top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-09

Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/01/09/Rust-1.0-alpha.html

11 years ago

894 upvotes – 243 comments

A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn

http://www.johnskylar.com/post/107416685924/a-career-in-science-will-cost-you-your-firstborn

11 years ago

629 upvotes – 393 comments

DIY 2880x1800 projector

http://forum.allinbox.com/aspectgeek/Projetsencours/18/photon3k-projector-2880x1800-sujet_9774_1.htm

11 years ago

364 upvotes – 32 comments

The Tough Decision to Leave the Classroom

http://iamjwal.com/the-tough-decision-to-leave-the-classroom/

11 years ago

308 upvotes – 260 comments

List of University Courses for Learning Computer Science

https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses

11 years ago

★ 67.8k
300 upvotes – 47 comments

ThorCon Power

http://thorconpower.com/

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 91 comments

Code Review Checklist

http://blog.fogcreek.com/increase-defect-detection-with-our-code-review-checklist-example

11 years ago

235 upvotes – 56 comments

The God Login

http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-god-login/

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 129 comments

Trapped in His Body for 12 Years, a Man Breaks Free

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/09/376084137/trapped-in-his-body-for-12-years-a-man-breaks-free

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 22 comments

What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862542

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 101 comments

Typing the Letters A-E-S Into Your Code (2009)

http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/7/22/if-youre-typing-the-letters-a-e-s-into-your-code-youre-doing.html

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 63 comments

“Nothing you can do impresses me”

https://ginnabaker.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/nothing-you-can-do-impresses-me/

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 124 comments

Azure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/01/08/azure-is-now-bigger-faster-more-open-and-more-secure/

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 106 comments

On some LCD monitors this will cause them to emit a tone (epilepsy warning)

http://thume.ca/screentunes/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 66 comments

Why Bitcoin Core 0.10's release notes say “…libsecp256k1 is better than…OpenSSL”

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2rrxq7/on_why_010s_release_notes_say_we_have_reason_to/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 34 comments

Master Concurrent Processes with core.async

http://www.braveclojure.com/core-async/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 17 comments

Whois on any .fr domain displays “je suis charlie”

https://twitter.com/TcitWorld/status/553530506453987328/photo/1

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 14 comments

Terrain Rendering and GUIs with WebGL

http://zephyrosanemos.com

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 47 comments

Stanford to host 100-year study on artificial intelligence

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/december/ai-century-study-121614.html

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 38 comments

Mathematician's anger over his unread 500-page proof

https://newscientist.com/article/dn26753?cmpid=NLC%7CNSNS%7C2015-0108-GLOBAL

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 114 comments

The best ping story I've ever heard

http://www.askapache.com/hacking/ping-unix-darpa-muuss.html#ping_story_Ive_heard

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 45 comments

North Korea’s Naenara Web Browser: It’s Weirder Than We Thought

https://blog.whitehatsec.com/north-koreas-naenara-web-browser-its-weirder-than-we-thought/

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 48 comments

Inside Ember.js FastBoot: Faking the DOM in Node

http://emberjs.com/blog/2015/01/08/inside-fastboot-faking-the-dom-in-node.html

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 23 comments

Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/01/lizard-stresser-runs-on-hacked-home-routers/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 56 comments

Practicing Programming (2005)

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/practicing-programming

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 25 comments

Handmade Hero's new lessons about old-school game programming

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/233460/QA_How_Handmade_Hero_teaches_new_lessons_about_oldschool_game_programming.php

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

MongoDB Is Raising Another $100M

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/09/mongodb-funding-filing/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: A modernized and annotated code companion to Paul Graham's “On Lisp”

https://github.com/DalekBaldwin/on-lisp

11 years ago

★ 334 Common Lisp
93 upvotes – 2 comments

Abusing CSS3's nth-child selector to invent new ones

http://grack.com/blog/2015/01/09/abusing-css3-selectors/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

Obama to Propose Paying Community College Tuition for Some

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/us/politics/obama-proposes-free-community-college-education-for-some-students.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 95 comments

Design of Lisp-Based Processors Or, LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode (1979) [pdf]

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5731/AIM-514.pdf

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 46 comments

Hamburg is burying the Autobahn and putting parks on top

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/9/7520805/hamburg-highway

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 51 comments

Bitstamp is open for business

https://www.bitstamp.net/article/bitstamp-is-open-for-business-better-than-ever/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 70 comments

The history of grep

https://medium.com/rualthanzauva/grep-was-a-private-command-of-mine-for-quite-a-while-before-i-made-it-public-ken-thompson-a40e24a5ef48

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

How to Become a Hacker (2001)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 41 comments

Router can power your devices wirelessly from 15 feet away

http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/05/energous-wattup-wireless-charging-demo/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 37 comments

Supermassive Black Hole Binary Discovered

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/supermassive-black-hole-binary-discovered/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 42 comments

Can Simplicity Scale? (2012)

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/663

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

The Problem with Music (1993)

http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 48 comments

OpenNTPD 5.7p1 Released

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150109084836

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

Markov Chains Explained

http://techeffigytutorials.blogspot.com/2015/01/markov-chains-explained.html

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

PCC: Performance-oriented Congestion Control

http://modong.github.io/pcc-page

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

To be a foreigner is to be perpetually detached, but also continually surprised

http://laphamsquarterly.org/foreigners/foreign-spell

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

The 12” MacBook Air: Back to Basics?

http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/01/the-macbook-air-returning-to-its-roots/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 91 comments

Largest VM in the Cloud

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/01/08/largest-vm-in-the-cloud/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

GNU Guix ported to ARM and other niceties of the new year

https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8175

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Don't soak your dried beans

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-dont-soak-dried-beans-20140911-story.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 60 comments

SpockFS – An HTTP-based network filesystem

https://github.com/unbit/spockfs

11 years ago

★ 303 C MIT
55 upvotes – 12 comments

Anti-vaccination update: How the measles crisis struck Disneyland

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-antivaccination-update-the-measles-crisis-strikes-disneyland-20150108-column.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 35 comments

Google Wants to Sell You Auto Insurance

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/08/google-wants-to-sell-you-auto-insurance/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 46 comments

Hacking with Andrew and Brad: tip.golang.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZ-JorHJEY

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

Intel RealSense camera on Linux

http://solsticlipse.com/2015/01/09/intel-real-sense-camera-on-linux.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

Two big questions for economists today

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/01/05/two-big-questions-for-economists-today/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 56 comments
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