top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-21

Why Racket? Why Lisp?

http://practicaltypography.com/why-racket-why-lisp.html

12 years ago

418 upvotes – 280 comments

The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201409/the-last-true-hermit?printable=true

12 years ago

383 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

http://whiteboardfox.com/

12 years ago

309 upvotes – 140 comments

DocumentDB

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/documentdb/

12 years ago

300 upvotes – 164 comments

Multi-Datacenter Cassandra on 32 Raspberry Pi’s

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/32-node-raspberry-pi-cassandra-cluster

12 years ago

276 upvotes – 55 comments

The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free EBooks

http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/the-harvard-classics-download-all-51-volumes-as-free-ebooks.html

12 years ago

236 upvotes – 48 comments

Biologically extending human vision into the near-infrared: Initial success

http://experiment.com/u/aAcR2Q?helloHN

12 years ago

228 upvotes – 60 comments

Serendipity – When 2 people listen to the same song at the same time

http://kylemcdonald.net/serendipity/

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 67 comments

RTFM 0day in iOS apps

http://algorithm.dk/posts/rtfm-0day-in-ios-apps-g-gmail-fb-messenger-etc

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Duo – a next-generation package manager for the front end

http://duojs.org/

12 years ago

168 upvotes – 100 comments

Codefights

http://www.codefights.com

12 years ago

154 upvotes – 84 comments

LowDB – A flat JSON file database

https://github.com/typicode/lowdb?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email

12 years ago

★ 22.5k JavaScript MIT
148 upvotes – 70 comments

This Is Your Brain on Silence

http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/this-is-your-brain-on-silence

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 71 comments

Ftrace: The hidden light switch

http://lwn.net/Articles/608497/

12 years ago

145 upvotes – 10 comments

At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/fashion/at-burning-man-the-tech-elite-one-up-one-another.html?ref=fashion

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 57 comments

Gamma error in picture scaling (2007)

http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

Dune Genesis (1980)

http://moodleshare.org/mod/page/view.php?id=2453

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 72 comments

Metaballs and Marching Squares

http://jamie-wong.com/2014/08/19/metaballs-and-marching-squares

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 19 comments

Product Hunt iOS App

http://www.producthunt.com/apps/ios

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 36 comments

Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework

http://www.airpair.com/js/javascript-framework-comparison

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 90 comments

Coding with EFF

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/coding-with-eff

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

Chinese coal consumption just fell for first time this century

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/chinese-coal-consumption-just-fell-first-time-century-49062

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 29 comments

Earn a Master of Information and Data Science Online

http://requestinfo.datascience.berkeley.edu/index.html?s=linkedinspcpc&l=1020_mids_greenstates_skills-industry_comp-hightech_gen3apply-logo&utm_source=linkedinspcpc&utm_campaign=1020_mids_greenstates_skills-industry_comp-hightech_gen3apply-logo&utm_medium=link

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 63 comments

Finances of a Bare Bones Developer

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/KevinMaxon/20140818/223653/Finances_of_a_Bare_Bones_Developer.php

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 71 comments

6 Marketing Techniques That Will Make You Better at Selling

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140821031041-18720225-6-marketing-techniques-that-will-make-you-better-at-selling?trk=hb_ntf_MEGAPHONE_ARTICLE_POST

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: MTurk is no longer available to non-US companies. How are you coping?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8208718

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 57 comments

Walking The Beat – Mining Seattle's Police Report Data

http://www.bayesimpact.org/blog/walking-the-beat.html

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups

http://perspectivemockups.com/

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 51 comments

Nearables Are Here: Introducing Estimote Stickers

http://blog.estimote.com/post/95382199590/nearables-are-here-introducing-estimote-stickers

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

Gulp.js: The streaming build system

http://gulpjs.com/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 49 comments

Recommendations API

https://developer.bestbuy.com/documentation/recommendations-api

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 25 comments

Ozone-Depleting Compound Persists, NASA Research Shows

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/august/ozone-depleting-compound-persists-nasa-research-shows/index.html#.U_XW9Nm9K0e

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 61 comments

Popular and Free, SoundCloud Is Now Ready for Ads

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/business/media/popular-and-free-soundcloud-is-now-ready-for-ads.html

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 56 comments

Epic Drought in West Is Literally Moving Mountains

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/epic-drought-in-west-is-literally-moving-mountains/

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 73 comments

What Lies Beneath Stonehenge?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-lies-beneath-Stonehenge-180952437/?all

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 36 comments

Azure Search as a Service

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search/

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Will you be seated on a jury?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/20/nyregion/jury-duty-quiz.html

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 85 comments

Fighting spam with BotMaker

https://blog.twitter.com/2014/fighting-spam-with-botmaker

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

Easter Egg Hidden in VMWare Fusion and Workstation

http://www.misc.name/#/pride-easter-egg/

12 years ago

72 upvotes – 47 comments

It's Time for a Four-Day Workweek

http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/08/its-time-for-a-four-day-workweek/378911/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 57 comments

Optimising the Unikernel

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/08/15/optimising-the-unikernel/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 1 comments

The 10,000 Hour Rule Is Not Real

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/10000-hour-rule-not-real-180952410/

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 92 comments

Julia 0.3 Official Release

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/NEWS.md#julia-v030-release-notes

12 years ago

★ 48.6k Julia MIT
67 upvotes – 3 comments

Jasper – Control anything with your voice

http://jasperproject.github.io

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

Two aid workers infected with the Ebola virus have been discharged from hospital

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28885753

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 45 comments

Why a Six-Figure Salary No Longer Means You’re Rich

https://blog.personalcapital.com/investing/six-figure-salary/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 98 comments

Insects and Entropy

http://tomayko.com/writings/insects-and-entropy

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

The White House Gives Up on Making Coders Dress Like Adults

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-white-house-dickerson/

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 49 comments

WWII Atomic Bomb Project Had More Than 1,500 "Leaks"

http://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2014/08/manhattan-project-leaks/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

Consul Service Discovery with Docker

http://progrium.com/blog/2014/08/20/consul-service-discovery-with-docker/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 3 comments

Scalable A/B Experiments at Pinterest

http://engineering.pinterest.com/post/95378137929/scalable-a-b-experiments-at-pinterest

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

Loss of neurons for sleep may explain why older adults suffer from insomnia

http://www.futurity.org/neurons-older-adults-insomnia-750332/

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments

Diaspora social network cannot stop IS posts

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28882042

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 96 comments

Dynamically Typed Languages (2009)

http://tratt.net/laurie/research/pubs/html/tratt__dynamically_typed_languages/

12 years ago

55 upvotes – 56 comments

Under the Knife: Why Chinese Patients are turning against their doctors

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/under-the-knife

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 43 comments

An Introduction to Futarchy

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/21/introduction-futarchy/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 57 comments

Cybersecurity as Realpolitik

http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

Reaction Engines brings us a step closer to Mach5 commercial air travel

http://www.thestar.com/news/the_world_daily/2014/08/uk_project_brings_us_a_step_closer_to_ultra_high_speed_air_travel___along_with_simpler_satellite_deployment.html

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 62 comments

Student may be jailed for posting scientist’s thesis on web

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/08/student-may-be-jailed-for-posting-scientists-thesis-on-web.html

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Crafting link underlines on Medium

https://medium.com/designing-medium/crafting-link-underlines-on-medium-7c03a9274f9

12 years ago

44 upvotes – 21 comments

UPS: We’ve Been Hacked – May have compromised customer card information

http://time.com/3151681/ups-hack/

12 years ago

43 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Friday – A fast image processing library written in Haskell

https://github.com/RaphaelJ/friday

12 years ago

★ 276 Haskell LGPL-3.0
41 upvotes – 1 comments

C as a portable assembly: porting RAEdit to 64-bit

http://rammichael.com/c-as-a-portable-assembly-porting-raedit-to-64-bit

12 years ago

41 upvotes – 18 comments
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