top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-22

PostgREST – REST API from any PostgreSQL database

https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest

11 years ago

★ 27k Haskell MIT
486 upvotes – 204 comments

Pro Rata

http://blog.ycombinator.com/pro-rata

11 years ago

344 upvotes – 102 comments

F21 Thread Screen

http://f21threadscreen.com/

11 years ago

285 upvotes – 68 comments

Sandra Bland arrest video has continuity problems, anomalies

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sandra-bland-footage-20150721-htmlstory.html

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 318 comments

Handwriting Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html

11 years ago

266 upvotes – 80 comments

JRuby 9000 released

http://blog.jruby.org/2015/07/jruby_9000/

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 117 comments

Snowden Meets the IETF

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2015/07/20/snowden_meets_the_ietf

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 76 comments

AP makes one million minutes of historical footage available on YouTube

http://www.ap.org/content/press-release/2015/ap-makes-one-million-minutes-of-history-available-on-youtube

11 years ago

198 upvotes – 32 comments

Career Advice for Engineers and Designers

http://www.breakoutcareers.com/

11 years ago

191 upvotes – 64 comments

Sell it or run it, there is no middle ground

http://jacquesmattheij.com/sell-it-or-run-it-there-is-no-middle-ground

11 years ago

186 upvotes – 146 comments

Uber has defeated Bill de Blasio’s plan to rein them in

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/22/9015443/bill-de-blasio-uber

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 250 comments

A French Scrabble champion who doesn't speak French

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/21/new-french-scrabble-champion-nigel-richards-doesnt-speak-french

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 91 comments

How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/how-nature-changes-the-brain/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 73 comments

How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry

http://www.fastcompany.com/3047428/how-two-bored-1970s-housewives-helped-create-the-pc-industry

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 69 comments

A Polynomial Time Bounded-Error Quantum Algorithm for Boolean Satisfiability

http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05061

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 125 comments

Mining Product Hunt, Part 1: Detecting Vote-Rings

http://blog.algorithmia.com/post/124542129914/mining-product-hunt-detecting-vote-rings

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 40 comments

Why We Hurt Each Other: Tolstoy’s Letters to Gandhi

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/08/21/leo-tolstoy-gandhi-letter-to-a-hindu/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 64 comments

Announcing coreboot 4.1

http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2015-July/080120.html

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 27 comments

Ocean acidification may cause dramatic changes to phytoplankton

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/ocean-acidification-phytoplankton-0720

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 68 comments

HORNET: High-speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer

http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05724v1

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/22/uber-for-developers/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 188 comments

Links as originally imagined were a separate layer of annotation on documents

http://hapgood.us/2015/07/21/beyond-conversation/

11 years ago

111 upvotes – 51 comments

Sydney Declutters Parking Signs with E-Ink

http://www.citylab.com/tech/2015/07/sydney-declutters-traffic-signs-by-using-e-ink/399050/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 84 comments

A Short Course in Thinking About Thinking (2007)

http://edge.org/events/the-edge-master-class-2007-a-short-course-in-thinking-about-thinking

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9928556

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 100 comments

'Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham University

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33436021

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 57 comments

Failed Startup code graveyard

http://codebituary.com/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

Universal asks Google to take down 127.0.0.1 for piracy

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10969223

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

Fonticons (YC S15) Is A Subscription Icon Service From The Maker Of Font Awesome

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/22/yc-backed-fonticons-is-a-subscription-icon-service-from-the-creator-of-font-awesome/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 29 comments

Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

http://blog.comealive.io/Alive-Beta/

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 39 comments

The Last European: Romanian Driver Navigates the Soul of the EU

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/traveling-from-romania-to-portugal-in-an-illicit-van-a-1043797.html

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 48 comments

Debugging Lisp Part 3: Redefining Classes

http://malisper.me/2015/07/22/debugging-lisp-part-3-redefining-classes/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

Fast Nearest Neighbor Queries in Haskell

https://izbicki.me/blog/fast-nearest-neighbor-queries-in-haskell.html

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

Chicago undergraduate mathematics bibliography

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm?resubmit=hn

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments

Snappy-start: Tool for launching a Linux process from a snapshot

https://github.com/google/snappy-start

11 years ago

★ 449 C BSD-3-Clause
78 upvotes – 32 comments

NUMA support in FreeBSD

http://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2015/07/freebsd-now-has-numa-whyd-it-take-so.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 3 comments

Turkish Casino: Gambling of the Future [pdf]

http://jeffmeyerson.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/TurkishCasino.pdf

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 31 comments

Woman recruited by Google four times and rejected, joins age-discrimination suit

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2950914/it-careers/woman-recruited-by-google-four-times-and-rejected-joins-suit.html

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 99 comments

When Prosecutors Believe the Unbelievable

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/07/mark_weiner_conviction_vacated_chelsea_steiniger_text_case_finally_overturned.single.html

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

Apple Music is a nightmare and I’m done with it

http://www.loopinsight.com/2015/07/22/apple-music-is-a-nightmare-and-im-done-with-it/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 35 comments

Dr. Seuss Book: Yes, They Found It in a Box

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/books/dr-seuss-book-a-discovery-in-a-box-and-then-a-reconstruction.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

The strange phenomenon of musical frisson

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150721-when-was-the-last-time-music-gave-you-a-skin-orgasm

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 39 comments

Famous Climate Scientist Issues Sea Level Warning

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/20/sea_level_study_james_hansen_issues_dire_climate_warning.html?

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 84 comments

Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/651700/624e2249bacc2f67/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 41 comments

Why I give my students a ‘tragedy of the commons’ extra credit challenge

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/20/why-i-give-my-students-a-tragedy-of-the-commons-extra-credit-challenge/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 87 comments

Benchmarking GitHub Enterprise

http://githubengineering.com/benchmarking-github-enterprise/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

Q&As with Leading Remote Companies

https://remote.co/qa-leading-remote-companies/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Social Justice, Ideological Hijackings, and Ideological Security

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/socjus-and-ideological-security/?

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 41 comments

Netflix and the Napoleon Dynamite Problem (2008)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 54 comments

The Development of Crispr DNA Editing

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/crispr-dna-editing-2/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Operators of Coin.mx arrested by the FBI

https://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2015/manhattan-u.s.-attorney-announces-charges-against-two-florida-men-for-operating-an-underground-bitcoin-exchange

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 59 comments

Others may be unconsciously judging your features in ways you don't realise

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150707-is-faceism-spoiling-your-life

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 66 comments

Charges Against Netzpolitik.org Are an Attack on the Free Press

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/treason-charges-against-german-blog-netzpolitikorg-are-attack-free-press

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Motif – Scala-like pattern matching with Java 8

https://github.com/johnlcox/motif

11 years ago

★ 152 Java Apache-2.0
51 upvotes – 34 comments

Drug companies are exploiting rare mutations

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-22/these-superhumans-are-real-and-their-dna-could-be-worth-billions

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments
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