top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-25

In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-iraq-i-raided-insurgents-in-virginia-the-police-raided-me/2015/07/24/2e114e54-2b02-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html

11 years ago

600 upvotes – 285 comments

Receiving Weather Satellite Images With An £8 Dongle

http://mattg.co.uk/words/noaa_sdr/

11 years ago

509 upvotes – 55 comments

The Battle for Wesnoth needs help

http://www.wesnoth.org

11 years ago

397 upvotes – 147 comments

Why Debian returned to FFmpeg

https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/

11 years ago

265 upvotes – 99 comments

Plasma Mobile

http://plasma-mobile.org/

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 138 comments

Rwasa – A high-performance web server in x86_64 assembly

https://2ton.com.au/rwasa/

11 years ago

228 upvotes – 70 comments

The Craigslist Lawsuit

https://3taps.com/the-craigslist-lawsuit.php

11 years ago

209 upvotes – 122 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you think about it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9946527

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 199 comments

What Makes Founders Succeed

http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/what-makes-founders-succeed

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: I am 30+ and bored with life and the software industry, what do I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9946399

11 years ago

175 upvotes – 128 comments

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2010)

http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/?resubmit=hn

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 40 comments

The Facebook Method of Dealing with Complexity

http://ubiquity.acm.org/blog/the-facebook-method-of-dealing-with-complexity/

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 46 comments

JSCity – JavaScript code visualizations using Three.js

https://github.com/aserg-ufmg/JSCity/wiki/JSCITY/mobile=1

11 years ago

★ 1.4k JavaScript GPL-2.0
129 upvotes – 17 comments

The Software Paradox: The Rise and Fall of the Commercial Software Market [pdf]

http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/files/software-paradox.pdf

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 53 comments

NASA estimates 1B ‘Earths’ in our galaxy alone

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/07/24/nasa-estimates-1-billion-earths-in-our-galaxy-alone/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 130 comments

Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/my-periodic-table.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 9 comments

What the NYT Got Wrong About Nail Salons

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/jul/25/nail-salons-new-york-times-got-wrong/

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 61 comments

Square Files Confidential IPO

http://www.wsj.com/articles/payments-startup-square-files-confidential-ipo-1437782181

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

The Death of Cash

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150724-the-truth-about-the-death-of-cash

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 122 comments

The MIT Gang

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/opinion/paul-krugman-the-mit-gang.html?action=click&contentCollection=Art%20%26%20Design&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 50 comments

Std::shared_ptr's secret constructor

https://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/cplusplus/shared-ptr-secret-constructor.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 10 comments

Generate Regex from Examples

http://regex.inginf.units.it/

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 43 comments

Functional Programming in C++ (2013)

https://web.archive.org/web/20130819160454/http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programming-in-c/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 61 comments

Tentacle simulation using inverse kinematics

https://github.com/soulwire/Muscular-Hydrostats

11 years ago

★ 492 JavaScript
77 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: What are some good resources on the history of programming languages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9947544

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

Programmable Materials

http://www.selfassemblylab.net/ProgrammableMaterials.php

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 3 comments

Javascript, locking and sound

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/07/javascript-locking-and-sound-brought-to-you-by-the-letters-w-t-and-f/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 28 comments

MPAA Emails Reveal Plan to Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign via Today Show and WSJ

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150724/15501631756/smoking-gun-mpaa-emails-reveal-plan-to-run-anti-google-smear-campaign-via-today-show-wsj.shtml

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 1 comments

NanoPi – Micro ARM WiFi Board

http://nanopi.org

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 34 comments

Building a concurrent TCP server with libmill

http://libmill.org/tutorial.html

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Tracing JITs and Modern CPUs: Part 2

https://github.com/lukego/blog/issues/6

11 years ago

★ 566
69 upvotes – 20 comments

Warren Buffett: Thriftville vs. Squanderville (2003) [pdf]

http://archives.democrats.science.house.gov/Media/File/Commdocs/hearings/2008/Oversight/22may/Additional_Documents_Gomory.pdf

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

NUMMI 2015 – Why are most American cars still not as good as foreign cars?

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/561/transcript

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 57 comments

Infosec's inability to quantify risk

http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/07/infosecs-inability-to-quantify-risk.html#.VbOb3RNViko

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 51 comments

For Ransom, Bitcoin Replaces the Bag of Bills

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/business/dealbook/for-ransom-bitcoin-replaces-the-bag-of-bills.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments

Humans are not Automatically Strategic (2010)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p5/humans_are_not_automatically_strategic/

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

Chisel: Constructing Hardware in a Scala Embedded Language

https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/index.html

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 58 comments

Hammer: Parser Combinators for C

https://github.com/UpstandingHackers/hammer

11 years ago

★ 444 C GPL-2.0
56 upvotes – 20 comments
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