top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-05

Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.”

https://medium.com/@gavinschalliol/thomas-piketty-germany-has-never-repaid-7b5e7add6fff

11 years ago

427 upvotes – 337 comments

Greeks Reject Bailout Terms

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/world/europe/greek-referendum-debt-crisis-vote.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=span-ab-top-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

11 years ago

316 upvotes – 399 comments

This Industry is Fucked

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/this-industry-is-fucked/

11 years ago

308 upvotes – 282 comments

After simple dental surgery, William lost his ability to form new memories

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150630-my-dentist-saved-my-tooth-but-stole-my-memory

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 131 comments

A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mfm/a_year_of_spaced_repetition_software_in_the/

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 58 comments

De-Obfuscating the Statistics of Mass Shootings

http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2015/07/De-Obfuscating-the-Statistics-of-Mass-Shootings.html

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 166 comments

Redux: Atomic Flux with Hot Reloading

https://github.com/gaearon/redux

11 years ago

★ 61.4k TypeScript MIT
186 upvotes – 44 comments

New Horizons enters safe mode 10 days before Pluto flyby

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/07042044-new-horizons-enters-safe-mode.html

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 47 comments

Why Invest in Tools?

https://medium.com/@leeb/why-invest-in-tools-3240ce289930

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Any C programming Postgres wizards willing to port 460 lines of code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833548

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 81 comments

Why Deep Learning Works II: the Renormalization Group

https://charlesmartin14.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/why-deep-learning-works-ii-the-renormalization-group/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 33 comments

What happens to my late husband’s digital life now he’s gone?

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/04/what-happens-to-my-late-husbands-digital-life-now-hes-gone

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 59 comments

The man who saw time stand still

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140624-the-man-who-saw-time-freeze?ocid=twfut

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 39 comments

Pandas Pivot Table Explained

http://pbpython.com/pandas-pivot-table-explained.html

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 11 comments

This isn't an outtake from Blade Runner – it's the real Beijing

https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/617498633819172864

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 59 comments

Petition: Step down as CEO of Reddit Inc

http://www.change.org/p/ellen-k-pao-step-down-as-ceo-of-reddit-inc

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 115 comments

The economics of in-flight Wi-Fi

http://fortune.com/2015/07/01/flight-wi-fi-travel/?xid=nl_termsheet

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 90 comments

China’s Market Rout Is a Double Threat

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/business/international/chinas-market-rout-is-a-double-threat.html

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 78 comments

JavaScript best practices

http://jstherightway.org/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 40 comments

My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part Four

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-100-books-part-four/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 15 comments

Archivists are racing to digitise 300 years of newspapers before they crumble

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/05/british-library-digitising-newspapers-boston-spa

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 39 comments

“We take security seriously”

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/07/we-take-security-seriously-otherwise.html

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 98 comments

Graphic Presentation (1939)

https://archive.org/stream/graphicpresentat00brinrich#page/n0/mode/thumb

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

Emulating Linux MIPS in Perl – Part 1: ELF loader

http://schplog.schmorp.de/2015-06-08-emulating-linux-mips-in-perl-1.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

Jshell: The Java Shell (REPL)

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/222

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 60 comments

TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8orjQLacTo

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 2 comments

Scripting in Swift

https://realm.io/news/swift-scripting/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

Pirate Bay founders: FBI has Prenda Law under investigation

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/pirate-bay-founders-fbi-has-prenda-law-under-investigation/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

New in Cassandra 3.0: Materialized Views

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/new-in-cassandra-3-0-materialized-views

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

They do take security seriously

https://www.lvh.io/posts/they-do-take-security-seriously.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 40 comments

The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9 (1993)

http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mint/Library/Plan9/names.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 28 comments

Gluten intolerance may really be immune dysfunction

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/opinion/sunday/the-myth-of-big-bad-gluten.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 58 comments

The U.S. computer industry is dying

http://www.cringely.com/2015/06/24/the-u-s-computer-industry-is-dying-and-ill-tell-you-exactly-who-is-killing-it-and-why/

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 38 comments

Apple Open Source Site

http://www.opensource.apple.com/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 40 comments

SlopPy: An error-tolerant Python interpreter that facilitates sloppy programming

http://www.pgbovine.net/SlopPy.html

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 31 comments
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