keeps &nbsp;a listing of the top 30 stories by date from the hacker news website.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] The numbers beside the comments link, include the # upvotes the article recieved and the number of comments on the article</li>
<li>] the initials beside the article title indicate the category the article belongs, too, see the [categories legend] below&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li>] a curated selection of <strong>the most interesting/relevant content*</strong> (for ...) , organized by date and category</li>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li><strong>[ categories legend ]</strong></li>
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<li>] blank/nothing - non technical article</li>
<li>] t - tech</li>
<li>] td - tech developer</li>
<li>] tu - tech user</li>
<li>] tb - tech business</li>
<li>] other =&gt; ] nations, ] money, ] poli /tics /cy</li>
<li>] ? = politics</li>
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<li><strong>[highlights]</strong></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #c0c0c0;">] GREY - &nbsp;article is RELATED to another article/chapter/book</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">] LT YELLOW -</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;created a summary/analysis/... article manually for this article, click through for addional notes/details on this article</li>
<li><span style="background-color: #ff0000;">] RED -</span>&nbsp;warning ? &nbsp;</li>
<li><span style="background-color: #00ff00;">] GREEN - cool SITES - go check these out</span></li>
<li>] &gt; &nbsp;- check this first&nbsp;</li>
<li>] LT GREY -&nbsp;</li>
<li>] YELLOW -&nbsp;</li>
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<li>[review]</li>
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<li>] listed/selected = would like to/should read</li>
<li>] read =&nbsp;</li>
<li>] categorizied</li>
<li>&gt;]&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2016-04-23</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<li><strong>[<a href="http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2016-04-23" target="_blank">2016-04-23</a>]</strong></li>
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<li>td &gt;]&nbsp;<a href="http://dangrover.com/blog/2016/04/20/bots-wont-replace-apps.html" target="_blank">Bots won't replace apps, only better apps will replace apps</a>&nbsp;(dangrover.com), SRC=hn(258)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11557166" target="_blank">comments</a>(65)&nbsp;</li>
<li>tb &gt;]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amd" target="_blank">AMD stock up 52%</a>&nbsp;(nasdaq.com) , SRC=hn(242)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554492" target="_blank">comments</a>(92), SRC=hn(234)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555527" target="_blank">comments</a>(67)&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li>td ]&nbsp;<a href="http://c9x.me/compile/" target="_blank">Show HN: QBE &ndash; a new compiler back end</a>&nbsp;(c9x.me)</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/scott-aaronson-answers-every-ridiculously-big-question-i-throw-at-him/" target="_blank">Interview with Scott Aaronson</a>&nbsp;(scientificamerican.com), SRC=hn(190)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555306" target="_blank">comments</a>(78) &nbsp;</li>
<li>&gt;]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/15/bike-batman-seattle-theft-vigilante-anonymous" target="_blank">Seattle vigilante reuniting stolen bikes with their owners</a>&nbsp;(theguardian.com) , SRC=hn(183)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11558617" target="_blank">comments</a>(136)&nbsp;</li>
<li>&gt;]&nbsp;<a href="https://news.greylock.com/why-uber-won-5598a2a66561#.hz33sst9k" target="_blank">Why Uber Won</a>&nbsp;(greylock.com), SRC=hn(172)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11556349" target="_blank">comments</a>(141)</li>
<li>td ]&nbsp;<a href="http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/04/21/forget-arima/" target="_blank">Sorry ARIMA, but I&rsquo;m Going Bayesian (stitchfix.com)</a>, SRC=hn(172)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555551" target="_blank">comments</a>(33)&nbsp;</li>
<li>SITE]&nbsp;<a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/04/22/fired-reddit-exec-quietly-launches-izzy-a-warmer-fuzzier-reddit/" target="_blank">Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit</a>&nbsp;(thenextweb.com) , SRC=hn(169)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11556017" target="_blank">comments</a>(360)&nbsp;</li>
<li>td]&nbsp;<a href="http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/04/v8-release-51.html" target="_blank">V8 Release 5.1 (blogspot.com)</a>, SRC=hn(167)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555298" target="_blank">comments</a>(55)</li>
<li>td]&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/" target="_blank">Doom as a tool for system administration (1999)</a>&nbsp;(unm.edu), SRC=hn(165)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555310" target="_blank">comments</a>(39)&nbsp;</li>
<li>t]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/aero/nasa-moves-to-begin-historic-new-era-of-x-plane-research" target="_blank">NASA to begin historic new era of X-Planes</a>&nbsp;(nasa.gov), SRC=hn(151)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11558091" target="_blank">comments</a>(51)&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-rise-of-illegal-pirate-libraries?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=atlas-page" target="_blank">The Rise of Pirate Libraries</a>&nbsp;(atlasobscura.com), SRC=hn(132)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11556053" target="_blank">comments</a>(35)&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="https://gist.github.com/spaze/558b7c4cd81afa7c857381254ae7bd10" target="_blank">Opera VPN behind the curtains is just a proxy</a>&nbsp;(github.com)&nbsp;, SRC=hn(125)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11557416" target="_blank">comments</a>(47)&nbsp;</li>
<li>priv]&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/04/22/schools-are-helping-police-spy-on-kids-social-media-activity/" target="_blank">Schools are helping police spy on kids&rsquo; social media activity</a>&nbsp;(washingtonpost.com)&nbsp;, SRC=hn(102)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11558607" target="_blank">comments</a>(75)&nbsp;</li>
<li>td]&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/imatix/gsl" target="_blank">GSL &ndash; a Universal Code Generator</a>&nbsp;(github.com), SRC=hn(99)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11558007" target="_blank">comments</a>(28)&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="https://psmag.com/how-the-apocalypse-will-bring-out-the-best-in-people-56f51136e770#.oegshdfkk" target="_blank">How the Apocalypse Will Bring Out the Best in People</a>&nbsp;(psmag.com) , SRC=hn(85)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555111" target="_blank">comments</a>(72)&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27187398" target="_blank">UK 'a tax haven for multinationals' (2014)</a>&nbsp;(bbc.com), SRC=hn(70)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555184" target="_blank">comments</a>(52)&nbsp;</li>
<li>td]&nbsp;<a href="http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/04/22/scala-vs-node-js-as-a-restful-backend-server/" target="_blank">Scala vs. Node.js as a RESTful back end server (2015)</a>&nbsp;(redhat.com), SRC=hn(61)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555667" target="_blank">comments</a>(47)</li>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<p>] <a href="/view/chapters?id=314" target="_blank">BOOK-technology-stories-2016</a> - best-of-hacker-news-2016-04</p>
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