top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-07-13

Show HN: A mostly complete 2014 "Tools of the Trade"

https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade

12 years ago

★ 17k
321 upvotes – 96 comments

Making an embedded Linux computer

http://hforsten.com/making-embedded-linux-computer.html

12 years ago

243 upvotes – 21 comments

How to talk to a 36-year-old space probe with GNU Radio, a USRP and a big dish

http://www.jmalsbury.com/how-to-talk-to-a-36-year-old-space-probe-isee-3-with-gnu-radio-a-usrp-and-a-big-dish/

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 18 comments

Rust for functional programmers

http://science.raphael.poss.name/rust-for-functional-programmers.html

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 52 comments

Hardware Case Study: Why Lockitron Has Taken So Long To Ship

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/13/1025132?hn=true

12 years ago

198 upvotes – 127 comments

EA is File Snooping with the Origin Client

http://wccftech.com/ea-spying-file-snooping-origin-client-investigation/

12 years ago

191 upvotes – 120 comments

Popcorntime is leaving GitHub

http://status.popcorntime.io/

12 years ago

183 upvotes – 123 comments

Clojure Grimoire: an up-to-date ClojureDocs alternative

http://grimoire.arrdem.com/

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows

https://bvckup2.com/?hn

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 102 comments

A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection [pdf]

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 15 comments

Program Synthesis Demo

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/pubs/mobisys13.mp4

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 19 comments

Please.js – Random Pleasing Colors

http://www.checkman.io/please/

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 31 comments

Edward Snowden will speak at HOPE X on Saturday

http://hope.net/schedule.html

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 25 comments

Too Much Power For One Man

http://www.drewdavismedia.com/details.php?pid=1

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 86 comments

Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/technology/amazon-a-friendly-giant-as-long-as-its-fed.html

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 79 comments

Rust for C++ programmers – Part 8: destructuring

http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.com/2014/07/rust-for-c-programmers-part-8.html

12 years ago

108 upvotes – 13 comments

A Wave-Tracking Experiment

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/07/11/330748781/the-most-astonishing-wave-tracking-experiment-ever

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

Learning “computer code” will be offered in French primary schools

http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2014/07/13/l-apprentissage-du-code-informatique-sera-propose-au-primaire-en-septembre_4456197_3224.html

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

British rocket scientist says he's designed a better saucepan

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-saucepan-rocket-scientist-heat-efficient-20140710-story.html

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 80 comments

Mutable Algorithms in Immutable Languages, Part 2

http://tel.github.io/2014/07/13/mutable_algorithms_in_immutable_languages_part_2/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 3 comments

The Data of Hate

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/opinion/sunday/seth-stephens-davidowitz-the-data-of-hate.html?_r=0

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 112 comments

On Swift’s array semantics

http://yinwang0.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/swift-array/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 63 comments

Python Reference – a collection of tutorials and other useful things

https://github.com/rasbt/python_reference

12 years ago

★ 3.8k Jupyter Notebook
84 upvotes – 2 comments

Microsoft’s New CEO Needs An Editor

http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/07/13/microsofts-new-ceo-needs-an-editor/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 26 comments

Interactive scientific computing: Goldilocks languages

http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/189377.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Usable Live Programming

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/liveprogramming.aspx?2

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

All Children Should Be Delinquents

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/opinion/sunday/all-children-should-be-delinquents.html

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 75 comments

We think Germany will win. But don’t take our word for it

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/07/we-think-germany-will-win-but-dont-take-our-word-for-it.html#

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 5 comments

New russian 8-core CPU

http://www.mcst.ru/novyj-8yadernyj-mikroprocessor-elbrus-8c

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 55 comments

Disruption? Not if you are making the same people rich

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/07/13/disruption-making-people-rich/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

Postgres 9.5 feature highlight: Import Foreign Schema

http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-5-feature-highlight-import-foreign-schema/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Wifi and the square of the radius

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201407#14

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments

A ToC of the 20-part linker essay (2008)

http://lwn.net/Articles/276782/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

How to handle division by zero in a language that doesn't support exceptions?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/208677/how-to-handle-divide-by-zero-in-a-language-that-doesnt-support-exceptions

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 62 comments

Are Uber and Lyft responsible for reducing DUIs?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/10/are-uber-and-lyft-responsible-for-reducing-duis/

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 53 comments

The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China's Working Class

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-mao-mango-cult-of-1968/

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 12 comments

Microkernels vs. hypervisors (2008)

http://www.ok-labs.com/blog/entry/microkernels-vs-hypervisors/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments
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