top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-02

Reykjavik Center Map

http://www.reykjavikcentermap.com/

11 years ago

292 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Print iconic patents for your walls

https://www.howacarworks.com/blog/iconic-patent-posters

11 years ago

241 upvotes – 51 comments

More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (2010)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/249475/More_dirty_coding_tricks_from_game_developers.php

11 years ago

241 upvotes – 134 comments

How putting $10M into UBeam illustrates what is wrong with tech investing (2014)

http://lookatmeimdanny.tumblr.com/post/101432017159/how-putting-10m-into-ubeam-illustrates-everything

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 110 comments

The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution

https://evolution-institute.org/article/the-world-needs-a-secular-community-revolution/?source=tvol

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 175 comments

How to destroy special collections with social media

http://sarahwerner.net/blog/2015/07/how-to-destroy-special-collections-with-social-media/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 35 comments

Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+

http://mashable.com/2015/08/02/google-plus-history/

11 years ago

151 upvotes – 155 comments

Three Wise Men in a Bed: Bedsharing and Sexuality in Medieval Europe (2014)

http://notchesblog.com/2014/01/06/three-wise-men-in-a-bed-bedsharing-and-sexuality-in-medieval-europe/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 129 comments

Ronda Rousey fights like a statistical outlier

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/ronda-rousey-fights-like-an-outlier/

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 163 comments

Beautiful stop-motion engine rebuild [video]

http://www.howacarworks.com/blog/stop-motion-engine-rebuild

11 years ago

125 upvotes – 19 comments

A Bestseller Book That Didn't Exist

http://www.jmarkpowell.com/the-bestseller-book-that-didnt-exist-how-the-author-of-a-beloved-christmas-classic-pulled-off-the-hoax-of-the-century/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 32 comments

Strange C Syntax

http://blog.robertelder.org/weird-c-syntax/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 55 comments

HIV flushed out by cancer drug

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33720325

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 15 comments

Serve2d – A protocol detecting server

https://github.com/joushou/serve2d

11 years ago

★ 571 Go MIT
103 upvotes – 73 comments

Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990630

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 108 comments

Linux-insides: Linkers

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/Misc/linkers.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
96 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: Pandashells – Bringing the Python data stack to the shell prompt

https://github.com/robdmc/pandashells

11 years ago

★ 792 Python
89 upvotes – 18 comments

CUPS 2.1 Is Adding Basic 3D Printer Support

http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L1087

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 40 comments

A message from the FFmpeg project

https://ffmpeg.org/#message

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

Project Euler has been hacked

https://projecteuler.net/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

SolarCity didn’t invent solar panel, but it invented something more important

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2015/07/solarcity_the_company_didn_t_invent_the_solar_panel_but_it_invented_something.single.html

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 48 comments

Fermat's Little Theorem (2013) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPMzosLWGHo&feature=youtu.be

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

Recreating Megaman 2 Using JavaScript and WebGL

https://medium.com/recreating-megaman-2-using-js-webgl

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

Microsoft to Alter Software in Response to Privacy Concerns (1999)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/biztech/articles/07soft.html

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 67 comments

OverType – The Over-the-Top Typewriter Simulator

http://uniqcode.com/typewriter/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hitchbot-destroyed-in-philadelphia-ending-u-s-tour-1.3177098

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 53 comments

Diffoscope: in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories

http://diffoscope.org/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

Is This the End for South Asia Shipbreakers?

http://gcaptain.com/is-this-the-end-for-south-asia-shipbreakers/

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

GetAwesomeness – retrieve all amazing awesomeness from GitHub

http://getawesomeness.com/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

A Conversation with Michael Lopp, Pinterest’s Head of Engineering

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/01/a-conversation-with-michael-lopp-pinterests-head-of-engineering/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Teeth Whitening and the Hygiene Hypothesis

http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/have-we-hit-peak-whiteness-rd

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 67 comments

Cofactor Genomics (YC S15) Pursues RNA Testing, Offers Better Diagnoses Than DNA

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/31/cofactor-genomics/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 38 comments

Using Windows 10? Microsoft is watching

http://www.newsweek.com/windows-10-recording-users-every-move-358952

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: Chrome/FF plugin brings the HN and Reddit conversation to you as you surf

http://www.metafruit.com/kiwi

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 53 comments

Big Ball of Mud (1999)

http://www.laputan.org/mud/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 9 comments

SciRate: an open source website to browse, save and comment arXiv articles

https://scirate.com

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 14 comments

The Banach–Tarski Paradox [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 36 comments

Open the Music Industry’s Black Box

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/opinion/sunday/open-the-music-industrys-black-box.html

11 years ago

50 upvotes – 48 comments

It’s time for the Uber of air travel

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/its-time-for-the-uber-of-air-travel/2015/07/30/09c4c8c2-353a-11e5-8e66-07b4603ec92a_story.html

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 60 comments

Sadly, How Windows 10 Reveals Microsoft's Ethics Armageddon

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001117.html

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 61 comments

Unicorn: a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

http://www.unicorn-engine.org/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 24 comments
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