top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-03

Cops: We Need Rights More Than You, Citizen

https://popehat.com/2015/04/29/cops-we-need-rights-more-than-you-citizen/

11 years ago

411 upvotes – 163 comments

Python on Android

http://kivy.org/planet/2015/04/python-on%C2%A0android/

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 49 comments

Pony – High Performance Actor Programming

http://ponylang.org

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 124 comments

The Traveling Salesperson Problem

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/TSPv3.ipynb

11 years ago

220 upvotes – 35 comments

Do Not Disclose Your Salary to Recruiters

http://jacquesmattheij.com/do-not-disclose-your-salary-to-recruiters

11 years ago

216 upvotes – 182 comments

How to Beat a Polygraph Test

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/magazine/how-to-beat-a-polygraph-test.html

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 92 comments

Peak car

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_car

11 years ago

210 upvotes – 134 comments

The ultimate OpenBSD router

http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/openbsd-router

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 79 comments

Where Rust really shines

http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/03/where-rust-really-shines/

11 years ago

150 upvotes – 80 comments

I secretly lived in my office for 500 days

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/30/i_secretly_lived_in_my_office_for_500_days/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 96 comments

Tesla battery storage will accelerate exit of coal generators

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2015/tesla-battery-storage-will-accelerate-exit-of-coal-generators-88203

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 117 comments

Diaspora 0.5 released

https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/16-diaspora-version-0-5-0-0-released

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 111 comments

Alan Kay on Messaging (1998)

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlanKayOnMessaging

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 61 comments

OS X 10.10.3 seems to have done something bad to wifi drivers

http://garrett.damore.org/2015/05/macos-x-10103-update-is-toxic.html

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 151 comments

Unnoticed for years, malware turned Linux and BSD servers into spamming machines

http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=3030

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 35 comments

Assembler for Nvidia Maxwell architecture

https://github.com/NervanaSystems/maxas

11 years ago

★ 1k Sass MIT
132 upvotes – 10 comments

JSFuck – esoteric JavaScript

http://www.jsfuck.com

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 38 comments

Library of Babel

http://libraryofbabel.info/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 40 comments

Los Angeles' Booming Creative Class Lures New Yorkers

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/style/los-angeles-and-its-booming-creative-class-lures-new-yorkers.html

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 93 comments

Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course

http://palousemindfulness.com/selfguidedMBSR.html

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 19 comments

Passport Index – How much power does your passport have?

http://www.passportindex.org/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 115 comments

Rules Change on I.R.S. Seizures, Too Late for Some

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/politics/rules-change-on-irs-seizures-too-late-for-some.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 59 comments

Iridium – Secure Browser

https://iridiumbrowser.de

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 58 comments

Microsoft Edge – The Browser for Doing

http://www.browserfordoing.com/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 107 comments

Consider Static Typing in Ruby

http://codon.com/consider-static-typing

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 35 comments

Why NASA Called the Northwest Indian College Space Center

http://kuow.org/post/why-nasa-called-northwest-indian-college-space-center

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 6 comments

Simplify: move code into database functions

https://sivers.org/pg

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 74 comments

Advertising Shits in Your Head

http://strikemag.org/advertising-shits-in-your-head/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

Give Thanks to Jupiter, Our Little Planet’s Big Protector

http://nautil.us/blog/give-thanks-to-jupiter-our-little-planets-big-protector?utm_source=tss&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=linkfrom

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 25 comments

IceStorm: Reverse-Engineered Lattice iCE40 FPGA Bitstream

http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

Route Optimizer written in Julia

https://forio.com/app/showcase/route-optimizer/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

The Genetic Map of Europe

http://brilliantmaps.com/the-genetic-map-of-europe/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

The Grooveshark Settlement [pdf]

http://beckermanlegal.com/Lawyer_Copyright_Internet_Law/umg_escape_150505Settlement.pdf

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 51 comments

The Strange Inevitability of Evolution

http://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/the-strange-inevitability-of-evolution

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 56 comments

The Medical Bill Mystery

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/sunday-review/the-medical-bill-mystery.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 55 comments

Rapidly falling costs of battery packs for electric vehicles

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n4/full/nclimate2564.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 35 comments

How Tippi Hedren made Vietnamese refugees into nail salon magnates

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32544343

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

Etsy CTO on Its Conservatively Crafty Tech Philosophy

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/27/etsy-cto-on-its-conservatively-crafty-tech-philosophy/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 38 comments

Anders Hejlsberg – What brought about the birth of the CLR? (2004)

http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/thechannel9team/anders-hejlsberg-what-brought-about-the-birth-of-the-clr

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 33 comments

Why you shouldn’t take a client’s money

https://thecreativeclass.io/why-you-shouldnt-take-a-clients-money/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Contributing to Clojure

http://insideclojure.org/2015/05/01/contributing-clojure/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

When will we find aliens?

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150429-will-we-find-aliens

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 51 comments

Entrepreneurial Tendencies Among People with ADHD

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2405366

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 45 comments

Linux kernel initialization, part 7

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/Initialization/linux-initialization-7.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
51 upvotes – 0 comments
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