top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-01

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812245

11 years ago

673 upvotes – 1086 comments

John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/RFlh0o6l3Ls/8InN7uz-Mv4J

11 years ago

555 upvotes – 346 comments

1/999999999999999999999998999999999999999999999999

http://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/06/28/made-to-order-4/

11 years ago

446 upvotes – 84 comments

FISA court rules NSA can resume bulk data collection

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-court-rules-nsa-can-resume-bulk-data-collection.html?_r=0

11 years ago

425 upvotes – 152 comments

“Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google.com”

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/437

11 years ago

★ 16.2k C GPL-2.0
369 upvotes – 342 comments

Craig Newmark Did Not Donate to EFF

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150701/14150431519/no-craig-newmark-did-not-donate-to-eff-he-helped-make-cfaa-worse-instead.shtml

11 years ago

312 upvotes – 174 comments

Leaked: What's in TPP’s intellectual property chapter

http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/06/tpp-deal-leaked-pharma-000126

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 172 comments

Why Are People Still Playing Ultima Online?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/30/ultima-online-retrospective/

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 139 comments

Firefox 41 will use less memory when running AdBlock Plus

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2015/07/01/firefox-41-will-use-less-memory-when-running-adblock-plus/

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 162 comments

Deep Dreams with Caffe

https://github.com/google/deepdream/blob/master/dream.ipynb

11 years ago

★ 13.2k
245 upvotes – 55 comments

Microservice Trade-Offs

http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservice-trade-offs.html

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Arrow Hero

http://acelisweaven.github.io/arrow-hero/

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 55 comments

Sublime Text packages are on GitHub

https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages

11 years ago

★ 3k Shell
194 upvotes – 101 comments

Trending at Instagram

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/122961624217/trending-at-instagram

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 12 comments

XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/01/nsas-google-worlds-private-communications

11 years ago

173 upvotes – 35 comments

What's coming in Meteor 1.2, and beyond

http://info.meteor.com/blog/whats-coming-in-meteor-12-and-beyond

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 95 comments

Setting Go variables from the outside

https://blog.cloudflare.com/setting-go-variables-at-compile-time/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 19 comments

Free online masterclasses in Erlang programming

http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/kentlife/6083/launch-of-free-online-masterclasses-in-programming

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 9 comments

How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask Its True Debt (2010)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/greek-debt-crisis-how-goldman-sachs-helped-greece-to-mask-its-true-debt-a-676634.html

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 93 comments

Cameron reaffirms there will be no “safe spaces” from UK government snooping

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/07/cameron-reaffirms-there-will-be-no-safe-spaces-from-uk-government-snooping/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 97 comments

Docker: Not Even a Linker

http://adamierymenko.com/docker-not-even-a-linker

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 69 comments

GCC: Patch to change default C++ dialect to C++14

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-07/msg00073.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 50 comments

“Adds iOS build support to gomobile command”

https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/11587/8

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 59 comments

Locust – A modern load testing framework

http://locust.io/

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 21 comments

The random number generator of DOOM

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/linuxdoom-1.10/m_random.c

11 years ago

★ 18.6k C++ GPL-2.0
115 upvotes – 74 comments

10B Parameter Neural Networks in Your Basement [pdf]

http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2014/presentations/S4694-10-billion-parameter-neural-networks.pdf

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 15 comments

Spectacle: Write Your Slide Decks in JSX

http://spectacle.surge.sh

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 39 comments

In 1900, Los Angeles had a bike highway

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/30/8861327/bike-lanes-history

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 42 comments

Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology (2014)

http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812246

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 107 comments

Transitioning Shyp couriers to W2 employees

http://blog.shyp.com/shyp-ceo-note/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 66 comments

The Death Penalty in Louisiana

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/06/revenge-killing

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 100 comments

Deprogramming corporatism

http://blog.garrytan.com/deprogramming-corporatism

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 31 comments

US time zones (1857)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meridian_Conference#/media/File:Comparative-time-table.jpg

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 36 comments

Tetris as a C++ Template Metaprogram

http://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks-super-template-tetris/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 23 comments

ARIN Activates IPv4 Unmet Requests Policy

https://www.arin.net/announcements/2015/20150701.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812247

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 139 comments

Creating a low-latency calling network

https://whispersystems.org/blog/low-latency-switching/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop

https://desktop.github.com/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 41 comments

Inside Azure Search: Chaos Engineering

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/07/01/inside-azure-search-chaos-engineering

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

C#, I still love you dearest

http://blog.tnwdevlabs.com/2015/07/01/C%E2%99%AF-I-still-love-you-Dearest/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 53 comments

Virtual Reality Will Bring Back the Arcade

https://medium.com/@josh_taylor/virtual-reality-will-bring-back-the-arcade-16f3f92b52e8

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 58 comments

Dynamic software updating in C

http://kitsune-dsu.com/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Tail call optimization in ECMAScript 6

http://www.2ality.com/2015/06/tail-call-optimization.html

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9809333

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 40 comments

Boise startup offers commercially available memristors?

http://www.bioinspired.net/products-1.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

David Cameron is going to try and ban encryption in Britain

http://www.businessinsider.com/david-cameron-encryption-back-doors-iphone-whatsapp-2015-7

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

FBI investigating vandalism of fiberoptic cables at Livermore

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/FBI-investigating-vandalism-of-fiber-optic-cables-6360469.php

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 66 comments

Keystroke shortcuts in bash

http://zwischenzugs.tk/index.php/2015/07/01/bash-shortcuts-gem/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 27 comments

How Video Games Changed Popular Music

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-video-games-changed-popular-music

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Resurrecting the SuperH architecture

http://lwn.net/Articles/647636/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: Why has nobody built a better Wordpress?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9813921

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: VoiceClonr attempts to reconstruct human voices

http://www.voiceclonr.com/?hnresubmit2

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 34 comments

Running Linux on Open Hardware [pdf]

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/Turtles%20all%20the%20way.pdf

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

Chicago 'cloud tax' to add cost to Netflix, other streaming services

http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-chicago-cloud-tax-bsi-20150701-story.html

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 71 comments

The Rewriting of David Foster Wallace

http://www.vulture.com/2015/06/rewriting-of-david-foster-wallace.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 41 comments

Matti Makkonen, Finnish pioneer of texting tech, has died

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33324708

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 1 comments

Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away from Your IP Address

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/online-anonymity-box-puts-mile-away-ip-address/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 56 comments

Using F# for testing

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/low-risk-ways-to-use-fsharp-at-work-3/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

Apple Music Is a Usability Nightmare

http://cezarywojcik.com/2015/06/30/apple-music-usability-nightmare

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 47 comments

EFF Stands With Innovative Developers in the Wake of Oracle v. Google

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/eff-stands-innovative-developers-wake-oracle-v-google

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 12 comments

Samsung Group Is Doing a Cozy Merger

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-01/samsung-group-is-doing-a-cozy-merger

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 12 comments
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