top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-02-15

Now, I can see wifi signals

https://imgur.com/gallery/jdNA6

11 years ago

695 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: What up with these startup salaries?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052727

11 years ago

421 upvotes – 416 comments

The New Haskell.org

https://www.haskell.org/?new

11 years ago

312 upvotes – 103 comments

Life in a post-database world: Using crypto to avoid database writes

https://neosmart.net/blog/2015/using-hmac-signatures-to-avoid-database-writes/

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 117 comments

Asynchronous Python and Databases

http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-and-databases/

11 years ago

214 upvotes – 72 comments

Procedural City Generation

http://tmwhere.com/city_generation.html

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 22 comments

Keep a Changelog

http://keepachangelog.com/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 43 comments

End of the m0n0wall project

http://m0n0.ch/wall/end_announcement.php

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 26 comments

Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052128

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 64 comments

BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions of mining bitcoin

https://github.com/peenuty/BitcoinEmissions

11 years ago

★ 50
159 upvotes – 156 comments

The Tyranny of the Forced Smile

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/jobs/the-tyranny-of-the-forced-smile.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 77 comments

How Roy Baumeister challenged the idea of self-esteem (2014)

https://medium.com/matter-archive/the-man-who-destroyed-americas-ego-94d214257b5

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 82 comments

1-2 year SSD wear on build boxes has been minimal

http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2015-February/207469.html

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 74 comments

How to Machine Learn

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YN6BVdReNAYc8B0fjQ84yzDflqmeEPj7S0Xc-9_26R0/edit?usp=sharing

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 26 comments

Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock (2007)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/26/france.artnews

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 19 comments

Excoin exchange's Bitcoins stolen, will be shutting down

https://exco.in/

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 144 comments

A summary of ECMAScript 6 features

https://github.com/lukehoban/es6features

11 years ago

★ 29k MIT
124 upvotes – 52 comments

Toyota Prius' Power Split Device

http://eahart.com/prius/psd/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 32 comments

The world's slowest Linux PC

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/124287-the-worlds-slowest-linux-pc

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 30 comments

A Visual Approach to Calculus Problems (2000) [pdf]

http://www.mamikon.com/VisualCalc.pdf

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 8 comments

64-bit Linux Return-Oriented Programming

http://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/rop/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

How and why Tor changes its protocol

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-design-proposals-how-we-make-changes-our-protocol

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 10 comments

Crunchbang is not dead

http://crunchbangplusplus.org/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 35 comments

Fine, I’ll Go Build My Own Disassembler, with BlackJack

http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=604

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 4 comments

Zero size objects

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/zero-size-objects

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

The Wake Programming Language

http://www.wakelang.com

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 57 comments

Passion Is Overrated

http://www.businessinsider.in/Dilbert-creator-Scott-Adams-illustrates-why-goals-are-for-losers-and-passion-is-overrated/Dilbert-creator-Scott-Adams-illustrates-why-goals-are-for-losers-and-passion-is-overrated/slideshow/46246132.cms

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Evgeny Morozov: Socialize the Data Centres

http://newleftreview.org/II/91/evgeny-morozov-socialize-the-data-centres

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 0 comments

HTML5 Security Cheat Sheet

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/HTML5_Security_Cheat_Sheet

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

How Likely Is It That Birth Control Could Let You Down?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/14/sunday-review/unplanned-pregnancies.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 79 comments

The Self-Pipe Trick Explained

http://www.sitepoint.com/the-self-pipe-trick-explained/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Bunnyhopping from the Programmer's Perspective

https://flafla2.github.io/2015/02/14/bunnyhop.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 31 comments

Daftpunkonsole

http://daftpunkonsole.com/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

6to5 (ES6 transpiler) is now renamed Babel

https://github.com/6to5/6to5

11 years ago

★ 43.8k TypeScript MIT
71 upvotes – 18 comments

DOT and FAA Propose New Rules for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems

http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=18295

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 30 comments

Vitamins Hide the Low Quality of Our Food

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/opinion/sunday/vitamins-hide-the-low-quality-of-our-food.html?rref=opinion

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 85 comments
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