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1.Ask HN: Idea Sunday
369 points by rokhayakebe on April 6, 2014 | 567 comments
2.The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid (uncrunched.com)
347 points by McKittrick on April 6, 2014 | 288 comments
10 - 15 years
302 points | parent
4.Flickr: Invitations disclosure (resend feature) (hackerone.com)
317 points by mathias on April 6, 2014 | 90 comments
5.Progress Button Styles (tympanus.net)
287 points by madisonmay on April 6, 2014 | 52 comments
20 - 30 years
223 points | parent
15 - 20 years
218 points | parent
8.Ask HN: Any hackers over 60? 70?
221 points by GuiA on April 6, 2014 | 118 comments
9.WebM support on 4chan (4chan.org)
229 points by ivarious on April 6, 2014 | 98 comments
10.Mailr: an open-source webmail client with Gmail-like conversations (pusto.org)
218 points by cocoflunchy on April 6, 2014 | 51 comments
11.Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer (startupboy.com)
214 points by tikhon on April 6, 2014 | 58 comments
12.Alan Kay's Reading List (c2.com)
201 points by lazydon on April 6, 2014 | 59 comments

> Ask HN: any hackers over 60? 70?

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.

14.This girl in SF stole my MacBook Air (ahryunmoon.com)
165 points by amartinezfonts on April 6, 2014 | 205 comments
7 - 10 years
148 points | parent
16.Man's high-tech paradise lost: bionic eye removed (thewhig.com)
161 points by edward on April 6, 2014 | 78 comments
17.Spaced Repitition (gwern.net)
160 points by rfreytag on April 6, 2014 | 67 comments
18.Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season (wired.com)
150 points by x43b on April 6, 2014 | 98 comments
30 - 50 years
139 points | parent
20.Spiped – symmetric, encrypted, authenticated pipes between sockets (tarsnap.com)
149 points by malandrew on April 6, 2014 | 86 comments
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
3 - 5 years
130 points | parent
23.The Fallacy of Android-First (techcrunch.com)
138 points by schvenk on April 6, 2014 | 86 comments
24.Virtual reality affects men and women differently (zephoria.org)
137 points by killwhitey on April 6, 2014 | 103 comments
5 - 7 years
126 points | parent
26.Miracle health device crowdfunds $730k, but might be bullshit (pando.com)
132 points by Angostura on April 6, 2014 | 98 comments
27.Agony of an African programmer (iafrikan.com)
127 points by ilhackernews on April 6, 2014 | 132 comments
28.A Story Of realloc (And Laziness) (httrack.com)
130 points by janerik on April 6, 2014 | 63 comments
29.Google Now for Chrome (google.com)
127 points by jaseemabid on April 6, 2014 | 100 comments
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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