top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-15

Announcing Rust 1.0

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/15/Rust-1.0.html

11 years ago

1363 upvotes – 306 comments

B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/arts/music/b-b-king-blues-singer-dies-at-89.html

11 years ago

647 upvotes – 86 comments

JavaScript at 20

http://brendaneich.github.io/ModernWeb.tw-2015/

11 years ago

427 upvotes – 315 comments

Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/12/intelligence-industry-cash-flows-media-echo-chamber-defending-nsa-surveillance/

11 years ago

322 upvotes – 85 comments

8^8 – Find another you

http://8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8.com/

11 years ago

306 upvotes – 161 comments

In 1962, a college student answers an ad: “Mortuary Assistant required”

http://laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/my-first-mistake

11 years ago

277 upvotes – 94 comments

Replacing jQuery with D3

http://blog.webkid.io/replacing-jquery-with-d3/

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 61 comments

MAME is going completely open-source to be a 'learning tool for developers'

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/243598/MAME_is_going_open_source_to_be_a_learning_tool_for_developers.php

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 65 comments

Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/business/decoding-the-enigma-of-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-birth-of-bitcoin.html

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 156 comments

Secure yourself, Part 1: Air-gapped computer, GPG and smartcards

http://viccuad.me/blog/secure-yourself-part-1-airgapped-computer-and-GPG-smartcards/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 58 comments

Atom's autocomplete just got better

http://blog.atom.io/2015/05/15/new-autocomplete.html

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 61 comments

Unprocessed Foods Cut into Precise 2.5cm Cubes

http://lernertandsander.com/cubes/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 44 comments

Street View, North Korea

http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/PU5f5QDJXBLbaLySNgpqMg

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 82 comments

On the Taxonomy of Spaceships

http://criticalshit.org/2015/05/15/on-the-taxonomy-of-spaceships/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 18 comments

The Little Prover

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-prover

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 20 comments

Wolfram Language

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/03/frontiers-of-computational-thinking-a-sxsw-report/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 90 comments

Silicon Valley hiring is not a meritocracy (2013)

http://blog.alinelerner.com/silicon-valley-hiring-is-not-a-meritocracy/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 90 comments

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin Split [pdf]

http://landley.net/writing/hackermonthly-issue022-pg33.pdf

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 25 comments

Error Message Style Guide

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/error-style-guide.html

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 9 comments

STRML: Projects and Work

http://strml.net/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 15 comments

The Rise of Men Who Don’t Work, and What They Do Instead

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/upshot/the-rise-of-men-who-dont-work-and-what-they-do-instead.html?WT.mc_id=2015-MAY-WCASeq-UPSHOT&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=WCARETARG

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 141 comments

Obtaining a Thorough CS Background Online

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/05/15/obtaining-thorough-cs-background-online/#.VVYRG3gK4x8.hackernews

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 31 comments

How to Ship a Beluga Whale via UPS

http://priceonomics.com/how-to-ship-a-beluga-whale-via-ups/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 42 comments

Medicine Hat becomes the first city in Canada to eliminate homelessness

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3074402/medicine-hat-becomes-the-first-city-in-canada-to-eliminate-homelessness-1.3074742

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 105 comments

Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts

http://www.news-herald.com/general-news/20150515/dont-text-beer-in-korea-words-that-trigger-teen-alerts

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 82 comments

Breaking Grooveshark's encryption

http://lgms.nl/blog-1

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 33 comments

Name Age Calculator

http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 84 comments

Death Note Anonymity: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy

http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 23 comments

After 350 years of academic journals it’s time to shake things up

http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2015/apr/04/after-350-years-of-academic-journals-its-time-to-shake-things-up

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

Remote Code Execution in Elasticsearch – CVE-2015-1427

https://jordan-wright.github.io/blog/2015/03/08/elasticsearch-rce-vulnerability-cve-2015-1427/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Combo Breaker – 3D printed, battery powered lock cracking device

http://samy.pl/combobreaker////

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 38 comments

How 500px serves up 500TB of high res photos

http://stackshare.io/500px/how-500px-serves-up-over-500tb-of-high-res-photos

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

How the Strugatsky brothers’ science fiction went from utopian to dystopian

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/05/11/give-me-that-old-time-socialist-utopia/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

Artillery Practices by the Major Combatants of WWII

http://etloh.8m.com/strategy/artil.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 38 comments

Erik Naggum on Attributes in SGML, XML, Lisp (2001)

http://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-enamel.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 54 comments

About Public Key Pinning

https://noncombatant.org/2015/05/01/about-http-public-key-pinning/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 5 comments

Powering the Rift

https://www.oculus.com/blog/powering-the-rift/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 65 comments

Squarepusher virtual reality music video – WASD to look around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Olt-ZtV_CE

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 38 comments

If two objects approach at 75 percent the speed of light

http://einstein.stanford.edu/content/relativity/q1021.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: What makes a good hackathon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9553674

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 50 comments

How famous people rate Google Play Store apps

http://txti.es/googleplus

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments

New Story (YC S15 nonprofit) Crowdfunds Houses for Homeless Families

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/15/yc-backed-new-story-crowdfunds-houses-for-homeless-families/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 27 comments

Carl Icahn Takes $100M Stake in Lyft

http://www.wsj.com/articles/icahn-takes-100-million-stake-in-lyft-1431698445

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 59 comments

In Defence of WordPress

https://ma.ttias.be/in-defence-of-wordpress/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 98 comments

On the Berenstein Bears Switcheroo (2014)

http://woodbetweenworlds.blogspot.com/2014/06/commenting-on-berenstein-bears.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 52 comments

The Robots Are Winning

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jun/04/robots-are-winning/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 36 comments

California Senate overwhelmingly passes SB 277, abolishing most opt-outs

http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_28115461/bill-restricting-vaccine-exemptions-overwhelmingly-passes-state-senate

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 77 comments

Lavaboom: Zero-Access Encrypted Email Service Hosted in Germany

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/15/lavaboom-is-another-zero-access-encrypted-email-service-hosted-in-germany/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 44 comments

The Plot Against Trains

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-plot-against-trains

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 87 comments

Dnsdiff

https://github.com/joshenders/dnsdiff

11 years ago

★ 226 Python
49 upvotes – 13 comments

A Hard MIT Class

http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/a-hard-mit-class

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 33 comments
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