top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-14

Philae comet lander wakes up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33126885

11 years ago

922 upvotes – 155 comments

Ask HN: I have ssh, they have ssh, how can we chat?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9716459

11 years ago

327 upvotes – 121 comments

Greenwald: "The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story Is Journalism at Its Worst"

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/

11 years ago

252 upvotes – 33 comments

Questions about the Sunday Times Snowden Story

http://notes.rjgallagher.co.uk/2015/06/sunday-times-snowden-china-russia-questions.html

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 78 comments

Reasons the MI6 Story Is a Lie

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/06/five-reasons-the-mi6-story-is-a-lie/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 8 comments

I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss

http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800

11 years ago

205 upvotes – 55 comments

Gradify turns the most prominent colors in an image into a CSS gradient

http://gradifycss.com/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 35 comments

UI Design Dos and Don'ts

https://developer.apple.com/design/tips/

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 119 comments

What's Wrong with Deep Learning?

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxKBnD5y2M8NVHRiVXBnOVpiYUk/edit

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 44 comments

MarI/O – Machine Learning for Video Games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44&feature=youtu.be&a

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 19 comments

Low-level web programming in Racket and a wiki in 500 lines

http://matt.might.net/articles/low-level-web-in-racket/

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 28 comments

The Dorito Effect

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/books/review/the-dorito-effect-by-mark-schatzker.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-middle-span-region&region=c-column-middle-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-middle-span-region

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 66 comments

Abstractions my Deep Learning word2vec model made

http://byterot.blogspot.com/2015/06/five-crazy-abstractions-my-deep-learning-word2doc-model-just-did-NLP-gensim.html

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 55 comments

How a keyboard changed what I look for in an editor

http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/06/04/how-a-keyboard-changed-what-i-look-for-in-an-editor/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 148 comments

JPS+ pathfinding – faster than A* [video]

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022094/JPS-Over-100x-Faster-than

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 53 comments

Key for chromium's encrypted cookies store in Linux is “peanuts”

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/components/os_crypt/os_crypt_posix.cc&q=peanuts&sq=package:chromium&type=cs&l=40

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 56 comments

84-Year-Old Volunteer Rebuilds and Sends Linux Laptops to Africa

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/827669-video-84-year-old-volunteer-rebuilds-sends-linux-laptops-to-africa

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 36 comments

Scala: The Industrial Parts [pdf]

http://monkey.org/~marius/scala2015.pdf

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 13 comments

US Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series

http://jacquesricher.com/NEETS/#

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

PeaCoq, a UI for Coq

http://goto.ucsd.edu/~vrobert/coq-en-stock/blog/2015/06/03/introducing-peacoq/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 8 comments

The story between VLC and Sourceforge

https://blog.l0cal.com/2015/06/02/what-happened-to-sourceforge/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

How to write a book in Emacs

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/how-to-write-a-book-in-emacs

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments

Kongregate: the science behind the massive profits of F2P games

http://www.kongregate.com/forums/2468-general/topics/431337-emily-greer-ceo-of-kongregate-on-the-science-behind-the-massive-profits-of-tyrant-unleashed-and-other-f2p-games

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 50 comments

Ancient Roman Swiss Army Knife on Display

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247230/The-Roman-Army-Knife-Or-ingenuity-Swiss-beaten-1-800-years.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 29 comments

Computational Statistics in Python

http://people.duke.edu/~ccc14/sta-663/index.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments

Why I faked being black for med school

http://nypost.com/2015/04/12/mindy-kalings-brother-explains-why-he-pretended-to-be-black/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 91 comments

Is Node.js declining already?

http://www.quora.com/Is-Node-js-declining-already/answer/David-MacDonald-40?srid=hzBO&share=1

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 57 comments

Experiments with Ruby and Go

http://jorin.me/textstat/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 29 comments

Red Programming Language 0.5.4 released

http://www.red-lang.org/2015/06/054-new-datatypes-exceptions-and-set.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof (2008)

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

A Guide to Writing Mathematics [pdf]

http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~amenta/w10/writingman.pdf

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

Amethyst – Rails inspired web-framework for Crystal language

http://codcore.github.io/Amethyst/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Withdrawal from the Recording Media Business

http://www.t-yuden.com/news/Pid=192_detail.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 31 comments

Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network

http://tech.mattmillman.com/projects/10base5/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 35 comments

Berlin becomes first German city to make rent cap a reality

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/01/rent-cap-legislation-in-force-berlin-germany

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 72 comments
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