top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-15

Our lander’s asleep

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/15/our-landers-asleep/

12 years ago

392 upvotes – 160 comments

The Man Who Made the UK Say “I’m Sorry for What We Did to Turing.”

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-man-who-made-the-uk-say-im-sorry-for-what-we-did-to-turing-8fc468dcea6b?

12 years ago

222 upvotes – 53 comments

Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning (2010)

http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/

12 years ago

218 upvotes – 142 comments

The Growing Impact of Old Scientific Papers

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/the-extraordinary-growing-impact-of-the-history-of-science-642022a39d67

12 years ago

184 upvotes – 38 comments

Alexander Grothendieck, Math Enigma, Dies at 86

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/world/europe/alexander-grothendieck-math-enigma-dies-at-86.html?smid=fb-share

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 23 comments

How I Built a Barbecue Restaurant in Brooklyn: The Toll of Owning Your Business

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/10/owning-your-own-restaurant-business.html

12 years ago

177 upvotes – 67 comments

Behind Closed Doors, Ford, UPS, and Visa Push for Net Neutrality

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-14/net-neutrality-ford-ups-visa-and-bofa-lobby-fcc-in-secret

12 years ago

171 upvotes – 78 comments

Higgs JavaScript Virtual Machine

https://github.com/maximecb/Higgs

12 years ago

★ 882 JavaScript
160 upvotes – 28 comments

RTX2010 – Radiation-hardened stack machine microprocessor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTX2010

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 60 comments

My favourite Zsh features

http://code.joejag.com/2014/why-zsh.html

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 43 comments

Arrakis: The Operating System Is the Control Plane

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/peter

12 years ago

136 upvotes – 17 comments

Allocators in Rust

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/11/14/allocators-in-rust/

12 years ago

129 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Whole Foods Is Moving in to One of the Poorest Neighborhoods in Chicago

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/14/why-whole-foods-is-moving-into-one-of-the-poorest-neighborhoods-in-chicago/

12 years ago

117 upvotes – 96 comments

Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in Culture

http://knote.com/2014/11/10/why-germans-work-fewer-hours-but-produce-more-a-study-in-culture/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 50 comments

Compiler Design in C

http://www.holub.com/software/compiler.design.in.c.html

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 43 comments

The Most Popular Drug in America Is an Antipsychotic

http://www.alternet.org/most-popular-drug-america-antipsychotic-and-no-one-really-knows-how-it-works

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 78 comments

Consul.io – Service discovery and configuration made easy

https://consul.io/

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

The Red Programming Language

http://www.red-lang.org

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

A high-performance, bindless graphics API for Rust

https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx-rs

12 years ago

★ 5.4k Rust Apache-2.0
98 upvotes – 13 comments

Outernet: Humanity's Public Library

https://www.outernet.is/en/

12 years ago

96 upvotes – 26 comments

Simple guest to host VM escape for Parallels Desktop

http://blog.cr4.sh/2014/11/simple-guest-to-host-vm-escape-for.html

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 8 comments

The Duck Programming Language

http://ducklang.org/

12 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Philae’s first touchdown seen by Rosetta

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/14/philaes-first-touchdown-seen-by-rosetta/

12 years ago

88 upvotes – 6 comments

Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity

https://github.com/mapmeld/profanity65#profanity65

12 years ago

★ 497 JavaScript
86 upvotes – 65 comments

Caltech professor claims Israeli spy infiltrated JPL

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/general-news/20141113/caltech-professor-claims-israeli-spy-infiltrated-jpl

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Nineteenth century machine that performs Fourier analysis

http://www.engineerguy.com/fourier/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

Study Finds Pesticides Linked to Depression in Farmers

http://modernfarmer.com/2014/11/landmark-20-year-study-finds-pesticides-cause-depression-farmers/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

Editing Photographs in Three Dimensions

https://experiment.com/projects/editing-photographs-in-three-dimensions

12 years ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

The Negotiations Game Behind Tesla's Gigafactory

http://fortune.com/inside-elon-musks-billion-dollar-gigafactory/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

FCC calls AT&T’s fiber bluff, demands detailed construction plans

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/11/fcc-calls-atts-fiber-bluff-demands-detailed-construction-plans/

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

3D-printed sculptures at the same scale as a human sperm

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20141115-jonty-hurwitz-3d-printed-nano-sculptures-at-the-same-scale-as-a-human-sperm.html

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

Receiving NOAA Weather Images with SDR (2013)

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-noaa-weather-satellite-images/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

Gravity: An orbital simulation game written in Elm

https://github.com/stephenbalaban/Gravity

12 years ago

★ 83 Elm MIT
62 upvotes – 22 comments

OntoMathPro Ontology – A hub for math knowledge

http://ontomathpro.org

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

Math and Movies (Animation at Pixar)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0NB9IyYpU

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 4 comments

Circumventing the D Garbage Collector

http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/circumventing-the-d-garbage-collector/

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 1 comments

Taming the Wild Tuna - Why farmed fish are taking over dinner plates

http://online.wsj.com/articles/why-farmed-fish-are-taking-over-our-dinner-plates-1415984616

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 15 comments

Should the United States Declare Books an ‘Essential Good’?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/should-the-united-states-declare-books-an-essential-good.html

12 years ago

49 upvotes – 27 comments

Scientists Have Climbed to the Bottom of the Mysterious Siberian Crater

http://io9.com/scientists-have-climbed-to-the-bottom-of-the-mysterious-1658817496

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments

Emulating Games - Getting Started (1997)

http://www.atarihq.com/danb/files/eggs001a1.txt

12 years ago

45 upvotes – 0 comments
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