top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-18

Fish shell

http://fishshell.com/

11 years ago

451 upvotes – 182 comments

What one may find in robots.txt

http://xn--thibaud-dya.fr/robots.txt.html

11 years ago

393 upvotes – 122 comments

Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Graphics Study

http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/03/10/deus-ex-human-revolution-graphics-study/

11 years ago

346 upvotes – 120 comments

Thoughtcrime

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/05/thoughtcrime.html

11 years ago

344 upvotes – 257 comments

Top data mining algorithms in plain English

http://rayli.net/blog/data/top-10-data-mining-algorithms-in-plain-english/

11 years ago

318 upvotes – 22 comments

Introducing Preemptible VMs

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/05/Introducing-Preemptible-VMs-a-new-class-of-compute-available-at-70-off-standard-pricing.html

11 years ago

300 upvotes – 94 comments

CEO Wanted University Scientists Dismissed Over Link Between Fracking and Quakes

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-15/oil-tycoon-harold-hamm-wanted-scientists-dismissed-dean-s-e-mail-says

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 52 comments

A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning [pdf]

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/papers/cacm12.pdf

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 18 comments

Hello, World

https://m.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/05/17/hello-world

11 years ago

199 upvotes – 115 comments

Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.html

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 75 comments

Interview with Eric Brewer

https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/google-systems-guru-explains-why-containers-are-the-future-of-computing-87922af2cf95

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 134 comments

Fake Diplomas, Real Cash: Pakistani Company Axact Reaps Millions

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/world/asia/fake-diplomas-real-cash-pakistani-company-axact-reaps-millions-columbiana-barkley.html

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 77 comments

Why Good Developers Write Bad Code: An Observational Case Study [pdf]

http://www.upedu.org/papers/ICSE2015_OrganizationalFactors/LavalleeRobillard_ICSE2015_WhyGoodDevelopersWriteBadCode.pdf

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 80 comments

Silon – Adders and Logic Gates in Pure CSS

http://silon.slaks.net

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 39 comments

A Bitcoin miner in every hand

https://medium.com/@21dotco/a-bitcoin-miner-in-every-device-and-in-every-hand-e315b40f2821

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 118 comments

We have a problem with promises

http://pouchdb.com/2015/05/18/we-have-a-problem-with-promises.html

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 102 comments

Building the Mad Max machines

http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/jacinta-leong-building-beastly-machines-mad-max-fury-road?none

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 38 comments

Inside Look at Valve's New Lighthouse Tracking System

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2015/05/17/valves-lighthouse-tracking-system-may-be-big-news-robotics?ref=HN

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 35 comments

I Have Nonverbal Autism. Here’s What I Want You to Know

http://themighty.com/2015/04/i-have-nonverbal-autism-heres-what-i-want-you-to-know/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 50 comments

Crypto optimizations for Go from CloudFlare/Intel blocked by licensing issues

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/golang-codereviews/m5QTnSUZU6c/Jc5yaMyF2_QJ

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 36 comments

Sandcats.io: free dynamic DNS for Sandstorm users

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-05-18-sandcats.html

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 18 comments

Signalfd is useless

https://ldpreload.com/blog/signalfd-is-useless?reposted-on-request

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 43 comments

How misbehaving at school made one man a multimillionaire

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32702501

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 57 comments

Oh My Zsh

http://ohmyz.sh/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 39 comments

Firing Well

http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/05/17/firing-well/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 77 comments

A high-resolution Minecraft world renderer with a Google Maps interface

http://overviewer.org/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4 (2014)

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Jun/0312.html

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

What is Superadobe?

http://calearth.org/building-designs/what-is-superadobe.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Advantages of Monolithic Version Control

http://danluu.com/monorepo/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 64 comments

QA = Time and Money. How much should you invest?

https://blog.rainforestqa.com/2015-05-18-qa-is-a-hedge-against-risk/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 55 comments

Putting Freebsd on little Wi-Fi router devices

http://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2015/05/freebsd-wifi-build-or-wait-you-can-run.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

Cassandra: Daughter of Dynamo and BigTable

http://www.insightdataengineering.com/blog/cass.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 47 comments

Clojure Development Environment for Excel

https://github.com/whamtet/Excel-REPL

11 years ago

★ 322 Clojure
78 upvotes – 11 comments

Solving a Crackme using Z3: Theorem Prover

http://wiremask.eu/hackingweek-2015-reverse-4/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

What's wrong with pcap filters?

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2015-05-18-whats-wrong-with-pcap-filters/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

The Secret Nuclear Threat

http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/265119365

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

We Need More Autopsies, to Help Save the Living

http://nautil.us/blog/we-need-more-autopsies-to-help-save-the-living

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 60 comments

Lessons from Erlang VM [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkCftBMJyy0

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

Nvidia Pascal GPU Architecture to Provide 10X Speedup for Deep Learning Apps

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/03/17/pascal/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 26 comments

The bunny theory of code

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2015/05/14/the-bunny-theory-of-code/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: MCServer – A FOSS Minecraft server in C++, with Lua plugins

https://github.com/mc-server/MCServer

11 years ago

★ 5.3k C++
64 upvotes – 20 comments

Lost Cities

http://www.touropia.com/lost-cities/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: A startup runs at a loss for 6+ years, gets acquired. Was it a success?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9563418

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 46 comments

Day 18: Pong

http://www.nicolewoo.ca/2015/05/day-18-pong/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Using Chakra for Scripting Applications Across Windows 10

http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/18/using-chakra-for-scripting-applications-across-windows-10/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

Videopixie (YC S11), a Video Production Startup, Raises $1.1M

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/18/videopixie-a-video-production-startup-that-connects-buyers-and-creators-raises-1-1m/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

Chef Grills Steak, Volcano-Style, with Molten Lava

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/08/04/337171867/chef-grills-steak-volcano-style-with-molten-lava

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 50 comments

Life Is “Triggering.” the Best Literature Should Be, Too

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121790/life-triggering-best-literature-should-be-too

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 48 comments

A brief history of fighting spam at Pinterest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ibuUXQYx8

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

Petuum, a distributed machine learning framework

http://petuum.github.io/?

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments
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