top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-01-25

I Was Arrested for Learning a Foreign Language. Today, I Have Some Closure

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech-national-security-technology-and-liberty/i-was-arrested-learning-foreign-language-t

11 years ago

485 upvotes – 227 comments

Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative

http://paperwork.rocks/?hn

11 years ago

477 upvotes – 134 comments

Everything you ever wanted to know about hexagonal grids

http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

11 years ago

462 upvotes – 39 comments

The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audience/The%20Parable%20of%20the%20Two%20Programmers.html?

11 years ago

381 upvotes – 160 comments

Next Week's Bloodbath At IBM Won't Fix The Real Problem

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertcringely/2015/01/22/next-weeks-bloodbath-at-ibm-wont-fix-the-real-problem/

11 years ago

367 upvotes – 189 comments

Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?

http://chessboardjs.com/examples#5002

11 years ago

316 upvotes – 126 comments

SpaCy: Industrial-strength NLP with Python and Cython

http://honnibal.github.io/spaCy

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 56 comments

Papers We Love

http://paperswelove.org

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 18 comments

A practical introduction to functional programming

http://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/a-practical-introduction-to-functional-programming

11 years ago

240 upvotes – 62 comments

Holy Shit, I Interviewed the President

https://medium.com/@hankgreen/holy-shit-i-interviewed-the-president-fa3e8fb44d16?

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 75 comments

Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift

https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-8-apps-swift/id961180099

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 45 comments

Mezzanine: A Common Lisp-based 64-bit OS for VirtualBox

http://slexy.org/view/s20Pc2LaIw

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 63 comments

An overview of the Dolphin Emulator development infrastructure

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2015/01/25/making-developers-more-productive-dolphin-development-infrastructure/

11 years ago

161 upvotes – 13 comments

What would Feynman do? (2011)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/02/14/what-would-feynman-do.aspx

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 30 comments

Go Date Format

http://fuckinggodateformat.com/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 82 comments

Lisp Flavored Erlang

http://lfe.io/

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 23 comments

First U.S. Bitcoin Exchange Set to Open

http://www.wsj.com/articles/first-u-s-bitcoin-exchange-set-to-open-1422221641

11 years ago

126 upvotes – 58 comments

Zstandard – Fast and efficient compression algorithm

https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd

11 years ago

★ 23 C
113 upvotes – 24 comments

Start your small operating system in Assembly

https://www.devimperium.com/tutorials/start_your_small_operating_system_in_assembly

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

“Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken”

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/21/linda-tirado-poverty-hand-to-mouth-extract

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 131 comments

Staying Hungry, Staying Foolish

http://rob.conery.io/2015/01/24/staying-foolish/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 29 comments

NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0502072

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 16 comments

Bitcoinfs: A minimal full Bitcoin node in F#

https://github.com/bitcoinfs/bitcoinfs

11 years ago

★ 122 F# MIT
90 upvotes – 14 comments

CVE-2015-0311 – Adobe Flash Player Remote Vulnerability

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-0311

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 45 comments

LINUX is obsolete (1992)

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/comp.os.minix/wlhw16QWltI

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 74 comments

Looking Back at Three Months of afl-fuzz

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2015/01/looking-back-at-three-months-of-afl-fuzz.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

Why REST is not a silver bullet for service integration

http://getprismatic.com/story/1422136825657?share=NDAwMA.MTQyMjEzNjgyNTY1Nw.NT_Zo31VQdZtIqi1ml9HAZdWsgE

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Particles accelerate without a push

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/self-accelerating-particles-0120

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

RegViz: A Web-Based Tool for Visual Debugging of Regular Expressions

http://regviz.org

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today (2012)

http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it_ancient_computers_in_use_today.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

De-listing of Chilling Effects Home Page from Google Caused by Mistake

https://www.chillingeffects.org/blog_entries/741

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 5 comments
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