top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-05

PyPy-STM: first “interesting” release

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2014/07/pypy-stm-first-interesting-release.html

12 years ago

242 upvotes – 19 comments

Inspecting Yosemite's Icons

http://martiancraft.com/blog/2014/07/inspecting-yosemite-icons/

12 years ago

238 upvotes – 48 comments

IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/communications/logs/Gulf-War/desert-storm/

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 105 comments

Your high IQ might kill your startup (2010)

http://www.jamiebegin.com/high-iq-will-kill-startup

12 years ago

212 upvotes – 128 comments

How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?

http://blogs.gnome.org/mortenw/2014/06/23/how-does-one-create-a-gtk-application/

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 100 comments

Google Ventures Library

http://www.gv.com/news/introducing-the-gv-library

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 15 comments

Ceylon: Quick introduction

http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.0/introduction/

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 75 comments

Larry Page and Sergey Brin with Vinod Khosla [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdnp_7atZ0M

12 years ago

153 upvotes – 21 comments

NeoVim Newsletter Issue #2

http://neovim.org/news/2014/july/

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 15 comments

NSA classifies Linux Journal readers as extremists

http://www.techspot.com/news/57316-nsa-classifies-linux-journal-readers-tor-and-tails-linux-users-as-extremists.html

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 62 comments

The AI boss that deploys Hong Kong's subway engineers

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329764.000-the-ai-boss-that-deploys-hong-kongs-subway-engineers.html#.U7hGpPldWy5

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 37 comments

Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors (1994)

http://www.ccnr.org/fatal_dose.html

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 40 comments

Move Over Kickstarter, Crypto-Equity Is the Next Frontier

http://panampost.com/belen-marty/2014/07/04/move-over-kickstarter-swarm-crypto-equity-is-the-next-frontier/

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 72 comments

Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%E2%80%93Morris%E2%80%93Pratt_algorithm

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 47 comments

Markov Chains Explained

http://techeffigy.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/markov-chains-explained/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 23 comments

We Did It!

https://mayday.us/2014/07/04/WeDidIt/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 23 comments

Bones: A simple Scheme compiler for x86_64 systems

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/bones/

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 10 comments

Ubuntu Mate

http://ubuntu-mate.org/

12 years ago

100 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Automatic web page content extractor for Node.js and the command line

https://github.com/ageitgey/node-unfluff

12 years ago

★ 2.1k HTML Apache-2.0
94 upvotes – 22 comments

During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/during-cold-war-cia-used-doctor-zhivago-as-a-tool-to-undermine-soviet-union/2014/04/05/2ef3d9c6-b9ee-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

Geek business myths (2006)

http://blog.rongarret.info/2006/10/top-ten-geek-business-myths.html

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 8 comments

Lego-like bricks for full-sized buildings

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/these-bricks-are-like-lego-for-full-sized-buildings/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 31 comments

Study participants typically did not enjoy spending 15 minutes by themselves

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/science/2014/07/03/idle/J2LpEcTdZzLykRCTnZ80fL/story.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 78 comments

Fireworks filmed with a drone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9KZ3jgbbmI

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Unreal Engine 4 – Linux Demos

https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Linux_Demos

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

243 Game – inspired by 2048

http://243game.com

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: How do you know when to quit your startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7992028

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 48 comments

Trans-Cranial Direct Current Stimulation

http://www.radiolab.org/story/9-volt-nirvana/

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

The New Fast Food

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/05/the-new-fast-food/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 44 comments

Egison – Pattern-matching-oriented Programming Language

http://www.egison.org/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

The Axiom of Choice is Wrong (2007)

http://cornellmath.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/the-axiom-of-choice-is-wrong/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 76 comments

Felix Dennis, a hedonist and media magnate, died on June 22nd aged 67

http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21606234-felix-dennis-hedonist-and-media-magnate-died-june-22nd-aged-67-felix-dennis

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

3d scene representation in Haskell

http://devskypers.blogspot.com/2014/07/lost-in-space.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 40 comments

People voluntarily leaving jobs at highest rate since 2009 downturn

http://www.jsonline.com/business/people-voluntarily-leaving-jobs-at-highest-rate-since-2009-downturn-b99303175z1-265866551.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

The Last Days of the Polymath (2009)

http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/edward-carr/last-days-polymath

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

This Ugly Ad Saved My Business

http://www.gkogan.co/blog/ugly-ad-saved-business/#

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments
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