top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-05-31

Tell HN: Thank you whoishiring, a.k.a. Matthew Walsh-Cloonagh

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9635551

11 years ago

553 upvotes – 133 comments

Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem

http://www.exquisitetweets.com/tweets?eids=SOlZp2L8I8.SOl4CsO6YC.SOmhNAiuES.SOmlJ2T2Gq.SOmpjeGn1w.SOmwta15gX.SOmB4207kO.SOmJPgkOFU.SOmOl1j08a.SOmW0jPTRA.SOm72fKFfE.SOncwNl2SP.SOnlkgH05k.SOntnuAhGw.SOqg0uZR8K.SOqkXGJtbU.SOqrXBJruS

11 years ago

479 upvotes – 204 comments

The Archer's Paradox in Slow Motion [video]

https://www.patreon.com/creation?hid=2518042

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 49 comments

Why do airplane windows have tiny holes?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/05/29/what_s_that_thing_why_are_there_holes_in_airplane_windows.html

11 years ago

246 upvotes – 66 comments

Apple I discarded as junk sells for $200k; mystery woman stands to get half

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_28221648/100-000-check-awaits-mystery-apple-i-donor

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 69 comments

Coursera is phasing out free certificates

https://courserajunkie.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/courseras-free-statements-of-accomplisments-die-a-quiet-death/

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 124 comments

ØMQ - The Guide

http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all

11 years ago

203 upvotes – 66 comments

An Introduction to Statistics with Python

http://work.thaslwanter.at/Stats/html/

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 34 comments

FBI doesnt want you to know it uses NSLs to correlate identities you use online

https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/05/31/fbi-doesnt-want-you-to-know-it-uses-nsls-to-correlate-all-the-identities-you-use-online/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 24 comments

C for high level programmers (slides)

http://charliethe.ninja/slideshow/introtoc.html

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 123 comments

Why It Pays to Be a Jerk

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/06/why-it-pays-to-be-a-jerk/392066/?single_page=true

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 123 comments

The improbable rise and fall of Couchsurfing

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/13124/life-and-death-couchsurfing/

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Karplus-Strong Guitar Synthesizer in JavaScript

http://amid.fish/javascript-karplus-strong/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 32 comments

Slashdot Burying Stories About SlashdotMedia Owned SourceForge

http://danluu.com/slashdot-sourceforge/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 67 comments

Web App Speed

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2015/05/31/web_app_speed/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 37 comments

Web Hacking 101 [pdf]

http://www.gironsec.com/WebHacking101.pdf

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 12 comments

The culture where play is shameful (2012)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201207/all-work-and-no-play-make-the-baining-the-dullest-culture-earth

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 72 comments

Proposed Who Is Hiring Spec

https://github.com/perspectivezoom/who-is-hiring-spec/blob/master/README.md

11 years ago

★ 23
106 upvotes – 16 comments

Adios, Hola – Why you should immediately uninstall Hola

http://adios-hola.org

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 32 comments

Solar-powered plane crossing Pacific: Live telemetry

http://www.solarimpulse.com/widget-energy

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

In Norway, a Prison Built on Second Chances

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/05/31/410532066/in-norway-a-prison-built-on-second-chances

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 76 comments

OCaml Resources (2006)

http://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/ocaml-class/home.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 72 comments

How a Machine Learned to Spot Depression

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/20/407978049/how-a-machine-learned-to-spot-depression

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

Reefer tapes of Louis Armstrong

http://www.booyorkcity.com/secret-reefer-tapes-of-louis-armstrong/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Where are the self-tuning systems?

https://00f.net/2015/06/01/self-tuning-systems/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 36 comments

How to clone Agar.io

https://github.com/huytd/agar.io-clone/wiki/Game-Architecture

11 years ago

★ 2.9k JavaScript MIT
76 upvotes – 22 comments

Linux Insides: Interrupts and Interrupt Handling, Part 1

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/interrupts/interrupts-1.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
74 upvotes – 0 comments

JuliaCon 2015 Preview

http://julialang.org/blog/2015/05/juliacon-preview/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Bugs Everywhere

http://bugseverywhere.org/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

The Evolution of Flux Frameworks

https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/the-evolution-of-flux-frameworks-6c16ad26bb31#

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Type to Design – An Instagram generated font

http://typetodesign.com/?hn

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution

http://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 48 comments

Japan Bicycle Parking Technology [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym7juWamiWY

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: ES7 Decorator library adds types checking, memoization, and more to JS

https://github.com/mako-taco/DecorateThis

11 years ago

★ 537 JavaScript Apache-2.0
66 upvotes – 38 comments

I Would Like to Get a Raise Template for Webdevs

http://johnpolacek.github.io/I-Would-Like-A-Raise-Email-Template/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 52 comments

Ghost.py – Webkit-based scriptable web browser for Python

https://github.com/jeanphix/Ghost.py

11 years ago

★ 2.7k Python
66 upvotes – 11 comments

The OpenJDK Revised Java Memory Model

http://www.infoq.com/articles/The-OpenJDK9-Revised-Java-Memory-Model

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 4 comments

Stress Test Recap: Bitcoin

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/37ub2k/stress_test_recap/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 76 comments

The Root Bridges of Cherrapunji

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/root-bridges-cherrapungee

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 0 comments

JetBrains' MPS Projectional Editor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN2PflvXUqQ

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

Pygame Zero, a zero-boilerplate game framework for education

http://mauveweb.co.uk/posts/2015/05/pygame-zero.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments

Developing Provably-Correct Software Using Formal Methods

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/05/provably-correct-software

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

A Simple Paragraph Every Entrepreneur Should Add to Their Convertible Notes

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2015/05/30/one-simple-paragraph-every-entrepreneur-should-add-to-their-convertible-notes/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

Tortuous History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship Found Off South Africa

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/world/africa/tortuous-history-traced-in-sunken-slave-ship-found-off-south-africa.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you [video]

http://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_crump_the_small_and_surprisingly_dangerous_detail_the_police_track_about_you

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 46 comments

China’s New Silk Road: Implications for the US

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/china%E2%80%99s-new-silk-road-implications-us

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 55 comments
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