top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-05

Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-7J5OaSag

12 years ago

719 upvotes – 126 comments

Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts

http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/tim-lott-zen-buddhism-alan-watts/

12 years ago

268 upvotes – 146 comments

Google to Make Security Guards Employees, Rather Than Contractors

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/03/google-to-make-security-guards-as-employees-rather-than-contractors/

12 years ago

257 upvotes – 144 comments

Hewlett-Packard Plans to Break in Two

http://online.wsj.com/articles/hewlett-packard-plans-to-break-in-two-1412530028?mod=djemalertTECH

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 112 comments

How does a computer chip work?

http://www.quora.com/Computer-Science/How-does-a-computer-chip-work/answer/Subhasis-Das?share=1

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Apple's iPhone encryption won't stop NSA

http://siliconexposed.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-apples-iphone-encryption-wont-stop.html

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 68 comments

How the Z80's registers are implemented

http://www.righto.com/2014/10/how-z80s-registers-are-implemented-down.html

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 24 comments

Firechat and nearby communication

http://breizh-entropy.org/~nameless/random/posts/firechat_and_nearby_communication/

12 years ago

128 upvotes – 28 comments

Autothysis SSD drives impede unauthorised access

http://securedrives.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=73_75

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 54 comments

Bitcoin falls below $300, lowest in 11 months

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitstamp/btcusd?below300

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 104 comments

Our Understanding of Giraffes Does Not Measure Up

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/science/our-understanding-of-giraffes-does-not-measure-up.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LargeMediaHeadlineSum&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 40 comments

On the Computational Complexity of MapReduce

http://jeremykun.com/2014/10/05/on-the-computational-complexity-of-mapreduce/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 7 comments

1041uuu Pixel Art

http://1041uuu.tumblr.com/

12 years ago

116 upvotes – 11 comments

Naive Bayes and Text Classification I – Introduction and Theory

http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_naive_bayes_1.html

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

Why haven't quadcopters been scaled up yet?

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/3300/why-havent-quadcopters-been-scaled-up-yet

12 years ago

111 upvotes – 54 comments

The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Ever

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/02/magazine/mag-oil-lawsuit.html

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 26 comments

Cheap Beer and the Psychology of PlayStation Now Pricing

http://www.psychologyofgames.com/2014/08/cheep-beer-and-the-psychology-of-playstation-now-pricing/

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 31 comments

OpenBSD 5.6: What will be there

http://www.openbsd.org/56.html

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 81 comments

Glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in science

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/04/glut-postdoc-researchers-stirs-quiet-crisis-science/HWxyErx9RNIW17khv0MWTN/story.html

12 years ago

99 upvotes – 70 comments

What is probabilistic programming?

http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2014/09/08/probabilistic-programming/

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 9 comments

Building a testable Go web app

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/building-a-testable-webapp

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Why do roots of polynomials tend to have absolute value 1?

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/182412/why-do-roots-of-polynomials-tend-to-have-absolute-value-1

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Generate interactive heatmaps from your Google Location History data

http://theopolisme.github.io/location-history-visualizer/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

HexLogic – Logic gates in a hexagon grid

http://anubiann00b.github.io/HexLogic/

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Kurt Vonnegut, the Art of Fiction No. 64 (1977)

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3605/the-art-of-fiction-no-64-kurt-vonnegut

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 5 comments

A new type of software helps researchers decide what they should be looking for

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21621704-new-type-software-helps-researchers-decide-what-they-should-be-looking

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 3 comments

English Proficiency Index

http://www.ef.com/epi

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Dubai detectives to get Google Glass

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/02/us-emirates-dubai-google-police-idUSKCN0HR0W320141002

12 years ago

57 upvotes – 52 comments

The Power of Interoperability: Why Objects Are Inevitable (2013) [pdf]

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/papers/objects-essay.pdf

12 years ago

51 upvotes – 43 comments
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