| 1. | | Ask HN: Idea Sunday |
| 369 points by rokhayakebe on April 6, 2014 | 567 comments |
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| 2. | | The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid (uncrunched.com) |
| 347 points by McKittrick on April 6, 2014 | 288 comments |
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| 4. | | Flickr: Invitations disclosure (resend feature) (hackerone.com) |
| 317 points by mathias on April 6, 2014 | 90 comments |
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| 5. | | Progress Button Styles (tympanus.net) |
| 287 points by madisonmay on April 6, 2014 | 52 comments |
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| 8. | | Ask HN: Any hackers over 60? 70? |
| 221 points by GuiA on April 6, 2014 | 118 comments |
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| 9. | | WebM support on 4chan (4chan.org) |
| 229 points by ivarious on April 6, 2014 | 98 comments |
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| 10. | | Mailr: an open-source webmail client with Gmail-like conversations (pusto.org) |
| 218 points by cocoflunchy on April 6, 2014 | 51 comments |
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| 11. | | Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer (startupboy.com) |
| 214 points by tikhon on April 6, 2014 | 58 comments |
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| 12. | | Alan Kay's Reading List (c2.com) |
| 201 points by lazydon on April 6, 2014 | 59 comments |
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| 14. | | This girl in SF stole my MacBook Air (ahryunmoon.com) |
| 165 points by amartinezfonts on April 6, 2014 | 205 comments |
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| 16. | | Man's high-tech paradise lost: bionic eye removed (thewhig.com) |
| 161 points by edward on April 6, 2014 | 78 comments |
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| 17. | | Spaced Repitition (gwern.net) |
| 160 points by rfreytag on April 6, 2014 | 67 comments |
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| 18. | | Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season (wired.com) |
| 150 points by x43b on April 6, 2014 | 98 comments |
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| 20. | | Spiped – symmetric, encrypted, authenticated pipes between sockets (tarsnap.com) |
| 149 points by malandrew on April 6, 2014 | 86 comments |
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| 21. | | Speed memory access by arranging data to take advantage of CPU caching (gameprogrammingpatterns.com) |
| 149 points by jervisfm on April 6, 2014 | 52 comments |
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| 23. | | The Fallacy of Android-First (techcrunch.com) |
| 138 points by schvenk on April 6, 2014 | 86 comments |
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| 24. | | Virtual reality affects men and women differently (zephoria.org) |
| 137 points by killwhitey on April 6, 2014 | 103 comments |
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| 26. | | Miracle health device crowdfunds $730k, but might be bullshit (pando.com) |
| 132 points by Angostura on April 6, 2014 | 98 comments |
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| 27. | | Agony of an African programmer (iafrikan.com) |
| 127 points by ilhackernews on April 6, 2014 | 132 comments |
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| 28. | | A Story Of realloc (And Laziness) (httrack.com) |
| 130 points by janerik on April 6, 2014 | 63 comments |
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| 29. | | Google Now for Chrome (google.com) |
| 127 points by jaseemabid on April 6, 2014 | 100 comments |
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| 30. | | Digital Ocean needs to start showing outages on their status page (medium.com/p) |
| 129 points by jonny_eh on April 6, 2014 | 108 comments |
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I'm 68, and I should add that "hacker" meant something different when I first heard it used. :)
> Are you still employed or retired?
I'm retired, but I still program for enjoyment. I have a line of free Android apps published:
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=lutus&c=apps
> How does one's passion and aptitude for hacking evolve towards this part of one's life?
If anything, programming has become more important to me as I have gotten older, for the same reason that mathematics has greater appeal to a maturing mind -- it represents a rational counterpoint to a world that, over time, seems to make less sense.