top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-31

ClojureScript 1.7: ClojureScript can compile itself

http://swannodette.github.io/2015/07/29/clojurescript-17/

11 years ago

536 upvotes – 106 comments

GravityLight: Generate light with gravity

http://gravitylight.org/gravitylight

11 years ago

384 upvotes – 126 comments

FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader

http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2015-July/176489.html

11 years ago

374 upvotes – 144 comments

How Does Voxel Quest Work Now?

http://www.voxelquest.com/news/how-does-voxel-quest-work-now-august-2015-update

11 years ago

317 upvotes – 88 comments

Guido on Python

https://lwn.net/Articles/651967/

11 years ago

264 upvotes – 125 comments

Chaos Computer Club congratulates Netzpolitik.org

https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2015/ccc-verratsdatenspeicherung

11 years ago

256 upvotes – 58 comments

How to create NBA shot charts in Python

http://savvastjortjoglou.com/nba-shot-sharts.html

11 years ago

253 upvotes – 28 comments

Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK

https://github.com/tadast/switching-to-contracting-uk/tree/formationsfactory

11 years ago

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232 upvotes – 159 comments

What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/world/asia/what-china-has-been-building-in-the-south-china-sea.html

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 167 comments

Nelson Rules

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

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 40 comments

The Advanced Rust Programming Language Book Draft

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/adv-book/

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 47 comments

Looking for new LuaJIT maintainers

http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Looking-for-new-LuaJIT-maintainers

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 36 comments

A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/business/a-company-copes-with-backlash-against-the-raise-that-roared.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 261 comments

The boom in mini stomachs, brains, breasts, kidneys and more

http://www.nature.com/news/the-boom-in-mini-stomachs-brains-breasts-kidneys-and-more-1.18064

11 years ago

172 upvotes – 30 comments

Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil

http://km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 49 comments

Bokken – Open-Source Reverse Code Engineering

http://bokken.re/index.html

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 16 comments

Django Girls one year later

https://lwn.net/Articles/651833/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 123 comments

Makefile Tutorial by Example

http://makefiletutorial.com/

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 36 comments

AWS having major issues

http://status.aws.amazon.com/#31-july

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 62 comments

Microsoft Small Basic

http://smallbasic.com/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 87 comments

Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers

https://code.facebook.com/posts/872547912839369/improving-facebook-s-performance-on-android-with-flatbuffers/?utm_source=codedot_rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS+Feed

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 40 comments

Go 1.5 Release Notes

http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.5

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 63 comments

Set Theory and Foundations of Mathematics

http://www.settheory.net/

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 58 comments

Ebola vaccine is 'potential game-changer'

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33733711

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 38 comments

Apple Music Matches Files with Metadata Only, Not Acoustic Fingerprinting

http://www.mcelhearn.com/apple-music-matches-files-with-metadata-only-not-acoustic-fingerprinting/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 56 comments

Tagged Pointer Strings

https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-07-31-tagged-pointer-strings.html

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 27 comments

Vanar.io – Realtime multiplayer browser game: Agar.io meets Asteroids

http://vanar.io

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 64 comments

Python is the new BASIC

http://coffeeghost.net/2008/06/18/python-is-the-new-basic/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 133 comments

Windows 10 is unfinished

http://gbl08ma.com/windows-10-is-unfinished/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 111 comments

Kim Dotcom Answers Questions

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/07/27/200204/interviews-kim-dotcom-answers-your-questions?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 39 comments

Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design

http://www.filfre.net/2015/07/the-14-deadly-sins-of-graphic-adventure-design/

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

The Systemd Chronicles

http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 71 comments

Ethereum Network Status

https://stats.ethdev.com/

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Dual EC: A Standardized Back Door [pdf]

http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/767.pdf

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Baker Street – A simple client-side load balancer for microservices

http://bakerstreet.io/

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

Your Head as a Battleground, Dueling Memes

http://jacquesmattheij.com/your-head-as-a-battleground-dueling-memes

11 years ago

82 upvotes – 85 comments

Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to send other people updates

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/07/30/windows-10-steals-your-bandwidth-to-send-other-people-updates/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 68 comments

What Happens When Your Brain Says You Don't Exist

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/07/28/426753409/a-sense-of-self-what-happens-when-your-brain-says-you-dont-exist

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

United States v. Newman Clarifies the Law of Insider Trading

https://casetext.com/posts/got-a-hot-stock-tip-united-states-v-newman-clarifies-the-law-of-insider-trading

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

Web We Want

https://webwewant.org/

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 49 comments

No Surprises (2009)

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2009/05/01/no-surprises/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 62 comments

Building a dataflow graph with Python

http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/graph/

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 3 comments

A College Without Classes

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/a-college-without-classes/400115/?single_page=true

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 39 comments

TPP negotiations threaten to forcibly commercialise state-owned bodies

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2015/07/30/tpp-negotiations-threaten-forcibly-commercialise-state-owned-bodies

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

Ode to Sequel

http://twin.github.io/ode-to-sequel/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

Warren Buffett’s Family Secretly Funded a Birth Control Revolution

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-30/warren-buffett-s-family-secretly-funded-a-birth-control-revolution?

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 65 comments

The Hole Argument

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-holearg/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 18 comments

Royal with Cheese: A King's Quest Primer

http://www.polygon.com/2015/7/28/9023667/kings-quest-history

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 29 comments

ShotPut (YC S15) helps fulfill product orders at a price that works for startups

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/31/y-combinator-backed-shotput-helps-fulfill-product-orders-at-a-price-that-works-for-startups/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 37 comments

An entrepreneur persuaded New Orleans to let him create a high-tech police force

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/magazine/who-runs-the-streets-of-new-orleans.html?action=click&contentCollection=magazine&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 44 comments

Robust Design Through Diversity (1999) [pdf]

http://worrydream.com/refs/Sussman%20-%20Robust%20Design%20through%20Diversity.pdf

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

A tutorial on learning with Bayesian networks (1996) [pdf]

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69588/tr-95-06.pdf

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments

Suspicion of Treason against netzpolitik.org

https://netzpolitik.org/tag/english/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 4 comments
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