top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-23

Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

12 years ago

749 upvotes – 93 comments

On bananas and string matching algorithms

http://www.wabbo.org/blog/2014/22aug_on_bananas.html

12 years ago

260 upvotes – 62 comments

USBCondom

https://www.crowdsupply.com/xipiter/usbcondom

12 years ago

247 upvotes – 92 comments

Deep Learning: An MIT Press book in preparation

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/dlbook/

12 years ago

224 upvotes – 39 comments

Chromecast Rooted

http://forum.xda-developers.com/hardware-hacking/chromecast/root-hubcap-chromecast-root-release-t2855893

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 101 comments

Julia 0.3 released

http://julialang.org/blog/2014/08/julia-0.3-release/

12 years ago

176 upvotes – 50 comments

Project Gitenberg

http://gitenberg.github.io/

12 years ago

175 upvotes – 72 comments

There’s a simple alternative to the current web

http://hapgood.us/2014/08/14/the-web-is-broken-and-we-should-fix-it/

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 143 comments

SpaceX rocket explodes during testing over Texas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28910812

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: Terra, a JS framework for cellular automata and biological simulations

http://rileyjshaw.com/terra/

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

Why do all code editors look the same?

https://medium.com/@jviereck/43de0df2daed

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 54 comments

What is a Hacker? (1985)

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 29 comments

How I work as a digital nomad

http://typicalprogrammer.com/how-i-work-as-a-digital-nomad/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 111 comments

NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies (2013)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 40 comments

Dark net drug markets kept alive by great customer service

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-08/21/buying-drugs-on-the-dark-net

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 66 comments

Lessons from the Novena laptop project

http://lwn.net/Articles/608426/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

The state of Android updates: Who’s fast, who’s slow, and why

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/the-state-of-android-updates-whos-fast-whos-slow-and-why/

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Cupertino.js – A JavaScript to Cocoa compiler and runtime

https://github.com/jerrymarino/cupertinojs

12 years ago

77 upvotes – 23 comments

The Look of Funny: How the Onion's Art Department Works

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3033865/the-look-of-funny-how-the-onions-art-department-work

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 4 comments

Student’s six-foot water and solar-powered lens purifies polluted water

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2014/08/015.html

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 45 comments

What Is Time?

https://medium.com/@calhoun137/what-is-time-dee7f911eafa

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

Let's build a browser engine, Part 4: Style

http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2014/08/25/toy-layout-engine-4-style.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 2 comments

Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity (2008)

http://archive.archaeology.org/0801/trenches/colorgods.html

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

BASIC as a Haskell DSL (2009)

http://augustss.blogspot.com/search/label/BASIC

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Writing Analytics SQL with Common Table Expressions

http://research.neustar.biz/2014/05/19/writing-analytics-sql-with-common-table-expressions/

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

Gura: Iterator-Oriented Programming Language

http://www.gura-lang.org/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

Conjecture Regarding Larger iPhone Displays

http://daringfireball.net/2014/08/larger_iphone_display_conjecture

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 34 comments

Lesson from Old India: When an Economy Just Doesn’t Get Better

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/upshot/lesson-from-old-india-when-an-economy-just-doesnt-get-better.html?hpw&rref=upshot&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&abt=0002&abg=0

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 61 comments

The FLIR One, a heat camera for the iPhone, is now available

http://www.flir.com/flirone/

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 56 comments

Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored

http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 28 comments

How to Write an Opening Sentence

http://author-zone.com/write-opening-sentence/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Lucene's FuzzyQuery is 100 times faster in 4.0 (2011)

http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2011/03/lucenes-fuzzyquery-is-100-times-faster.html

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments

A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep?

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/a-gene-makes-you-need-less-sleep

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments

Software Defined Radio with HackRF

http://greatscottgadgets.com/sdr/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

Could We Build a Dyson Sphere?

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/deep/could-we-build-a-dyson-sphere-17110415

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 14 comments

Final exams for kindergartners

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/08/22/and-now-final-exams-for-kindergartners-really/

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 56 comments
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