top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-02

Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan

https://universonline.nl/2015/07/02/dutch-universities-start-their-elsevier-boycott-plan

11 years ago

542 upvotes – 126 comments

A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/03/upshot/a-quick-puzzle-to-test-your-problem-solving.html

11 years ago

533 upvotes – 281 comments

A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic income theory

http://qz.com/437088/utrecht-will-give-money-for-free-to-its-citizens-will-it-make-them-lazier/

11 years ago

402 upvotes – 534 comments

Photos from inside the Baikonur Cosmodrome

http://ralphmirebs.livejournal.com/219949.html

11 years ago

397 upvotes – 119 comments

What was the technology stack driving the original Ultima Online servers?

http://www.quora.com/What-was-the-technology-stack-driving-the-original-Ultima-Online-servers?share=1

11 years ago

336 upvotes – 85 comments

What's Coming in PostgreSQL 9.5

https://www.compose.io/articles/coming-in-postgresql-9-5/

11 years ago

287 upvotes – 62 comments

GraphQL Working Draft

http://facebook.github.io/graphql/

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 69 comments

Tesla Beats Delivery Forecast with 52% Quarterly Surge

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-02/tesla-beats-delivery-forecast-with-52-quarterly-surge

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 146 comments

UK at risk of losing Freedom of Panorama

https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2015/06/uk-at-risk-of-losing-freedom-of-panorama/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 124 comments

The Zero-Armed Bandit

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 49 comments

Silk Road: Undercover agent admits stealing Bitcoin

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33364349

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 129 comments

Lessons from Freelancing

http://joelklettke.com/freelancing-2-years-230000-and-9-big-lessons-later/

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 56 comments

Django, now with JavaScript tests

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/writing-code/javascript/

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 28 comments

Integrating React with Meteor

http://info.meteor.com/blog/meteor-the-missing-infrastructure-for-building-great-react-apps

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 39 comments

The Vector Space of the Polish Parliament in Pictures

https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/the-vector-space-of-the-polish-parliament-in-pictures/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 22 comments

Unreal Engine 4 shots that are unbelievably realistic

http://www.trymodern.com/2015/07/01/300/unreal-engine-4-shots-that-are-unbelievably-realistic.html

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 70 comments

Gesture Typing

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Gesture%20Typing.ipynb

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 14 comments

Datasets You've Likely Never Seen

http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/7-funny-datasets.html

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 13 comments

Mailpile Chooses AGPL v3

https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2015-07-02_Licensing_Decision.html

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 95 comments

Chrome address spoofing vulnerability proof-of-concept for HTTPS

https://github.com/musalbas/address-spoofing-poc

11 years ago

★ 208 HTML
112 upvotes – 27 comments

5 out of 7 .io nameservers appear to be down

https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/55951090ecbe406935000172/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 65 comments

Recognising a Bad User Interface at First Glance

http://www.hadermann.be/blog/134/recognising-a-bad-user-interface-at-first-glance/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Ironclad – an automated legal assistant

https://ironclad.ai

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 39 comments

Introducing Disque [video]

http://www.thedotpost.com/2015/06/salvatore-sanfilippo-introducing-disque

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 32 comments

Microsoft Office – OLE Packager allows code execution in all Office versions

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jul/11

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Manage passwords with GPG

https://github.com/drduh/pwd.sh

11 years ago

★ 1.5k Shell MIT
93 upvotes – 48 comments

A collection of SVG logos for developers

http://svgporn.com/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

Go + gxui: Rendering native app GUIs on any platform?

https://github.com/google/gxui/issues/49#issuecomment-113700372

11 years ago

★ 4.4k Go BSD-3-Clause
90 upvotes – 39 comments

The Next Mark Zuckerberg Is Not Who You Might Think

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/upshot/the-next-mark-zuckerberg-is-not-who-you-might-think.html

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 49 comments

Why Go and Rust are not competitors

http://dave.cheney.net/2015/07/02/why-go-and-rust-are-not-competitors

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 78 comments

RECC, The Robert Elder Compiler Collection

http://recc.robertelder.org

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

Stop the Vertical Tab Madness (2010)

http://prog21.dadgum.com/76.html

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 63 comments

Opening the Instapaper API

http://blog.instapaper.com/post/121774203371

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 30 comments

North Korean biochemical expert flees to Finland: source

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2015/07/02/0200000000AEN20150702010200320.html

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

Compasses don't work on Mars, so how do you navigate?

http://kottke.org/15/07/compasses-dont-work-on-mars-so-how-do-you-navigate

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 84 comments

/r/IAmA set to “private” after Victoria is let go from Reddit

https://reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_has_riama_been_set_to_private/csq204d

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

Neural Networks in Plain English (2004)

http://www.ai-junkie.com/ann/evolved/nnt1.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 7 comments

Animated History of the Atlantic Slave Trade

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html?hnrepost=9783442

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

The Mystery of the Deterministic Super Shotgun

http://two-wrongs.com/the-mystery-of-the-deterministic-super-shotgun

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments

FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak capacity of 60 Tbps

https://plus.google.com/+UrsH%C3%B6lzle/posts/Gwz3TFyvCAf

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

How Much Does an Experienced Programmer Use Google?

http://two-wrongs.com/how-much-does-an-experienced-programmer-use-google

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 96 comments

Container OS comparison

http://blog.codeship.com/container-os-comparison/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 34 comments

Docker dropping support for RHEL/CentOS6.x

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/14365

11 years ago

★ 71.4k Go Apache-2.0
69 upvotes – 42 comments

Finding bugs in Tarsnap

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/finding-bugs-in-tarsnap

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

Python Is Not C

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/jfp/entry/Python_Is_Not_C?lang=en

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 97 comments

New quantum-dot spectrometer is small enough to function within a smartphone

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/quantum-dot-spectrometer-smartphone-0701

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 34 comments

IBM System 38 (1984) [pdf]

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/capabook/Chapter8.pdf

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 58 comments

GraphQL.js Technical Preview

https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js

11 years ago

★ 20.3k TypeScript MIT
63 upvotes – 2 comments

As More Tech Startups Stay Private, So Does the Money

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/technology/personaltech/as-more-tech-start-ups-stay-private-so-does-the-money.html?ref=business

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 49 comments

What Happens When a State Is Run by Movie Stars?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/magazine/what-happens-when-a-state-is-run-by-movie-stars.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=0

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 69 comments

The first mass chlorination of a city’s water supply

http://www.howwegettonext.com/Article/VNyy5ScAACQA9Jr6/how-one-man-poisoned-a-citys-water-supply-and-saved-millions-of-childrens-lives-in-the-process#.VZRAXnNwbqA

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 32 comments

Luhn Algorithm for validating credit cards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 31 comments

Databases 102: Row versus Column Orientation (2014)

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/You-and-i/Archive/db-102-database-orientation-row-vs-column/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 2 comments

What went wrong: SCTP (2009)

http://blog.ipspace.net/2009/08/what-went-wrong-sctp.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone else feel stupid reading Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9820271

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 50 comments

The technology behind Nextdoor

https://engblog.nextdoor.com/2015/07/02/what-is-the-technology-behind-nextdoor/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

MacOS is the new Windows

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816994

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 33 comments
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