top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-03

CoreCLR is now open source

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/02/03/coreclr-is-now-open-source.aspx

11 years ago

709 upvotes – 333 comments

Join the U.S. Digital Service

http://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-service

11 years ago

409 upvotes – 233 comments

Alan Turing's notes found being used as roof insulation at Bletchley Park

http://www.mkweb.co.uk/pictures/8203-BLETCHLEY-PARK-Alan-Turing-s-notes-used-roof/pictures-25966005-detail/pictures.html

11 years ago

393 upvotes – 87 comments

The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment

http://www.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/181469/big-lie-unemployment.aspx

11 years ago

349 upvotes – 212 comments

Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/TRIP-TREATMENT

11 years ago

347 upvotes – 149 comments

Show HN: Matterhorn – Your new project manager

https://matterhorn.io

11 years ago

298 upvotes – 209 comments

PyPy 2.5.0 released

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/02/pypy-250-released.html

11 years ago

297 upvotes – 68 comments

Layoff Underway at IBM

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/massive-worldwide-layoff-underway-at-ibm

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 186 comments

Harper Lee to publish Mockingbird 'sequel'

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31118355

11 years ago

270 upvotes – 79 comments

Amazon Is in Talks to Buy RadioShack Stores, Report Says

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/amazon-radioshack/

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 141 comments

Atom now using Io.js

https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/tag/v0.177.0

11 years ago

★ 60.8k JavaScript MIT
223 upvotes – 130 comments

Debian Jessie on Raspberry Pi 2

http://sjoerd.luon.net/posts/2015/02/debian-jessie-on-rpi2/

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 69 comments

SWEATSHOP – I can´t take any more

http://www.aftenposten.no/webtv/serier-og-programmer/sweatshopenglish/TRAILER-SWEATSHOP---I-cant-take-any-more-7800835.html?paging=&section=webtv_serierogprogrammer_sweatshop_sweatshopenglish

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 225 comments

First NetHack bot ascension

https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/2tluxv/yaap_fullauto_bot_ascension_bothack

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 85 comments

Announcing MongoDB 3.0

https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/announcing-mongodb-30

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 144 comments

One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake

https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-10508842caad

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 171 comments

Commits.io – Create a poster from your code

https://commits.io/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 61 comments

FBI put Anonymous 'hacktivist' Jeremy Hammond on terrorism watchlist

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/02/fbi-anonymous-hacktivist-jeremy-hammond-terrorism-watchlist

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 165 comments

UK to allow babies from three people

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31069173

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 159 comments

Soviet Cosmonauts Carried a Shotgun into Space

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/soviet-cosmonauts-carried-a-shotgun-into-space-a9e7852c6da5

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 55 comments

Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind

http://www.adhamdannaway.com/blog/web-design/imitation-truly-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 60 comments

Eero – Blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi

https://www.eero.com/

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 96 comments

Flux Comparison by Example

https://github.com/voronianski/flux-comparison

11 years ago

★ 2.7k JavaScript
145 upvotes – 55 comments

I have no idea what I'm doing

http://codon.com/i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 76 comments

Borderlands Books is Closing

http://www.borderlands-books.com/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 134 comments

The Psychological Difference Between $12.00 and $11.67

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/the-psychological-difference-between-1200-and-1167/384993?single_page=true

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 60 comments

Sell your poop for $13,000 per year

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/29/you-can-earn-13000-a-year-selling-your-poop/?tid=sm_fb

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 51 comments

Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 105 comments

Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/02/iceland-temple-norse-gods-1000-years

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 53 comments

Why it takes so long to get data back from New Horizons

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/01300800-talking-to-pluto-is-hard.html

11 years ago

119 upvotes – 39 comments

Chipotle: The Definitive Oral History

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-chipotle-oral-history/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 32 comments

Compiling Julia for NVIDIA GPUs

http://blog.maleadt.net/2015/01/15/julia-cuda/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 14 comments

Yahoo open-sources Kafka Manager for Kafka cluster management

http://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/109994930921/kafka-yahoo

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

What the Internet has in common with an ant colony

http://priceonomics.com/the-independent-discovery-of-tcpip-by-ants/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Online Data Science Courses for $10

http://www.teamleada.com

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 27 comments

OpenID 2.0 for Google Accounts is going away

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6135882

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

We're on the Way to Europa

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreier/2015/0202-its-official-we-are-on-the-way-to-europa-fy2016.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8993113

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 53 comments

Getting started with Meteor.js

http://joshowens.me/getting-started-with-meteor-js/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 40 comments

Google’s SVP of Knowledge, Alan Eustace, Is Leaving

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/03/alan-eustace-google/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

Changes to the FreeBSD Support Model

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 40 comments

Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects

https://zyring.com

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Gopher Gala winners announced

http://gophergala.com/blog/gopher/gala/2015/02/03/winners/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

Golang Duff's devices

http://luciotato.svbtle.com/golangs-duffs-devices

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

DeadBeef News: Like the Onion but for Programming and Startups

http://deadbeef.wtf/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 24 comments

Matrix Digital Rain – Written in GopherJS

http://tidwall.github.io/digitalrain/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Interactive D compiler

http://asm.dlang.org/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

Redesigning the traditional Chinese shoulder pole

http://www.peiwuyang.com/shoulder-pole-design-research

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 57 comments

Meet the Founder Trying to Start the Self-Driving Car Revolution

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201502/john-brandon/the-new-cruise-control-kyle-vogt-cruise-automation.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 30 comments

An introduction to NoFlo and flow-based programming

http://rawkes.com/articles/an-introduction-to-noflo-and-flow-based-programming

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 42 comments

How four underdogs took on M.I.T. in underwater bot championship (2005)

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/robot_pr.html

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 11 comments
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