top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-03-22

TempleOS is applying to Y Combinator. Partners desired, send an email

http://www.templeos.org/TempleOS.html

11 years ago

310 upvotes – 87 comments

I Gave My Child Autism

http://www.backfromnature.org/2015/03/i-gave-my-child-autism.html

11 years ago

241 upvotes – 124 comments

Is Your VirtualBox Reading Your E-Mail? Reconstruction of FrameBuffers from VRAM

https://hsmr.cc/palinopsia/

11 years ago

231 upvotes – 43 comments

The decline in unionization has fed the rise in incomes at the top

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2015/03/jaumotte.htm

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 231 comments

“So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary”

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/21/books-interview-david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 201 comments

In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shulevitz-hiding-from-scary-ideas.html

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 147 comments

Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit

http://javadude.com/articles/passbyvalue.htm

11 years ago

218 upvotes – 243 comments

Deep Learning vs. Machine Learning vs. Pattern Recognition

http://quantombone.blogspot.com/2015/03/deep-learning-vs-machine-learning-vs.html

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 13 comments

Learn Prolog Now

http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=online

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 72 comments

The Pez Outlaw

http://www.playboy.com/articles/pez-outlaw

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 39 comments

The decline of Vancouver

http://sofard.tumblr.com/post/113616107456/the-decline-of-vancouver

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 153 comments

Ten years since Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory shipped

http://www.clicknothing.typepad.com/click_nothing/2015/03/ten-years-down.html

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 72 comments

Lee Kuan Yew, Founding Father and First Premier of Singapore, Dies at 91

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/world/asia/lee-kuan-yew-founding-father-and-first-premier-of-singapore-dies-at-91.html

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 150 comments

Why We Should Demand a Shorter Workweek

http://www.dsausa.org/shorter_work_weeks

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 112 comments

Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the Modern Web (2013)

http://www.keacher.com/1216/how-i-introduced-a-27-year-old-computer-to-the-web/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: How do you read Academic Papers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9245467

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 71 comments

FinderPath

http://bahoom.com/finderpath/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 45 comments

ImplicitCAD: Powerful, Open-Source, Programmatic CAD

http://www.implicitcad.org/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 49 comments

Super Fuzzy Searching on PostgreSQL

http://bartlettpublishing.com/site/bartpub/blog/3/entry/350

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 10 comments

A Double Eclipse of the Sun

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150322.html

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 13 comments

Beating the compiler

http://www.roguelazer.com/2015/02/beating-the-compiler/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 43 comments

Pterosaur: Full power of Vim in each Firefox text field

https://github.com/ardagnir/pterosaur

11 years ago

★ 765 JavaScript AGPL-3.0
109 upvotes – 27 comments

Martin Luther Insult Generator

http://ergofabulous.org/luther/?

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb

http://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 81 comments

Redesigned GNU C Library manual

http://elmerland.com/gnu_manual.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 61 comments

Velocity Raptor – an adventure in 2+1 dimensions

http://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 39 comments

Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/default/tree/NEWS.md

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

Awesome-C: A curated list of awesome C frameworks, libraries, resources

https://notabug.org/koz.ross/awesome-c

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 17 comments

Mentors Are the Secret Weapons of Successful Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/22/mentors-are-the-secret-weapons-of-successful-startups/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 41 comments

The B-52 Just Keeps on Flying

http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/b-52-just-keeps-flying-180953933/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 64 comments

A Comparison of Log-Structured Merge (LSM) and Fractal Tree Indexing

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/8/6/tokutek-white-paper-a-comparison-of-log-structured-merge-lsm.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

Security flaw in New South Wales puts thousands of online votes at risk

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/teaguehalderman/ivote-vulnerability/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 64 comments

Linux kernel initialization process, part 3

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/Initialization/linux-initialization-3.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
61 upvotes – 0 comments

Pao vs. Kleiner Defense Rests Its Case, Showcasing a Different Side of the Story

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/21/pao-vs-kleiner-defense-rests-its-case-showcasing-a-different-side-of-the-story/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 28 comments

10,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Site Discovered in Suburban Seattle

http://westerndigs.org/10000-year-old-stone-tool-site-discovered-in-suburban-seattle/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9082/the-chromebook-pixel-2015-review

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 56 comments

“Science as a Vocation” by Max Weber (1918) [pdf]

http://anthropos-lab.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Weber-Science-as-a-Vocation.pdf

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

Simulating Service Discovery with Docker and Etcd

http://talwai.github.io/#/blog/post/discovery

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

Ponte Tower [video]

https://vimeo.com/51295174

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

A personal account of how call out culture has harmed teaching

http://whitehotharlots.tumblr.com/post/114067452180/a-personal-account-of-how-call-out-culture-has

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 15 comments

What’s So Great about Continued Fractions?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/2015/03/17/how-hard-do-continued-fractions-roc/

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments

The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever (2012)

http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/july/the-most-amazing-bowling-story-ever-bill-fong?single=1

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 5 comments

Hijacking is Buffer Overflow (2001)

http://paulgraham.com/hijack.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 17 comments
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