top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-30

Sistine Chapel

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

12 years ago

Dragon V2 Unveil – Webcast

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?

12 years ago

How LEDs are Made

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-leds-are-made/all

12 years ago

Write your first Linux kernel module

http://www.linuxvoice.com/be-a-kernel-hacker/?pk_campaign=hn&pk_kwd=3

12 years ago

PirateBox 1.0

http://piratebox.cc/

12 years ago

TrueCrypt must not die

http://truecrypt.ch/

12 years ago

Java 8 Features

http://www.infoq.com/articles/Java-8-Quiet-Features?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=8java_article

12 years ago

The story behind football's innovative yellow first down line

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20130718/nfl-birth-of-the-yellow-line/

12 years ago

After Google bought Nest, it removed company’s biggest competitors from results

http://pando.com/2014/05/29/after-google-bought-nest-it-removed-one-of-the-companys-biggest-competitors-from-search-results/

12 years ago

The Unitedstates Project

http://theunitedstates.io/

12 years ago

Pollen: the book is a program

http://mbutterick.github.io/pollen/doc/

12 years ago

Death Row – Last words of every Texas inmate executed since 1982

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html

12 years ago

Show HN: Mighty Spring – Passive job search

https://www.mightyspring.com/

12 years ago

A Year Later, Most Americans Think Snowden Did The Right Thing

http://www.darkreading.com/a-year-later-most-americans-think-snowden-did-the-right-thing/d/d-id/1269269?

12 years ago

Apache Spark 1.0.0

http://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-1-0-0.html

12 years ago

Logic Gates as Pulley Systems [video]

http://vimeo.com/93042377

12 years ago

OpenGL Is Broken

http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154

12 years ago

Combatting illegal abuses of ngrok

https://inconshreveable.com/05-29-2014/automate-away-your-problems-combatting-illegal-abuses-of-ngrok/

12 years ago

How the Asians Became White

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/29/how-the-asians-became-white/

12 years ago

Pushing iOS

http://jaymachalani.com/blog/2014/5/29/pushing-ios

12 years ago

RandomColor – a color generator for JavaScript

http://llllll.li/randomColor/

12 years ago

If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers

http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa6506e2f35eaac

12 years ago

The Rise of the $8 Ice Cube

http://priceonomics.com/the-rise-of-the-s8-ice-cube/

12 years ago

Why Ada isn't Popular (1998)

http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=Class&ClassID=Advocacy&CID=39

12 years ago

Show HN: Richard Dawkins’ Biomorphs Implemented in JavaScript

http://www.emergentmind.com/biomorphs

12 years ago

It's time for the US to use the metric system

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/29/5758542/time-for-the-US-to-use-the-metric-system

12 years ago

4K for $649: Asus' PB287Q monitor reviewed

http://techreport.com/review/26510/4k-for-649-asus-pb287q-monitor-reviewed

12 years ago

MIT and Harvard release de-identified learning data from open online courses

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/mit-and-harvard-release-de-identified-learning-data-open-online-courses

12 years ago

New algorithm could transfer acclaimed photographers’ styles to cellphone photos

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/spruce-your-selfie

12 years ago

When Excite nearly bought Google

https://www.submarinecrm.com/blog/when-excite-nearly-bought-google

12 years ago

CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach?hn=true

12 years ago

★ 32.1k Go

The lessons of Bulletstorm and the problem with price-points

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-05-29-the-astronauts-in-2014-USD60-for-a-game-is-a-little-insane

12 years ago

More than 250 million global events are now in the cloud for anyone to analyze

http://gigaom.com/2014/05/29/more-than-250-million-global-events-are-now-in-the-cloud-for-anyone-to-analyze/

12 years ago

After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, Stories Come Out

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/after-the-sun-microsystems-sets-the-real-stories-come-out#.U4i8_UgJq1E.hackernews

12 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to donate $120M to needy Bay Area schools

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_25862641/mark-zuckerberg-and-his-wife-donate-120-million

12 years ago

Soylent Taste Test

http://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/personaltech/100000002907606/soylent-taste-test.html

12 years ago

ARM 64 Bit Server CPU Development Kit

https://myxgene.apm.com/

12 years ago

Algorithms.js – Atwood's Law applied to CS101

https://github.com/felipernb/algorithms.js

12 years ago

★ 2 JavaScript MIT

TrueCrypt security audit presses on, despite developers jumping ship

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/truecrypt-security-audit-presses-on-despite-developers-jumping-ship/

12 years ago

Static site generators focus on the wrong thing

http://blog.pankajmore.in/static-site-generators-focus-on-the-wrong-thing

12 years ago

Futures: 1000 years, three worlds, same day

http://www.worlddreambank.org/F/FUTURES.HTM

12 years ago

Amazon’s Illegal Drugs: Steroids, Muscle Relaxants, Prescription Antibiotics

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/05/amazon_illegal_drugs_muscle_relaxants_steroids_prescription_drugs_delivered.html

12 years ago

Show HN: Brix for Bootstrap

http://brix.io/welcome/

12 years ago

Simulation class: 2D wave equations (in browser)

http://encinographic.blogspot.com/2014/05/sim-class-wave-equation-in-2d.html

12 years ago

What's the story with the Makerbot patent?

http://boingboing.net/2014/05/30/whats-the-story-with-the-mak.html

12 years ago

Google just lost it

http://www.liblfds.org/habari/google-just-lost-it

12 years ago

Parallel Locality Sensitive Hashing

http://istc-bigdata.org/plsh/

12 years ago